• Highest quality Japanese embroidery available, done in house, by our own staff.

• Fast, accurate service: we normally ship within 7–10 days of receipt of your order.

• Standard colors include very red, old gold, jet black, platinum white, and midnight blue.

• Custom design service: please call toll free,
1 800 717-6288.

• Produced using the finest material from manufacturers in Japan, Germany, and the United States.

• Guaranteed, FREE Japanese translations.

We translate non-Japanese names into Japanese using the most common English pronunciation and the katakana, phonetic alphabet. If your name is pronounced otherwise, please call us so we can hear the pronunciation over the phone and translate it precisely.

Translation is free for customers ordering embroidery.

The Japanese perceive English a little differently from native speakers so the name Smith, for example, is correctly rendered in Japanese as Smithu. Different translators may even use different combinations of katakana characters to produce the same sound, and both can be correct. However, for a precise rendition of an English name in Japanese, the translator needs to be completely fluent in both languages and, needless to say, ours are.

Quality: Our custom embroidery is created "in house" using the very best Japanese industrial embroidery machines and special software. We only embroider karate uniforms and belts, and have spent many years perfecting the process.

Calligraphy: We developed the concept of digitizing Japanese characters, stroke by stroke as they are written by Oriental calligraphers, and used it to produce "Gyosho," a computer generated typeface that retains all the warmth and beauty of the written original. (Please see below). Designs embroidered in "Gyosho" using titanium needles and the best quality tri-lobal Dacron embroidery threads from Japan and Germany are beautiful, durable, and unique to our company.