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Hamabumon Tenugui | Itoshi Ajisai (Beloved Hydrangea) | Japanese Cotton Hand Towel | Made in Japan

¥4,000 税込

送料 ¥700

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Japanese Tenugui | Hydrangea | Hamabumon Japan | Traditional Cotton Hand Towel | Ajisai | Made in Japan

【Japan's Most Versatile Textile, in the Colour of the Rainy Season — Hamabumon Tenugui Itoshi Ajisai】Made in Japan

■ Product Features
The tenugui is one of Japan's most uniquely functional and culturally rich textiles — a thin, flat cotton cloth approximately 90cm long and 35cm wide that has been used in Japan for over a thousand years for everything from bathing and drying hands to wrapping gifts, carrying objects, and decorating interiors.

Hamabumon is one of Japan's most respected tenugui producers — known for its careful selection of seasonal and traditional motifs and its commitment to the traditional dyeing techniques that produce flat, even colour fields and precise design edges.

The "Itoshi Ajisai" (愛しあじさい, "Beloved Hydrangea") design captures one of Japan's most cherished seasonal flowers — the hydrangea (ajisai), which blooms in the rainy season of June and July and is inseparable from the Japanese experience of early summer. The hydrangea is unusual among Japanese seasonal flowers in that it changes colour as it blooms — from pale green through blue, purple, and pink — making it a symbol of change, transition, and the beauty of impermanence that runs through Japanese aesthetic culture.

Hamabumon's rendering of the ajisai motif uses the precise, flat graphic style that has characterised Japanese textile design for centuries — clear outlines, controlled colour fields, and the careful balance of negative space that defines the Japanese decorative tradition. The result is a cloth that works equally well as a daily hand towel, a gift wrap, or a framed wall textile.

The tenugui's unique design feature — the unhemmed edges that gradually fray to a perfectly stable finish as the cloth is washed and used — is deliberate: the unhemmed edge allows faster drying and gives the cloth its characteristic lightness.

■ Recommended For
Those who love Japan's rainy season aesthetic and the hydrangea as a symbol; anyone who wants a functional, beautiful, distinctly Japanese textile for daily life; those giving a gift that is both beautiful and genuinely useful; those familiar with furoshiki who want to explore the related tenugui tradition; anyone drawn to Japan's seasonal flower culture.

■ Contents
Hamabumon Tenugui Itoshi Ajisai — genuine Japanese retail product.

■ Key Ingredients / Materials
100% cotton plain-weave cloth; traditional Japanese dyeing (pigment or reactive dye); Itoshi Ajisai (hydrangea) pattern; unhemmed edges (intentional design) — approximately 90cm × 35cm

■ How to Use
Use as a hand towel — hang on a hook or towel ring and use normally. Wrap gifts in the furoshiki style — ideal for wrapping small objects. Carry objects by tying the ends together — traditional Japanese carrying method. Hang on a wall as a decorative textile panel. The cloth becomes softer and more pliable with washing.

■ Precautions
The unhemmed edges are intentional — they will fray slightly with initial washing and then stabilise. Wash separately for the first few washes as colours may run slightly. Hand or machine wash cold; air dry. Do not tumble dry at high heat — this can cause shrinkage. Avoid prolonged exposure to direct sunlight to prevent fading.

■ Shipping
This is an authentic product purchased in Japan, shipped to you via our Japanese warehouse. Guaranteed genuine with safe and reliable Japan direct shipping.

※ The listed price includes domestic shipping from our store to the Japanese warehouse.