kimono
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After the first day of Wimbledon, a photo of Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka in a "reinterpreted kimono" also makes the front page.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
You don't have to see the colour of a kimono to know that it is a kimono.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Anderson asked him if would play a karate instructor and sent him a photo of a tiger... in a martial arts kimono.
From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026
I wish Harvard had opened the kimono and listened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
“As soon as we can afford it, I’ll buy a kimono for you,” she promised Sadako.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
These works reveal the evolution of Noguchi’s designs for furniture, kimonos, theatrical productions, plazas, gardens and his unrealized “Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Dressed in sky blue kimonos emblazoned with flowers, the dancers twist and twirl in unison in front of hundreds of spectators eager to see the annual "Miyako Odori" in the nation's spectacular ancient capital.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
They won’t let her wear all her fabulous flowy dresses and kimonos in the hospital, which is a loss.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2025
Disused palace curtains have previously been used to make kimonos, which were auctioned last year.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
It was owned by people from Tochigi-ken prefecture who had done astoundingly well for themselves: the women among them wore silk crepe kimonos and scarlet, cork-soled slippers.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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East Asia - Middle School
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East Asia - Introductory
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East Asia - High School
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