Father's Day! Gift ideas from Etsy Japan Team

Father's Day takes place later this month. Why not choose something from this great selection on ETSY.

Curated by Aya1gou

Kawaii goods from Etsy Japan Team

There are plenty of Kawaii goods in the shops of Etsy Japan team.
These are very few from them, though.
Click on the photos to go to the shop!                                                    

                                                         

Stripey Stripes - paintings, prints and other things

Just looking around at stripes.

@ ykaihori

@ Japonpon

@ Lady Konnyaku

@ Kushun 55

@ From my atelier

@ togei

@ AKjapan

Rings From hirogems Art Jewelry


Hi, I am hiro from Hokkaido ,  northern part of Japan. 
It has been so freezing here and we are having a lot of snow now.

I wanted to place rings from  hirogems Art Jewelry

I hope you all are having good days of new year!



Etsy Avatar

Happy New Year, everyone!

I grew up playing Hanafuda (in Hawaii, we call the game "Sakura Cards") and thought that it would be neat to incorporate this theme into our first Etsy Avatar. I spent some time practicing my photoshop skills and came up with this. What do you think?

Xoxo,

Malia aka Lady Konnyaku

Japan team thoughts.

I have posted a short discussion opener on the new Japan team site on Etsy. If anyone has the time to give their opinion please see http://www.etsy.com/teams/5024/etsy-japan/discuss/6673319/
Etsy Japan team members or not, please take a look. You have to be logged in to Etsy it seems. The link will take you to a login page.
Dave

New Japanese members

I spend the months of September-December and March- July selling ceramics at different arts and crafts shows all over Japan. I mostly attend juried shows, occasionally non-juried shows. I just came back from the Hamanako Arts and Crafts show in Hamanako. The level of quality of the people showing is consistently high and the variety of items is impressive. Everytime I go I have thought about how it would be possible to get these people connected with Etsy. Here is an idea. What if I was able to introduce interested parties at the shows to Etsy through a simple, one page handout on what Etsy is. The idea part is this. Most of the barrier centers around English. The exhibitors are nervous about what it takes to get involved and how to go about it. There is a lot of talent and experience on this blog and among the readers of this blog. It would be great if on the handout there was a system for the interested person to contact me and then I could refer them to a "mentor" that could then help them through the first steps of setting up an Etsy shop, Paypal shop, etc. I am not envisioning a free, open ended translation service but a helping first, second and possibly third hand. Any thoughts on this?
Dave

Social Networking

Hi all,

I've been busy over the last 6 months or so setting up a blog, a Facebook fan page, a Flickr account as well as tweeting on Twitter.
I would love to follow Japan Team members' updates more regularly so I thought it would be great if we could network within our team. Drop your details as a comment below and I will try and find you!

Blog: http://www.bikudesigns.blogspot.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bikudesigns
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bikudesigns
http://www.facebook.com/bikudesigns
Flickr: bikudesigns

Hope to hear from you all soon,
Victoria

http;//www.bikudesigns.etsy.com