Japanese Festival ‘26
I ♥️ Japan
I was lucky enough to attend the Japanese Festival ’26. It was a wonderful event, featuring a wide variety of items.
We saw manga, booths with Japanese games, consoles, replica swords, traditional costumes, real race cars (!), handmade paintings, masks, origami, and of course bonsai. We also saw many people around us dressed in all sorts of incredible costumes, whether traditional or cosplay.
One of the most interesting moment was definitely when a group of women (and two men) dressed in traditional kimono costumes took the main stage. The highlight was when our friend Marianthi took the stage and was dressed live on stage in a beautiful kimono costume right in front of us, while the announcer shared incredible facts about this amazing tradition, such as that to wash a kimono (usually once a year), it is completely taken apart and sewn back together from scratch!
“Keizoku wa chikara nari”
The Japanese are incredible. I’d love to travel to their country for a few weeks someday. I consider them an admirable nation in many ways.
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