Chapter 199: Kimono Culture

Yoshiko Matsuda continued, "Not only the collar, but also the hem is one of the important cues. According to traditional Japanese practice, the kimono is no longer worn**. Therefore, in general, kimono women take small steps, which can not only look demure and elegant, but also make the hem of the kimono swing regularly. This is also the quintessential image of Japanese women. However, there are always people who are keen to bring out the story "inside" of the kimono. There is a dance called "Dance in the Stream", during the performance, the girl needs to wade through the stream step by step, in order not to get her clothes wet, she can only lift the hem and walk, and take one step to lift the lift, and with this mention and release, everything that should not be exposed is exposed. The audience for the dance is naturally male. Therefore, this kind of "dance in the stream" is a Japanese style of draggar dance. It reflects the "Japanese taste" to the greatest extent, with both a subtle and conservative traditional culture and a hint of unknown eroticism.

Geisha, as a representative of "kimono culture", are an important embodiment of "Japanese taste". Geisha have a strict hierarchy, and they must not dress beyond the ranks. However, for ordinary Japanese people, geisha are equally mysterious and unfamiliar. It's not just that geisha are few and far between, but even in the Edo period, geisha only served the powerful. A geisha's high-class kimono is as high as a year's income for an ordinary lower-class person. ”

Tang Ning listened and nodded repeatedly: "Well, the next time I have the opportunity to be a judge, I must take a good look at it, especially this dance in the stream has to be carefully watched." ”

After the two of them were passionate, Matsuda Yoshiko said to Tang Ning with great interest: "Boss, do you know Crown Prince Akihito?" ”

Tang Ning nodded inexplicably: "You know, didn't you just be canonized." ”

Yoshiko Matsuda continued, "Recently I have recruited a down-and-out aristocratic disciple named Irie Ryen, who was the companion of Crown Prince Akihito. I heard some interesting things about Crown Prince Akihito from him, would you like to hear about it? ”

Tang Ning was still very interested in this kind of royal gossip, so he said, "Okay, let's hear it." ”

Yoshiko Matsuda began to gossip: "It is said that since 1938, the Imperial Household Agency of Japan has decided to select 12 boys of the same age as Crown Prince Akihito from the Gakuin kindergarten. Every Wednesday and Saturday at Akasaka Rikyu Palace, play with Akihito. Irie said that every day a bus from the Ministry of Miyauchi (now the Imperial Household Agency) came to pick them up. There, after greeting His Highness, he went to the courtyard to play. At that time, the child also knew in his heart that the person who lived here was a great person. However, after a while, it became a not-so-big difference.

And because these children themselves are the sons and daughters of famous families, they are used to being around as if there is no one else on weekdays. So it didn't take long for Crown Prince Akihito to occupy all the tricycles and building blocks that Crown Prince Akihito carefully used on weekdays. Even if the crown prince stood silently next to him, he didn't invite strangers to join him to play together.

Later, he began to gradually play with His Highness. The game that was often played at that time was "Captain Mine". Irie said: "Although His Highness is not fast, he is running back and forth with us very vigorously, and he did not let him be a capital ship or anything because he is His Highness, and there is no such special treatment." ”

What's more, because at that time, there were brown ceramic pigs for mosquito coils in the student dormitories, and the color was the same as that of His Royal Highness with a darker complexion. So they gave His Highness the nickname 'Little Tea Pig'. ”

Hearing this, Tang Ning couldn't help laughing: "Haha." Our crown prince has such a good temper, and he can endure being bullied like this. ”

Yoshiko Matsuda also smiled and said, "So I think this thing is interesting." But that's nothing, our Royal Highness the Crown Prince was once ridden as a horse.

It is said that when he was in elementary school, Akira Hashimoto, who is currently the director of the Economic Intelligence Center, and His Royal Highness played a game of horseback riding. After Hashimoto climbed with Akihito on his back for a while, Akihito said, "I'll be the horse this time," and after saying that, he naturally knelt on the grass. Hashimoto also stepped up unceremoniously, and Akihito staggered along. His retinue watched in silence. Unblocked. Hashimoto later said that at that time he felt that His Highness seemed to be in pain, so he tried to move his position slightly, but His Highness said indifferently, 'Sit a little further, yes.' Sit here! He continued to crawl slowly along the gravel-paved path until he reached the bottom of the steps forty or fifty meters away. ”

Tang Ning shook his head and sighed: "Then our Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't have a time to lose his temper?" ”

Matsuda Yoshiko thought for a while and said: "It seems that there is, the crown prince had a conflict with his classmates when he was in junior high school, that is, in 46 years, and it was Hashimoto Akira who used to use His Highness as a horse to provoke His Highness.

It is said that as soon as Hashimoto entered the classroom, he saw His Highness come out, his face flushed, and he said to me angrily, 'Hashimoto, you wipe that off.' Then he remembered that the day before, after cleaning, he had written in chalk on the lid of His Highness's desk. But Hashimoto couldn't wipe it clean after wiping it for a long time, so His Highness said, 'Wipe it cleaner.' This time Hashimoto was on fire, 'Why bother to put on a tyrant's shelf!' It's inexplicable! His Highness was silent for a while and said, 'From now on, I will break off my friendship with Hashimoto. But a day later, the two were back together."

Also in his second year of junior high school, Akihito and three alumni formed a biology research group and planned to dissect rabbits. But when it came time to do it, Akihito didn't dare anymore, so he left the sentence "I won't do it" and "jumped ship" to the insect research group. So, the three classmates asked Akihito to the grove and asked, "You said the matter yourself, and you changed your mind halfway, which is not good." If you are like this as the emperor in the future, then it won't be troublesome? The future emperor, who had been taught a good lesson, sat silently on the grass and fell into deep thought.

When Akihito was in his third year of high school, he discussed with a few good classmates and iron buddies, saying that he wanted to go to the Ginza area to see the world. So, these classmates cleverly deceived the crown prince's attendants and slipped away to Ginza with Akihito, and one of them introduced Akihito to his girlfriend. Everyone also pooled money to drink coffee and eat bread together, but they were recognized by four Keio University students walking on the road, and one of them greeted him in a chic manner, "Your Highness, good evening!" Akihito also replied, "Good evening!" (To be continued......)