We also wish to have a place where our customers or visitors can share their creative work, or their stories. We offer this space of our site for your stories or samples of your personal handicraft involving Japanese textiles.While those we list here are assuredly artists , this section is for those who are not primarily professional artists but whose work and input are relevant to the themes of this site.

Background: From the earliest days of our web business we have been getting unsolicited and wonderful -- often passionate -- letters from both customers and regular visitors to our site. Many of these emails have told us a story of how the writer came to love Japanese aesthetics, culture, kimono, textiles -- or whatever. Others tell us of how they've decorated their house or office with Japanese textiles, while sometimes we get pictures of someone's spouse, child or grandchild wearing something we've sold them. We also get what we like to call 'textual postcards', where someone writes about their own love for some aspect of Japanese culture or aesthetics.

So...we decided to add a place on the site for these 'stories', or, simply a place to share, be it in words or pictures. If you have a passion for things Japanese, and want to share it with others here, please write to Yoko Lewis for details.

To comment directly onto the site, please use our site blog by clicking HERE.