Accessory featuring the crests of warlords of the Warring States period Brass Warlord's Family Crest Japanese Ornaments" series New design lineup

Seki Press Kogyo Co. (Head office: Tomika-cho, Kamo-gun, Gifu Prefecture; President: Toshiharu Koishi), a metal press manufacturer established in 1927, will release four new colors of "Asanoha Mizuhiki" from its series of "brass-made Japanese ornaments with a warrior's family crest" that won the 2024 Omotenashi Selection at tourist facilities, hotels and EC sites in the prefecture in late July, 2025. The new products will be on sale at tourist facilities and hotels in the prefecture as well as on the EC website in late July 2025.

This Japanese-style accessory combines a brass hemp leaf design charm and traditional Japanese mizuhiki (four colors: white, red, blue, and purple). With a sword-shaped clip, please enjoy it as an accessory by attaching it to your kimono, bag, suit, etc., or as a decoration in your room.

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Japanese decoration "Asanoha

Japanese decoration: Warlord's family crest

Brass "Kazakazari" with a warrior's family crest awarded "Omotenashi Selection 2024".

The "Brass Warlord's Crest Japanese Cigar" is a brass accessory with the family crests of famous warlords such as Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga openworked in beautiful shades of innovative colors. It is clear coated so that you can enjoy the shimmering brilliance unique to brass forever. Below the family crest is a mizuhiki, a lucky charm that brings people together, and a power stone that dispels evil spirits and creates encounters for those who wear it.

The sword-shaped clip is an adjuster type that can be attached and removed with a single touch.

Omotenashi Selection 2024

■New release of "Asanoha Mizuhiki" Japanese ornaments designed with popular Japanese patterns

The "hemp leaf," one of the most popular Japanese designs since ancient times, is openworked in brass and gold-plated. Please enjoy the gold luster of the charm itself and the shadows created by the openwork. Below the charm is an original arrangement of mizuhiki (Japanese traditional ornaments).

The beautiful hemp leaf pattern is said to be a wish for happiness and prosperity of the family, and is a pattern that is familiar and representative of "wa" in modern times. It is used not only for Japanese-style clothing, but is also incorporated into interior decorations and miscellaneous goods. It comes with a detachable sword-shaped clip, which can be attached to kimono, bags, suits, as an accessory, or as a decoration in your room.

Size ：30 x 230 x 8(mm)

Price ： 4,510 yen (including consumption tax)

Charm : hemp leaf (brass, gold plated)

Color of mizuhiki: white, red, blue, purple

Japanese decoration: Asanoha, Mizuhiki

Development history of our products

Our company is a processing factory established in 1927 and located in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, whose main business is metal press working. About 90% of our processed products were "Seki cutlery", mainly press work for parts of pocket knives. Since 2007, when the current representative director, Toshiharu Koishi, the fourth generation, took office, pocket knife manufacturers have gradually been closing their businesses, and the number of pocket knife manufacturers has now decreased by about 80%.

We have gradually invested in equipment to enable us to perform simple machining, welding, and sheet-metal processing in-house, and now we are able to produce a variety of metal parts, including Seki knife parts, automobile parts, construction parts, elevator parts, metal hardware for resin products, and machine parts. We are now able to manufacture a variety of metal parts, including Seki knife parts, automotive parts, construction parts, elevator parts, metal hardware for plastic products, and machine parts.

In December 2020, we introduced a state-of-the-art fiber laser processing machine. We repeated trial-and-error and prototype production to see if we could develop products using our metal processing technology.

How "Kazukazari" was born

The birth of "Kazukazari" was triggered by the "Gifu Nobunaga Festival" held in Gifu City in November 2022. Actor Takuya Kimura played the role of Nobunaga Oda, and together with Hideaki Ito, a native of Gifu, he made Gifu all the more exciting. During the festival, Koishi's partner was fascinated by the beauty of Nobunaga Oda's family crest, and suggested that he could make a kimono sash decoration with Nobunaga Oda's family crest (Oda Mokuri), which he decided to produce. The result was a brass strap with the crest of the warlord made of brass with "brass openwork engraving.

The popularity of warlords was growing among various generations due to games, animations, dramas, and movies based on the theme of the Warring States period, and the "Brass Warlord Family Crest Strap" became our first product. The company's first product, the "brass samurai crest strap," achieved its goal on Makuake, a new product support purchase service, in May 2023.

Sales locations of our products

＜EC Shop

◎Seki Press

https://presssssssss.base.shop/

◎CHOOSEBASE SHIBUYA

https://choosebase.jp/collections/sekipress

<Real shops

◎Gifu Seki Cutlery Hall "Sekiterasu

https://sekikanko.jp/sekiterrace

◎Takayama Green Hotel "Hida Bussan Kan" (on sale in late July 2025)

https://www.takayama-gh.com/hida/

Future Prospects

We will continue to develop original products that can be processed with our metalworking technology and aim for a bright future by making many people aware of our strengths that enable even small-scale companies to develop and manufacture products.

■Company Profile

Company name: Seki Press Kogyo Co.

Head Office: 470-20 Ohiaga, Tomika-cho, Kamo-gun, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Representative Director: Toshiharu Koishi

Business description: General metal processing

Establishment : 1948

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