{"id":867,"date":"2012-06-11T08:31:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T08:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/okinawa.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2012-06-11T08:31:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T08:31:32","slug":"okinawan-jewelry-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/travel\/shopping\/okinawan-jewelry-brands","title":{"rendered":"Okinawan Jewelry Brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isetan Department Store is a major landmark in Shinjuku and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20111130005824\/en\/Asia-Pacific-Top-Department-Stores-Examined-Research-Study\">known as one of the prime department stores in Japan (if not Asia) in high fashion<\/a>. With that said, I look forward to the success of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tilla-earth.com\/\">TILLA-EARTH<\/a>, a jewelry brand from Ishigakijima. Shizuka Taira, the owner of the store, will sell his jewelry for a limited time from June 27th ~ July 17th on the first floor of Isetan. He will also set a booth at the well established Ginza Mitsukoshi (July 18th ~31st).<\/p>\n<p>There are many other Okinawan jewelry brands, many simple and charming. Here&#8217;s a list of some of them (the website may not have English translations):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandblue-online.jp\/index.html\">Grand Blue<\/a> (known for rings with natural star sand in them and minsa motifs)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaisou.com\/jewelry\/jewelry.html\">KAI <\/a>(jewelry section of the Okinawan brand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaisou.com\/index.html\">Kaiso<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruca.cc\/index.html\">Ruca<\/a> (jewelry using coral reefs)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cicafu.com\/contents.html\">cicafu <\/a>(accessory inspired by Native American jewelry)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grain-okinawa.com\/content.aspx?cat=1003\">Grain<\/a> (furniture design, but they sell rings made of Yakushima cedar)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandblue-online.jp\/index.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isetan Department Store is a major landmark in Shinjuku and known as one of the prime department stores in Japan (if not Asia) in high fashion. With that said, I look forward to the success of TILLA-EARTH, a jewelry brand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/travel\/shopping\/okinawan-jewelry-brands\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}