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NEWS: Mokona (CLAMP) Releases Kimono Book, Opens Kimono-themed Show




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Chun-Li



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:08 pm Reply with quote
YAAAYYY!!

I sooo want to go!

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seichan80



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:41 pm Reply with quote
It's actually called
"Mokona no Okimono Kimono"

http://www.clamp-net.com

..and it's not a manga. It's mostly a photobook.

http://www.kawade.co.jp/okimono/

Official publisher's homepage.
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linlinchan



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:37 am Reply with quote
Additionally, if I'm not mistaken "Okimono Kimono" isn't "O-Kimono Kimono," but "Oki-mono Kimono," as in "decorative kimono."
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:37 am Reply with quote
Thanks! Fixed it.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:55 am Reply with quote
linlinchan wrote:
Additionally, if I'm not mistaken "Okimono Kimono" isn't "O-Kimono Kimono," but "Oki-mono Kimono," as in "decorative kimono."


nope, They have it written in english on the official site, so that's how I expect the english title to be spelled.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:46 pm Reply with quote
seichan80 wrote:
linlinchan wrote:
Additionally, if I'm not mistaken "Okimono Kimono" isn't "O-Kimono Kimono," but "Oki-mono Kimono," as in "decorative kimono."


nope, They have it written in english on the official site, so that's how I expect the english title to be spelled.


I'm not criticizing the spelling, that is fine.
What I am criticizing is the explanation of the Japanese title, which is incorrect.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:03 pm Reply with quote
The O is separate in the explanation to emphasize it's role as the honorific "O" that preceeds certain nouns (okyakusama, ohenji, etc.).
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:03 pm Reply with quote
Jariten wrote:
The O is separate in the explanation to emphasize it's role as the honorific "O" that preceeds certain nouns (okyakusama, ohenji, etc.).


And my point is that another meaning has to be taken into account here, that of "okimono" both as 置物 and also as お着物.

I asked my husband, who is native Japanese, what he thought, and he agrees with me that the reasoning for rendering this in katakana is so that both of these meanings can be taken into account, to use BOTH meanings.

I'm having a hard time explaining this, and trying to be as specific as possible, but it seems like I might still not be getting this across...
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:55 am Reply with quote
ANN wrote:
The site for the exhibit includes a picture of the artbook cover.


Was the drawing on the cover specifically created for Okimono no Kimono? I mean, if I saw this at a store without knowing what it was, I'd immediately mistaken it as a CLAMP's Kobato artbook. That's clearly Ioryogi in a cage there.
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