YokoDana.com Blog: What's New at Yoko Trading

1. Just an FYI:  All of those who were on the wait list for hakama have had their orders filled and we still have some “H” Packages in stock. As we explain on the details page, these tend to go quickly, fyi.

2. Reminder to our Anime & Otaku fans we’ll be in Baltimore at Otakon again this year. Print this page out if you come and we’ll give you a web discount.  Hope to see some of you there — in full costume we presume :} .

We have to make room for all the fabrics we’ve recently acquired so are again having a clearance sale of our vintage kimono fabrics (pieces/panels).  We put all the ones we want to offer on sale  onto page 1 of the fabrics section (page 1 of 4).  We’re offering 50% off with a minimum order total of $15.00 merchandise. If you’re interested please see the sale page for full details.

Our upcoming in-person venues:

1. Otakon 2010 held at the  Baltimore Convention Center, July 30 to August 1, 2010. Details here and on Facebook the week before the convention.

We’ll have a great selection of our best vintage Japanese fabrics & kimono: longs  (silk and some yukata), haori, michiyuki, hakama and various hand-made accessories and sashes etc. As always, bring a print-out of this to get discount. We suggest you come early, especially to Otakon and NY Anime Fest (NY ComicCon combined) to get better selection given the anticipated size of crowds for both these events.

4. A PS for our Washington DC area Fans/Followers/Customers: We’ll be at Anime USA this November 12-14 @ Crystal City, Arlington VA (Near Reagan Intl Airport, DC):

We’ve completely updated the fabric section (by piece), and will continue to add more over the next few days. To see, please start HERE.

Reminder that we actively use our Facebook page, located here.

Next venue: Baltimore, Otakon. Details here (and Facebook)  soon.

Just a quick note that Dana has (at last) put up more fabric pieces today; more coming tomorrow. Most of them are deadstock silks but some interesting nagajuban (under-kimono) red silks, wool and meisen also;  to see them click HERE. Plenty of cottons are next.

1. VENUES:

2010 NATIONAL ASIAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL

The Asia Heritage Foundation

The Asia Heritage Foundation of Metropolitan Washington D.C. will have it’s Fifth Fiesta Asia Street Fair in Washington, DC on Saturday, May 22, 2010. We will have a booth (Booth C-14, near 3rd St & Pennsylvania Avenue NW — front side of Capitol Building) from 10:00AM to 7:00PM. We’ll have the  usual fare of our best vintage kimono, including haori & michiyuki, as well as our hand made scarves, accessories etc (from our vintage kimono fabrics). Also will have great supply of our vintage kimono fabric pieces (panels) — See venues page for pics & info.

2. Web Site Updates:

Dana still working on some small changes to the site home page and of course the vintage kimono fabrics mentioned earlier. To get a peek at some that will go up soon, please visit our Facebook page.

Quick note to thank all of you who came out to see us at the magnificent Brooklyn Botanic Garden(BBG) this past weekend. While it was indeed unseasonably hot, we were swamped and had a great festival and a fun time. Met alot of Yokodana’s old friends, fans and members, and met even more of you FTF whom we had not met in person — always a treat for us. A shout-out also to our growing Otaku ‘fans’, we love your energy and playfulness. Hope to see you at Otakon.

BBG is SO beautiful, and our location was perfect, ensconced as we were in the Magnolia Plaza. We were also impressed with the high quality of all the many cultural events that BBG has at their Sakura Matsuri, really a class act and we’re proud to be a part of the event.

We’re still resting and slowly catching up with things, and hope to resume fabric updates on the site soon. Our next venue is Saturday, May 22, 2010, in Washington DC, near the Capitol Building, at the Asian Heritage Foundation Festival. Details here a bit later.

FWIW TECH STUFF: Dana is playing with a new more visual look for the home page. Please take a look and if you have any critiques or suggestions (+ or – ), please send to Dana at:

In the past, it is input at times like this which has helped us maintain a user-friendly and well-placed Google presence for our web site over the years, and, we are always kind to those who help us out in any way.

Taiko Drumming

At the "JLounge"

We’ll be there both days.  To learn more about it at their dedicated page, click here.  If you come to see us, please remember to print out from here or our Facebook/ Twitter pages to get a discount should you do some shopping with us.

Quick hi to all our new fans we met at DC and Philly Sakura Matsuri festivals this past weekend! Both days the weather was gorgeous and crowds were record-breaking!  Got some pics of fans and customers at our booths so will put them here as soon as we get rested – caught up.

Thanks to ALL of you who came to see us and support us as well by purchasing our fabrics/kimonos etc. Even though it’s hard work for us old-timers ;}  to do these festivals, it’s such a kick to meet our enthusiastic — nay, passionate — customers and fans of vintage Japanese fabrics, kimono and culture. It’s a boost to our morale to be surrounded by so much positive energy!  Thanks again all who came out! Please click thumbnails below to see full pictures:

Added a few tonight, mostly cottons, but 2 unusual blends (cotton,asa/hemp, synth). Plenty more where those came from. Many silks also in line to be posted.

You can see newest additions near the bottom of  page six of fabrics section.