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Konnichiwa, world!
We are thrilled to introduce you our brand new series #610!
For the paper of the series, we held many tests for two years to produce the hand-made paper. And finally we produced the beautiful cotton paper.
As for the designs, we were inspired by vintage Japanese woodblock pictures in Meiji Era(1868-1912).
These are really subtle and graceful!
Hope you like them :)
You can learn some more stories here.
As for the series, we offer printing service for calling cards.
And, we have selected the beautiful color inks for each design.
So if you are looking for your calling cards, please don't forget to check out this lovely series, too ;)
Arigatou,Have a nice day!
Rumi and Maki, (from Tokyo and Osaka)
Hello world!
I love the Valentine's season since we can see a lot of
romantic store window displays here in Tokyo.
I made my new correspondence card using our series 602 design, zebra.
The design is letter pressed on cotton paper with hand borderd (gold edge). 
I really love its grayish green design. It's like a safari color :)
Also, I love to choose colorful envelopes for this zebra card.
Especially my favorite colors are brown and mint green envelopes!
We have started to "bespoke stationery of the month" service
in our Japanese language website. (I ordered my zebra card from the service.)
You can check the image of the service in our website here.
February is adorable pig calling card! (Sorry it's only in Japanese...!)
We will also introduce the service in our English website soon!
Rumi, Tokyo
We had a fun collaboration event at our Tokyo store last Monday.
The guest speaker was Mr.Kiyo Matsumoto, an owner of
letterpress 77, and he owns his studio in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Kiyo(right) and our boss, Masaki(left)
As you can imagine from the company name, Kiyo is an expert of letterpress,
at the same time, he is also a designer of his letterpressed items
such as calling cards, greeting cards and wedding invitations. 
About 20 participants who are working as designers, printers, and retailers enjoyed his talk, and exchanged the design trends between Japan and Germany.
This is our collaboration card with letterpress 77.
Kiyo designed these adorable designs for us,
and we made the cards. Which is your favorite card?
For me, since they are all cute, it's hard to choose one! :)
You can check his lovely studio and designs here.
Have a lovely weekend!
Rumi
The famous British newspaper, The Independent introduced our products(series 342) as "the 50 best stationery"! Yay!Although we have not read the real article yet, we were thrilled to see our items on their website!
We look forward to seeing it by newspaper :)Now, we have many orders from the UK.(Dear customers, Thank you so much for ordering our cards & envelopes!) Please read the article here.Also, if you are interested in the series 342, you can check here.Have a nice weekend!Rumi & Maki
May this year be filled with peace, prosperity and good fortune!One of the most traditional New Year's events in Japan is the custom of making visits to shrines or temples - this is known as "Hatsumoude."Of course, I visited a shrine near to my home for praying my wish of 2010.I really love the architecture, especially its bright red color.
Kanda Myojin is well known as "God of business" here in Tokyo, and it was pretty crowded!I like the new year holidays in Tokyo since the period is the most quiet time. Our stores in Tokyo and Osaka have already opened.Staff members are looking forward to meeting many customers at the stores!Rumi
In Japan, we have a custom to send new year cards to friends and acquaintances.
We call the cards, "Nengajyo."The card is more popular than winter's greeting cards here in Japan.
Since it is a tiger's year in Chinese astrology,
we made some lovely tiger cards.
These were our best selling cards in December.
The design is letterpressed. It looks a real tiger?
They look a little bit weak...! But adorable!Best wishes for the coming new year for you all!!Rumi & Maki
