十三や本店

Jusanya began in 1875 and has made boxwood combs for over a century. Its domestic combs use Satsuma boxwood from Ibusuki in Kagoshima: a tree needs more than thirty years before it can become comb wood, and the chosen boards take years more of work. The shop's name is a word game — ku (9) plus shi (4) from tsuge-gushi makes thirteen. A 1.8-sun boxwood comb costs ¥4,180 including tax; the finest domestic boxwood comb (3.3 sun, fine teeth) costs ¥8,800.

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