(18) Kimono and hanami

 

You certainly don’t need to dress up to do “hanami”, that is to sit under the blossomed trees and enjoy their flowers. However, there are quite a few Japanese women that feel that the hanami does indeed call for something more than your everyday clothes. Maybe because that’s how it was done in Edo, the old Tokyo.

(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr)