Gaijin wearing yukata??

[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by Paul11

It's good you had a ceremony. They're a right of passage and puts your new role and relationship in context.

Thank you for the congratulations (of sorts) - and I`m happy to hear you felt that way. For us, however, it was a big mess of frustration and stress - which likely led to my son`s IUGR and later premature birth as the problems started around that point.
If I had the choice to go back and do that point in life over again, I`d definitely not do the wedding. I have a pretty good feeling our relationship was well in context as we were also in the process of buying a house at that point. (And would have MUCH rather had them help us with the down payment!)

There's a guy on Flicker who posted a bunch of photos of a jinja of that name in nagoya that is a orphanage.

I think I found the one you meant - but the Narumi jinja isn`t the one in Arimatsu that is an orphanage. He has pictures of both it seems.

[Paul11]

Originally Posted by Nyororin

Thank you for the congratulations (of sorts) - and I`m happy to hear you felt that way. For us, however, it was a big mess of frustration and stress - which likely led to my son`s IUGR and later premature birth as the problems started around that point.
If I had the choice to go back and do that point in life over again, I`d definitely not do the wedding. I have a pretty good feeling our relationship was well in context as we were also in the process of buying a house at that point. (And would have MUCH rather had them help us with the down payment!)



I think I found the one you meant - but the Narumi jinja isn`t the one in Arimatsu that is an orphanage. He has pictures of both it seems.

Well then, they both look nice.

[Colin]

What i thought was weird was when I see Gaijin wearing the archery outfit.

Its something that looks good pretty much on only the Japanese

[nobora]

I think it should be something new to see some one waring a yukata ^_^ go for it~!!

[Bureda]

This thread is huuuularious, Hu-hu hularious I say. F**king huuularious.

[Ningyou]

Ha, I love how people all the sudden starting saying the word gaijin. It's not a polite word :P stop watching Tokyo Drift.

[MMM]

Originally Posted by Ningyou

Ha, I love how people all the sudden starting saying the word gaijin. It's not a polite word :P stop watching Tokyo Drift.

It's a commonly used word that only is negative when used in a negative context...like "black".

[Ningyou]

o.O Does no one on this website realize when I'm serious and joking? Jeez...

[MMM]

Originally Posted by Ningyou

o.O Does no one on this website realize when I'm serious and joking? Jeez...

There are a lot of people who are "offended" by that word here.

Sarcasm doesn't come across in text.

[Livvie]

Let's face it. Not only is it foreign to us, (imagine if people were wearing... I don't know... bavarian lederhosen.) so we look pretty silly wearing it unless there's a really good reason to, it's also old fashioned. I *know* that they're still sort of worn in Japan, but... it's not like people wear them all the time.

It'd be like a Japanese person wearing a huge skirted western style ballgown around town. We wear ballgowns to very very formal events, and they are old fashioned. Or if... they wore a girdle- we've moved on. Or, since the clothes don't translate that well- like them laying the table with 4 kinds of forks.