Tsumori Chisato shoes
I got a new gold shoes form Tsumori Chisato. There are many cat’s face on the toes.
Tsumori Chisato - Fashion Show - Spring 2007 - Ready to Wear Collections - ELLE
Archive for January, 2008
World celebrities on Japanese ads : part 3
Here is “World celebrities on Japanese ads”No,3!.
Madonna
Brillia Mare Ariake (site)
Firstly this is an ad for a exclusive subdivision housing complex featuring Madonna. Its poster has also been found around Tokyo’s subways sometime ago.
TV ad
I guess they’d tried get Madonna to bring up those exclusive housing’s image, but because Madonna just does not have an air of domestic lifestyle in her, there seemed to be a little gap.
Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt may possibly be the most favorite celebrities among Japanese people. This is the ads by the Jeans Company “Edwin”.
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Shimamura ; Japanese apparel chain stores
We know that the Japanese fashion chain-store company “Uniqulo” has been expanding their market to NY(UNIQLO Soho New York Store), London(UNIQLO UK stores), Hong Kong and Seoul(UNIQLO KOREA). But “Shimamura” is secretly popular among “Country side” in Japan, too.
In fact most people in big cities have never heard of “Shimamura”. The company researches the fashions & styles that are popular in the big cities such as Tokyo or Osaka, get the products similar to those and sell them surprisingly cheep.
During this holiday, I have been there for the first time and bought a lot, because they offer reasonably stylish stuff at very low price.
Shimamura’s billboard
“Shimamura” has ventured in Taiwan under the name of “流行服飾館 思夢樂 (Shimura)”, so maybe those who live in Taiwan are already familiar with them.
Shimamura (in Japanese)
Marunouchi HOUSE
“Marunouchi” is the business center of Japan and Japanese headquarters of those trading firms and major financial institutes are standing side by side here.
shin-marunouchi building by .Amy.huimei98.
“Marunouchi HOUSE” has been opened last year as a community place where the people who work for these companies to meet and communicate. It is located on the 7th floor of the Shin-Marunouchi Building with cafes, restaurants and bars. In the open space, people can get together bringing the food & drinks they select from those shops.
You can look down Tokyo station or Imperial Palace from up there, and it is transformed to a club space with famous DJs playing at night. (I haven’t been there myself yet, but heard that DJs like Tei Towa and FPM’d played there.)
Because the concept is to “invite” your friends to Marunouchi, the area seems to be a sort of “established” during the day time, but “Marunouchi HOUSE” at night sounds like a casual and fun place. If you have a change to come to Tokyo, why don’t you check there?
(marunouchi) HOUSE
Marunouchi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sunao Kuwahara’s tonkichi bag
The piggy’s name is tonkichi. These tonkichi bags are designed by Sunao Kuwahara. Sunao Kuwahara is one of Japan’s most successful designers.
Kagami mochi ; Japanese traditional new year decoration
Kagami mochi,literally mirror rice cake, is a traditional Japanese New Year decoration. It usually consists of two round mochi (rice cakes), the smaller placed a top the larger, and a mikan (a Japanese bitter orange) with an attached leaf on top.
Further to this, it may have a sheet of konbu and a skewer of dried persimmons under the mochi.
by midorisyu
It is traditionally broken and eaten in a Shinto ritual called kagami biraki (mirror opening) on the second Saturday or Sunday of January.
Hatsumode ; the first shrine visiting of the New Year
For Japanese people, “Oshogatsu”, the New Year’s holiday time is a more important festivity than Christmas. Many of us‘d go to shrines and pray for a happy life in the new year.
Taga Taisha
I have been to two shrines, one is Taga Taisha in Taga-cho, Siga Prefecture & the other is Kanda Myojin in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.
Ise bridge by Mr. Mark
The most famous shrine in Japan is the Ise Jingu in Ise-shi, Mie Prefecture. The Japanese Prime Minister goes there, too. Above all, this is the shrine where the Imperial ancestors are enshrined.
Kanda Myojin
Kanda Myojin is known as the God of Business. And many companies from all over Tokyo, - form the largest business enterprise to the business owners of small & medium sized companies visit there and pray for a good business for the year. Well, well what will this year be like?
Hatsumōde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japanese New Year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coca Cola (Japan)’s remote-controled car
I bought a Coca Cola remote-controled car at Seven-Eleven, Japan. So tiny like Choro-Q.
These models are 4 type of successive delivery trucks. 1930s, 1940s, 1970s, and 2007. The controllers looks like vending machines of the time!!
Coca Cola Japan’s remote-controled car /Seven-Eleven, Japan(in Japanese)
Hato Sable zakka
Toshimaya “Hato Sable” is very famous souvenir cookie (or biscuit) :) you can get the cookie or some sweets almost anywhere in Tokyo.
BUT if you’d like to get their cute “Hato (pigeon)” zakka, you must go the head shop in Kamakura Kanagawa!!
I’ve got charms and magnet set ;) the big pigeon is real tasty Hato Sable.
A shoe made of wrapping paper
Look! You can make such a pretty shoe with wrapping papers!
Well, unfortunately you cannot actually wear them of course, but it is so lovely just looking and admiring them, isn’t it? You can get your favorite shoe with your choice of beautiful wrapping papers.
It comes with patterns, so photocopy & enlarge them to your shoe size, and make a real-size paper shoe of your own!
Get a glue and a pair of scissors ready! Oh, I wish this paper shoe was a real one.
包み紙でつくる靴 (Amazon japan)
