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I had an opportunity to visit Osaka as a business trip.
It takes around 2.5 hours from Tokyo by Shinkansen. (do you know? It's a super fast train.)
Then, I took a train to Matsubara city where has our plant.
(It's located on the southern part of Osaka.)
There are more than 20 kinds of envelope making machines and printing machines.
This is a very old letter press machine!
Some of our expert staff can oparate the machine.
When I visited there, he was printing some luxurious invitaions for our collaboration event with an Italian publisher.
For the event, we chose hand made cotton paper by Fabriano, which is very famous paper making company in Italy.
Although itwas just one day trip, I was so glad that I could meet with many colleagues there.
(Many thanks, Maki!)
But, the only thing I forgot was to enjoy Osaka food...!!
I forgot to eat Okonomiyaki... Too bad!
Rumi, from Tokyo
I found lycoris flowers on my way to the office.
Then, I realized that I had found them at the same place, just one year ago.
(Wow, one year ago! It's amazing how fast the time goes...!)
It's the season for this flower, lycoris (we say Higanbana) in Japan.
The vivid red color and their lovely petals like ribbons are so impressive.
Series #631 cards are very popular among foreign customers.
We selected Japanese flowers for the series and used traditional colors for each card. (You can find Lycoris design, too!)
I'm glad if you could feel "Japan" from the beautiful cards.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Maki, from Osaka
This is our new window display in our Tokyo store.
It's so adorable, right? (The squirrel is holding a letter! And you can see his favorite food, acorn.)
We had a workshop in our store yesterday.
In the workshop, participants could make their own mini correspondence sheets.
This time, all participants were ladies :)
First of all, my colleague Masako talked about the history of paper and envelope.
Then she explained about some etiquette of social stationery.
Since all participants love paper and letters, they could listen carefully about Masako's talk.
(Thanks for your kind attention, ladies!)
After that, seeing our marks & fonts sample books, every guest chose their own mark and a font with favorite one color for her correspondence sheets.
Popular marks were flowers and animals. All guests were so creative so we can't wait to see their personalized sheets.
(We will give their correspondence sheets to them after 2 weeks from now.)
This was the first time to have a workshop in Tokyo store, and we will have it in November next time. The next theme will be about making new year cards!
Our workshop will be held in Japanese, but if you live in Osaka or Tokyo, and would like to join us, please contact us anytime!
Have a lovely week!
Rumi, from Tokyo
Hello everyone!It's getting a little bit cooler day by day.(I still want hot summer days!)I went back to my hometown, Goto island during my summer vacation.Everytime I visit my island, I go to Takahama beach, where is one of my favorite places.It's really famous for water sports. (Surfing at the beach is awesome!)
I also enjoyed tasty seafood there :) Although I couldn't stay only 5 days, I really enjoyed my vacation.When I came back to Tokyo, I do feel that Tokyo time is soooo fast, compare to my island time. Haha!Today, I wrote a letter to my friend. (The envelope is our series 342, stripes)Of course, the theme is "blue ocean!"
Have a nice weekend!Rumi, from Tokyo
Hello everyone! It's Maki from Osaka.My hometown, Akashi locates on the seaside and it is very famous for good seafood.
Especially, squids and octopuses are special products.
I took a photo of a dried octopus. In this season, we can see a lot of dried octopuses around fisherman's villages.
I often use our octopus card of series 700, which reminds me of my hometown.
So, I really love octopus!
Although I know they have some negative meanings in some countries, it is said that they can hugs you a lot with love!Octopus is a lucky and lovely charm for me.We will have a summer vacation this week. (Yes!)Have a fabulous week! Akashi girl, Maki ;)
Since we will start to sell our new series #610 in August, we have just produced summer's greetings card using the same series.
The flower design of this card is gardenia, which we call "kuchinashi" in Japanese.
Don't you think the design look a little bit antique?
In fact, it is one of the vintage designs which was printed by woodblock printing in Meiji period (1868-1912) in Japan.
We were fascinated by the beauty of vintage designs during the period, and produced our new series.(Sorry, kuchinashi design is only for our summer's greetings card, not for sale. We look forward to introducing other pretty designs soon!)
Also, the card is hand made cotton paper produced by a Japanese artisan in Echizen area, where has a 1,000 year-paper-making history in Japan.
It is said that the flower, kuchinashi brings happiness and pleasure!
It's really hot(boiling!) here in Osaka, even though we are still in the rainy season..
During the summer vacation, I have a plan to visit Shikoku area (western Japan) to play in a river.
I'm a bit worried the weather, but I can't wait!
Please enjoy your lovely summer/winter season :)
Maki from Osaka
Our representative, Mr. Sugiura had a seminar last Tuesday.The main theme of the seminar was about "how to write a better business letter."Since the seminar was for business people, he told about the manners of business letter and some useful information such as the history of typography and paper.
Although we have been studying about these histories for a long time, I had learned some new stories through the seminar. It seems the world of letter writing culture is very deep.(I should study more...!)We will start some fun workshops in Tokyo store from autumn.We look forward to introducing the joy of letter ;)Rumi
