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I saw a lot of women wearing traditional kimonos and getas wooden sandals.

Japan Food Hunt #3 – Mayonnaise For Breakfast, More Octopus Balls and The Beef Tongue Hunt e d b m 2006

I saw a lot of women wearing traditional kimonos and getas wooden sandals.

Archive 2006-05-01 e d b m 2006

After matches, Togo would scream at Baba in the dressing room, and hit him alongside the head with these Japanese clogs called getas.

“Classy” Freddie Blassie Freddie Blassie 2003

Girls in their twenties, on the other hand, would hurl their getas at him, would hurl books, flutes, teapots, iron lanterns, inkwells, and stones; hurl them with such bone-bruising force that it became his turn to scramble to safety.

Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003

A really young girl-fifteen, sixteen, seventeen-would scream as if a godzilla egg had hatched in her bathwater, and run right out of her getas in her haste to reach the safety of the house.

Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003

Instantly the witchcraft ends, like the wonder of some dream broken by a sound; the chanting ceases; the round dissolves in an outburst of happy laughter, and chatting, and softly-vowelled callings of flower-names which are names of girls, and farewell cries of 'Sayonara!' as dancers and spectators alike betake themselves homeward, with a great koro-koro of getas.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

He looks at the windows of his own classroom; at the roofed side-door where each morning for four happy years he used to exchange his getas for soundless sandals of straw; at the lodge of the slumbering

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Also, we are still in the Europa League and will be trying to getas far as possible. '

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