Trade name
OKAYAMA-KOUGEI Inc.
CEO
Maki Okayama
Location of Head Office
Kyoto-shi Fushimi-ku, Fukakusa Nishiura-cho 8-2-2,
Postal Code 612-0029
Postal Code 612-0029
Telephone number
075-643-4317 / Fax 075-643-4320
Website
https://www.okayama-kougei.com/
Operating hours
9:00～18:00
Non-business days
Weekends, national holidays, and the New Year’s holiday season
Fushimi atelier
Kyoto-shi, Fushimi-ku, Fukakusa Taniguchi-cho
Established
September 1968
Incorporated
September 2018
Description of business
Manufacture and sales of hand-painted Kyo-yuzen and general kimonos
Number of employees
36
Subcontractors
300 companies
Message from the CEO
Since the foundation of OKAYAMA-KOUGEI, we have individualized and diversified our products to meet the needs of the market with flexible ideas. We have our own designing division and have active management in the production of our own original products. Our company is still young, having only been founded in 1968, within the history and traditions revered in the Japanese clothing industry. Since the very beginning, our company’s vision for the creation of kimonos has evolved in accordance with the generations. We have received support from all over the industry, and our success continues to expand.
At OKAYAMA-KOUGEI, we have always been striving to develop new talent and improve our skills. Apart from winning the Award from the Chief of the Manufacturing Industries Bureau in various competitions, we have received many prestigious prizes such as the Award of the Chief of Kinki Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Kyoto Governor's Prize and the Mayor's Prize. We have also been awarded by the Traditional Crafts Industry Promotion Association Foundation, the Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and Industry and by various department stores since our first submission.
Our remarkable growth can be credited to the creative sense of fashion and effort of each and every one of our employees. We believe that to ensure further development in the future, a sense of individuality and further challenges are indispensable.
Our company's management philosophy is to keep supplying the market with highly fashionable kimonos and to pass on and advance Japanese traditions and culture while making people who wear kimonos look more elegant and graceful, making their lives more fulfilling.
At OKAYAMA-KOUGEI, we have always been striving to develop new talent and improve our skills. Apart from winning the Award from the Chief of the Manufacturing Industries Bureau in various competitions, we have received many prestigious prizes such as the Award of the Chief of Kinki Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Kyoto Governor's Prize and the Mayor's Prize. We have also been awarded by the Traditional Crafts Industry Promotion Association Foundation, the Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and Industry and by various department stores since our first submission.
Our remarkable growth can be credited to the creative sense of fashion and effort of each and every one of our employees. We believe that to ensure further development in the future, a sense of individuality and further challenges are indispensable.
Our company's management philosophy is to keep supplying the market with highly fashionable kimonos and to pass on and advance Japanese traditions and culture while making people who wear kimonos look more elegant and graceful, making their lives more fulfilling.
CEO
Maki Okayama
Maki Okayama
Change of company name
With the incorporation of our company in September 2018, our company name was changed from “OKAYAMA-KOUGEI Co. Ltd.” to “OKAYAMA-KOUGEI Inc.”.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude for the patronage of our customers over the past 50 years since the establishment of the company. All of us are determined to continue to our efforts and would like to ask for your continued support and encouragement in the future.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude for the patronage of our customers over the past 50 years since the establishment of the company. All of us are determined to continue to our efforts and would like to ask for your continued support and encouragement in the future.
Logo mark
The circle of outside in the logo mark is inspired from a core wood of a bolt of cloth used in wakuba, which is a machine used during coloring the cloth for kimonos. The four small rounds in the circle are images when a bolt of cloth opens a little, and they stand for the cooperation between the craftspeople. One craftsperson performs his or her own task and delivers it to next craftsperson, who after finishing the task passes it on to another craftsperson. Many craftspeople work together to create a hand-painted Kyo-yuzen Kimono. The four lines of the center are an image of tools which are used during work. For example, a painting brush, a temple, a tool which is used when drawing lines or coloring with gold.
None of them is a single entity. They represent the world of hand-painted Kyo-yuzen which is created when the power of many people comes together, just like in this circle. The logo also represents the nature of OKAYAMA-KOUGEI as a company.
None of them is a single entity. They represent the world of hand-painted Kyo-yuzen which is created when the power of many people comes together, just like in this circle. The logo also represents the nature of OKAYAMA-KOUGEI as a company.
Introduction video of our company
This is a 2-minute video in which we show our working scene and working process in the studio. We have created this video to make our products known to many people.