Summer Pack - Released in July 2017

Summer in Japan is super hot and humid, but there are lots of fun things like summer festivals (matsuri), dynamic fireworks, beautiful sunflower fields, cool foods, and more!
Even if you are in winter right now, or summer in your country is not that hot, we are excited to share Japanese summer with you!
Items in this pack is hot & cool :)

Watermelon washi tape
Watermelon is an essential icon for Japanese summer!
It is especially good to eat it sitting on engawa.
Engawa is veranda-like porch in traditional Japanese houses.
When cool wind goes through the backyard and wind bell rings, it’s time to enjoy watermelon.

Fireworks washi tape
Fireworks festivals are held at many places in Japan during summer.
People often shout “Tamaya~” and “Kagiya~~” to express their excitement during the fireworks performance, even though it is not really common to do so nowadays.
At fireworks festival, there are lots of food trucks and people enjoy the atmosphere in yukata.  

Sun flower decoration paper
Beautiful sunflowers cheer us up and make us more energetic even in hot summer!
Famous sunflower fields in Japan are Sayo (Hyogo), Akeno (Yamagata) and Hokuryu ( Hokkaido), but you can enjoy sunflowers in other places all over Japan, too!
This sunflower decoration paper will make your planner or photo album or anything more colorful and cheerful!

Obondama pochi bag
Obondama is pocket money from parents and relatives to children.
Obon is around the middle of August, and family members gather to hold a memorial services to their ancestors.
Dama means money. Pochi means small or a little, and it shows the humble attitude to the amount of money inside.
This month, we selected beautiful patterns of summer for you!
These pochi bags can be also used as envelopes if you don’t have the habit like obondama.
Or maybe you could start new tradition from this summer?!

Ippitsusen
Ippitsusen is a Japanese letter pad for writing short message.
It is often used to attach to a gift expressing greeting, appreciation, apology, celebration, sympathy, request and others.
It can be used for both casual scenes and business ones.
The most important thing is to make the content simple yet wholehearted at the same time.
It is also nice to select beautiful paper to make the visual aids more attractive!

Juice pastel color
A really smooth gel pen!
You’ll get either white, pastel blue, pastel pink, pastel yellow, pastel green or pastel violet.
All of these colors are summery so that you can decorate your notebook really cool and cute!

Acroball white line
Super useful pen for your studying and writing!
3 colors (black, red and blue) plus correction tape comes in 1 pen!
How handy is that!!

Film sticky notes
Thin film stickies!
You can also highlight your textbook because these are transparent.
Plus you can write letters on it with pencil!
Great use for bookmarking of textbooks, marking and organizing.

Kokuyo sharp pencil
Smooth mechanical pencil that you’ll feel like using a real pencil.
Since the lead is thicker than a normal mechanical pencil, it doesn’t get broken easily and you can concentrate on drawing or writing without stress!

Color calligraphy
Color blush calligraphy marker which is good for drawing and decorating!
Double-sided tips are really useful to make your notebook look more neat!000000

Rilakkuma eraser
A white eraser gets black soon and it doesn’t look great.
Here’s what solves that problem!
Plus, you don’t need to put extra muscle when you use it because this eraser is light touch!
And cute Rilakkuma will refresh your fatigue when you’re studying hard.

Plastic mat for A6 notebook
In Japan, it is common to place plastic board under paper in order to make flat and smooth surface for writing and to prevent marking the sheet below.
In Japan, various size and designs of pencil boards are sold, and it is actually fun to collect with notebooks and mini memos!
Also good writing environment is important to maintain good handwriting!

This month, we packed a secret ochugen gift for you!
Ochugen is Japanese traditional midsummer gift to show your appreciation for someone you owe obligations.
Have a great summer time;)

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