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What is jikatabi ?
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| Jikatabi are work shoes for laborers. The rubber soles allow the worker to have closer contact with the ground while still providing insulation. Jikatabi are worn by farmers, forestry workers, carpenters, and even the people who carry the portable shrine on their shoulders during Japanese festivals. Jikatabi were invented by Tokujiro Ishibashi in 1923. Ishibashi's company, called "Nihon Tabi" with its subsidiary "Asahi Jikatabi," first began selling jikatabi in Kurume, Fukuoka prefecture. Jikatabi gained their first wave of popularity with coal workers, and then began to spread across Japan. They are even now seeing wide use, over 85 years later. Incidentally, Tokujiro Ishibashi's brother, Shojiro Ishibashi, is the founder of the Bridgestone tire company. |  |
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