Matsuzakaya

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.