THRIFTING in JAPAN🇯🇵Yamato Curio (Antique) Market✨Ceramics, Folk Craft, Kokeshi etc. + Haul

THRIFTING in JAPAN🇯🇵Yamato Curio (Antique) Market✨Ceramics, Folk Craft, Kokeshi etc. + Haul

Hello everyone today we are in Yamato in  Kanagawa prefecture and we’re going to the   Yamato Curio (Antique) Market which is the Yamato Komingu Kottoichi in Japanese. “Kotto” means “antique”, “ichi”   means “market”, so we are going to check out some  of the stalls here today. Straight away I have  

Spotted some cranes, you will learn that I have  an obsession for cranes, I’m not sure why I did   not pick these up, but they are so pretty little  containers there. So that’s 1,200 yen which is   about $8 for one. I actually really like this  market because it’s really relaxed, I don’t  

Know if it’s because it’s not actually in Tokyo,  it’s about 45 minutes away from Shinjuku, central Tokyo Lovely sometsuke plates, sometsuke is using the cobalt  blue glaze and they have loads and loads of  good quality obi belts and kimonos and things  like this that, and they don’t smell like some  

Of the flea market stuff does so you are paying  up but you get much better quality This is one of my favorite booths here, all the prices  are actually half price from what’s being labeled   and they also have labels saying what era  or period of history they are from so for  

Example this one here it says Meiji, the Meiji period, these ones are all transfer ware and   one says Showa Shoki so the start of the  Showa period, yeah so they’re all labeled   and some of them can go quite far back this is  Taisho. Isn’t it a beautiful picture in there? I  

Like these bamboo ones too. You can see where  some of the transfer ware hasn’t transferred   properly so that’s probably why these ones  are reduced price, but if you’re picking them   up for yourself, you know, why not get something  reduced price for fun. There’s so much variety  

I love it here. You have to come earlier, I was  already quite late on this day so there was   less stuff out but I purchased some of these.  These are from the Edo period, this is the end  

Of the Edo period, so you’re looking at kind of  1850s through to the 1920s 1930s in this stall Of course I find the little guy, I always find the  tiniest kokeshi. Oh it’s a bit blurred sorry, but it’s so   cute. I’m not sure what the prices were on this  table, this guy had things different priced

I think these were probably about 1,000 yen  so $6.80, they were a little bit higher up in price   although I find her head a little bit damaged, but the yellow’s quite nice on this one so  

Yeah the coloring is pretty good on that one so  that’s good for a 1,000 yen. I like this one too   but the purple’s faded a bit and I’m looking at  the yellow again and the neck is not secure so  

This one has a nice bright yellow kimono but a  bit faded in the middle, and I really like this   the, kimono part, but her head is a bit messed up  I don’t mean to sound so critical and this ladle  

I’m not sure where it’s from it’s pretty cool,  there’s a lot of stuff that’s not necessarily   Japanese so it’s fun looking at things, there’s  a Tiki figurine and that was an Ainu, Hokkaido face, wooden carved face. This is a Chag Chagu from  Iwate prefecture not to be confused with the Yawata  

Horse. They’re more ornate, you know, they’ve got  lots more going on, they have all that fringing   on them because that’s what they actually look  like at the festival that they have each year   This is a fairly huge one but unfortunately  you can see it’s got a chippy on its ear

There, and here is the Yawata horse can  you see the difference. I can tell by the nostrils. I actually picked this up which is  kind of interesting I picked both of those up   I’ll talk about them later on, so now I’ve moved  on to have a look at this very beautiful under  

Kimono, I would say you’d wear this underneath  a kimono but it had some staining on it   which is a shame because it’s a beautiful color  they had loads of these handwoven beautiful   baskets and just, just so much here to be honest  I think I only videoed about, oh gosh a quarter of  

The market, it’s huge it really is huge so get  there early and spend a lot of leisurely time Look how he’s taking his shoes off,  that’s what we do in Japan even if it’s in a   market and you’re stepping on someone’s mat, but  here is my little haul today there isn’t much  

But I will go through these things, I did also go  to the accessory lady that I always go to at this   market, and once a month at Oi Keibajyo, Oi racetrack, so  I’ll go through that briefly as well but this is  

The first thing I’m showing you it says Yuzawa at  the back, it’s very light and I think it’s not   too old. This is Yuzawa Onsen so that’ll be the  hot spring area. I don’t know much about it  

I cannot find anything about it but I thought it’d  be kind of cool as a gallery piece for your   wall, so I’ve picked that one up, now this is  a really interesting thing, I believe it’s an   Indonesian calendar, it’s just unusual  so I’ve picked it up. There’s just the one can  

You see where there’s like a Roman numeral two for  number four? They’ve replaced that one the rest is   1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9, is there 10? I don’t know, maybe  there’s another one missing but anyway this  

Is a calendar so that was interesting. I’ve seen  it sell really well on Etsy but anyway that   will go in the Japan market I’ll be selling it in  Japan but just thought it was unusual. This is one  

Of my favorite pics of today which is a Edo period  plate namasu-zara, namasu plate, so it’s got a bit   of depth on it and can you see that it’s quite  thick in the middle there too? It’s quite dense  

There it’s got crazing but it will do because it’s quite  old, and it also has the picture in the center   it has shochikubai which is the pine and then the  bamboo and then the plum blossom. I love this, it’s  

Probably about 1850s I think it was made, and  I use it regularly already now so, and this one   also comes from the same period. They’re both Arita-ware (Imari). I presume this one, it’s Arita but it might be  

More specific of what it is. I love the painting on  it, I’m going to try and figure out what it is   hold on, yeah I’m wondering if it’s a Kakiemon style,  because the colors of the pictures and the  

Style of it, I’m not sure I need to research it  more but it’s beautiful, I love the story going   on in there. I haven’t used this one yet, and this  is a transfer ware, it’s plum blossoms, you can see  

That there’s a fault there where it didn’t pick up  the transfer properly on the corner there, but   I love it. In fact I wish they had more than one  but I’ve just got the one, it’s lovely, I have  

Used this several times already too, it’s very useful.  I think if I have bought these things I must use   them instead of just looking at them. I have  these beads so I wanted to show you what I  

Do with them. I picked up these beads actually in  Asakusa, they’re not antique or anything, there’s a   place which makes these, you can actually  do lessons and classes on how to make these   too. Maybe I will do a video on that, on Asaka. I  didn’t do Asaka yet because it’s a bit touristy  

But anyhow, see this is what I use it for, with  incense, so I thought about doing that with that   plate… but I’m worried it might burn the plate,   but anyway, I want to show you that, but it’s good  

For putting my earrings on it for sure. So you saw  these I was saying they’re kimono cords, well they’re cords made of kimono, the lady on the stall  makes them, so I thought I could do some kind of  

DIY, and basically when I go look for jewelry I  don’t like to really get my loupe out because it’s   so busy so I have a pair of glosses because  my eyes are so bad now from staring at the  

Phone, so yeah, so that’s what I’ve done to put  it around my neck when I’m thrifting, so I might   do the same with that, this is an obiage, beautiful,  it’s made of silk. Isn’t the color gorgeous? So an  

Obiage is kind of like a long silk scarf which I  guess you could call it like a bustle. You use it   to secure the obi pillow in place and it kind of  is revealed on top on the, it peeks through the top  

Of the obi, so that’s why it’s kind of stretchy as  well, because it has to tie. I love the traditional   pattern of the ocean waves and this only cost  me 500 yen so that’s $3.40, around that so it’s  

A pretty good bargain. So this is the jewelry I  picked up this time, it’s 500 yen for three items   at this stall so $3.40 for three items which is  really good, but you have to really dig through  

This is amber this is faux ivory and this is  Made in Germany so I can sell this for about   $20 over here so that’s pretty good, you really  have to rummage through to find these things

So made in Germany and then this one says Bijoux on  the back that also I can sell for about $20 here   and this is just a really simple one, I’m not sure  it’s that old actually but I think those will be  

Something that will sell quickly because they’re dainty,  these ones are a little bit chunkier so I’m not so   sure. I love these. These are probably 1950s, made in  Japan, have to flip that around Michelle so we can  

See it properly, there we go, so they’re very good,  they’ll sell well here. I actually got this for   myself, it was a really, really old scarf clip. You  know, people don’t wear these anymore so I thought  

That was kind of cool it says Japan USA Korea  patent pending. I mean look at the rubber there   it’s so old I believe it’s probably 1950s I’m  thinking, so I’m going to wear it with a scarf  

Like this, because why not. This I did buy to sell  but then it was a little bit heavy so I’m not   sure, I’m going to use it myself I think on a  blouse that I also thrifted elsewhere. I like  

The old buttons on these ones, so I’m going to  use it on this and clip it like that. Actually   it’s a really good thrift shop quite near me for clothes and bags but it’s so hit  

And miss, but everything is 300 yen, everything and  I got this Hamano bag to sell and these are like   well, these are made by the people that make the  handbags for our royal family… 300 yen is $2! This  

Is real lambs leather, it’s super soft and it’s  on my Mercari in Japan for just over $100. So this   was my little shop haul for now but I actually  went back to the market, this market, last week or  

The week before, and I picked up some more  jewelry but when I did they had some kokeshi  dolls too so I just wanted to show you that, I’m  not going to show you the market bit but I’m  

Going to show you what I did pick up. These, I got  all of this for 1,000 yen all grouped together   from the same lady that I get the jewelry from.  I also did pick up some more jewelry as well and  

Another obiage from the same guy I got the peach-colored one. I wanted a lilac one so I’m glad I   found one. So quickly, just quickly going through  what I have here, first of all this is a brooch  

Which is actually just silver tone, it’s not actual  silver, and the turquoise, that’s actually a ceramic   and it must have been a ceramic day or something  because I found these clipon earrings too, they’re   ceramic, and they’re marked in Japanese there so  that’s a cool find. These are quite brutalist, I  

Thought they’ll sell well so picked those ones up  and this has already sold, it has an adjuster it’s   an Emporio Armani, kind of like a dog tag look to  it, and now for all the folk craft pieces so this  

Little ox is made of wood. It’s been carved and  it’s left some of the bark on it, can you see there?   It’s pretty cool. This is from Zenkoji it says there,  Zenkoji Temple which is in Nagano Prefecture, and it  

Says mamori ushi which is like a protective ox or  the ox that protects you, so I guess it’s an amulet   and you know I have tried to look for it and they  don’t sell them anymore at the temple, they have  

More modern versions, so yeah this is a rare little  piece so I’m happy to have picked him up, and then   I have this one which is again something I wasn’t  familiar with so I wanted to learn about it, she is

Called “Kiso no Yomeiri Kome” which means “wooden horse with bride”  but it’s actually not a horse, it’s a foal, yeah   like a baby horse right, there’s a little bit of  damage there, but I just wanted to find out  

More about it so if you turn it around someone’s  written on it so this is definitely a votive, and   I’m not sure if the signature at the bottom is  something that the person who bought this wrote  

Or if it’s the artisan’s mark. This you can see  the paper on there, that’s washi paper, it’s very   very interesting, it’s new for me so, and this is  from Kiso, Kiso Magome which is also from Nagano   Prefecture, so both those pieces are from the  same area, the same prefecture. So let’s have a  

Look at the kokeshi now. These two also have their  bark remaining on them, her head does fall off  see yeah the bark remains. This one, the little  one, the head stays on fine but yeah I’m not  

Sure what kind of wood it is, it’s definitely not  cherry tree, I’m not exactly sure uh there’s some   writing on it that will tell us where it’s from  and it says here on the right it says Kamikochi so  

Kamikochi is an area also in Nagano Prefecture like  the other two items we looked at and it’s sort   of mountainous and highlands and it also has a  natural park, very beautiful place to go hiking  

In the summer. So those are cute and these, I mean  they’re all in such good condition, you know, for   market finds, there is a little bit of the paint  off there but it’s not bad at all. I think she’s  

Got such a sweet face right, and then there’s the  other one here, also in good condition very nice a   bobble head. No, that I think that’s fine, nothing  to worry about, they’re great. I hope they go to  

A nice home soon but they are on my shelf for now  until I think about how I am going to sell them. I   don’t think I want to sell them to the Japanese  market. These two are very cute too aren’t they  

With their little cone heads, it’s a pink one and a  blue one, and these two have a snow scene, this one   here has a little crab in snow and there’s just  snow and a rock I guess here, really nice, very  

Simple, I like these two a lot, and then we have  these two with the florals this tsubak,i what is   it in English, camellia, camellia, so I think this is  a winter scene and I guess this is sakura, cherry  

Blossom, so spring, the thinner one. I love the  eyebrows quite a character, they’re very cute   aren’t they and finally this is the other obiage that I bought, it is a lilac color and I love it  

It’s so pretty, and you can see the tortoise shell  pattern both on the edge there and here in the   center, that again is for good luck, everything in  Japan, all the patterns have some sort of meaning  

In general. Thank you for coming along with me to  Thrift at the Yamato Curio Market. I hope you come   along again to another thrifting trip with me.  Thank you again and see you in the next video Bye!

Today we’re at Yamato Curio (Antique) Market*, held right next to Yamato station in Kanagawa Prefecture. It’s held on the *third* Saturday of each month from 7am-3pm*.
Yamato is only about 45mins on the Odakyu Enoshima Line from Shinjuku so easy to get to from central Tokyo.

Thank you so much for watching and hope you enjoy the content🥰

*Apologies I say “Kominka” at the start of the video, but it’s “Komingu – only noticed the slip of the tongue when editing subtitles😂
*Officially open 6am-4pm but most stalls are set up at 7am and they start to pack up around 3pm

*📍Yamato Curio (Antique) Market (Kanagawa Yamato Komingu Kottoichi)*
神奈川やまと古民具骨董市
Nearest station: Yamato (Odakyu Enoshima Line and Soetsu Main Line)

*Exchange Rate Guide (estimate as at 2024)*
¥50 → 35¢
¥100 → 70¢
¥200 → $1.35
¥300 → $2
¥400 → $2.70
¥500 → $3.40
¥1000 → $6.80

*About me:*
Hi! I’m Michelle. A half Japanese, half British Tokyoite🇯🇵🇬🇧
Aside from reselling, I am also a tour guide. Therefore an avid researcher on all things Japanese🎶
Hope you enjoy coming along, seeing what I find both for resale and for keeps.

*Shop platforms:*
✔️Domestic market (Japan): Mercari
✔️International market: Was on eBay but have now closed the account. Hope to be listing soon on the Tokyotique online shop.

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