Are you a dreadist?
Posted on 25. Nov, 2007 @ 3:24 pm by harvey in Crazy Consumers, Culture, Osaka, Society
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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Kayo
Nov 25th, 2007
at 20:57
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.)
Adam
Nov 26th, 2007
at 03:09
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!
an englishman in osaka
Nov 26th, 2007
at 11:59
Could it be that Kishiwada is twinned with Kingston?
harvey
Nov 26th, 2007
at 22:57
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?
Adam
Nov 27th, 2007
at 08:16
Or better yet, the Kalamazoo/Kingston connection?!
lina
Nov 27th, 2007
at 21:49
Hi! love reading your blog!
is there some kind of cult or something that form this “dreadist” society?
Tori
Nov 28th, 2007
at 06:45
Maybe Jamaipanese knows
harvey
Nov 28th, 2007
at 20:34
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!
Pirikara
Nov 29th, 2007
at 09:59
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?
Jamaipanese
Nov 30th, 2007
at 04:45
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!
Tori
Dec 19th, 2007
at 13:23
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/
Harvey
Dec 19th, 2007
at 13:46
Tori thanks! I’m going to install that this weekend!
rod
Apr 3rd, 2008
at 22:42
where can i find hair salon in osaka who do dreadlocks
Dreadlock
Jun 28th, 2009
at 07:11
Ok is everyone blind.
These are not dreadlocks, their conrows. Its plates done against the scalp. Dreadlocks is when your hair locks and becomes like ropes. Come on people. Just google image Dreadlocks then conrows if ya’ll are so in the dark.
“dreadist society”
hahaha not even one set of dreadlocks among them
Dredai
Sep 21st, 2009
at 13:10
Nice post. Also information you can found on my beuty studio site. We are making braids, dreads and other thing with hair. also there are photo of aour works.
Do not give up and work in the same way.