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A few articles ago, I reviewed a pair of woman’s Chinese Manchu-era pedestal shoes. The site they were purchased from, stylishcn.com, also has men’s Chinese opera boots. The boots are about as colorful and fancy as the gaudiest American cowboy boots, were relatively inexpensive, and look great on the shelf next to the red Manchu [...]

Many Japanese language internet searches for geta and other products return results from Rakuten.co.jp. Similar to Yahoo! Shopping, Rakuten provides a consolidated search and shopping cart service for their many merchants. Until recently, the entire site was in Japanese with no provisions for international shipping — at least not to my feeble Japanese language ability.
Recently, [...]

Megumi Matsuriya is an online geta shop that recently started appearing in searches. They have an attractive site, good prices, great geta, and good service in English.
Unfortunately, like most geta shops in Japan, they have a very limited selection of sizes. The size chart on their site shows conversions for up to 30 cm geta, [...]

This pair of shoes is from China, not Japan.

The Chinese used to bind young girls’ feet tightly with cloth strips so their feet would remain small. These small feet, known as lily feet, were sometimes as small as 3 inches long and men considered them very erotic.  In your webmaster’s opinion these are feet that [...]

“Rare and Unique Geta,” perhaps you’ve seen them listed on eBay or in The Geta Bazaar. They’re made and sold by eBay seller, Wind_n_Cloud, who is located in Malaysia.
At the time I first decided to buy a pair, all the pairs listed were in women’s sizes and painted with flowers. The listing said they could, [...]

If you’ve shopped online for geta, you’ve probably run into them. They’re sold by The House of Rice, Asian Ideas, Asian Import Store, Amazon.com, eBay, and our own JapaneseGetaShop.com. They’re available with either red or black straps, and in two sizes: 9 1/2 and 10 inches (24 and 25.5 cm), and prices range from $14.95 [...]