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Traditional Japanese footwear has a variety of unique features. Once properly understood, you will become more and more interested in authentic Japanese geta, zori and Setta, as they are beneficial to your health, fashionable, artistic, and culturally relevant to other cultures in Japan.
Traditional Japanese Footwear – Wisdom to be healthy from the feet up –
Wisdom to be healthy from the feet up Footwear with HANAO-straps has been used in Japan throughout its long history. It is a unique and different fundamental idea from other countries’ HANAO-straps footwear, such as sandals, as well as shoes. Traditional Japanese footwear has cultivated the wisdom of good health from the feet, which are […]
Types of traditional Japanese footwear
Each pair of Tsujiya Honten’s footwear is unique and semi-custom-made for you.Various expressions which are contained in a simple form.It is purely beautiful as an object and a traditional Japanese craft that is enjoyable to look at. GETA Geta is footwear made of wood stepsole and HANAO-straps. In Japan, geta originated in ancient times as […]
Traditional Japanese footwear is footwear that makes you healthy from the feet up.
They say the feet are the second heart. The feet have “reflex zones” where peripheral nerves are concentrated and correspond to the entire body, including the internal organs.Barefoot living leads to stimulation of these reflex zones, which promotes improved circulation and function of the corresponding organs. However, it is not possible to go out barefoot, […]
How to wear and walk in traditional Japanese footwear
Just the right size for the heel to stick out a little from stepsole The correct way to wear and walk in them is also different from shoes or sandals. Please understand that this is completely different from the idea of fitting like a shoe. In traditional Japanese footwear, the “mae tsubo” in the middle […]
It is important to choose a store with professional craftsmen.
Japanese traditional footwear is HANAO-straps completed by a craftsman installing When shopping for traditional Japanese footwear, it is important to choose a store that has expert installation craftsmen on staff. This is because a store specializing in traditional Japanese footwear is not a store that sells ready-made products like a typical shoe store. Geta and […]
Coordinating with Western Clothes
Coordinating Clothing with Traditional Japanese Footwear We hope that you will enjoy these healthy and visually beautiful traditional Japanese footwear in any style you like, even with western clothes other than kimono. It is great to match it with casual clothes, and it may be interesting to match it with traditional costumes from different countries. […]
Is it true that Japanese traditional footwear has no left and right sides?
Japanese who did not make left and right footwear, even though Zori and Geta were the main footwear for hundreds of years. Footwear with HANAO-straps is also found in Southeast Asia and Egypt, but the main characteristic of traditional Japanese footwear is that there is no left-right distinction. If a picture is painted on the […]
Unique footwear in the world that looks like a painting
“Painterliness” using the wide top surface The “Painterliness” using the wide surface is also a major characteristic of traditional Japanese footwear. Some footwear actually includes Ukiyo-e, etc., while others are engraved with motifs such as plants or dragons and tigers. There are a wide variety of styles, including those in which the images are individually […]
