Japanese Traditional Arts & Crafts by MAYA

Welcome to our "MAYA" web site
We MAYA founded in 1990 is a family-run enterprise in the best tradition with high professionalism.
We are making the decorative battledore( HAGOITA ),Ornamental hairpin( KANZASHI ),& Oshie crafts.
You will find JapaneseTraditional uniquely designed.
We are making from the design of kabuki or ukiyoe.
There is also an original work.
Each Hagiota is carefully created and no two are exactly alike.
All Kanzashi are handcrafted with the utmost care and attention to detail and quality.
We hope that our customers could find as much pleasure in our traditional products as we have found in producing them.
We hope you enjoy our web site.

HAGOITA Hagoita are richly decorated game paddles, traditonally given as new year's gifts to girls.The Paddle is usually decorated with elaborate padded cloth faces of geishas or actors, using an art form called "oshie". The old year's paddles are supposed to be burned at the end of the year.

KANZASHI - Ornamental Hairpin KANZASHI is made carefully. The beautiful cloth of a plum and a chrysanthemum is using the silk. And it has finished dyeing skillfully. All of fine work are handmade and are beautiful kanzashi. Well-matched at your hair ornament.

MAYA Members, Staff Koukun Suzuki : Chief Yuriko Suzuki :Design Shiro Suzuki : (website) Kanzashi Staff : Kambara-san, Arai-san, Doi-san, Koshizuka-san Hagoita Staff : Yoda-san, Kurihara-san, Shimizu-san, Hase-san, Ogino-san, Oyama-san, Tsukada-san, Aoyagi-san, Hukushima-san, Tatebayasi-san, Otska-san, Hirano-san, Suzuki-san, Kudoh-san, Nakajima-san, Otani-san. MAYA Japanese Traditional Arts & Crafts Koubou-MAYA-Ningyou (Japanese Name) Location : 3-118-2, Beppu, KUMAGAYA City, Saitama Prefecture JAPAN 360-0856 Traffic access : JR Takasaki Line Kagohara station E-mail :