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| Industry | Retailing |
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| Founded | 1611 (1611) (Ito Gofuku) 1910 (Matsuzakaya Co., Ltd.) |
| Headquarters | , |
| Parent | Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores |
| Website | matsuzakaya |
Matsuzakaya (松坂屋) (TYO: 8235, delisted) is a majorJapanesedepartment store chain operated byDaimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores, a subsidiary ofJ. Front Retailing. When the chain was an independent company,Matsuzakaya Co., Ltd. (株式会社松坂屋,Kabushiki-gaisha Matsuzakaya), it had its headquarters inNaka-ku,Nagoya.[1]
Established in 1611 in Nagoya bySukemichi "Ranmaru" Itō [ja], it is one of the oldest department stores in the world. It was initially a modest wholesale manufactory of silkkimono andJapanese 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 inUeno at Shitaya Hirokoji was depicted in anukiyo-e print fromOne Hundred Famous Views of Edo byHiroshige II in 1856.
With the industrialisation during theMeiji era, Matsuzakaya store was changed in 1910 to a western-styledepartment 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).[2] 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 theJapanese Military Government of Hong Kong renamed and transferredLane Crawford to Matsuzakaya. The branch inParis had to close when the Japanese economy started cooling in the late 1980s. The store inYokohama had to close in 2008.[3]
There are branches inGinza andUeno in Tokyo,Shizuoka City,Toyota, Aichi, andTakatsuki, Osaka.[4][5][6][7][8] The store at Ginza was closed in 2013 for a large makeover.[9] It was reopened in 2017 asGinza Six.
The south wing of the main store in Nagoya has in its lobby a largepipe 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 theEgyptian Museum in Cairo, works byRubens from the collection of theAcademy of Fine Arts Vienna, theLady with an Ermine byLeonardo da Vinci from theCzartoryski Museum in Kraków, and exhibit about empressMaria Theresa andSchönbrunn Palace.[10]
TheGuimet Museum in Paris has a special exhibition on the kimono collection of Matsuzakaya from February–May 2017.[11][12][13]
Along withMaruei,Meitetsu, and formerlyOriental Nakamura (now Mitsukoshi), Matsuzakaya is one of the four major department stores of Nagoya.
The main store in Nagoya is served byYabachō Station and has a direct underground passage and entry to the subway.
Media related toMatsuzakaya at Wikimedia Commons
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