Duke blows up stained glass windows in an empty church or goes to strip clubs where Japanese women lower their kimonos exposing their breasts.

The standard plural of the word kimono in English is kimonos, but the unmarked Japanese plural kimono is also sometimes used.

As the kimono has another name,, the earliest kimonos were heavily influenced by traditional Han Chinese clothing, known today as, through Japanese embassies to China which resulted in extensive Chinese culture adoptions by Japan, as early as the 5th century AD.

Gravure models are commonly photographed wearing bikinis or lingerie but may also appear wearing schoolgirl uniforms, Japanese street fashion, and kimonos.

Examples of classic Japanese armour from the mid-19th century, steel sword blades ( Katana ), Inrō, lacquerware including the Mazarin Chest dated c1640 is one of the finest surviving pieces from Kyoto, porcelain including Imari, Netsuke, woodblock prints including the work of Ando Hiroshige, graphic works include printed books, as well as a few paintings, scrolls and screens, textiles and dress including kimonos are some of the objects on display.

Because of the mass availability, most Japanese people wear western style clothing in their everyday life, and kimonos are mostly worn for festivals, and special events.

Rather than being entirely naked, men usually wear Japanese loincloths and women wear kimonos, both additionally wearing headbands.

In an interview with Salon. com, she explains that in 11th-century Japanese court literature, women authors such as Murasaki Shikibu wrote lengthy descriptions of kimonos in their work.

In the book Dalby presents essays about the social symbolism of the kimono, going back to the 12th century when an Empress had to choose a multi-layered kimono based on mood, season, and social event, without making a mistake in color or style, moving all to the present with an essay about modern Japanese women who wear kimonos.

This pattern was repeated in other seminaries at other sites, and, in the 1580 Principles for the Administration of Japanese Seminaries, which goes into great detail about seminary methods, Valignano notes that the " tatami mats should be changed every year " and that students should wear " katabira ( summer clothes ) or kimonos of blue cotton " and outdoors a " dobuku ( black cloak ).

is a Japanese word meaning roughly “ to ruin oneself by extravagance in food .” It is sometimes romanised as cuidaore, and is part of a larger proverb: " Dress ( in kimonos ) till you drop in Kyoto, eat till you drop in Osaka " ( 京の着倒れ 、 大阪の食い倒れ ).

The desire to contrast the first parts of words which are alike in their last components produces an exceptional disregard of the normal patterns of stress of Chinese and Japanese.

Many of the features of the homes are the latest modern devices in American homes, but an interesting blend of cultures finds us using Japanese artfulness in our own Western architecture at the same time that the Japanese are adopting Western utility patterns.

Even today there are some doubts about the value of education for Japanese women, but this University continues to grow and to send its students out into the community.

The Momoyama family had come from Miyagi Prefecture, in the northeast of the main Japanese island of Honshu, where there are still traces of the mysterious Ainu strain.

Tommy, of course, had never heard of a kotowaza, or Japanese proverb, which says, `` Tanin yori miuchi '', and is literally translated as `` Relatives are better than strangers ''.

A number of fossil cryptobranchids have been found but there are only three living species, the Chinese giant salamander ( Andrias davidianus ), the Japanese giant salamander ( Andrias japonicus ) and the hellbender ( Cryptobranchus alleganiensis ) from North America.

* Japanese school calendar also starts from April 1, although Nyugakushiki ( entry ceremony for schools ) are usually held later, around second week of April.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

As a result, many Ainu are indistinguishable from their Japanese neighbors, but some Ainu-Japanese are interested in traditional Ainu culture.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

Most of the 888 Japanese people living in Russia ( 2010 Census ) are of mixed Japanese-Ainu ancestry, although they do not acknowledge it ( full Japanese ancestry gives them the right of visa-free entry to Japan ).

Recent research suggests that the historical Ainu culture originated in a merger of the Okhotsk culture with the Satsumon, one of the ancient archaeological cultures that are considered to have derived from the Jōmon period cultures of the Japanese Archipelago.

Full-blooded Ainu are lighter skinned than their Japanese neighbors and have more body hair.

The fact that haplogroups N9b and M7a were observed in Hokkaido Jomons bore out the hypothesis that these haplogroups are the ( pre -) Jomon contribution to the modern Japanese mtDNA pool.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

Due to intermarriage with the Japanese and ongoing absorption into the predominant culture, there are no truly Ainu settlements existing in Japan today.

Although there have been attempts to show that the Ainu language and the Japanese language are related, modern scholars have rejected that the relationship goes beyond contact, such as the mutual borrowing of words between Japanese and Ainu.

This is a combination of Japanese cuisine | Japanese and Vietnamese cuisine: smoked salmon wrapped in rice paper, with avocado, cucumber, and crab stick

A version of inarizushi that includes green beans, carrots, and gobo along with rice, wrapped in a triangular aburage ( fried tofu ) piece, is a Hawaiian specialty, where it is called cone sushi and is often sold in okazu-ya ( Japanese delis ) and as a component of bento boxes.

, also known as or rice ball, is a Japanese food made from white rice formed into triangular or oval shapes and often wrapped in nori ( seaweed ).

It is also used as a tenderizer in the crust of baked Cantonese moon cakes, and in lye-water " zongzi " ( glutenous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves ), in chewy southern Chinese noodles popular in Hong Kong and southern China, and in Japanese ramen.

The festival is based on a traditional Japanese form of entertainment where revelers paint a face on their torsos and stomachs and pretend it is a head. A kimono is then wrapped around the waist and the person's real head is hidden by a large cloth hat.

* Omelet rice: also known as omurice in Japanese or nasi pattaya in Malay, it is fried rice wrapped inside the egg omelet.

Image: Jutte 5. JPG | Japanese Jutte with an iron shaft " boshin " and an iron hook " kagi ", the handle " tuska " is wrapped with cord and it has an iron end piece " kan " which swivels.

Spam musubi is a popular snack and lunch food in Hawaii composed a slice of grilled Spam atop of a block of rice, wrapped together with nori dried seaweed in the tradition of Japanese omusubi.

is a type of Japanese confection, а red bean pancake which consists of two small pancake-like patties made from castella wrapped around a filling of sweet Azuki red bean paste.

Bo-hiya had the appearance of a large arrow, a burning element made from incendiary waterproof rope was wrapped around the shaft, when lit the bo-hiya was fired from a wide bore tanegashima ( Japanese matchlock ) or a mortar like weapon ( hiya taihou ).

File: Traditional Japanese wrapping cloth, huroshiki, katori-city, japan. JPG | Gifts wrapped in Furoshiki

An amount of Japanese curry is wrapped in a piece of dough, and the dough breaded in panko, and deep fried.