Post by ichiro on Jan 25, 2004 10:45:33 GMT -5
Dear Customer's & Friends
(There is a very special quiz at the end of this news letter--you may get $300 coupon by answering the quiz!)
Hello from Japan. This is Kimono Flea Market ICHIROYA'A News Letter No44. We woke up to find snow on the ground here in Osaka. In the previous news, I wrote the climate here has been becoming warmer compared withour boyhood. But these two days Japan is hit by the coldest wave in this winter. Large flakes of snow is falling now.
If you come to Japan at winter season, I would like to recommend to go to shrines and temples covered with snow. In every season they has particular beauty, but the scenes completely covered white are also especially impressive.
I wouldlike to recommend one more place to go. It is open-air hot spring. When I was a planing manager of the Daimaru department store, I visited Tohoku district( northern are in Japan), and I was invited to the very small open-air hot spring. Its hot spring is in the outlying region, and it is mainly for people in the zone and the tourists seldom visit. I had to walk in very deep snow to the small house, and I was frozen by the time I reached the dressing room. But when I was calm down in the tub made ofJapanese cypress, I came to know it was the special experience, I have never had. Very large flakes of snow was falling, and was shining in the light of the lantern. All trees and scenery I could see in the dark were covered with pure white snow. The falling flakes were shimmering in the light, and the flakes were falling to me and to the surface of hot water also, and they melted there.
I heard the subtle sound of falling snow in the hot water.That was the most impressive and serene experience I had about hot spring visit.Unfortunately it was more than 15 years ago, and I do not remember the name and place of it. But if you come to Japan, you will be able to find open-air hot spring like it.
Snow had been thought to be the sign of banner year, and it became the popular motif in kimono. Some customers may have seen the'yuki-mochi-zasa', which means bamboo('zasa') covered ('mochi') withsnow('yuki'). There also are the 'yuki-mochi-yanagi'( 'yanagi' means willow) and 'yuki-mochi-tsubaki'('tsubaki' means camellia). There also are the 'yukiwa' and 'sekkamon'. Both are the motifs designed by the crystallization of snow. 'Yukiwa'(large circle shape pattern) was popular in the Genroku period(1688`1704), and it was dyed in summer kimono for the taste of cool. Here is the sample of 'yukiwa' mon.
www.rekihaku.ac.jp/kikaku/index30/pict2.html
'Sekkamon' is the pattern very near the real crystallization of snow, and it was used after the ending of Edo period (1603 - 1867 ).Its design is almost same design as you imagine, but we couldn't find the samples in the net.
When I see snow, I often imagine the crucial farmer's life in area of very heavy snowfall. Before WWII or more earlier, farmers had to work away from home during the long winter, and wives had to house-sit with working in their house. Many wives made weaving, and supplemented the family income. Their weaving techniques were inherited from their mothers, and various technique were advanced in various places. For an ultimate sample, there is the Koginzashi. We have one museum class piece of Koginzashi. We are very grateful if you could enjoy the photos again, with imagine the snow covered scenery.
www.ichiroya.com/item/list2.php?number=55451
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We are very happy to inform you that we are adding very special products
very soon.They have been loved by Japanese people just as kimono from long time ago. They are like a little moon and has velvety glow-- they are pearls.We are in Osaka, between Kyoto and Kobe. Kyoto is famous for kimono, and Kobe is the most large pearl accumulation place in Japan. We have afriend , whose family have been exported pearls from early Showa period(1926-1989). And recently we came to know that the price of Akoya pearlin USA and other countries are very high compared with the price here.Especially the large pearls with high quality is nearly double in other countries. So we decided to try offering high quality Akoya pearls to our customers. We are able to offer high quality pearl from our friend and other pearl farmers at very competitive prices. We would like to offer the elegant pearls from Kobe with a lot of confidence.
*Here is a quiz for news letter readers. If you could guess the nearestfigure, you will get the $300 coupon which can be used at Ichiroya! Here we go!
Q. How much is the price of a necklace made of pure Akoya pearls?
The quality of the necklace is:
*collection quality' ( highest quality - better than AAA class)
*8.0mm to 8.5mm size'
*16inches length'
*silver clasp'
Please e-mail us and let us know the cost you guess.The mail should be reached by Jan 30, 5:00 PM(at local time here). If more than one customer give the correct answer, the winner of the coupon will be dicided by a lot.
Thank you for reading our letter to the end. We have listed some men's haori, nagoya obi and silk bolt. we are very grateful if you could check them.
www.ichiroya.com/item/search.php?md=0126
Ichiro & Yuka Wada
Kimono Flea Market "ICHIROYA"
www.ichiroya.com
e-mail: info@ichiroya.com
address: Asia-shoji Bldg.301
1841-1 Nishi 1 chome
Wakamatsu cho
Tondabayashi city
Osaka 584-0025 JAPAN
TEL&FAX ****( international number ) - 81-721-23-5446
(There is a very special quiz at the end of this news letter--you may get $300 coupon by answering the quiz!)
Hello from Japan. This is Kimono Flea Market ICHIROYA'A News Letter No44. We woke up to find snow on the ground here in Osaka. In the previous news, I wrote the climate here has been becoming warmer compared withour boyhood. But these two days Japan is hit by the coldest wave in this winter. Large flakes of snow is falling now.
If you come to Japan at winter season, I would like to recommend to go to shrines and temples covered with snow. In every season they has particular beauty, but the scenes completely covered white are also especially impressive.
I wouldlike to recommend one more place to go. It is open-air hot spring. When I was a planing manager of the Daimaru department store, I visited Tohoku district( northern are in Japan), and I was invited to the very small open-air hot spring. Its hot spring is in the outlying region, and it is mainly for people in the zone and the tourists seldom visit. I had to walk in very deep snow to the small house, and I was frozen by the time I reached the dressing room. But when I was calm down in the tub made ofJapanese cypress, I came to know it was the special experience, I have never had. Very large flakes of snow was falling, and was shining in the light of the lantern. All trees and scenery I could see in the dark were covered with pure white snow. The falling flakes were shimmering in the light, and the flakes were falling to me and to the surface of hot water also, and they melted there.
I heard the subtle sound of falling snow in the hot water.That was the most impressive and serene experience I had about hot spring visit.Unfortunately it was more than 15 years ago, and I do not remember the name and place of it. But if you come to Japan, you will be able to find open-air hot spring like it.
Snow had been thought to be the sign of banner year, and it became the popular motif in kimono. Some customers may have seen the'yuki-mochi-zasa', which means bamboo('zasa') covered ('mochi') withsnow('yuki'). There also are the 'yuki-mochi-yanagi'( 'yanagi' means willow) and 'yuki-mochi-tsubaki'('tsubaki' means camellia). There also are the 'yukiwa' and 'sekkamon'. Both are the motifs designed by the crystallization of snow. 'Yukiwa'(large circle shape pattern) was popular in the Genroku period(1688`1704), and it was dyed in summer kimono for the taste of cool. Here is the sample of 'yukiwa' mon.
www.rekihaku.ac.jp/kikaku/index30/pict2.html
'Sekkamon' is the pattern very near the real crystallization of snow, and it was used after the ending of Edo period (1603 - 1867 ).Its design is almost same design as you imagine, but we couldn't find the samples in the net.
When I see snow, I often imagine the crucial farmer's life in area of very heavy snowfall. Before WWII or more earlier, farmers had to work away from home during the long winter, and wives had to house-sit with working in their house. Many wives made weaving, and supplemented the family income. Their weaving techniques were inherited from their mothers, and various technique were advanced in various places. For an ultimate sample, there is the Koginzashi. We have one museum class piece of Koginzashi. We are very grateful if you could enjoy the photos again, with imagine the snow covered scenery.
www.ichiroya.com/item/list2.php?number=55451
***************************************************************************************************
We are very happy to inform you that we are adding very special products
very soon.They have been loved by Japanese people just as kimono from long time ago. They are like a little moon and has velvety glow-- they are pearls.We are in Osaka, between Kyoto and Kobe. Kyoto is famous for kimono, and Kobe is the most large pearl accumulation place in Japan. We have afriend , whose family have been exported pearls from early Showa period(1926-1989). And recently we came to know that the price of Akoya pearlin USA and other countries are very high compared with the price here.Especially the large pearls with high quality is nearly double in other countries. So we decided to try offering high quality Akoya pearls to our customers. We are able to offer high quality pearl from our friend and other pearl farmers at very competitive prices. We would like to offer the elegant pearls from Kobe with a lot of confidence.
*Here is a quiz for news letter readers. If you could guess the nearestfigure, you will get the $300 coupon which can be used at Ichiroya! Here we go!
Q. How much is the price of a necklace made of pure Akoya pearls?
The quality of the necklace is:
*collection quality' ( highest quality - better than AAA class)
*8.0mm to 8.5mm size'
*16inches length'
*silver clasp'
Please e-mail us and let us know the cost you guess.The mail should be reached by Jan 30, 5:00 PM(at local time here). If more than one customer give the correct answer, the winner of the coupon will be dicided by a lot.
Thank you for reading our letter to the end. We have listed some men's haori, nagoya obi and silk bolt. we are very grateful if you could check them.
www.ichiroya.com/item/search.php?md=0126
Ichiro & Yuka Wada
Kimono Flea Market "ICHIROYA"
www.ichiroya.com
e-mail: info@ichiroya.com
address: Asia-shoji Bldg.301
1841-1 Nishi 1 chome
Wakamatsu cho
Tondabayashi city
Osaka 584-0025 JAPAN
TEL&FAX ****( international number ) - 81-721-23-5446