miscellaneous rambling

We stumbled into a gallery that was presenting Japanese flower arrangement, calligraphy, as well as selling antiques, bolts of cloth, and used clothes. It seemed to be held by a woman’s group, of what focus, I couldn’t say. I think though, that they were primarily a flower arrangement club.

Out of curiousity we picked through some of the clothes. I tried on this silk kimono, and this woman to my left was explaining that the crests on it show that it once belonged to a samurai class family. Inside the black kimono is also embroidered a lion. She said that her brown one which she was wearing, has no markings, indicating that it once belonged to a commoner. <>

So I bought the kimono. It is about 130 years old. I’m going to wear it to parties. Things were amazingly cheap. Dallas bought a robe which only costed $5!

# posted by jason @ 6:36 PM