FREE Japanese Embroidery Service
We offer a low cost, high quality, precision STYLE and NAME embroidery service for uniforms and belts purchased from us. Each job is individually hand crafted, the embroidery is oversewn so it will not come undone, and "layered" for a thick and luxurious appearance. 
We also translate the customer's names FREE. (Others make mistakes when their non-English speakers are asked to translate names into Japanese and they are unfamiliar with English sounds.)  Our translators are native Japanese speakers who have a great deal of experience with spoken and written English. We ship embroidered uniforms and belts within seven days in most cases.

By combining old fashioned craftsmanship with the latest Japanese precision engineered, multi-needle embroidery machines from Tajima Industries, Osaka, Japan, we can now offer "Gyosho" (calligraphy style) Japanese embroidery on our uniforms and belts. These individually digitized Japanese characters faithfully reproduce the brush strokes of the calligrapher to create a richness and elegance that is superb. Sewn at low speed to retain detail and give the finest finish, Gyosho style embroidery is a unique way of customizing your Meijin uniform and it's FREE! (up to a value of $15.00). Click here to see style examples.

Uniform Embroidery
•FREE name or style embroidery.
•FREE Japanese Translations - Guaranteed accurate.

Our FREE embroidery offer to purchasers of Meijin Karate Uniforms includes translating your NAME into Japanese phonetic characters (katakana) and embroidering it (up to six characters) on the jacket of your uniform. (A limited-time offer that saves you $15). Providing your STYLE is listed as a standard design, we can also embroider it onto your new Meijin uniform for an extra $15 - $35.00 (depending on size chosen) when we embroider your name. Click here to see style examples.

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To order by phone call our office Toll Free
1 800 717 6288
8 AM - 8 PM Mon - Sat PST.

Belt Embroidery
• FREE Japanese name translations—Guaranteed correct. Beautiful, washable, and durable embroidery in any color.

Our embroidered belts are the very best looking on the market. Eight lines of stitching and high-quality base. They are sewn right through (strengthening rather than weakening the belt) and leaving the design on the face of the belt free from ugly stitching. We can embroider to your precise specification in a color of your choice, on any color belt. Click here to see available styles.

We can embroider to your precise specification on the following: cotton belts in red, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, brown and black.
Sizes 1-8 only $4.95 each

How to order a Meijin Belt
. Choose your size using the chart provided.
. Decide the color and width (black belts) you need.
. Click here to order your belt using the secure server or call our office TOLL FREE 1 800 717 6288 8 AM - 8 PM Mon - Sat PST.

Custom translation, design and embroidery service
We can create almost any design you require and embroider in in a dazzling range of colors. Please call us to discuss your requirements. 818-889-3856. (Sorry! We don't embroider other manufacturer's products).

As embroidery is done in-house we can even combine characters to create new designs without the need for a setup charge. For example by combining Kokusai, Karate Do, and Renmei you create the International Karate Federation.

Price Guide for Embroidery
Name Embroidery including translation into katakana script and sewing onto a uniform or belt.
First name $15. First name and last name $25
Style Embroidery from our list of 26 standard designs
$15 - $22.50 depending on design chosen.

New Meijin Uniforms are embroidered FREE to purchasers with either the owner's name or his/her style. When you order a new Meijin uniform from us please mention that you need this service.

A Brief History of the Karate Uniform & Belt

When G. Funakoshi first went to mainland Japan to teach Okinawan karate, most Okinawan instructors were still wearing Chinese style rank sashes tied in a bow at the left hip. Photos exist of Choki Motobu also wearing baggy shorts for training with a black sash around his ample waist.

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In the tropical climate of Okinawa, karate students often trained without tops and in the summer even pants were discarded in favor of a simple loin-cloth.Far to the north in mainland Japan with its cold winters a different solution had to be found. Uniforms based on the design from Jigoro Kano's Kodokan Judo Institute were adopted, and with them a stitched cotton belt.
By the time the first Japanese black belts were created the modern style karate-gi (keiko-gi or do-gi) was universally used, as was the thickly stitched belt wound twice around the waist and tied with a simple knot over the navel.

Embroidery
Okinawan karate was first established successfully in the Japanese Universities of Keio, Waseda, and Tokyo in the mid 1920s. Training would take place in the gymnasium where uniforms would be hung to dry after class. The picture above of Gichin Funakoshi teaching a Tokyo university class against the background of a wall covered with uniforms shows clearly why each uniform was identified with its owners name.

Karate Uniforms
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