Even earlier than she knew that Japan was a factor, Kara Harris had a factor for Japan.
As a Nineteen Eighties child, the American discovered one thing interesting in regards to the cartoons she grew up with, like “Star Blazers” and “Voltron,” however she could not fairly put her finger on what it was. It wasn’t till later when she got here throughout movies like 1962’s “My Geisha” with Shirley MacLaine, and 1986’s “American Geisha” with Pam Dawber that this fondness started to crystalize. Particularly it was the clothes that the characters in these movies would put on that struck Harris as stunning, elegant clothes that reminded her not a lot of Japan however of royalty.
“I did not know these attire had been kimono,” says Harris, an elementary college instructor in her 40s now dwelling in Chiba Prefecture. “I simply thought the characters had been princesses. And, like little ladies in every single place, I needed to be part of that.”