Sunday, April 15, 2018: 10:00AM to 5:00 PMSakura Sunday Info, Details, Tickets Info HERE. We invite our Philadelphia area fans to come see us at our booth on Sakura Sunday at The Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia. It's a wonderful event, from 10:00 to 5:00pm at the Horticultural Center of Fairmount Park. To get our web discount if you come, please tell us the code "Zen Sushi" before checking out. Even if you don't shop, please stop by and say hi, telling us you learned of us on Facebook (or our website). To see what sorts of things we...

For our artisans, hand-weavers, dyers and other traditional textile crafts artists and enthusiasts:  News from John Marshall  We know that many of our site visitors and customers are involved in hand-weaving, dyeing and various related traditional skills in work with creating textiles and multi-media art. Thought therefore that this information might be of interest, even if it's not strictly 'kimono-related'. We learned from John Marshall (Renowned expert on Japanese textiles and dyeing -- his bio is HERE ), that he will be vending and presenting at the Reno convention listed below.  Details about this are from his latest newsletter:  ...

This is from our hometown village, Yoko's sister's house in Kumamoto. Note the addition of some hand-done hinamatsuri by Yoko's niece. While present-day Japan celebrate's "Childrens Day", when growing up in Japan March 3rd was always the celebration of "Girls Day". Little girls dress up and go to the local shrine. Most families (at least in our home village) have sets like this which get handed down. To learn more about this lovely tradition in Japan, please visit Wikipedia HERE.

Thanks to our buddy Kerry over at OhioKimono.com for letting us know about this announcement on Facebook. We have a good number of customers who are in the Chicago area who might be interested in this two-day kimono exhibition so wanted to post it here. Kimono Exhibition Hosted by Japanese Arts Foundation and Japanese Culture Center,April 28-29, 2018Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館1016 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60657

  BACKGROUND -- What is this page about? We started selling our bulk vintage kimonos online on www.yokodana.com in 1998. We started by selling 20 pound boxes of what we now call our "A Package" kimonos, silk and silk blends vintage women's kimonos. From that time up to the present we find that we get basically the same sorts of questions for folks trying to make up their minds to buy bulk vintage kimono packages, a product sold by the pound and without the customer seeing  or touching it before hand. For most products bought on-line this is not an...