Decole - Embroidered clasp coin purse - Mount Fuji

Decole - Embroidered clasp coin purse - Mount Fuji

Grey-green fabric coin purse with a metal kiss-lock frame and Mount Fuji embroidered on the front in two blues with a snow-capped summit, the red sun rising behind it. Below, the word FUJISAN in pale lettering. The fabric has a textured, ridged weave, and the frame shuts with that unmistakable dry click.

• Dimensions: approx. 88 × 10 × 110 mm in height
• Material: fabric
• Closure: metal kiss-lock frame with ball knobs
• Motif: embroidered Mount Fuji and rising sun, with the name in romaji
• Use: coin purse, or a case for small bits and pieces

Features

• Opens right up: the frame swings fully open and shows the whole interior, so coins never end up in a corner your fingers can't reach.
• Firm closure: the spring in the frame keeps the purse shut inside your bag, with no zip to jam and no popper to work loose.
• Not just coins: equally good for keys, earphones, a lipstick or a few tablets.
• Embroidered, not printed: the design is stitched into the fabric, so it has relief and won't crack from rubbing about in a bag.
• The mountain and the sun: Fuji with the rising sun behind it is one of the most repeated images in the Japanese imagination. Dreaming of it on the first night of the year is held to be the best omen there is.
• A classic format: in Japanese this kind of purse is called a gama guchi, "toad's mouth", after what the open frame looks like. It reached Japan from Europe in the late nineteenth century and stayed, becoming a thoroughly Japanese object.

About the brand

Decole is a Japanese zakka company — the small everyday objects people buy more for pleasure than out of need. Its collections play with traditional Japanese motifs and with animals, aiming to give an ordinary item — a stand, a purse, a keyring — something that makes you smile when you use it.