Hi!! yesterday, I went to the X’mas party of shinanoya. Party place was Italian restaurant Attimo(how many japanese dandy were there!!!) shinanoya is very famous select shop because shinanoya is 1st a foreign-goods shop that estabilished 1866 at yokohama.at that time yokohama is the base of foreign trade in Japan and export silk,japanese tea …etc.The founder Chojiro Yoshizawa thought import from wetern countries.at first customers were not japanese, then japan became westernized . little by little growing number of japanese customers.

昨晩は信濃屋さんのクリスマスパーティーにお伺いさせて頂きました。会場はリストランテAttimo(ダンディーな日本の紳士達が沢山居ましたよ!!!)信濃屋さんは1866年創業の日本で最初の老舗洋品店です。当時の横浜はシルクや日本茶等の輸出をしていましたが、創業者の吉澤長次郎さんが西洋の商品を輸入する事を思いつき、最初は居留地の外国人が顧客でしたが、西洋化が進むに連れ日本人のお客様が増えて行ったそうです。

SHINANOYA’s customers are ambassador and consul, and many japanese celebrities, ex)japanese film director Yasujiro ozu, japanese actress Yumeji tsukioka, to order them dresses.The upper picture is japanese famous actress keiko kishi. She have big trust on SHINANOYA and order wedding dress for her wedding in France.

大使や領事、小津安二郎監督や女優の月丘夢路さん、岸恵子さん等、日本のセレブリティーから発注を受け、上の写真の岸恵子さんは、フランスの挙式でのウエディングドレスの依頼をされたとの事です。

anway,Yokohama was the scene of many notable firsts for japan including the growing acceptance of western fashion,Japan’s first English lanquage news paper, in 1865 the first ice cream and beer to be produced in Japan.Recreational sports introduced to japan by foreign residents in Yokohama included European style House racing,cricket and rugby union…Japan’s first daily newspaper, first gas-powered street lamps…etc.Yokohama is nice for feeling japanese westernized history.

とにかく、横浜は日本で初めてのモノが多い事で有名です。西洋のファッションの受け入れに加え、英字新聞、ビールにアイスクリーム、スポーツでは競馬、クリケット、ラグビー、日刊新聞にガス灯…etc 西洋化をしていく日本の歴史を感じるのは横浜はピッタシですね♪