Word: yukata
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...RYOKAN RESERVATIONS To experience traditional Japan, consider staying in a ryokan, an old-style Japanese inn. You can book online or you can read about features that make these personable guesthouses unique?like grilled fish dinners, wooden clogs and yukata robes to wear inside...
...Swallows nest inside the doorway, as they have for generations. The floor flexes under our feet as we step gingerly across knotholes and gaps in the boards. But the plumbing is modern: warmed and soothed by a soak in the deep, hot bath, we eat dinner wearing long, cotton yukata gowns and sitting on the floor at low, lacquered tables. The innkeeper produces a feast of baked river fish and mountain-grown vegetables, which we wash down with cold beer and warm sake...
...scored a 6-5 victory over the Japanese Foreign Office team, led by athletic Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka, the embassy staff gave the ambassador its Most Valuable Player award. At a festival in the seaport where Commodore Perry came ashore in 1853, Reischauer topped the bill. He wore a yukata, Japan...
...Robert Harnilton's "Crucifixion." The war betwen traditionalists and modernists is useless; the only valid war is between the good and the bad, both of which can be achieved in any style. Ernst Halberstadt's representational (and Oriental-influenced) "Landscape" was fine, as was John Gregoropoulos' abstract "Olympian Landscape"; Yukata Ohashi's "Equilibrium No. 4" was abstractionism at its worst, while William Hardy's representational "Bridge at Portsmouth" couldn't even get the bridge towers in proportion...
...newsman's intervention). Said Dr. Kentaro Shimizu (5 ft. 4 in.), one of Tokyo's top brain surgeons: "These cases are so uncommon that any specialist would be happy to treat one." Installed in a specially built bed (8 ft. 6 in.) and swathed in a vast yukata (summer kimono) Yoshimitsu was X-rayed and tested to a fare-thee-well...