http://japanesegeta.com Everything about traditional Japanese footwear Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:09:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A spec commercial from YouTube.com apparently parodying the Nike, "Just Do It!" commercials. http://japanesegeta.com/?p=124 In August 2009, China Central Television aired an informative segment titled "Geta essential to traditional Japanese dress." Click the image to play -- opens in a new window. Although the ad shown at the beginning is in Chinese, the main narration is in English. http://japanesegeta.com/?p=123 Tengu geta enthusiast Marc recently sent email to us. "Hello there. I sent you a mail last year about standing on Tengu Geta (link). Since then I have moved to Japan and married. Last month I climbed up Shichimenzan Mountain in Minobu and was suprised to find a shrine for Tengu at ... http://japanesegeta.com/?p=122 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 ... http://japanesegeta.com/?p=121 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 ... http://japanesegeta.com/?p=118 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 ... http://japanesegeta.com/?p=119 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. . . . . . . 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 ... http://japanesegeta.com/?p=117 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 ... http://japanesegeta.com/?p=115 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 ... http://japanesegeta.com/?p=116 Problem: you want to get geta but are afraid to use a credit card online or don't even have one. I teach how to buy and sell on eBay at a local night school. One problem that comes up occasionally is I have a student who does not want to use ... http://japanesegeta.com/?p=114