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When I returned to school after Spring Break, everything had started to bloom. So, my photographer and I got together and held my Spring Kitsuke photoshoot, to go with my Autumn and Winter one.

This is my Heisei period irotomesode that I've named Mihoe [link] which features a design of famous sites in Kyoto with the urushi technique (weaving a design with lacquered threads). The fukuro obi has a design of pine branches and plum blossoms over water. I liked this combination a lot, but it was too warm for the bright sunlight that day.

I actually learned what these flowers were in Japanese before I learned that they're called Lily Magnolias in English. In Japanese they are called Mokuren, combiniing the kanji for tree and lotus. Pretty flower and pretty name, no matter what the language .

Description
When I returned to school after Spring Break, everything had started to bloom. So, my photographer and I got together and held my Spring Kitsuke photoshoot, to go with my Autumn and Winter one.

This is my Heisei period irotomesode that I've named Mihoe [link] which features a design of famous sites in Kyoto with the urushi technique (weaving a design with lacquered threads). The fukuro obi has a design of pine branches and plum blossoms over water. I liked this combination a lot, but it was too warm for the bright sunlight that day.

I actually learned what these flowers were in Japanese before I learned that they're called Lily Magnolias in English. In Japanese they are called Mokuren, combiniing the kanji for tree and lotus. Pretty flower and pretty name, no matter what the language .