JapaneseGeta.com receives dozens of comments every day. Out of these, 99.999% are spam — online casinos, low cost loans, and insurance comprise most of it — a lot gets caught the by site’s filters, but many junk messages get through. Between the automatic and my own manual filtering process, legitimate comments will occasionally be deleted.
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Do you see a pattern?
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 [...]
Wooden Things by Famolare
Joseph P. Famolare was born into a third generation shoe making family in 1932, and founded his own company, Famolare, Inc., in 1969. In the 1970’s Famolare produced a line of shoes called Wooden Things by Famolare.
The Wooden Things line included platform clogs, clog soled boots, clogs and boots based on an all wood shoe [...]
Footprints
“We’re getting close now, Watson. Look at those footprints.”
“What sort of creature has feet like that?”
“That Watson, is the mark of the geta shoes that are worn by the people of Japan. That explains why Lady Bancroft was confused about the apparent height of the shadow on the window. The samurai warriors are trained to [...]
Geta top computing
Giant geta or tiny computer?
Meet the ASUS Eee PC. It’s just 9 x 6 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches and weighs 2 pounds, yet it packs enough computing power to satisfy a tengu. Prices start at $299.99. Get the full details at EEEforME.com
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The New JapaneseGeta.com
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 [...]