Thursday November 12th, the traditional autumn garden party organized every year at the Imperial Garden in Tokyo Akasaka by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.
And unlike the previous decade, Japanese Imperial Highness Crown Princess Masako was present among the members of the Imperial family who had were invite.
She had been conspicuously absent as for the fall garden party ago a year, and for the Annual Spring garden party in April 21. But on November 12, Crown Princess Masako, wife of Crown Prince Naruhito, the eldest son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.
And she could not go unnoticed, as she lit up the event by her outfit. She had indeed opted for a bright purple together and was wearing a hat exactly the same tone exceed letting her long black hair dressed in Western assemble. Equally, while they were in kimonos for garden parties last fall and this spring, Empress Michiko and her other daughter in law Princess Kiko, who recently came back from an official trip to Brazil with her husband Prince Akishino, had opted for the first fit and bibi in shades of gray the second for a white suit and matching hat. Alongside Kiko stood their eldest daughter Princess Mako, 24 years old who was sported a coral coordinated a brown hat with a big flower in the same color as her dress and jacket. The latter had also missed the previous two receptions in the imperial Akasaka Garden as she was attending school for her master in the United Kingdom for in the greatest secrecy.
Photo Credits: Paris Match