Rare/Specialty/Custom Tenugui

[sminki]

Does anyone have a favorite store/website to get special/rare/custom tenugui?

[Atama]

I've bought some great tenegui from this site they are pretty cheap and have great delivery

http://www.kinokuniya.info/english/

[Yellow Savage]

thanks for the link atama...some seriously cool tenegui...but are they for suitable for kendo? (If that question makes sense?)

[etherknot]

Originally posted by Atama
I've bought some great tenegui from this site they are pretty cheap and have great delivery

http://www.kinokuniya.info/english/

Oooh I like 5205 and 5222. There are three on the top grouped together that look nice too.

[Phlebas]

Darn... none with cherry blossoms. I just GOTTA find a nice one with cherry blossoms. Wasn't there someone on the KW Forums who makes her own designs for tenugui?

[iwatekenshi]

My favorite. If you're in Tokyo you must go!!!! It's in Asakusa and is probably the most famous Tenugui shop in Japan. That's all they do.

Fujiya is the name of the store

http://asakusa-noren.ne.jp/shop/tenugui-fujiya.html

From the NY Times:

Fuji-ya
2-2-15 Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Phone: 03-3841-2283
Tokyo
Master textile creator Keiji Kawakama's cotton tenugui (teh-noo-goo-ee) hand towels are collector's items, often as not framed instead of used as towels. Kawakama is also an expert on the history of this Edo-period craft. The shop is near the corner of Dembo-in-dori on Naka-mise-dori. Fri.-Wed. 10-6. Subway: Ginza Line, Asakusa Eki (Exit 6).

More links...

This is the store's homepage
http://www.asakusa.gr.jp/nakama/fujiya/01.html

More of his work...

http://www.japanesqueaccents.com/horizontalhangings/0217H.htm

[sminki]

These are really cool. I gotta work my connections in Tokyo to get me some.

[iwatekenshi]

Do it! You won't regret it!!! I have my favorites but I'll keep it a secret!!!:)

[Atama]

Yellow Savage.........they are totally suitable I use em all the time

[Karaken]

Originally posted by Phlebas
Darn... none with cherry blossoms. I just GOTTA find a nice one with cherry blossoms. Wasn't there someone on the KW Forums who makes her own designs for tenugui?

Phelbas, isn't that cherry blossom on Fujiya's home page?

Center..

[Hai_hai]

http://www.asahi-jc.com/tenugui.htm

[Phlebas]

"...isn't that cherry blossom on Fujiya's home page?" -- Karaken

If you mean this link, http://asakusa-noren.ne.jp/shop/tenugui-fujiya.html I can't seem to find a tenugui with cherry blossoms. Do I have to go to another link from that page? I can't read Japanese/Chinese/Korean, etc. so you'll have to be specific if I need to navigate further in...

[Phlebas]

D'OH! Never mind. I'm an idiot. : ) Thanks for the links, all! Very nice indeed.