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  1. LaMedicine

    Happy New Year 2012

    May this year be a calm and peaceful year for all.
  2. LaMedicine

    From mother to daughter

    Or grandmother to grand daughter, mother-in-law to daughter-in-law, aunt to niece, one female member of the family to another. Is there anything you were given, or, expect to pass on, whether coincidental or with intent? A special dress, an article of jewelry, silverware or chinaware, some...
  3. LaMedicine

    2011 Happy New Year!!!

    It is 5 minutes into 2011 here, now, so here is my New Year card for this year for all of you. This is the year of the rabbit for us. The motif I used for the card are pics of the woven rabbit motifs from a kimono obi of mine :)
  4. LaMedicine

    Cornerstone of Peace--Okinawa Peace Memorial

    Today--June 23rd-- is the 65th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa. The Cornerstone of Peace, is located in the Okinawa Peace Memorial Park, erected in 1995 on the 50th anniversary commemorates all the dead from the battle, regardless of their nationality. Even those whose names...
  5. LaMedicine

    Astro Boy Goes to School

    Astro Boy, written by Osamu Tezuka, was first published ini 1952, and the TV anime series started 11years later. According to the original plot, he was born on April 7th, 2003, and starts school in April 2010, as the school year in Japan starts in April. So, he started school today. He became...
  7. LaMedicine

    Vintage Kimonos

    I have already posted the same thread in Powder Room, so, if this is redundunt, bartenders please feel free to remove. However, I perceive that many of the gentlemen on this board are too polite to poke their heads into the Powder Room, but also are interested in kimonos (I have received some...
  8. LaMedicine

    Vintage Kimonos

    I believe many of you are interested in kimonos. I just finished uploading some pics of my mother’s kimonos. Since many of them date back to the ‘40s, they can be considered vintage, though here in Japan, kimonos considered truly vintage go back to the ‘20s-‘30s for the connoisseurs. There is a...
  9. LaMedicine

    '50s & '60s

    A friend sent me these links. Nostalgia for me. :) Take Me Back to the Fifties Take Me Back to the Sixties What memories do they bring back for you?
  10. LaMedicine

    63 Years Later

    This coming Sunday, the 18th, 16,000 residents of Chofu, a city right outside the central Tokyo city limits, will be evacuated for over 5 hours while the Japanese SDF bomb disposal squad will deal with a 1T dud that lies in the construction site where Keio Transit is constructing an underground...
  11. LaMedicine

    Wearing Propaganda

    I was searching the site of a repro kimono fabric maker, and ran across this which is being put on in the US until Jan 7 next year. Allentown Art Museum. The photo shown is the detail of a kimono in this exhibit Wearing Propaganda Deets on the exhibit. If anyone is close by, it may be...
  13. LaMedicine

    If you are interested in living in Japan

    Kinda :offtopic: and not sure where to post this, but since I have seen various threads with topics on Japan, if any of you are interested in living in Japan, there is a program that is sponsored by the Japanese government called The JET Programme. I hope it interests someone.:)
  14. LaMedicine

    How many planets

    In the solar system? There's an international meeting of astronomers going on right now in Prague, and in a few hours, the definition of planets may change. Depending on what is voted in, we are going to have anywhere from 8 planets to 12. So, is Pluto going to sink into obscurity, or are we...
  15. LaMedicine

    Learning how to sew.

    I need some help from all you ladies. I have a friend in NY who wants to learn how to sew. If I lived close by, I would be happy to teach her, but as it is, I am halfway around the world. She says that she doesn't have a clue even how to sew on buttons. She has 3 kids, and runs a business from...
  16. LaMedicine

    WWI Propaganda Poster Collection

    Japan's Tokyo University has put up a site showing its collection of propaganda posters circa 1914-1918. Apparently, the then Japanese Foreign Ministry's Intelligence section had collected the posters for information and research, but with the end of WW II, it was donated to the Newspaper...
  17. LaMedicine

    Spring Fever

    :icon_smil I'm sitting at work with a pile of papers I need to sign...but as I write the date on each of the documents, I think, "It's only a couple of days till March!"...and sort of start, daydreaming.... In this part of the world where I now live, the 3rd of March, this Friday, is Peach...
  19. LaMedicine

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

    Happy New Year, everyone!!:cheers1: I know for most of you, it is still New Year's Eve, heck, it's still day, not even evening, but hereabouts, the clock has already struck midnight, and it is now January 1, 2006, so , HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all.:drum: In Asia, this is the Year of the...
  20. LaMedicine

    Glove/Glove length

    I just saw something elsewhere that bothered me a bit, so, I'm posting here. If anyone knows, and I'm in the wrong, please correct me. Gloves were an essential part of women's outfits up to at least the '50s, probably to the early '60s. However, there were some pretty firm rules about what...

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