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New umbrellas unveiled at the 83rd Tokyo International Gift Show Spring 2017 LIFE×DESIGN

◇New Product Announcement◇ A collaboration between Stig Lindberg, a master of Nordic design, and a company with 150 years of history and 100 years since its birth, this umbrella will be unveiled at...

Featured in the morning edition of the Asahi Shimbun Yamanashi edition

Today, January 10th, the Yamanashi edition of the Asahi Shimbun morning edition, In the section entitled "The Power of Design," which has been running since the beginning of the year, Makita S...

Featured in the Nikkei newspaper

In the local New Face section of the January 9th morning edition of the Nikkei Shimbun nationwide edition, The collaborative rain goods "fusion" by Makita Shoten and frankygrow has been featured!

Umbrella fabric has been used as the lining for an iPhone case!

Makita Shoten's umbrella fabric, combined with Yamanashi Prefecture's traditional craftsmanship "Koshu Inden" and "jewelry" processing techniques, has been made into a notebook-style case for the i...

Event held at Shikisaido Shizuoka Nakata store in Shizuoka

We will be exhibiting at a limited-time event at Shikisaido Shizuoka Nakata store in Shizuoka Prefecture from December 10th (Sat) to December 25th (Sun)! It is being developed by three fellow compa...

We will be exhibiting at Premium Textile Japan 2017 Autumn/Winter

We will be exhibiting at Premium Textile Japan as the Nishikatsura textile cooperative "Itononekai." Our company will be exhibiting fabrics. Please stop by if you are visiting the venue. ~Premium T...

We will be exhibiting at an event held at Omotesando ROCKET!

It will be held at Omotesando ROCKET (Omotesando Hills Dojunkan 3F) from November 18th. This event is organized by "born jewelry," a project that proposes Yamanashi jewelry from a fashion perspecti...

We will be exhibiting at the Hataorimachi Festival

November has arrived! Here in Nishikatsura Town, the leaves are already starting to change color. We'll be setting up a stall at the Weaving Festival, held in the neighboring town of Fujiyoshida in...

Featured in the magazine "Tomorrow's Friends"

Special feature in issue 224 of "Tomorrow's Friends" (published October 5, 2016) published by Fujinnotomosha, Travel, Things, EncountersChildren of Mt. Fuji Makita Shoten was featured in the m...

Selected for "The Wonder 500™" again this year

Following on from last year, this year too we will be selecting "excellent local products that Japan can be proud of." The Wonder 500™ project to spread the word to the world The d...