I bring you this post as a Christmas gift I'm not sure where to start. The basic premise is that Kimono Project is a private initiative. The aim was to complete a kimono representing each of the participating regions by the time of the 202…

NO.006 India インドI chose this one because I fell in love with it at first sight. In a word, CUTE - 可愛い kawaii in Japanese!Sponsored by (株)日立製作所 HITACHI, Ltd. In recent years, Hitachi has made a name for itself in the manufacture…

NO.038 Malaysia マレーシアSponsored by SAIBUGAS Co.,Ltd. 西部ガス Kimono by Takehana-Sensho タケハナ染匠 It was designed with the students of Kurume High School in Fukuoka. The stripes, stars and moon on the national flag of Malaysia and t…

NO.202 Portuguese Republic ポルトガルThe sponsor of this kimono, Fukusaya co.,ltd., is a confectionery company founded in Nagasaki in 1624. I LOVE their Castella and Monaka Wafers Kimono by 松井眞夫 Masao Matsui The monument of King Enriqu…

NO.190 Federal Republic of Germany ドイツ Kimono by 林克彦 Katsuhiko Hayashi The theme of the kimono is the harmony between digital and analogue, focusing on the Bauhaus, a representative of modern Germany, and combining it with classical …

For Kimono Project, they have created kimonos related to 207 countries and regions: 206 countries and regions of the National Olympic Committee + 1 refugee team. This was because they were to be shown at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo20…

I have a deep respect for Kimono Project and have included the URL in my postcrossing bio. However, I noticed that the introduction pages kimono.piow.jp for each country are in Japanese, so I will try to translate some of them. With today'…

Since October, mail can only be delivered on weekdays, except for express mail and other specially designated mail. This has made opening the mailbox on Mondays even more exciting.Today I had two postcrossing cards from Australia and Hong …

Today I'd like to introduce you to a blog of a fellow Postcrossing member, Rüdiger with his permission. He describes each card he has received, and when I read it I can relive the experience as if I had received the card myself. I think hi…

(1 January 2022, Postscript) I found out much later that the strict measures had been lifted after JUST two days. For the latest information, click here. www.mofa.go.jp I leave this post as a log️In response to the unprecedented spread of …

Some time ago I came across an article on the internet with an interesting title. The title is: 'Unrequited love, murderous intent... secrets in lockdown on hundreds of postcards' 11 April 2021, 17:00 London/UK (The article is in Japanese.…

I heard a book, '猫の客' - 'The Guest Cat' is said to be a masterpiece of cat literature. The author is a poet, and it's certainly an interesting read, with a storyline that makes you think I'd like to talk about this story with someone wh…

This is a quote from the comments section on 7 October,2021️ To check your Japanese pronunciation, how about this site? I've tried it with a few Japanese words and it doesn't sound wrong.Forvo https://forvo.com/ And this is a tool for crea…

Do you by any chance think that Washi tape is just a normal tape? It's a nicely coloured and designed version of TEMPORARY-FIXING-TAPE, which is not suitable to seal something by itself. If you want to use them to decorate your letterheads…

My friend told me she didn't know caterpillars could bite, so I looked it up again. At first the creepiness of the images forced me to retreat, but here I am, TRIUMPHANT! About 5,000 species of butterflies and moths have been recorded from…

WPD has come here in Japan️⛩️ worldpostcardday.comDue to the time difference (JST/UTS+0900), we are one step ahead of (maybe most of) you on the 1st of October. This time last year I didn't even know what WPD was, and I don't remember ther…

If you'd like to collect 風景印 'Fukei-in', scenery postmarks in Japan.1. PREPARE a mount with a stamp of a value greater than the postcard's postage cost 63JPY(0.57USD) as of today, or an official postcard (官製はがき Kansei-hagaki) you c…

I like the film "Les contes de la nuit" (2011) by Michel Ocelot, France. Five of the ten episodes of the 2010 TV short film series "Dragon & Princess" (French version), plus one new episode, were combined into one film. I suppose that ther…

Missed an opportunity to write about my favorite story from the Tokyo2020 Olympics and it I believed went down Olympic history as one of the greatest shocks.An Austrian Olympian, Anna Keisenhofer, her devotion certainly paid off when she b…

We are going to have the other world festival in Tokyo. Looking forward to receiving Paralympians! Good luck!the Paralympics : 24 August-5 September, 2021https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/paralympics/

I'd love to share this post :'POSTCARDS OF KINDNESS IS WHAT WE NEED RIGHT NOW – HERE’S HOW TO MAKE THEM BOOKISH' Lucas Maxwell Apr 2, 2020 https://bookriot.com/postcards-of-kindness/ Lucas said 'Writing has been proven to be a huge anxiety…

I hope you to enjoy those Japanese traditional dresses 'Kimono' with motifs of countries around the world. Project team also interviewed the embassies of each country for the patterns. I heard they were intended to be used in the opening c…