Harimaya Hansuke

A very cute cotton curtain was hanged at the entrance of machiya-​style shop. Colored pink and a design of a boy of old days who looks like Ikkyu-​san or small Buddhist priest who settled down some problems by using his witty wisdom during the Heian period who was chosen as a comic, but his name is Hansuke. I guessed this shop was general store providing small articles. But it was a boutique, where clothes, shoes or bags are sold.
When I entered it, some products were on bargain. They are not only casual wears like T-​shirts or blouses, but also dresses reformed from kimono. Wears using kimono textures cost a little expensive (because making textures is so laborious), but have refined atmosphere as we have never had in other wears. Like collaboration of Japanese and Western cultures.
In the back of the shop a small Japanese garden called Tsuboniwa was seen. It was also tasteful. An elderly woman and her daughter (?) seemed to manage this shop. Her daughter was a little shy but the elderly woman was friendly and talked me a lot. I think it good to renovate machiya house into some shop or restaurant. We can savor Japanese culture there.