Are you a dreadist?

November 25, 2007 on 3:24 pm | In Crazy Consumers, Culture, Osaka, Society | | Email This Post

Remember how I mentioned that down at Kishiwada Danjiri Matsuri almost all of the participating girls had their hair braided?

Well, I also ran into this place in Kishiwada.

The Japan Extension Dreadist Society!

Their window was plastered with photos of their clients.

The girl in the upper right looks so young! I bet she’s eight. What a cutie!

Actually during the fesitval some random old dude stopped me and asked if I was from Jamaica. Is there some kind of Kishiwada-Jamaica bond that I’m missing here?

- Harvey

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    Hi!
    Thank you for your comment on my blog.
    I always read your blog.
    It’s really interesting!

    My former boss is from Kishiwada.
    I remembered that he always took a few days off,
    during Danziri Matsuri,even if we were very busy.

    If he didn’t join the festival at any reason,
    he said he would be ‘murahatibu”村八分’.
    (It means to be ostracized.)

    Comment by Kayo — November 25, 2007 #

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    There’s definite love for Jamaica in Japan. I went to a reggae festival in Yoyogi Park once and everyone in the audience had cap guns so they could shoot their guns in appreciation of the music, rather than just say, “Bo! Bo! Bo!” There’s a lot of reggae that comes out of Japan too. Gwaaan!

    Comment by Adam — November 26, 2007 #

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    Could it be that Kishiwada is twinned with Kingston?

    Comment by an englishman in osaka — November 26, 2007 #

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    Englishman!

    Not that I do 100% of my research on Wikipedia but, I just did…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston,_Jamaica#Sister_cities

    Kingston has five sister cities.
    Miami, USA
    Kalamazoo, USA
    United Kingdom Coventry, UK
    Mexico Guadalajara, Mexico
    People’s Republic of China Shenzhen, PRC

    Maybe a twin city is a different term, I couldn’t find anything though.

    I -did- see a lot of Jamaica references in Kishiwada though the 1 day I was down there for the festival. Can anyone point to a reference that explains the Kishiwada Kingston connection?

    Comment by harvey — November 26, 2007 #

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    Or better yet, the Kalamazoo/Kingston connection?!

    Comment by Adam — November 27, 2007 #

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    Hi! love reading your blog!
    is there some kind of cult or something that form this “dreadist” society?

    Comment by lina — November 27, 2007 #

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    Maybe Jamaipanese knows

    Comment by Tori — November 28, 2007 #

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    Hi lina! Glad you like reading this blog! Umm I don’t think (hope) there is a dreadist cult though!

    Good idea Tori, let’s wander over to Jamaipanese and see if he knows what’s going on!

    Comment by harvey — November 28, 2007 #

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    Dreadist society…haha, awesome. Nice website you have. By the way, is it just me or does that look like Tadanobu Asano in that tiny picture?

    Comment by Pirikara — November 29, 2007 #

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    thanks for the mention Tori and for the message Harvey.

    I don’t know of any link between Jamaica and Kishiwada.

    I know there is definitely lots of love for Jamaica and it’s culture in Japan but knowledge of a Dreadist Society is news to me…and good news at that ^_^.

    yet another place to see when I visit Japan!

    Comment by Jamaipanese — November 30, 2007 #

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    Hey harvey!

    I just saw these replies to my comment!!
    Maybe you should add comment notification to your blog. I was just talking about this over on DailyJ. Nick from LongCountdown let me know where to download the plugin for comment notification and I am sharing it with everybody.

    http://nipponster.com/dailyj_copy/2007/12/19/friends-dont-let-friends-blog-without-comment-notification/

    Comment by Tori — December 19, 2007 #

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    Tori thanks! I’m going to install that this weekend!

    Comment by Harvey — December 19, 2007 #

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    where can i find hair salon in osaka who do dreadlocks

    Comment by rod — April 3, 2008 #

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