The Importance of Kimonos in Japan

Everything struck me as incomprehensible. I wore the special bathroom slippers out of the bathroom and across the room. When I asked the woman who served us an elaborate dinner, what happened if something was spilled on the Tatami mat, she began to scream with laughter. If she could have fallen off her seat, she would have. But the room had no seats at all. Instead, she stuffed the wrapping from my hot towel into the gaping sleeve of her kimono - so that one could forget the fact that she was disposing of garbage.