Category: Kihitsu
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(The picture is Kihitsu Kinoko saikoho) https://store.fudejapan.com/products/kihitsu-kinoko-powder-saikoho-k-saiko?_pos=1&_sid=41dfe97d8&_ss=rHi Everyone, Thank you for ordering many brushes. As Hakuhodo raise their prices and discontinue B series, I take many orders from new clients. I want to write how long it takes me to get brushes and ship them. Hakuhodo shop has M size brushes only with very few L’s. When…
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Hi Everyone, In the previous newsletter, I wrote about saikoho goat hair of Kihitsu. Kihitsu is a group company which sells Koyudo-made brushes. Kihitsu maintains its own inventory, and develops a difference channel from that of Koyudo. For instance,Kihitsu has been selling brushes as gifts at wedding ceremonies.Kihitsu also sells brushes at a sightseeing place. Miyajima, which has…
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Hi Everyone, Kihitsu started as a sale division or company owned by Koyudo. Koyudo makes all of Kihitsu brushes and Kihitsu sells those brushes under the Kihitsu brand. (喜筆). Kihitsu was selling fu-pa and BP series which were the same as Koyudo but not the entire products. Now Kihitsu is only selling the inventory left. Therefore, the…
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(the picture above is that of Kihitsu square set with goat hair) Hi Everyone, I read an article that Kolinsky hair is in short for calligraphy brushes. It is mostly imported from China, but due to the COVID , it gets less and less. The article was written about calligraphy brushes, but it may apply…
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Hi Everyone, I sold the first Kihitsu Square set. It is 30,000 yen. https://store.fudejapan.com/products/kihitsu-square-brush-set?_pos=1&_psq=square&_ss=e&_v=1.0 I also found that Kihitsu has its own youtube channel, where the Square Brush is introduced. Traditional Kumano brush companies begin to use SNS! Or, if they don’t change and only keep doing the same, they cannot catch up with the…
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Hi Everyone, I have received several questions from my clients about new brushes. Here are some updates. White Canadian squirrel makie brushes: I heard that Koyudo would make face L brushes . The handle will be black makie in a flat shape as in the picture below(cheek). Cheek brushes were made and are in stock.…
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#kihitsu silver Fox Hi Everyone、 It is the end of December. First, Kumano brush companies will be on holidays next week till January 4. And due to the COVID-19, the Government of Japan stopped tourists from foreign countries.Yet, still no sign of ‘lockdown’ and I see people walking around as usual. Today, I want to…
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Hi Everyone, I received interesting feedback to my blog from my clients yesterday.I wrote about people sitting next to me at cafe. I like people watching, especially over coffee. ( I guess my concentration is low.) I love doing so overseas, as everything is new and people behave differently. I spent six months as an…
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Hi Everyone, I have posted a video of a lip brush made by SUQQU.It is made with Kolinsky. SUQQU told me that the lip brush with kolinsky would be replaced by another lip brush. I don’t know information on the new lip brush but it will have hair other than kolinsky. The alternative to SUQQU…
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Hi Everyone, I chatted with Chikuhodo.They will have limited sets in mid November. They don’t call them Christmas sets or Noel, rather ‘limited.’So they can continue to sell those limited sets as long as they are in stock. This is Evergreen set of Hakuhodo. I will keep you updated. Speaking of limited, I have recently…
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Hi Everyone, Yesterday, I wrote about my first year experience at Canon.I received several feedback, thank you. I have worked for several companies since I left Canon.People say that Japanese are hard-working,but I found that those expats in Tokyo work very hard from my experiences.Americans, Hongkongers, Australians, British, Irish, Dutch… that I worked with. Anyway,…
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Hi Everyone, It is autumn all of a sudden this week. A four-day weekend began on Saturday. People are now wearing long sleeved shirts. It is not 30℃ anymore. Summer is over. Autumn is the best of all the seasons in Japan, I think. —– In Kumano, Fude Matsuri, the brush festival, has started, but…
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Hi Everyone, I sometimes receive questions about Kihitsu who they are, from time to time. I want to explain what I know. Kihitsu has been a sales company for Koyudo since 2004. The president is Nakashima san. Koyudo was born in 1979, according to the company web page. The chairman is Uematsu-san. Kihitsu doesn’t make…
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Hi Everyone, In July, people complained there was too much rain, now no rain at all in August…. Yesterday, I posted a picture of Body Pierces. It is not my main product but I buy products based on my clients’ requests. I will try to get products you like, though Kumano brushes and department items…
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Hi Everyone, Japanese Government decided to extend the ‘stayhome’ to the 31st of May. They will revisit the timeline on the 14th. So the period may be shortened. I have received orders for items sold at department stores, such as SUQQU, THREE, D&G, Lunasol, etc. I will try and buy them as early as possible.…
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Hi Everyone, I wrote about how I get rare hair brushes to be manufactured. https://atomic-temporary-81665234.wpcomstaging.com/2020/04/26/64774/ Brush makers have some old stocks, too. Sometimes rare hair. I received a request to buy Chikuhodo old G series two days ago. Yesterday I talked to Chikuhodo, and they had a stock of old G series, two generations back…
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Hi Everyone, The coronavirus is spreading. In Japan, schools have been closed for the last 3 weeks. There are very few events whether big or small, professional baseball was postponed till April, Sumo is now played in front of no audience. I walked around Shibuya today, and the Shibuya Crossing was still crowded. But there…
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Hi Everyone, I was writing about Fude Japan marketing and history, but I was not able to finish it… So in this blog, I want to show you what I bought this week and the products coming in January. From top, It is a foundation brush of Bisyodo. I ordered the first engraved brush. It…
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