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Originally Posted by Columbine
That's pretty interesting; is she Japanese or a foreigner?
On the note about it looking habitual, I ended up chatting once to this old lady selling stuff just down the road from Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto. She was watching me maiko-spotting (there were lots about that day, some kind of event) and came up to see what I made of it all. She pointed out that a few of them were just women in costume, not real maiko and pointed out a few key difference, mainly, how they walked in their geta. Boy, was she ever right! You could really, really tell who was used to it and who wasn't.
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Yeah that's one of the easiest ways to spot the habituals
My student is Japanese yes, in her early 30s and quite beautiful, and very aware that what she is doing is full-on strange and she gets laughed at by a few friends of hers but the entertainment value is worth more haha. She is far from shy.
What feels so different with her is how she moves with complete awareness of what her clothes are doing, I mean she isn't always checking everything to make sure it's still in place or something.