The service, offered by ladies in kimonos, is attentive and at one with the setting.

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For now, Okutani devotes her considerable energy not only to her business but to her non-business interests, which include Japanese dancing and collecting kimonos.

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Amid two dozen men and seven women dressed in kilts, top hats, and kimonos, the quietly aloof Quijada stuck out like an umlaut in English.

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Ten female dancers dressed in colourful kimonos and floral headdresses, assisted by two to four male dancers, perform a repertoire of six to ten dances.

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The Yuki-tsumugi technique is employed to produce pongee silk (also called raw silk) - a light and warm material with a characteristic stiffness and softness, traditionally used to make kimonos.

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This provision of the Dodd-Frank Act, effective next year, will have the effect of forcing public corporations to open kimonos they have long cinched tight--even companies with relatively transparent disclosure practices.

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His plans are creating new opportunities for U.S. importers of Japanese goods, especially mom-and-pop shops that sell specialty goods like kimonos, collectible Japanese erasers and ginger dressing, who have been hammered over the past decade by the yen's relentless rise.

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Every year in the middle of January, at a shrine or before the houses of the community, five to ten women from age forty to eighty sing "a" "capella" to accompany the dancing of ten to twenty young girls in colourful kimonos.

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