Matsuzakaya
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thumb|Matsuzakaya South Building in downtown Nagoya thumb|upright|Matsuzakaya store, Ueno at Shitaya Hirokoji (ukiyo-e from [[One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Hiroshige II, 1856)]] (TYO: 8235, delisted) is a major Japanese department store chain operated by Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores, a subsidiary of J. Front Retailing. When the chain was an independent company, , it had its headquarters in Naka-ku, Nagoya.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Matsuzakaya 松坂屋
- Company.logo
- Matsuzakaya Logo full.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 220px
- Company.foundation
- (Ito Gofuku)1910 (Matsuzakaya Co., Ltd.)
- Company.location_city
- Naka-ku, Nagoya
- Company.location_country
- Japan
- Company.industry
- Retailing
- Company.parent
- Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores
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thumb|Matsuzakaya South Building in downtown Nagoya thumb|upright|Matsuzakaya store, Ueno at Shitaya Hirokoji (ukiyo-e from [[One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Hiroshige II, 1856)]] (TYO: 8235, delisted) is a major Japanese department store chain operated by Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores, a subsidiary of J. Front Retailing. When the chain was an independent company, , it had its headquarters in Naka-ku, Nagoya.
== History == Established in 1611 in Nagoya by , it is one of the oldest department stores in the world. It was initially a modest wholesale manufactory of silk kimono and Japanese lacquerware. In 1736 the company expanded its business to the retail sale of cotton and linen kimono. A second store was opened in Kyoto in 1745. The old capital was at that time the only region producing high-quality kimono.
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