On the morning of December 29, local time, Princess Kako, known as "Japan's most beautiful princess", appeared in a special car near "Hanzomon" in downtown Tokyo. Facing the crowd standing on the roadside to pay tribute to her, Kako smiled brightly, nodding and waving in return.
Kako, wearing a red dress and a red hat, looked very festive. It was her 29th birthday that day. According to royal etiquette, she needed to enter the palace to visit her uncle Emperor Naruhito, her aunt Empress Masako and her cousin Princess Aiko. Afterwards, she will go to the Sento Imperial Palace in Akasaka to meet her grandfather and grandmother, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. Just five days ago, Emperor Akihito celebrated his 90th birthday.
Although the favorability of Kako's parents, Prince Akishino Fumihito and Princess Kiko, has plummeted among the Japanese people (due to the marriage of the eldest daughter, Mako, and the alleged plagiarism of their son, Prince Hisahito, etc.), Kako's popularity is still good.
Especially after Emperor Naruhito called her "Little Kako" in public not long ago, many netizens felt that she was a lovely princess, different from her overly scheming parents.
According to tradition, members of the Japanese royal family will release portrait photos on their birthdays, and the 29-year-old Kako is no exception, but the style of the photo is a little different. She wore a light-colored kimono.
Although kimonos are exclusive to Japanese people, what is interesting is that young female members of the royal family almost never wear kimonos when taking birthday portraits, perhaps to make themselves look more modern and more relaxed. Bar.
Kako's older sister, Mako, did not wear a kimono when she took a birthday portrait for the last time in the royal family. She wore a knitted sweater with a long skirt and even took her sister along for the photo. In the birthday photos of the sisters in previous years, they all appeared in "foreign clothes."
The same is true for Princess Aiko, the only child of the Emperor. Not wearing kimonos seems to have become an unspoken rule for these Japanese royal girls.
But this time Kako appeared in a private garden wearing a kimono, which was really special. For this reason, some people speculated whether she would get married next year and would wear the "furisode" (furisode) for the last time as a commemoration.
"Furisode" is a type of kimono, an exclusive dress for unmarried women. It is considered the most gorgeous of all kimonos, with relatively rich colors and patterns.
Once you get married, you have to change to "warsode". The most intuitive difference is that the sleeves become shorter. This is a custom that originated in the Edo period. The reason is that married women need to roll up their sleeves to take care of housework.
Whether Kako will get married next year is just speculation. After all, she has not told people about her relationship. According to her father, Prince Fumihito, his youngest daughter is not in a relationship. He also said that they will listen carefully to Kako's thoughts when it comes to marriage.
may say this because he is afraid that Yoshiko will make the same mistake as Mako, but now it seems that Mako is quite happy, at least living an unfettered and free life, but I don't know whether Kei Komuro can be relied on.
Not long ago, Kako was photographed walking out of a convenience store talking and laughing with a man. The "most beautiful princess" wearing a leather jacket and leopard print high heels looked quite fashionable.
However, it was later confirmed that the man was a bodyguard and not Kako's date.
