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Mar. 20th, 2009 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akujunkanIs of:
room shoes! Which are apparently distint from slippers (there are no native Japanese words for either) although no one has explained to me in what way.
You never wear your shoes indoors in Japanese residences, or in many other buildings such as doctor's offices and schools up to the high school level. Instead one wears slippers in the home and special indoors-only shoes in schools. Any institution to which there are frequent visitors (e.g. schools and doctor's offices) provide slippers for guests; so do most homeowners. Indeed, many people still provide a second set of slippers to be used specifically while in the toilet, even though the days when the toilet was a hole in the floor (to say nothing of an outhouse) are long, long past.
These particular room shoes came from the Hong Kong Island Shangri-la.
Damn right, bitches. I stayed at the Hong Kong Island Shangri-la.
That will be all.
room shoes! Which are apparently distint from slippers (there are no native Japanese words for either) although no one has explained to me in what way.
You never wear your shoes indoors in Japanese residences, or in many other buildings such as doctor's offices and schools up to the high school level. Instead one wears slippers in the home and special indoors-only shoes in schools. Any institution to which there are frequent visitors (e.g. schools and doctor's offices) provide slippers for guests; so do most homeowners. Indeed, many people still provide a second set of slippers to be used specifically while in the toilet, even though the days when the toilet was a hole in the floor (to say nothing of an outhouse) are long, long past.
These particular room shoes came from the Hong Kong Island Shangri-la.
Damn right, bitches. I stayed at the Hong Kong Island Shangri-la.
That will be all.