bed quilt in those days

I was often asked to research things, as I was the only one in the team who can search things in Japanese. Also often they've got images but didn't know the name of those thing - like those ‘Shinto - lightening’ I can look for the names, and collect some information about those things, ready for my team mates.

And often things were quite interesting, the things unknown or the reason why they are like so it never bothered me, looking into things.

Bed quilt was one of those things.
When we dressed Mike's bed room in Kira's, the designer wanted to know about how it was like. I went to fetch some information and they used to be a kimono.

This photograph, they said, was taken a little bit later than 47 era but you can see sleeves on quilt.
They put a lots of cotton inside so they are super warm. And they also said that people were wearing these in a house in colder days.

It sounded like one of these, over all fleece blanket - comfy to watch TV on your sofa! I found this quite funny - never changing lazy style... Imagine you wear your quilt has sleeves and you are wearing it in your lounge.

And pillows.

How can you sleep on those unnatural hight but these were the standard type of pillows of this era - because they had their complicated hair-do. They didn't wash, comb and do-ups their hair everyday so due to keep their professionally done style, they had to sleep on those.

I remember ladies in Drape section were making the softer bits on top.
We used to, and still do use the husks of buckwheat for the stuffing of pillow but as they can't get those in UK, they went for alternative, cous-cous. Similar feeling but might get moldy after a while....

Nothing to do letterings or calligraphy but those thing are still very much interesting for me.