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Kimono Flea Market ICHIROYA's News Letter No.814

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Dear newsletter readers, 
 
Hello, this is Mari writing this week.
It is getting cooler and cooler in Japan. It will be the best season to wear kimono, 
Not too hot, not too cold. Thinking about kimono coordinate is one of my favorite things to do. We will introduce kimono coordination like the last newsletter again in near future! We hope you enjoy our suggestion.
 
As you may know, Rugby World Cup 2019 is in session in Japan.
 
 
I have been watching games with great interest. This is once a life time event!
We are hosting Rugby World Cup, right?
We can watch the best rugby players play everyday. To be honest with you, rugby is not that popular in Japan. Baseball and soccer are a lot more popular. However, Osaka is a place where rugby is popular. Small kids play Tag rugby at elementary schools. Many Junior high and high schools have rugby club which is rare in Japan. Hosting rugby world cup must be precious experience for them, and encourage them to practice harder.
 
All blacks' Haka made us excited of course!
Ireland vs Scotland game made me stop doing anything else but watching TV. Now, I'm a rugby fan!

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Japan is in Pool A which is the same pool as Ireland and Scotland. 
We are still hoping to win rest of games, and advance to the final league. 
 
Autumn is a season for sports! We have sports theme items!
They are unique and fashionable!

Kimono Flea Market ICHIROYA's News Letter No.813

Konnichiwa Minasan! Ogenki desuka? 
Hope you are having a nice weekend. 
This is Yoko desu. 
 
Believe or not! Autumn is pushing Summer away with great power!
Now it can be very chilly, especially at night and in the morning. 
I must put away my summer Futon and take out a thicker Futon to prepare for Winter.
That is alright, my beagle Marin will keep me warm! fufufu
 
In this newsletter, I would like to write about perfect Kimono to wear in Autumn.
We are supposed to wear Hitoe(unlined Kimono) in September, but soon in October, you can start to enjoy 
Awase(lined Kimono).  Oshima Tsumugi Kimono is a perfect Kimono to wear for rather chilly Autumn outings, don't you think?
 
Instead of deep Ai color or mud dye Oshima Kimono, there are white Oshima, colorful Oshima, and even a dyed Oshima. 
You can choose your favorite Oshima depending on where you are headed. :)
It does not have to be Oshima Tsumugi, it can also be just a simple Tsumugi too!
I hope you enjoy Tsumugi style in this Autumn for casual outings!!
 
Here are some of our recommendations!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

There are a lot more Tsumugi Kimono to choose from on our website.
If you need assistance choosing the right one for you, please feel free to let us know!

Just so you know, next coming up Monday is a Japanese national holiday, so the earliest we can reply would be on Tuesday.
Thank you for your understanding and attention in this matter.
 
Have a wonderful day!

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Kimono Flea Market ICHIROYA's News Letter No.812

 

 

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Dear ICHIROYA News Letter readers,

Hi! How are you doing? Mitsue is writing this time. It’s getting cooler and cooler these days, but autumn is too short. So I’d like to enjoy this comfortable season as much as I can. What are you going to do in comfortable season?

One of my favorite outgoing is visiting museums. Vintage Juban(undergarment) is exhibited at a small historical museum of Yao city, Osaka where I live. I visited there and attended a lecture about pattern of Juban. It was fun as well as our staff meeting which we have every morning. Yes, we usually study about Kimono changing the themes every each month, so let me share you some what I learned.

The word  ‘Juban’ is from Arabic ‘jubbah’, and the sound is from Portuguese. Originally Juban had no sleeves and the length was short, but it has changed with the times. The original ones are called Han-juban. They are hardly left, because underwear is consumables, you know. So ICHIROYA also has just a few ones, but we have many other vintage Juban with attractive pattern.

People enjoy hidden fashion from old times, and particularly put importance at a glimpse. So they enjoyed their favorite pattern with Juban in secret or make wishes for their family with it.

For example, women enjoyed glamorous, charming and graceful patterns such as flower, butterfly and 'genjiko' (ancient Japanese incense) .

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The ones such as royal cart, treasure, nobles and castle is their longing for wealth, and scroll, book and musical instrument pattern is for educated.

 

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Auspicious patterns such as 'Shou-chiku-bai'( pine tree, bamboo and Ume blossom), crane, 'Kikko' (tortoise shell) and 'Shippou-tsunagi' (interlocking circles) are symbols of health and wealth of the family.

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'Asanoha'(hemp leaf) is growing up quickly and straightly, so the pattern is often used for baby’s and child’s one. Needless to say, toy and animal pattern such as doll, wooden horse and ball are often used.

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For men, we can find historical pattern such as battle, Olympic and baseball for the lining which reminds of atmosphere of that time.  

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We can enjoy layered wearing with similar color or opposite one, combination of their own favorite. The way of enjoying Kimono fashion is unlimited. How about finding your favorite pattern and your special way of wearing Kimono at ICHIROYA?

Followings are the items which have those patterns I introduced today.

Woman's Juban
Genjiko & Flower pattern
 
 
Butterfly pattern
 
 
Goshoguruma pattern
 
Heian Noble pattern
 
Crane pattern
 
Cage pattern

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Boy's Juban
Men's Juban
Battle pattern
Baseball pattern
 

Kimono Flea Market ICHIROYA's News Letter No.811

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furisode obi coordination
 
Hello, Ichiroya newsletter readers! How are you doing? This time Iori is writing.
It's September! It looks summer has gone just to see the word 'SEPTEMBER'. No, not yet, it is still hot here in Japan. Though it is hot in daytime, it is getting cooler in the morning and night time. I hear the bell of crickets instead of the cicadas. Feel much cooler with gentle breeze at night.
This time I would like to introduce an article from our Japanese blog site. This is written by Miyuki, who is a great Kimono stylist at Ichiroya. She really loves kimono, of course wears kimono regularly, and has introduced lots of wonderful kimono coordination in her articles. So I would love to show you some of them.
This time Miyuki introduced kimono coordination for Autumn, Furisode kimono at Seijin-shiki(Coming of Age Day ceremony), and her favorite items from Kimonotte side project. I hope you'll see your favorite one from her recommendation.
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Autumn Outing in Hitoe(not lined) Kimono
Autumn for Art, Autumn for Food, Autumn for Outing!
It's time to go out in cool hitoe(not lined) Kimono!
*Houmongi Kimono at formal occasions or parties.
 Houmongi Kimono with seasonal flowers on 'tanzaku'(strip of paper) pattern 

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 <UNWORN> Casual Tsume Tsuzure Nagoya Obi with flower and bird design

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*Smooth and comfortable Omeshi Kimono for theater-going 
 Hon-Shiozawa Omeshi Kimono with thin stripes 
 
 Casual Tsumugi Nagoya Obi with pair birds on matsukawa-hishi pattern 

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*Lunch with friends in Tsumugi Kimono
 Tsumugi Kimono with lovely owl pattern 
 
 Casual Nagoya Obi with Sakiori-style colorful stripes  
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It's a little bit early but January is the month we have Seijin-shiki(Coming of Age Day ceremony) in Japan. Furisode kimono is the beginning of her Kimono life. I believe many Japanese girls who turned to 20 wear this Furisode Kimono for the first time in their life to participate Seijin-shiki.  It always reminds her of the excited moment. It must be a wonderful memory! 
 
Here she introduces some wonderful Furisode coordinations.
*Refined Furisode Style
 Furisode Kimono with flowers, stream and 'oshidori'(mandurin duck) 
 
 Fukuro obi with 'sakura'(cherry blossom) design 
 
*Chic Black Furisode Style
 Furisode Kimono with stylish classical pattern 
 
 Fukuro Obi with gorgeous peacock design
 
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Autumn with Kimonotte Side Project Items
*Love original style! Enjoy wearing kimono with your favorite design!
 Kimonotte obi with stained glass design  
 Yellow gradation summer ro obiage  
 Han-eri(added collar) with checkerboard pattern 
 Meisen Kimono with polka-dot pattern  
We offer colorful & unique items of Kimonotte side project. Put 'kimonotte' in the keyword bar. It is just fun to look around those eye-catching items!
*Even it has SOLD mark, it can be available if you could wait for 1-2 weeks.  Contact us if you are interested in purchasing. Please feel free to ask any questions, we will be happy to e-mail you back.(info@ichiroya.com)
How do you like them? I hope you enjoyed her article. Thank you for reading till the end. Please have a wonderful weekend!

Kimono Flea Market ICHIROYA's News Letter No.810

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Otsuka museum
  
 
Dear newsletter readers, 
 
Hello, this is Mari writing this week.
In Japan, September is the start of second semester at school. Kids went back to school 
after a month long summer vacation. It is time for me to get back to regular bussiness 
hours. I'm no longer stressed out to look after their homeworks and worried about their lunch. 
YES!
 
In this summer, I visited a museum where I had been wanting to visit for long time.
http://www.o-museum.or.jp/english/
 
Nana, who used to work for Ichiroya, has introduced this museum before.
Some of you may remember her article. Those who don't or haven't read, here is 
her article for you to get basic idea of what the museum is about. 
http://kyouki.hatenablog.com/entry/2017/12/23/003812
 
The museum is famous for "the most expensive admission fee in Japan"!
Their addmission fees are as following.
Elementary, Junior High and High School students YEN 540
University students YEN 2,160
Adults YEN 3,240
 
At the same time, they are also known as "The museum of No1. customer satisfaction" in Japan.
You will see the reason why once you visit there. The museum guide who I followed for 
2 hours said "At this museum, you can get closer to those famous paintings which you are 
prohibited to do so to the original." That is true. 
 
The photo is Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper". The way this museum show this 
painting is interesting. They show two "The Last Supper"s, facing each other in a huge room. 
One is before restoration, the other is after restoration. We see a lot more clear objects and 
colors in the after restoration one. If I want to see the original painting at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, 
I need to make a reservation and wait for a year or so. I may do so in future. However, for now, 
this museum is good enough for me!
 
Now, they have more unique feature! You can dress like those people in the famous paintings!
Here is the promotinal video of the museum.
https://youtu.be/OZXKCy7mkNc
 
There are costumes for you to try on here and there in the museum.
Those costumes were made by art school students in Kyoto. They did good job!
Every cosutume was well made, easy to put on. There was no way I didn't put them on!
You already know I'm a kind person who enjoy this type of event more than anyone else!
 

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I know there was a controversy about this painting and dress like her in Boston sometimes ago. 
However, in this museum, everyone was having fun to do the same pose as the lady in the painting. 
I was one of them. 
 
You see the impact of Japonism on Claude Monet's "La Japonaise".
Red Uchikake still attract many people all over the world.
Some of them actually wear them at their wedding.
Many of them display them at home and other places.
 
At the same time, Japanese have been longing for Europe.
Delicate lace, sleek satin dress, gorgeous gown and white tights...
White tights???
 

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YES! I dressed like Louis XIV aka the Sun King!
How do I look like? Do I look like a dignified the Sun King? 
I wish the wig was just a little bit more fluffy though...
 
You see some of our items which have European motifs.
 
 

Thank you for reading until the end.
Hope you enjoy our newsletter. See you next time!

Kimono Flea Market ICHIROYA's News Letter No.809

Konnichiwa everyone! Ogenki desuka?
This is Yoko from Ichiroya.  
The above photo was taken from my kitchen window last week. 
Beautiful green rice stalks were making soothing sound against gentle morning breeze.
Can you hear the breeze through the photo?  I hope you can.
 
*Also, the very top photo is sahved ice, `Kakigori', everyone's favorite thing for summer.
 
Our office was closed last week for the Obon, so it was my intention to write about my fun activities I enjoyed during the holiday in this newsletter, but... since it was extremely hot for most of the week, I hesitate to say,,,, I stayed home for the most part.... and did not do much...

However I did do Ohaka mairi to my ancestor's grave with my parents, but only for a short while... as I was afraid my parents could get a heat stroke!
I also went to a nearby mall with my daughter and had a Matcha white chocolate flavor shaved ice!! which was so good and cooled me down right away!!
 
 
We have many staff here at Ichiroya, and there are several departments within our company.
We have departments , such as Kimonotte printing, digitizing, photographing, shipping, writing descriptions, etc.
One of our staff here in our Kimonotte department had a baby girl in May and she is on a maternity leave.  
We would like to share some charming photos of her daughter, Nonoka - chan, when they took her for the Miyamairi . Miyamairi is the first visit to shrine and it is just like `Christening'.
 
Yoshimi came to show her baby, Nonoka-chan in our office and everyone wanted to hold her! She came to our staff party too, so we all feel like Nonoka-chan is like our family.
Yoshimi and her husband said it is ok to share the photos.

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In the top photo, Nonoka-chan is covered by Miyamairi kimono from Ichiroya.
Miyamairi kimono is not really `worn' but used by covering the baby.
 
We have many Miiyamairi kimono at Ichiroya:
 
 
 
Here are some vintage ones too:
 
 
 
My beagle Marin enjoyed being in air conditioned room with me and enjoyed my company, so that was a good thing!!
 
Have a wonderful weekend!
itsumo arigato gozaimasu for reading our newsletters!
 

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Kimono Flea Market ICHIROYA's News Letter No.807

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Naginata Boko

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Hello, ICHIROYA news letter readers, How are you doing?
This time Mitsue is writing. The rainy season was over and we are suffering from the summer heat now.  It is extremely hot and humid in August. The sound of cicadas singing makes us feel much hotter. Schools are in summer vacation now, so students enjoy planning some exciting events.
Well, we have many festivals throughout the country in summer.  The Gion Festival in Kyoto is one of Japan's THREE major festivals. It lasts for the entire month of July and various different events are held. For example, prayers to the shrine, assembling Yamahoko, dedicatory of traditional arts, Yamahoko parade and more. Yama (festival cars, float) Hoko (long-handled spears) parade is the most famous and have visitors the most. Yamahoko is decorated by each towns of Kyoto. They are decked with local arts and crafts, so that's why they are called walking museums. The festival was named from the Gion district of the city.
The origin of Gion Festival is in 863 AD, the Imperial Court held a religious service to stamp out epidemic diseases and to let calm departed souls. Natural disasters also occurred such as earthquake and Mt. Fuji Eruption which cause damages to the land and epidemic diseases. So a religious service started letting the evil spirit transferred to 66 Hoko (number of prefecture at that time) to save the country. It became called Gion Festival and began to hold annually since 970 AD. With a history of more than one thousand years, the Gion Festival and Yamahoko are recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage.
Kyoto's downtown area is full of people to see the massive parade during the festival. The streets are lined with food stands of such as Yakitori (barbecued chicken on skewers), Taiyaki (fish-shaped pancake filled with sweet beans), Takoyaki (dumpling with octopus), Kakigori (shaved ice with sweet syrup) and other popular food. Various kind of Chimaki (a rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves) shaped charm are also sold. Women and men dressed in Yukata walk around the area, carrying with paper fans. A member of my orchestra living in Kyoto showed me some pictures of Gion Festival. You might see many pictures on internet, but the ones taken by ordinary women living in Kyoto will show you resident's view.

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ICHIROYA has some items with Gion Festival design.
Kurotomesode
Tsukesage
Fukuro obi 
 
Thank you for reading till the end. Next news letter will be sent on August 18. Till then, Good bye! Please have a wonderful weekend!