Soul with Masha

Friday, July 08, 2005

夏 

The hot season ~ summer has arrived in Japan. Though most Japanese hate the hot weather, they have a special feeling towards summer. Japanese feel that summer is a time for 恋 (romance). So there are singles (especially youngsters) who aim to engage into a relationship during summer.

During summer, there are夏祭り(natsu matsuri = summer festival) in almost every part of Japan. Food and game stalls are set up for this festival. There are also fireworks and performances during the festival.

Japanese will wear ゆかた (Yutaka = cheaper version of kimono) to turn up for this festival. I have tried the ゆかた once (borrowed from my Japanese’s friend while she came to Singapore) It is really comfortable and cooling to wear it. That is why ゆかた is the best choice of clothes to wear in summer.

I think it is fun to wear ゆかた and attend the 夏祭り. I really hope I can try it one day. But to think of the hot weather.. probably I should give up this idea [ I went to Japan in mid September before, it was really hot! ]

Talking about ゆたか, I like to see Japanese men in ゆかた. Reason being ゆかた is part of Japanese culture. I find that not all Japanese men look nice in ゆかた. One of the Japanese men whom I find nice in ゆかた is 玉木宏 (Tamaki Hiroshi). 玉木さん, standing 1.8m tall, has the model built. Probably that is why he looks good in ゆかた. OIOI [department store] seems to agree with me. If not,
玉木さん would not be chosen by them to be the ゆかた spokesman for the consecutive second year. In fact, I think 玉木さん looks nice in ゆかた rather than modern clothes.

玉木宏 in ゆかた



玉木宏 in modern clothes

A brief introduction of 玉木宏:

玉木さん started out as an actor and released 2 singles and an album. Lady luck didn’t really shine on him as he didn’t have that much opportunities as compared to 妻夫木 聰 , even though they acted in the same movie ~ Waterboys.

玉木さん has a good voice and the potential to be a good singer. If he can spend more time on his singing career and manage to get a hit song, I guess more people will recognize him as a singer. I personally prefer him to sing rather than acting.


PS. I have not seen Masha in ゆかた on magazines or photos before. Sob sob..

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