A wonderful selection of 25+ brand new and vintage obijime were added to our site this week in a wide variety of styles and colors. Obijime are most often worn atop of women's nagoya, fukuro, and maru obi and come in a wide variety of styles and even formalities. In general Japanese kimono are composed of a wide variety of accessories to make their traditional look possible, and obijime are just one of many such parts. We plan on expanding our kimono, juban, and haori selecti

Youmacon 2018 has come and gone, and this year was our best year ever! Youmacon is an anime convnetion located in Detroit, Michigan and is one of the largest in the nation. The vendor room and artist alley was moved to Hall C, and the layout greatly improved upon. The vendor room as a whole had a wonderful flow through that benefited everyone. Over the course of the 4 day show we cross paths with many long term loyal customers, and many new ones! For the first year ever, we

Yukata are among the most popular kind of traditional Japanese kimono. These types of kimono are favored for being comfortable, easy to wear, and being casual attire that does not require many accessories to wear properly. As a result many people's kimono collection starts with a yukata, and from there grow to include more formal types of kimono including Furisode, and Houmongi. As people's collections grow many want a fresh look on their old favorite yukata. By changing up t

So you own a kimono and know how to put it on? But where do can you wear it to? This article is a part of a series dedicated to great places in each state in the USA that you can wear your Japanese kimono to. Sure there is the obvious sushi restaurant you can wear a kimono to, but where else can you go to and wear a kimono. Truthfully you can wear a kimono everywhere and anywhere including going to the library or even out shoe shopping in the mall. Still, people tend to look

This Friday night in Grand Rapids Michigan there will be a very limited and exclusive engagement, a real sumo tournament! Talk about a great event to wear your Japanese kimono to! This special 1 night only event includes limited seating to give everyone a great view. VIP seats also include a meet and greet with the wrestlers, watching practice, and then sake and sushi tasting. Only a few seats are left - get them before you miss out on this rare chance! Buy tickets online

"Wingardium Leviosa" - Show your Harry Potter Household Pride with our lovely haneri made from Harry Potter household crest fabrics. Haneri are a great way to sneak some of your favorite geek and pop culture into your kitsuke kimono coordination without being over the top. Don't worry House Gryffindor members, we will add you soon as well. For those of you curious, the owner of Ohio Kimono is House Slytherin with Ravenclaw leanings. Disclaimer: This is not a licensed Warner

From all of us in the Ohio Kimono family we wish you a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year. Thank you all so much for your support, we look forward to serving you in 2018. #Ohiokimono #kimonostore #wheretobuykimono #buykimono #kimonoya #japanesekimono #japanesekimonos #yukata #Michigankimono #Chicagokimono #Indianakimono #Texaskimono

To celebrating hitting 1,200+ Japanese kimono, obi, haori, michiyuki, juban and more all for sale in our online store we have added to the site....A SEARCH ENGINE! This new search engine is visible both on the darktop, and mobile versions of our site. The search engine is at the top of every page on our site. As our online Japanese kimono store has grown, we have carefully taken note of various customer requests regarding the functionality of the site. In the early days of ou

This holiday season we are happily helping many of our customers celebrate the holiday season! Our site has been rather busy as people shop for some of the most unique gifts anyone can buy this year. We have even shipped out a few Secret Santa orders! Most popular this year has been our Japanese kimono, and obi by far. All the same we do have lower cost items for sale such as tabi socks, and the Halloween Pepsi for sale which have equally been as popular this year. We sh

This holiday season many people are struggling to find the perfect gift for the kimono addict in their life. For many people the prospect of buying a Japanese kimono for someone else is a little overwhelming and they do not know where to begin, or they are on a tighter budget and are looking for affordable stocking stuffers. Don't sweat buying gifts for the kimono addict in your life, we are here to help! Since 2009 we have been educating about Japanese kimono, and have help

We are committed to being a green business. One of the things we have done is ditch plastic bags, and offer our customers a nice reusable shopping bag while shopping with us at shows. Recently we polled out customers to select the color and theme of our newest batch of shopping bags. The winning theme was koi! Our friend over at Neko Creations is creating the exclusive koi art that will appear on our shopping bags! Here is a sneak peek of the work in progress! This week we

Did you miss out on our epic #BlackFriday sale? Here is your chance to enjoy another round of discounts this Monday as we celebrate cyber Monday! Site wide everything is 10% off using code CyberMonday10 . This is a great chance to grab any last second gift ideas, or a treat for yourself from our massive selection of 1,000+ Japanese kimono, obi, haori and more. Thank you so much for supporting our small family business this Black Friday and Small Business saturday. We ship v

A long time customer of ours really upped her kitsuke game with a single simply addition to her wardrobe: a kitsune mask. We were fortune enough to see this coordination first hand at Matsuricon 2017 this year, and had to wait a few months for her to coordinate a photoshoot. It is amazing how the addition of just a single mask can cause such an interesting change. The Japanese kimono and other elements of this outfit were purchased from our online kimono store. These photos w

You don't need to wait in line for hours at some big department store to get some great gifts, or even a little something for yourself this Black Friday! Ohio Kimono is having a Black Friday sale with 20% off your total purchase! This sale is 1 day only and begins at midnight, and ends at the following midnight. Need to buy a gift for a kimono addict in your life? Don't know what to get them? We always recommend as great gifts for all kimono addicts tabi socks, haori, and e

We did it! Our online Japanese kimono store just hit over 1,000 items for sale! We are so proud and excited to share our authentic Japanese kimono, obi, haori and kitsuke accessories with everyone! Selling online has been a pleasure and has been a really enjoyable experience as we enjoy serving our customers online. To celebrate this occasion we are offering a sale! You can enjoy 10% off of everything in our store for 1 week only, starting today! Now is a great time to grab