News

Makita Shoten online store has been renewed!

We have revamped our online shop site. To help you choose the perfect umbrella for the occasion, we have prepared a gift page where Makita Shoten staff have selected items based on customer feedbac...

Collaborative event held with long-established umbrella store Omori Shoten

Makita Shoten was founded in 1866, and Omori Shoten in 1923. Both companies are manufacturers that provide materials for umbrellas. A custom-made project has been created where you can choose to at...

We will be opening a store at "SHIBUYA SLOW STREAM"

We will be participating in "SHIBUYA SLOW STREAM" for two days, from March 20th (Sat./Holiday) to March 21st (Sun.), 2021. This outdoor event is a little away from the center of Shibuya, where you ...

Mosaic Scrunchie was featured in the Yamanashi Nichinichi Shimbun

Our new product, "Mosaic Scrunchie," was featured in the February 13, 2021 (Saturday) morning edition of the Yamanashi Nichinichi Shimbun newspaper. A reporter came to interview us and gave us a de...

We will be releasing a one-of-a-kind hair accessory, the "Mosaic Scrunchie"!

Creema will begin selling one-of-a-kind scrunchies exclusively at the Makita Shoten Gallery. Makita Shoten is an umbrella shop as well as a textile manufacturer of yarn-dyed fabrics. To allow you t...

Please be careful of fake hometown tax donation sites

Thank you for your continued patronage of Makita Shoten. We have confirmed that our products are listed on a website posing as a hometown tax donation website. This site has no connection to our co...

Featured in Daido Life's information magazine "One Hour"

The information magazine "One Hour" published by Daido Life Insurance Co., Ltd. featured Makita Shoten's efforts to date in the section "Overcoming the Coronavirus Pandemic! A Compass for Challenge...

We will be exhibiting at Premium Textile Japan

We will be exhibiting at Premium Textile Japan 2021 Autumn/Winter, a textile exhibition being held at the Tokyo International Forum from Wednesday, November 18, 2020! (In the "Ito no Oto" booth of ...

Sub-bag "tute" was featured in Nikkei MJ

The November 2, 2020 issue of Nikkei MJ featured an article about "tute," a sub-bag created as part of our efforts toward sustainability as a textile manufacturer and our "Used Up" initiative, whi...

"Tie" was featured in AERA STYLE MAGAZINE

"Tie" was featured in the October 23rd, 2020 issue of "AERA STYLE MAGAZINE"! Please take a look at the article titled "What we want in the new era." This is a gentleman's umbrella that is perfect f...