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Quilt made from vintage aloha shirt fabric, circa 1960s. According to some sources, the origin of aloha shirts can be traced to the 1920s [12] or the early 1930s, [13] when the Honolulu-based dry goods store "Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker" under the proprietorship of Kōichirō Miyamoto, [13] started making shirts out of colorful Japanese prints.
The Nippu Jiji (日布時事, nippu jiji), later published as the Hawaii Times, was a Japanese-English language newspaper based in Honolulu, Hawai'i.Established as the Yamato Shimbun by Shintaro Anno in 1895, the paper began as a six-page semi-weekly printed on a lithograph machine, and changed hands four times before being taken over by Yasutaro "Keiho" Soga in 1905.
Over the next few hundred years, the store slowly expanded, and as Japan entered the Meiji era, Shirokiya and its main rival at the time, Mitsukoshi, expanded into selling clothing and other goods in 1886. In 1903, Shirokiya opened a western-style department store, followed by the creation of a larger store down the street eight years later.
In 1939, the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce merged with the Japanese Merchants Association (Chuo Rengo) and the Honolulu Japanese Contractors Association, and changed its name to the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry. [2] [3] During World War II, many Chamber members were arrested and interned either in Hawaii or on the mainland ...
The Kyoto Gardens of Honolulu Memorial Park is a cemetery located in the eastern half of the Honolulu Memorial Park, 22 Craigside Place, Honolulu, Hawaii. Its three-tiered Sanju Pagoda, the Kinkaku-ji Temple, and Mirror Gardens are fine examples of Japanese traditional-style structures and gardens built outside Japan.
The garment originated in the late Kamakura period (1185–1333 CE). Jūnihitoe (十二単, lit. ' twelve layers ') The layered garments worn by court ladies during the Heian period. The jūnihitoe consisted of up to, or above, twelve layered garments, with the innermost garment being the kosode, worn as underwear underneath a pair of hakama.
These paper garments were called kamiko, a contraction of the Japanese word Kamikokoromo which translates as paper dress. [ 12 ] Paper clothing was worn in Japan during the Kamakura period (1192-1333), [ 13 ] and by the 17th century, washi had become the most widely used paper not just for texts and images, but also for architectural screens ...
Holokū was the original name for the Mother Hubbard dress introduced by Protestant missionaries to Hawaii in the 1820s. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In contrast to the muumuu, the holokū featured long sleeves and a floor-length unfitted dress falling from a high-necked yoke which was worn by the aliʻi as well as the common people.