A postcard from Kyoto

[imomus]

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[misschacha.livejournal.com]

Hot, it's like Jackie O' in Kyoto :)

[(Anonymous)]

the window looks arabic.

I was in istanboul last week and he struck how indian it looked at times...especially the mosques, strange while I never been to india.


erik
rotterdam

[joopy.livejournal.com]

Did you ever see the pictures I posted from my last trip to Kyoto (archived here (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=joopy&keyword=travel:+Kyoto+2003-04&filter=all))?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Ellie, I've just looked at them. You might be interested to hear that I spent about 45 minutes in your 'personal heaven' today, that very bookstore you write about visiting on January 5th! It was indeed excellent. There's an exhibition through the back of French mid-century advertising. They were playing some sensuous bossa nova, and there were lots of exquisite cookery magazines. The store was populated entirely by cute young girls, except for me, naturally (although I aspire to be one).

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I photographed this book as I was leaving, because I love the design. Unfortunately they were asking about $75 for it.

[joopy.livejournal.com]

That's the problem with that store; so many great books, but so expensive! (I have to admit that I've spent $70+ on a single book before, though. Three times, actually. It's terrible, especially considering how large of a percentage of my "income" that is.)

[joopy.livejournal.com]

I don't think I mentioned this in the entry, but whoever's living in the house right across the street shares my last name, same characters and all. I wish I had the nerve to fool them into thinking I'm a relative and letting me stay at their place.

[class-worrier.livejournal.com]

Snoodalicious.

lucky

[sheppardzo-14.livejournal.com]

from 'Lucky Days from a Decorative Calendar, 1844'

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Someone should do a Hokusai/Hiroshige-inspired "where's Momus?" book.

(Love the orange headwrap with the pink shirt and brown trousers. You go, girl.)

W

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

When it comes to outfits, he goes girl better than I do!

[chickensnack.livejournal.com]

I have some fond memories of that little bridge.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Wa sugoy!

[chickensnack.livejournal.com]

Looking through my photos, I came across this picture of a mysterious structure just upstream from that bridge. Do you happen to know what it is?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

We passed it and I was joking to Hisae that it was someone's house, with window shades and room for one tatami. Have no idea. A turtle shelter, perhaps?

[misu-jitensha.livejournal.com]

what do you call these delicious head-dresses?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

The blue one is a 'tenugui'. The red one is 'an amorphous multi-purpose experimental garment that came in a box of similar garments Hisae bought in Selfridges'.