You can recently purchase cheap imported kimonos in Japan, but traditionally woven made in Japan kimono can be very expensive. We nowadays rarely wear kimono on everyday bases and those people who wear kimono daily have been very limited.
Our ancestors taught us not to waste any kimono when it is no longer used by remaking it to something else rather than throwing away as a rubbish, but not many people sadly practice that teaching anymore and old kimono can be kept in a closet for a long time awaiting for being thrown away eventurely.
Mr. Yoshitsune Yanagida has been giving new life to those neglected kimonos (he also uses those kimono fabrics which had never been worn and left as a roll of kimono fabric strip).
Me on the left and Mr. Yanagida on the right
The gamaguchi bag is a good size for carrying a smart phone and also wallet and coin purse. You can even put an eco bag in it, so when you buy things unexpectedly you can carry them back home then.
The price is 3,500yen without tax.
As for the coin purses, there are two types; with the strap and without.
The one without the strap is 1,500yen and you can use it as an ordinary coin purse. As for the one with the strap, you can hang it from your bag and you can keep a lipsticks, eco bag, coins etc and the price is 2,000yen.
The card case is made of kimono obi, which is like a belt for wearing kimono and it is usually made with durable stronger materials. You can keep 20 cards in it. the price is 1,500yen.
By the way I was told that he also makes the metal button used for the case by reshaping an old coin with a hammer.
Although Mr. Yanagida made this as a medicine book case (in Japan when you purchase a prescribed medicine, the pharmacy gives you the medicine book so you can keep track of medication you have been taking in the past), you can use them as a passport case as well. The price is 2,000yen.
His wife, Miya, is an illustrator and she has also been contributing on his works, drawing her illustrations on simple blank kimono fabrics. The prices are the same as those of the kimono version.
Tax Free Shopping
When the total of your purchase exceeds over 5,000yen, you can claim tax free shopping. We need your passport to do that to purchase at our store in Tokyo, so please do not forget to bring it with you, when you visit our store in Tokyo.
How to purchase them?
You can either visit our store in Tokyo or you can send us emails and we can send them overseas by EMS or send them to those designated hotels or places within Japan where you specify after confirming your payment.
Please tell me how many and which items you want and we will calculate the cost of EMS (we normally provide cheaper option if it is available) and we will request the payment with PayPal to you by email. We will send it to you right after we confirm your payment.
For domestic delivery within Japan, the shipping cost is only 660yen and it is free when the total goes over 11,000yen.
Shipping cost will be around 1,400yen to Asia, 2,000yen to the USA and 2,200yen to European countries with EMS (the fastest delivery taking only 2 to 3days), but cheaper service, which is called epacket, is also available and the price will be about half of EMS (730yen to Asia, 860yen to the USA, 1,000yen to Europe), but it will take longer to deliver (e.g. EMS to the USA is about 3 days for the delivery, but it will take about a week for the epacket service).
Contact address is info(at)mabysoshite.com (please change the (at) to @).
When you order from outside of Japan, the tax will be extracted.
<Order flow>
- Choose the product you want and send an email to us (Please tell us your address)
- We will reply to you with the cost of EMS and cheaper option price for you to choose.
- We will send you PayPal payment instruction by email
- We will send the goods as soon as we confirm your payment.
How to visit us in Tokyo?
The shop is only 1min walk from Gaienmae station （外苑前駅）Exit 1b on Ginza line Tokyo Metro. When you walk up the stairs of the exit 1b, you just need to walk straight for about 100m and our store is on the right side of the street on the ground floor.
Gaienmae station is only 2 stops away from Shibuya on Tokyo Metro Ginza line.
If you are a visitor, please bring your passport, so you can enjoy tax free shopping!
You can also find a map on our HP!
https://www.mabysoshite.com/access/acces
MA by So Shi Te
2-22-15 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku,
Tokyo Japan 107–0062
Tel: 03-3401-0922
Opening hours: 11:00 – 19:30 (Sat, Sun, NH until 19:00)
*Please check our homepage for holiday information.
If you can read Japanese and live in Japan, you can also order online from our online stores
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Aoyama market: https://www.aoyamamarket.com/ma/kitchen-chopsticks/16.html
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