Comments on: Kyoto Furoshiki Store Karakusaya

By: Wrapped « Cerebral Sneeze

Wrapped « Cerebral Sneeze — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:26:17 +0000

[...] exhibition was held upstairs from Karakusaya, one of Kyoto’s oldest furoshiki makers. Kyoto Foodie has a great article and videos from Karakusaya on how to tie various items and make bags. You [...]

By: Jenn

Jenn — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:49:32 +0000

Peko Peko,
Thank you so much for the information. Wow, that was a quick response!

By: Peko Peko

Peko Peko — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:06:52 +0000

Oh, Laura,

I didn’t see your reply. Sorry! Glad you have a good experience at Karakusaya. Yes, you are right. The quality is excellent and the prices are reasonable.

Kakefuda is also great, but they don’t offer traditional designs, just their own modern ones. Kakefuda makes their furoshiki from start to finish, under one roof as they say.

Check out the Kyoto Furoshiki Stores topic on OpenKyoto Kyoto Support:
http://openkyoto.com/kyoto-support/topic/kyoto-furoshiki-stores

By: Peko Peko

Peko Peko — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:44:13 +0000

Hello Jenn, Ahhh.. Just off the top of my head…I bought a really beautiful and very high quality furoshiki at Karakusaya the other day for like 800 yen or so. It was small, for a bento box. For the larger, standard size furoshiki (the size seen in the videos), I think they are like 2,000 to 3,000 yen ($20 to $30). That is for the best quality available in Japan, I think. Then they have more and more expensive ones, depending on the size, material and dyeing process from like 5,000 yen up to 12,000 yen (about $50 to $120) — the high end being for silk with hand painting/dyeing.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:31:27 +0000

Thank you Kyoto foodie for making such informative posts. It looks great. I see on the post and responses that the furoshiki prices are quite reasonable and not too expensive. Is it possible to give me an idea in actual pricing (like maybe a range of starting prices)….
Would really love to know. Thanks!

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:16:02 +0000

Thank you Peko peko,

I found it and bought 3 furoshiki. The quality of the furoshiki here is far better than in other shops and prices are very reasonable.
Tha manager is also very nice. Thank you again.

By: Peko Peko

Peko Peko — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:24:34 +0000

Hello Laura,

Karakusaya moved to the current location at the end of January 2009. So, the image in Google Map street view is outdated. What is currently seen in the Google Map is the garage at Karakusaya’s parent company.

The new location is very, very beautiful. It is spacious and bright. The storefront photo that you see in the article above is the new location.

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:53:21 +0000

Hi. I’ve been trying to find the Furoshiki Store Karakusaya in google map but when I drag the little man on the pinpoint that kyoto foodie shows on the map, I cannot see the storefront of the picture above, while if I search it in google map by myself it shows a different address and a different store front (much smaller). Has it moved? Does anybody know? Thanks.

By: Peko-P

Peko-P — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:58:09 +0000

Hello Jacky,
Welcome and thank you for stopping by. That is just the bento cover you are seeing. It’s not actually a plate, and not actually a product or something that you can search for — and find on the web. Does that help?

By: Jacky

Jacky — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:15:54 +0000

I’m new here and to bento and furoshiki. Wondering if anyone can tell me what the woven “plate”, for lack of a better, term is called. I’ve been trying to figure out what will give the non flat items a better base in the wrapped furoshiki and have just stumbled on these pictures. What term do I use to search?

By: claire

claire — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:37:07 +0000

there is a nice diagram of all the different wrapping methods using furoshiki here
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/do-you-know-how-to-use-traditional-japanese-furoshiki/

By: mishkaa

mishkaa — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:38:42 +0000

i am obsessed with bento, and i proudly wrap my bento lunches with cute patterned furoshiki that i got from the discounted japanese store (intentionally brought for my kiddy sister).
it does bring alot of attention to my colleagues at work,
some thought it looked like kindergarten lunchbox, hehehe.
i would love to get a hand on the japanese traditional motif,
its really hard to find it here in my country.