宗右衛門町に石畳、再び 大阪・ミナミ/ Graduation at Keio University a sartorial look to past, present

宗右衛門町に石畳、再び　大阪・ミナミに５００メートル

石畳の完成を祝い、パレードする商店街の人たち＝２２日午後４時１８分、大阪市中央区宗右衛門町

　日本有数の歓楽街、大阪・ミナミの「宗右衛門（そえもん）町」に石畳が復活した。メーンの通り約５００メートルが生まれ変わり、２２日に完成記念式典が開かれた。
　バブル崩壊後、風俗案内所が急増するなど、環境は悪化する一方。明治から昭和初期の風情を取り戻そうと、工期２年と費用３億円を費やし、整備した。
　今、街の悩みの種は悪質な客引きの存在だ。「クリーム色の石畳でハードは完成した。今後はピンクな客引きを撃退し、安心を取り戻します」と関係者。


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PHOTO ESSAY: Graduation at Keio University a sartorial look to past, present

BY LOUIS TEMPLADO AJW STAFF WRITER

New graduates from universities are easy to spot during spring: They often wear traditional kimono paired with loose trousers and Victorian style lace-up boots. (Louis Templado)

New graduates of the prestigious Keio University pose for a photograph after their graduation ceremony. The woman on the right is wearing a Japanese kimono while the woman on the left is dressed in Korean jeogori and chima. (Louis Templado)

Now rarely worn, men were once expexted to show up in traditional male kimono matched with loose-fitting trousers. (Louis Templado)

Most male attendees at the March 22 graduation ceremony at the Hiyoshi, Kanagawa Prefecture, campus of Keio University attended the event dressed in their first business suits. (Louis Templado)

With more than 6,000 graduates in attendance, the Keio University graduation ceremony was too large to accommodate all parents and relatives, many of whom were forced to watch the event on a screen in a different hall. (Louis Templado)

These recent Keio graduates, clearly members of the university's lepidoptery circle, decided to add variety to the event by appearing in bow ties. (Louis Templado) A lepidopterist or aurelian is a person who specialises in the study of Lepidoptera,[1] members of an order encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies. The term also includes hobbyists who are not formal scholars, who catch, collect, study, or simply observe lepidopterans.[2] Post-Renaissance, the rise of the "lepidopterist" can be attributed to the expanding interest in science, nature and the surroundings. When Linnaeus wrote the tenth edition of the Systema Naturae in 1758, there was already "a substantial body of published work on Lepidopteran natural history" (Kristensen, 1999).[3]

Graduation can be a bittersweet event for students, many of whom will enter the professional working world on April 1. (Louis Templado)