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Camellia (?) furisode

Fun story: When I was first in Japan in 2007, I found a beautiful green furisode for sale in a second-hand shop in Nagoya, but it was around $200. Since the shop didn't take credit cards and I didn't have that kind of cash on me that day, I had to pass it up. So imagine my surprise when, two years later, I found this one in Chicago Harajuku in Kyoto. The designs are slightly different -- the one from Nagoya had red flowers instead of the dark pink ones here, and didn't have the line of Kelly-green cherry blossoms in the black section like this one does -- but they were similar enough that I felt it was meant to be.

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Uploaded on April 22, 2011
Taken on April 22, 2011