Hand Crafted Tradition

The quality of linen is typically measured by how fine and tightly woven its yarn is, Meuchi is a Japanese world used when talking about linen quality, taking into account the amount of yarn used for warps and woofs per square inch. The finer the yarn is spun and tighter the fabric wove, the higher the lien's meuchi, Avarage linen on the market is typically around 60- 70 meuchi, wheres NAKAGAWA MASASHICHI SHOTEN's linen uses only linen of 95 meuchi or higher, insisting on manual spinning and weaving since the foundation. This continues to set the firm's linen apart from its competitors.


NAKAGAWA MASASHICHI SHOTEN is a time-honored linen with a 300-year history. With an unchanged insistence on traditional techniques and manually spun yarn and woven linen, the firm creates new linen goods for contemporary life under the theme "New Japanese Style".