Word: kimonoed
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...Tokyo, an inventory of Emperor Hirohito's wardrobe reached the tax office. He was ready for any weather. Items: 16 overcoats, 23 sack suits, six frock coats, five morning coats, two swallowtails, two tuxedos, four uniforms and two kimono-style wraparounds...
...reinstalled in their cages or in glass showcases. In death as in life the zoo's star attraction was Tora San, the huge tiger. Propped up before a painted backdrop of lush green jungle, his bared fangs sent many a moppet scurrying closer to his mother's kimono...
...modest, unpainted four-room house atop a narrow headland overlooking Japan's Ago Bay, a wizened little man in a brown kimono and a black derby hat shuffled about in a pearly haze. He was Kokichi Mikimoto, who has annoyed more oysters for more profit than any other man. Last week the longtime king of Japan's culture-pearl industry declared the largest personal income in Japan in the first year of American occupation. He had netted three million yen ($200,000) selling pearls to the conquerors...
Also-rans included a tight-trousered farmer holding two Japanese flags, two old soldiers with elaborate monkey faces, and a tall samurai (honorable warrior) dolled up in a black kimono and sporting real hair wound into a topknot. The show's general manager, a weathered old farmer who looked more like a scarecrow than some of the exhibits, was moved to remark with a sly smile that "samurai now hold no terror for crows...
...Japanese both came early to Paul Jacoulet, whose father was a French teacher in Japan. Says he: "Almost before I spoke, I was glad to have a pencil in my hand." Young Paul used to spend his weekly sen for color prints instead of candy. Now, sitting in a kimono on the floor of his western-style villa (six miles' train-ride from Tokyo), Jacoulet designs his own prints...