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Message from the President

When I was a child, my grandmother was very fashionable.
In Kansai style, she was a kimono maniac.
She often went to the theater dressed in expensive kimonos.
When I was born, my grandmother made me a wonderful maternity gown.

That maternity kimono was passed down to my daughter.

When my grandmother’s extravagant kimono became old, she used it as her everyday clothes.
When the everyday clothes became old, she re-tailored them into the outer fabric of futons.

I still have fond memories of helping my grandmother re-tailor futons.

In the old days, kimonos were passed down from parents to children and from children to grandchildren.
The old kimonos were then processed into various forms and used until the end of time.

In today’s Japan, however, people who can wear kimono by themselves are called an endangered species.
Many people do not wear kimonos for the rest of their lives.

In fact, many people give away their kimonos, which should be handed down from generation to generation, for only a few hundred yen a piece.
Some even dispose of them as garbage.

Kimono is a very beautiful traditional Japanese costume.

For example, it takes more than 200,000 grains to make one full-length shibori kimono.
It takes several months to more than a year to complete.
Furthermore, there are countless techniques for making kimono, such as dyeing, embroidery, and painting.

Many of them are still done by hand over a long period of time.
And yet, the number of people wearing kimonos is decreasing rapidly.
So the successors to these wonderful techniques are not being nurtured.

If nothing is done, they will perish.
I want to leave the wonderful traditional art and high technology of the Japanese kimono to future generations!

We also want to contribute to those who are involved with kimonos!
In this way, we not only want to preserve tradition, but also
We want to create new value of kimono and have people wear it freely and without gender.
We also want to contribute to the SDGs by using vintage kimonos as materials.

With this in mind, we launched GEISHA TOKYO.

GEISHA TOKYO CEO Sachiko Fujisawa