Popular Kimono

Red Crane and Peony Cotton Kimono

Our beautiful purple Crane and Peony Kimono with its bold floral and flying crane design has proved extremely popular.  We are now stocking this design in red pictured left.

The crane, fabled to live for 1000 years, is regarded as a symbol of good fortune and longevity in Japan. A pair of cranes (due to mating couples staying together for life) also symbolizes fidelity.

We have several products featuring cranes including yukata and kimono wrappers, greetings cards, furoshiki wrapping cloths and earrings.  In addition, you may like to try your hand at making an origami crane with some of our beautiful origami papers.

Origami Crane Earrings with Cherry Blossom Design

Hyper Japan Coming Soon!

We will be running a stall at Hyper Japan (Earls Court, London 26-28 July). Tickets are available to buy in advance from their website.  We will be bringing along a selection of new products including these cute miniature lucky cats.  

The colours of these lucky cats have the following meanings:

•  white body - brings good luck 
•  black body - wards off evil spirits and protects from illnesses 
•  gold body - brings good fortune 
•  blue body - brings success
•  pink body - brings love 
•  yellow body - brings money
•  red body - protects from illnesses 
•  green body - brings health

Toukon (Fighting Spririt) T-shirt

We have recently added some new T-shirts with a kanji theme to the Japanya website.

This Toukon (fighting spirit) T-shirt will complement our very popular Toukon hachimaki!

Japan Day Liverpool Hope University 1st June 2013

  We are delighted to be running a stall at JSNW's Japan day in June. 

Japan Society North West Japan Day

Saturday 1st June 2013

10:30 am to 5:00 pm Free Admission 

more details at: JapanDay.org.uk

Take a look at the second-hand haori jackets we have added to our website.

Haori are waist-length jackets designed to be worn on top of yukata or kimonos. They also make excellent additions to western style clothing, worn as part of either a casual or smart outfit.

Click here to see our current selection of new and used haori.

New Japanya products coming

Over the next few months we will be adding a number of new products including juban (kimono undergarment), feng-shui lucky cats and second-hand haori. Here is our most recent product addition:

a striking noren depicting Utamaro's print of three beautiful women.  Noren are one-piece Japanese curtains designed to hang over a doorway or entrance.  However, noren can also make wonderful wall displays or used, as one of our recent customers suggested, to hang over book-cases!

Buy Maneki-neko Lucky Cats!

Roly-Poly maneki-neko lucky cats now on sale at Japanya!