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As stores kimonos were before?

In the Edo period the merchant class, thanks to a long period peace, prosperity begins aa have ever seen before in the history of Japan.


stores kimonos also begin to grow and be an important part of trade Japanese. These would be the seeds of the first major surfaces of the Taisho period . In the photos above shows the Mitsukoshi Edo period with your logo (mon ) characteristic.



The sign of the left are the products for sale, Gofuku ( 呉 服) and futomono (太 物). Silk and cotton respectively.


In the Tokaido route shops selling kimonos the specialties of each region. In Arimatsu Narumi and engaged in dyeing cotton with indigo using the technique of shibori .

Street vendors are very important for these products reach more distant regions. Thus, in regions such as the Tohoku where the plant does not grow cotton, cotton yarn arrives can make Sashiko embroidery . With this thread give them more strength, isolation and beauty to their kimonos hemp to resist the harsh winter of northern Japan.


In these shops while teaching fabrics and even offered you snuff. The fabrics are sold in rolls ( tanmono ) without sewing. Many of these rolls were stained at the request of clients especially in the case of more expensive kimonos.








A list of major retailers with their product lists.


A cotton products shop Meiji era .





Not only are large stores kimonos, there are also small businesses that are engaged in second-hand clothes. The kimonos used were often all they could afford the poorest families. Many of these
kimonos travel to rural areas by introducing new fashions at affordable prices.






In the Meiji period large kimono shops start diversify their products, not only sell kimonos but they also all its accessories and Western clothes. By the 1910 premises will remain small and begin to build new buildings to show their new products. But that's another story ...