Japanese department store chain
Matsuzakaya South Building in downtown Nagoya
Matsuzakaya store, Ueno at Shitaya Hirokoji (
ukiyo-e
from
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
by
Hiroshige II
, 1856)
Matsuzakaya
(
松坂屋
)
(
TYO
: 8235, delisted) is a major
Japanese
department store chain
operated by
Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores
, a subsidiary of
J. Front Retailing
. When the chain was an independent company,
Matsuzakaya Co., Ltd.
(
株式?社松坂屋
,
Kabushiki-gaisha Matsuzakaya
)
, it had its headquarters in
Naka-ku
,
Nagoya
.
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History
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Established in 1611 in Nagoya by
Sukemichi "Ranmaru" It?
[
ja
]
, it is one of the oldest department stores in the world. It was initially a modest wholesale manufactory of silk
kimono
and
Japanese lacquerware
. In 1736 the company expanded its business to the retail sale of cotton and linen kimono. A second store was opened in Kyoto in 1745. The old capital was at that time the only region producing high-quality kimono.
[
citation needed
]
The store in
Ueno
at Shitaya Hirokoji was depicted in an
ukiyo-e
print from
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
by
Hiroshige II
in 1856.
With the industrialisation during the
Meiji era
, Matsuzakaya store was changed in 1910 to a western-style
department store
. In 1924, its Ginza branch became the first department store in Japan where customers could keep their shoes on everywhere inside the store (before that, people had to leave their shoes at the cloakroom).
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In 1931 a centre for textile art was opened in the Kyoto branch. Between 1931-1939, a remarkable collection of kimono came together with the work of dye craftsmen, antique dealers, and private collectors.
Formerly there was a branch at Patterson Street,
Causeway Bay
,
Hong Kong
; this was the second Hong Kong branch, the first being when the
Japanese Military Government of Hong Kong
renamed and transferred
Lane Crawford
to Matsuzakaya. The branch in
Paris
had to close when the Japanese economy started cooling in the late 1980s. The store in
Yokohama
had to close in 2008.
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There are branches in
Ginza
and
Ueno
in Tokyo,
Shizuoka City
,
Toyota, Aichi
, and
Takatsuki, Osaka
.
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The store at Ginza was closed in 2013 for a large makeover.
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It was reopened in 2017 as
Ginza Six
.
The south wing of the main store in Nagoya has in its lobby a large
pipe organ
. It was made in Canada and has 3231 pipes, of which the longest is 11 meters.
[10]
On the top floor of the south wing is the Matsuzakaya Art Museum. The latest exhibitions featured ancient Egyptian treasures from the
Egyptian Museum
in Cairo, works by
Rubens
from the collection of the
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
, the
Lady with an Ermine
by
Leonardo da Vinci
from the
Czartoryski Museum
in Krakow, and exhibit about empress
Maria Theresa
and
Schonbrunn Palace
.
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The
Guimet Museum
in Paris has a special exhibition on the kimono collection of Matsuzakaya from February?May 2017.
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Along with
Maruei
,
Meitetsu
, and formerly
Oriental Nakamura
(now Mitsukoshi), Matsuzakaya is one of the four major department stores of Nagoya.
Public transport
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The main store in Nagoya is served by
Yabach? Station
and has a direct underground passage and entry to the subway.
References
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External links
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Media related to
Matsuzakaya
at Wikimedia Commons
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