XD Crows ARE snitches. They yell and tattle for the fun of it.

We're having a hissy fit!

Awwww. She's definitely not from feral stock, to be accepting you like that. I'm glad.

DK, I just got a new dollbaby!

Ooo new dolly! share!


oAo I just learned why the tea cup gets turned twice in tea ceramonies! oAo

"The host will generally place the tea bowl in a way where the most impressive part of the design faces the guest. Thus, to avoid using the front of the tea bowl, you rotate it twice clockwise before drinking."
The reason the tea bowl is turned at tea ceremonies!


ovo later on in the chapter it talks about how to walk properly in kimono, even how to go up the stairs in one.

Learn lots of things in Holmes of Kyoto! xD

I remember Memoirs of a Geisha, Saiyuri commented on how after the war, any girl with a kimono and painted face called herself geisha and it had upset her. She later decided to rebuild the Geisha house in which she was raised, to show people true Geisha.

I never read the book, nor do I know how accurate any of it is.

But I do thing, if that were true, the soldiers would come home and tell their stories and in those stories, 'geisha' were whores because of those girls telling lies like they did.

The stuff they put in their hair to hold it in place, the decorations... I couldn't do it... My neck wants to snap half the time from just the weight of my head alone... x-x


The Kimono that Aoi is wearing to the tea ceremony in Holmes of Kyoto is called a sha.

Sha is a casual summer kimono, and a ro is the formal summer kimono.

not sure I have this right, homongi is a lined kimono worn in the winter. From the way Aoi describes it, I'm guessing its a formal type kimono, not casual.


the sashes used to tie back kimono sleeves is called a tasuki!


So many types and styles and names to learn and remember.. x-x