New · Made in Shizuoka, Japan · For the one who cooks
Hamamatsu chusen dyeing · cotton · three cloths, 34 × 90 cm each
Japanese Comfort Food: Three Tenugui
Three cotton tenugui for the person who cooks: rice balls on navy, gyoza on mustard yellow, and roasted sweet potatoes on deep magenta.
$59 Free shipping to 32 countries
Order by November 20 to make sure it arrives before Christmas.
We ship to mainland China: free, tracked. Import duties, if any, are paid on delivery. Where we ship
$39 when added to any other piece in your order: it travels in the same box.
A gift for a new home
Leaves Fukuoka within one week by tracked airmail.
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Tiang N. · Australia
- Made in Japan. Hamamatsu chūsen, from Shizuoka prefecture.
- New, never used. Checked and packed by hand in Fukuoka.
- Returns within 14 days of delivery. Not right? Send it back as it came and we refund the full price, return postage included.
- Packed safely, sent by tracked airmail within one week. Order $100 or more and it flies EMS express.
Duties, checkout and extras
- ★ 5.0 on Etsy · Star Seller. Read the reviews ↗
- Import tax. It depends on your country; if any is due, it is collected on delivery.
- US import duties. Already included in the price: nothing to pay at your door.
- Secure checkout by Stripe — cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay. No account needed.
- Two pieces, one parcel. Each extra piece in the same order is $15 off at checkout.
- Orders of $200 or more travel with a gift to keep: Japanese chopsticks with a rest in a paulownia box, or a Nara kaya-cloth handkerchief.
The story
These are the foods Japan eats without ceremony. Onigiri, the rice ball packed for school and work. Gyoza, and the gyoza here are a local joke: Hamamatsu, where these cloths are dyed, is one of Japan's great gyoza cities. Yaki-imo, the roasted sweet potato sold from small trucks on winter evenings, the seller's call drifting down the street.
The tenugui themselves are dyed in Hamamatsu by the chūsen method: dye poured by hand through stacked cotton, so the pattern shows on both sides and no two cloths are quite the same.
Living with it
Wrap a bento box, dry the dishes, cover the bread dough, or hang one in the kitchen. A good present for the friend who keeps sending you photos of what they made for dinner.
The short ends are left raw, as tenugui always are: a few threads loosen in the first washes, then it stops. Wash separately in cold water the first time, as hand-poured dye can run a little.
• Three tenugui, about 34 × 90 cm each (87–90 cm, hand-dyed) • Cotton, chūsen-dyed in Hamamatsu • New • Made in Japan
How it travels
Packed safely, insured in full
Every piece is packed by hand in Fukuoka inside a sturdy 3 mm corrugated carton, cushioned all round with air pillows so it cannot move. It travels with tracking all the way to your door: by EMS, insured for its full value, on orders of $100 or more, and by tracked airmail below that.
A question about this piece — size, marks, condition? Ask the house, we answer within a day.