HauteCultureFashion.com:Travel Blog Review #2 This is our second review of this travel blog run by someone calling themselves Donna Wanderlust -- a pen-name we're guessing. The first review we did was about her well-done (solid information and good pics) post about Geisha which we posted here on yokodana.com blog in November 2016. It had, among many others, the following picture: Blog Review Take Two: 9 REASONS WHY EVERY FASHION LOVER SHOULD VISIT JAPAN! Ms. Wanderlust is a great writer and proffers even better photography. She has captured in a pretty short space her experience while in Asia, focusing on fashion...

In 2016 we added the integration of our website products into Facebook through a Shopify platform feature. This means simply that folks can browse and buy our products and also leave reviews about us without leaving their Facebook page. While we have our own separate unsolicited testimonials page on our site HERE we wanted to share the reviews we've recently received on Facebook about our bulk vintage Japanese kimono by-pound and vintage kimono fabrics by piece and lot. For example, Kirsten Houseknecht wrote of her experience on YokoDana Kimono: Awesome supplies. While they do have wearable, high quality kimono, obi, etc, their...

This is just one of many famous folks dressed in kimonos on one our favorite visual kimono culture blogs, Wafuku (a wordpress blog)  This black and white picture is of Beatle John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Other celebrities pictures on their blog include: Audrey Hepburn, Gwen Stefani, Freddie Mercury(Queen), Michael Jackson, Shirley Temple and more. Check out these stars' pictures on their blog HERE.

Aloha to our Hawaiian customers and fans. We were browsing around the internet looking for any new pages about children's kimono and came across a page on the site of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i (JCCH). We loved the picture so decided to share this here and at the same time introduce the JCCH to our web site visitors, fans and customers:  As we sell vintage Japanese children's kimono by-pound (Boys, Girls) we are always on the look out for quality information and coverage of things Japanese. So when we came upon the picture of the three adorable boys,...

Above Source: David Klapp, Photolibrary (japanese.about.com) 5253 Here at YokoDana Kimono we often are tasked with coming up with English color labels for the seemingly infinite array of colors in Japanese kimonos and fabrics which we post on our site. This is especially challenging when it comes to the many shades of red used In traditional Japanese arts. Perhaps the most famous red is shuiro, translated as vermillion. Shuiro is seen on the Torii gates leading to shrines in Japan (above, top picture), and also in various types of kimonos, often as fringe or border, as well as in higher-end nagajuban...