Hello and Welcome to Nipponcraft.com,
I have compiled an album of photos we have taken so far. We occasionally travel to several places in Japan and take photos to show the seasonal culture of Japan to global customers.
The photos include the autumn colors, cherry blossoms (Sakura), Koinobori (carp flags), Maiko ladies, Jinriki-sha (a cart driven by man), Osaka-jo castle, funny neon ads of Osaka central.
Please visit our facebook to find more.
Thank you!
October 27, 2011
October 25, 2011
New Gamaguchi Series Added
Hello and Welcome to Nipponcraft.com
We have added new series of Gamaguchi wallet to our web site. Ten lineups of small size Gamaguchi wallets and three lineups of medium size. The design prints are called Edo Sarasa which emerged in Edo era in Japan some three hundred years ago. Trees, flowers, birds are the motif of Edo Sarasa design and it was originally inspired by India design.
The design is all hand-dyed (called "Tezome" in Japanese) and the dye factory is located in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Although Shinjuku is a very busy shopping zone with three million visitors a day around the station, several traditional factories still exist until now. The dye factories gather around Ochiai district, two stops from Shinjuku station by local train.
Please visit our web site to find more.
Thank you!
We have added new series of Gamaguchi wallet to our web site. Ten lineups of small size Gamaguchi wallets and three lineups of medium size. The design prints are called Edo Sarasa which emerged in Edo era in Japan some three hundred years ago. Trees, flowers, birds are the motif of Edo Sarasa design and it was originally inspired by India design.
The design is all hand-dyed (called "Tezome" in Japanese) and the dye factory is located in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Although Shinjuku is a very busy shopping zone with three million visitors a day around the station, several traditional factories still exist until now. The dye factories gather around Ochiai district, two stops from Shinjuku station by local train.
Please visit our web site to find more.
Thank you!
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| A young successor painting design manually |
New lineup sample
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| Small size Gamaguchi wallet suitable for coin holders |
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| Medium size Gamaguchi wallet |
October 20, 2011
New Noren-curtains added and shipping free campaign
Hello and welcome to Nipponcraft.com,
We have added new Noren-curtains series and just started the free shipping campaign of them. This campaign will last until December, 2011. Please visit the Noren-curtain category of our website and take a look. We are still a small web shop but we will continue to expand the lineups.
In spite of the free shipping, all the listed prices of Noren-curtains at our website are the same as those prices sold in Japan. No hidden charges! And we will ship the goods via EMS express mail service, which is the reliable international mail service operated by Japan Post (Japanese government owned company).
All the Noren-curtains listed here are dyed manually (batik) in Kyoto and are of high quality. They are cotton 100% and tougher compared with the products of other vendors. What is fascinating about batik (Roketsu-zome in Japanese word) is that you will find some natural cracks on the dyed parts. Many people say that these natural cracks are the tastes of the products.
Noren curtain can be used for room divider, window sunshade, wall hanging and tapestry. I believe that Noren curtains look good for the western home interior. I hope you would like the products.
Thank you!
We have added new Noren-curtains series and just started the free shipping campaign of them. This campaign will last until December, 2011. Please visit the Noren-curtain category of our website and take a look. We are still a small web shop but we will continue to expand the lineups.
In spite of the free shipping, all the listed prices of Noren-curtains at our website are the same as those prices sold in Japan. No hidden charges! And we will ship the goods via EMS express mail service, which is the reliable international mail service operated by Japan Post (Japanese government owned company).
All the Noren-curtains listed here are dyed manually (batik) in Kyoto and are of high quality. They are cotton 100% and tougher compared with the products of other vendors. What is fascinating about batik (Roketsu-zome in Japanese word) is that you will find some natural cracks on the dyed parts. Many people say that these natural cracks are the tastes of the products.
Noren curtain can be used for room divider, window sunshade, wall hanging and tapestry. I believe that Noren curtains look good for the western home interior. I hope you would like the products.
Thank you!
New lineups
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| Short length lucky cat http://www.nipponcraft.com/goods_en_jpy_135.html |
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| Arch style flower design (90cm length) http://www.nipponcraft.com/goods_en_jpy_136.html |
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| Lily of the valley http://www.nipponcraft.com/goods_en_jpy_137.html  http://www.nipponcraft.com/goods_en_jpy_139.html  http://www.nipponcraft.com/goods_en_jpy_140.html  http://www.nipponcraft.com/goods_en_jpy_138.html  http://www.nipponcraft.com/goods_en_jpy_105.html |
September 28, 2011
Noren-curtain for studio room
Hello and Welcome to Nipponcraft.com,
I did some experiments how Japanese Noren-curtain fitted and looked like for an US studio room in NY. Let me show you how it looked like.
(1) I hang the bamboo Noren-curtain at a window instead of a window shade. It's amazing that the Noren-curtain fits beautifully and looks quite good! The blue bamboo design looks refreshing.
(2) Then, I hang the Noren-curtain between the doorway and the kitchen. It's useful for the partitioning to keep privacy.
(3) Finally, I hang the Noren-curtain between the kitchen and the room. It's also useful for light partitioning between them.
I hope US people will like Noren-curtains and find them useful for US life.
Thank you!
- KEN
I did some experiments how Japanese Noren-curtain fitted and looked like for an US studio room in NY. Let me show you how it looked like.
(1) I hang the bamboo Noren-curtain at a window instead of a window shade. It's amazing that the Noren-curtain fits beautifully and looks quite good! The blue bamboo design looks refreshing.
(2) Then, I hang the Noren-curtain between the doorway and the kitchen. It's useful for the partitioning to keep privacy.
(3) Finally, I hang the Noren-curtain between the kitchen and the room. It's also useful for light partitioning between them.
I hope US people will like Noren-curtains and find them useful for US life.
Thank you!
- KEN
September 26, 2011
About the slide show
Hello and Welcome to Nipponcraft.com,
Recently we updated the top page slide show. I think I need to explain about them. My colleague visited Osaka and took these photos.
Osaka is the second largest metropolitan of Japan with the population of over eight million. This is the city where you can meet with unique culture - quite different atmospheres from other cities and towns in Japan.
For example, the neon advertisement boards are very bright and colorful. Osaka citizens love bright colors and unique designs. They just don't want to the same as other people. The language spoken in Osaka is called "Osaka-ben" or "Kansai-ben" (literally Osaka dialect) and has unique intonation. Tokyo people and Osaka people are still able to communicate with each other, but the spoken language intonation is quite different.
The following photos were taken at Doton-bori area where you can find many bars and restaurants. Doton-bori is the name of a river and you can find these large neon boards on the both sides of the river. The running man advertisement is the symbol of Glico, a confectionery and food producer in Osaka. They produce chocolates snacks, ice creams, and instant curry.
Along Doton-bori street, you can find many small restaurants and bars.
What Doton-bori makes attractive is many unique advertisements and symbols.
Easily understood, this restaurant serves crab - this shop is called "Kani Doraku" or crab mania!
This is the octopus pan cake called "Tako-yaki". They bake flour with a piece of octopus inside.
This is another confectionery ads. This snack is called "Carl" and has been long loved by Japanese people. In TV, this farmer wearing the hat always appears for this snack ads.
This is Biliken, the god of lucky. Biliken was first created by an American artist in 1908 and introduced to Japan.
If you have a chance, please visit these areas and meet with the unique culture and atmospheres.
Thank you!
Recently we updated the top page slide show. I think I need to explain about them. My colleague visited Osaka and took these photos.
Osaka is the second largest metropolitan of Japan with the population of over eight million. This is the city where you can meet with unique culture - quite different atmospheres from other cities and towns in Japan.
For example, the neon advertisement boards are very bright and colorful. Osaka citizens love bright colors and unique designs. They just don't want to the same as other people. The language spoken in Osaka is called "Osaka-ben" or "Kansai-ben" (literally Osaka dialect) and has unique intonation. Tokyo people and Osaka people are still able to communicate with each other, but the spoken language intonation is quite different.
The following photos were taken at Doton-bori area where you can find many bars and restaurants. Doton-bori is the name of a river and you can find these large neon boards on the both sides of the river. The running man advertisement is the symbol of Glico, a confectionery and food producer in Osaka. They produce chocolates snacks, ice creams, and instant curry.
Along Doton-bori street, you can find many small restaurants and bars.
What Doton-bori makes attractive is many unique advertisements and symbols.
Easily understood, this restaurant serves crab - this shop is called "Kani Doraku" or crab mania!
This is the octopus pan cake called "Tako-yaki". They bake flour with a piece of octopus inside.
Oh, a demon is there!
This is another confectionery ads. This snack is called "Carl" and has been long loved by Japanese people. In TV, this farmer wearing the hat always appears for this snack ads.
This is Biliken, the god of lucky. Biliken was first created by an American artist in 1908 and introduced to Japan.
If you have a chance, please visit these areas and meet with the unique culture and atmospheres.
Thank you!
September 14, 2011
Wind ring bell train
Hello and Welcome to Nipponcraft.com,
For traveling information, here is the wind-bell decorated train that run in the northern part of Kanto (approximately 100km north of Tokyo). This train runs between Kiryu and Maebashi in Gunma prefecture. The website of this train service company is at http://www15.wind.ne.jp/~joden/, but once again it's only in Japanese. This is a very local train. It's so local that I don't think any English written guidebook pick up this wind-bell train.
To visit there, take Tobu express train from Asakusa station in Tokyo and transfer at Akagi station. It is about two hours trip from Asakusa.
Wind-bell is usually used for feeling freshness in humid summer in Japan. It's very interesting that they attach so many wind bells on the ceiling of train cars so as to make them ring as they run.
Sorry to say, the wind-bell train service ended at the end of August but should be again next summer.
I have uploaded the movies. I hope you will find them enjoyable.
Thank you!
- Ken
For traveling information, here is the wind-bell decorated train that run in the northern part of Kanto (approximately 100km north of Tokyo). This train runs between Kiryu and Maebashi in Gunma prefecture. The website of this train service company is at http://www15.wind.ne.jp/~joden/, but once again it's only in Japanese. This is a very local train. It's so local that I don't think any English written guidebook pick up this wind-bell train.
To visit there, take Tobu express train from Asakusa station in Tokyo and transfer at Akagi station. It is about two hours trip from Asakusa.
Wind-bell is usually used for feeling freshness in humid summer in Japan. It's very interesting that they attach so many wind bells on the ceiling of train cars so as to make them ring as they run.
Sorry to say, the wind-bell train service ended at the end of August but should be again next summer.
I have uploaded the movies. I hope you will find them enjoyable.
Thank you!
- Ken
August 30, 2011
Japan Block Fair in NYC
Hello and Welcome to Nipponcraft.com
On August 21st, we participated in Japan Block Fair in NYC. Lots of guests visited the fair and thanks many customers for coming into our booth! We also enjoyed communicating with New York people.
The Japan Block Fair is the Japanese culture events held occasionally in NYC every year and it was our first time to get a chance to participate.
On the day, the weather was fine in the morning and through 4:30pm, but it was unfortunate that we were hit by a sudden T-storm just after 4:30pm, when we had to close our booth. Very much sorry for the guests to whom we told that we would stay until 6:00pm. We had to leave after the sudden storm!
You can find the whole photos of this event at the following :
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjw1YBqs
We flew back to Japan last week, but if our back flight had been this weekend we would be hit by the hurricane and could not make a back flight! This was fortunate.
We are looking forward to meeting with New Yorkers in the future again. We will make a chance to participate in this event again.
Thank you,
On August 21st, we participated in Japan Block Fair in NYC. Lots of guests visited the fair and thanks many customers for coming into our booth! We also enjoyed communicating with New York people.
The Japan Block Fair is the Japanese culture events held occasionally in NYC every year and it was our first time to get a chance to participate.
On the day, the weather was fine in the morning and through 4:30pm, but it was unfortunate that we were hit by a sudden T-storm just after 4:30pm, when we had to close our booth. Very much sorry for the guests to whom we told that we would stay until 6:00pm. We had to leave after the sudden storm!
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| Madison Avenue b/w 43rd and 44th |
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| Our shop decorated with our handmade flags |
You can find the whole photos of this event at the following :
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjw1YBqs
We flew back to Japan last week, but if our back flight had been this weekend we would be hit by the hurricane and could not make a back flight! This was fortunate.
We are looking forward to meeting with New Yorkers in the future again. We will make a chance to participate in this event again.
Thank you,
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