Kamigamo Kimono Fair

Lots of photos today!
We went to the Kamigamo Kimono Fair - Tondaya had one booth and we sold lots of obijime (a silk string), obiage (silk scarf-like thing, but you use it to tie your obi), and even one silk obi (kimono sash). I felt weird at first - a gaijin selling kimonos is not something you see everyday - but it turned out that I became a living advertisement. Everybody wanted to see that freak who speaks Japanese and sells kimonos ;).
The first photo is a view of the shrine:

There was a stage set up before the entrance and lots of things were going on. I caught two geiko (geisha) walking off the stage after their performance.

Today was also Shichigosan - a festival for 7, 5 and 3 year-olds, so there were many children dressed in cute kimonos running around. The thing that I noticed about Japanese kids is that they can run freely everywhere, pick up sand, bugs, climb trees and even roll on the ground and nobody says a word about it. I can't count how many times I heard in Poland "don't do that, you'll get dirty", or "don't run around, you'll sweat". Everything I hear that I want to throw something at a person who says it - how can you be a kid and NOT get dirty? So, even in quite expensive and ceremonial clothes these kids seemed to have fun.


And, at last, I have the promised purikura. It's me and my friend from the Kyoto University - Mai. You can see I was a bit overwhelmed by the whole thing, because I'm making a weird face yet again...