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Takashimaya Company, Limited (株式会社髙島屋, Kabushiki-gaisha Takashimaya) is a Japanese multinational corporation operating a department store chain carrying a wide array of products, ranging from wedding dresses and other apparel to electronics and flatware.
Takashimaya founded. The first generation Shinshichi Iida started a used clothing business on the Matsubara-agaru, Karasuma, Kyoto: 1876: American trading company Smith, Baker & Co. visits our store （Start of large-scale transactions with foreign countries） 1898: Osaka store opened (Shinsaibashi-suji, Minami-ku) 1899: Lyon office（France ...
Oct 1, 2016 · Iida Shinshichi III (1852-1909) was the director of the Takashimaya department store. He is credited with the promotion and export of Japanese embroidery, especially Kyoto embroidery, onto the world market.
Iida Shinshichi III was the third head of the Takashimaya business, which began as a secondhand clothing store in 1831, and later developed into a major department store chain. He was the eldest son of Iida Shinshichi II and Iida Utako; his childhood name was Naojirô.
The Kyoto Silk Industry in the Meiji Transition. For hundreds of years since the late medieval period, the center and pride Kyoto silk industry had been the weavers' quarter known as Nishijin 0ft, in the northwestern part of the city. In the nineteenth century, however, faced a succession of challenges.
The oldest surviving embroidery work in Japan is the famous Tenjūkoku shūchō (Embroidery of Long Life in Heaven, owned by Chūgū-ji Temple) commissioned by Prince Shōtoku’s wife Tachibana no...
Dyed and woven textiles like embroidery painting and Yuzen-dyed cut-velvet, now no longer simply articles of clothing and daily life objects, were called “artistic ornamental textiles,” and on orders of the likes of Kyoto kimono merchants Sozaemon Nishimura and Shinshichi Iida, the founders of Chiso and Takashimaya respectively, they were ...
