Word: kimono
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...Where's my pet monkey Mimi?" squeaked an elderly woman wrapped in a bright myself kimono. "Someone's stolen my wallet, and I can't buy myself a train ticket home," moaned a lanky teenager. "My man's drunk again and beating me!" screamed a woman over the telephone. [Help!] Hayaku...
...hard to avoid mentioning Madame Butterfly. Rustling compliantly in her kimono chrysalis, she forever set the Western image of the Japanese woman. Poor Butterfly first appeared on the stage of Milan's La Scala in 1904, decades after Western ideas about women's rights had reached Japan. In 1947 the American-dictated revision of the Japanese constitution and legal codes gave women the right to vote and explicitly forbade sex discrimination. But the idea of equality is a long time being assimilated into practice...
What defines a Japanese woman? It is not the kimono. She is more likely to wear Calvin Klein than a kimono, or even the modern Japanese designs currently fascinating New York. It is not her aspirations, which are no different from women's all over the world. She wants a husband and children, education and fair pay, a role in the larger society guaranteed by legal equality, and the right to control her childbearing...
...looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form. She wears a blue-and-white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. Except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted), Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meiji print...
DIED. Ichiro Nakagawa, 57, Japan's youngest, most militantly right-wing 1982 prime-ministerial aspirant and a persistent champion of nuclear arms development for his country; by his own hand (he hanged himself with his kimono sash); in Sapporo. A colorful country boy who swaggered into the Diet's lower house in 1963, Nakagawa ten years later helped found the Seirankai, a secretive ultratraditional group whose 31 members helped one another gain clout in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, including two Cabinet positions for Nakagawa. But after finishing fourth and last in November's election...