First, an ofuro, the Japanese bath followed by a traditional banquet served by kimono-clad women.

There were a child, a father and mother, and two kimono-clad women who simultaneously recalled "Madama Butterfly" and heavenly spirits.

He would not have been surprised to glimpse a kimono-clad woman at the side of the road, dappled in sunshine and shadow.

Fuku Sho's blond wood decor is accented by several mural-like paintings of kimono-clad women, rendered in a modern style.

Nearby, two kimono-clad women take their farewell bows; a solitary painter, perhaps inspired by the changing light, tints his watercolor trees a shade of orange.

A kimono-clad woman greeted me in the stone-paved foyer with a towel, and seconds later she had me brushed dry.

The first "comfort station," the Komachien, a huge wooden traditional building in a Tokyo suburb, opened with 150 kimono-clad women.

The kimono-clad woman seems at first the dominant player in this strange game of hide-and-seek.

The kimono-clad women who had served the tea had left the room.

It is believed that this fire changed fashion customs among Japanese women, who discarded the traditional kimono since kimono-clad women did not wear panties.