In our Master Quality Hand-Stitched Bogu, silk floss and real mosen(antique scarlet carpet) are used as its padding. It makes bogu strong enough to endure the hard attacks of shinai, and supple and flexible at the same time. It is a beautiful work of craft inherited and developed in Japan.
Also we stick to the quality of deerskin. We use fumigated brown deerskin, or fumigated indigo-dyed buckskin from chibi-kogara (small-built adult deer).
Deerskin called "Kogara" from a small-sized adult deer is an ideal material having beautiful and very fine texture. We use even smaller and finer "Chibi Kogara" which is hard to handle, and is ceased to be imported now but still in our stock. Our deerskins are not chemically dyed.
The brown deerskin is fumigated white deerskin. The smoke and oil of burned straws permeate the skin, and make it durable against the sweat and sebum, adding an elegant tint on it.
"Ibushi-kon-gawa" is the indigo-dyed fumigated deerskin. The natural plant indigo is alkaline, to which the deerskin is vulnerable, so the acidification of fumigation works well to keep its strength. This method has been less and less practiced, but we still keep it for our Master Quality Hand-Stitched Bogu. All the Himos & Tenugui included. Product of JAPAN.
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