ZenYa Vintage

21/11/2023

Every haori is as unique as the woman wearing it🦋✨
Follow for details on our next handpicked haori restock!

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15/11/2023

Hi!! 👋 I’m Erica, and from now on I’ll be the solo operator of Zenya ✨Zenya was actually the brain child of my bff, and everything we created up until now had been a team effort, but trying to run a business together halfway across the world from each other just wasn’t practical 🥲 and just with life happening to both of us, our presence online came to a complete stop.

Actually, this is the last photoshoot we did—almost exactly two years ago— and I’m pregnant with my second child here! Being a mom of two, working, and also recently starting a fundraiser .friends for my friend , I had little time left to spend on our socials!

But, my dreams for Zenya never left my heart or mind and I’m ready to REVIVE them! I’m finally feeling ready to recreate and relaunch Zenya! I’m temporarily closing the website now to make some big changes and on our socials— you’ll be seeing a lot more of around Tokyo, around Japan, and a lot more of me 😇 So, as we say in Japan, yoroshiku onegaishimasu! (Thanks in advance!)

More to come soon!

Wearing a silk Japanese Shibori Haori jacket from the shop ✨

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💇‍♀️ my mom lol

28/11/2022

Last chance ✨Use code BLACK22 at the checkout for the next 24 hours✨

29/09/2022

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27/09/2022

Pop the champagne or crack a cold one friends!! JAPAN IS REOPENING TO TOURISTS OCTOBER 11TH!! 🍾🥹🎉👏

20/09/2022

Winds and rain were intense here in Tokyo last night but today it seems like we are in luck and won’t be struck too hard by the typhoon 🌧

Wishing everyone the best who was displaced in the rest of Japan😢💙

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15/09/2022

Hosting a dinner party and want to impress your friends with correct sake etiquette? Here are some tips one should keep in mind:

1. Always be sure to pour sake for others and allow someone else to pour and fill your sake cup!

2. When it’s your turn to receive sake be sure to hold the o-choko in the palm of your hand and with the other free hand steady the cup with your fingers. Grace and elegancy is everything.

3. Don’t forget to place two hands on the tokkuri (small sake bottle) when pouring sake into others o-choko (sake cup).

4. Before everyone raises their cups to kanpai make sure everyone has been served.

Sake To Me, Baby!

11/09/2022

Today I am downsizing my closets! Lately I’m in such a mood to clear out anything that isn’t serving me to make room for more of what’s meant for me 😊 Taking any old clothes to my nearest second hand shop and keeping only what’s really special for me.

My way of buying clothes has really changed- I can really understand and appreciate the value of buying quality over quantity. I would way rather have a small closet with a few things that I love and cherish than an overflowing closet of things I probably won’t wear often and that just causes me stress.

I just want to keep and wear things that are timeless and classic and could (over)last my lifetime! 💎

What do you think?

28/08/2021

Maya Caulfield gathered all types of plaid and sewed them together to create an eclectic handmade kimono. The result honors her Japanese and Scottish sides.

27/08/2021

Definitely worth a gander!

These rare shots of vintage Japan during 1908 are thanks to the acute artistic eye of Arnold Genthe. The German-born American scholar honed his

31/05/2021

Hi! I’m so long overdue at introducing myself here. I’m Erica, co-owner and co-operator here at ZenYa Vintage!

I thought I’d tell you some things about me!

1. I started ZenYa with my best friend in Tokyo, but we haven’t met each other in face in almost two years 😂 (You’ll meet her soon too!)

2. I’m from Western Canada and I came to Japan 8 years ago, but I started studying the language 13 years ago 🤓

3. My husbands hometown is Asakusa Tokyo ⛩ and we live here now with our 1.5 year old son!

4. We spend almost every weekend out of Tokyo, surfing or camping or both 🤙🌊

5. It’s my birthday today! AKA I’m a Gemini💕😉

Totally blown away by all the positive response and support so far 🥺👉👈 We live for the DMs, questions and comments from you guys! 💕 Message us with anything anytime 😘

宜しくお願いします💕
tigress

30/05/2021

目を閉じて/me wo tojite/close your eyes
深呼吸して/shinkokyuu sh*te/take a deep breath
忘れて/wasurete/and forget it 🌞🍃🌱