Once Japan’s Imperial capital, the city has been a spiritual and cultural epicentre for more than a thousand years. That ...

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Dancers are accompanied by traditional musical instruments that set the beat. Women generally wear colourful yukata (summer kimono) while the men dress up in happi (lightweight coats with straight ...

The kimono is the most famous garment worn in Japan. Kimono literally means “thing to wear” – it is made up of the Japanese words ki, meaning “to wear”, and mono, meaning “thing”.

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