A Night at The Opera

July 30th, 2009

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 [...]

Did I miss your comment?

July 24th, 2009

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.
If [...]

The Well Dressed Tengu

July 23rd, 2009

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, [...]