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, [...]
Archive for the ‘Red’ category
The Well Dressed Tengu
July 23rd, 2009
Do you see a pattern?
May 13th, 2009
I was just looking over the last couple articles I posted and realized my secret is out — when given a color choice, I choose red.
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Here’s my Saucony Jazz Originals, Dell Mini-9 Laptop, and Samsung mobile phone, and don’t forget the site’s theme and logo, and the Japanese flag.
I added a Red category so you [...]
Megumi Matsuriya
May 12th, 2009
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, [...]
From across the East China Sea
April 30th, 2009
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 [...]
$15 Geta
May 20th, 2008
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 [...]
The New JapaneseGeta.com
May 1st, 2008
Atarashii JapaneseGeta.com e youkoso!
JapaneseGeta.com started as a Geocities site in December 1998. Long time visitors to the site know that it has essentially been static with major changes happening every couple years or so. One reason is there’s not much new in the world of old Japanese shoes, another is personal inertia, and behind the [...]