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The ornate fabrics making up the kimonos, obis (waistbands) and kanzashi (hair ornaments) of these maiko on their graduation to become fully fledged geiko (Kyoto equivalent of geisha) – mere outward symbols of an inner grace.
The ornate kanji typography on sake barrels in Kyoto, Japan – post graduation celebration? Arigatou gozaimasu.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Ornate.” and photo challenge Graceful.
Dr D in Oz 
Beautiful graduation costumes. Intricately beautiful and that is a lovely shade of blue. Very dainty and demure looking ladies and I’m sure they worked hard.
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I was very lucky to be in Kyoto just at the right time. We attended their graduation performance. Thanks for your kind comments.
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I just love those two ladies….beautiful!!
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Great interpretation of the theme. Have you thought about tagging your photo challenge post with ‘Weekly photo challenge’? I usually search on that tag in my WordPress reader and scroll though the results – it is much quicker than clicking though all the links on the photo challenge page. It is really interesting to see all the different interpretations of each theme.
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Thanks- and good advice.
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Beautiful costumes and graceful pose. I saw many of them in the streets when I visited Japan, it was so original.
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Yeah. I want to go back.
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