Tamanohada’s Fish Soaps
This Tokyo soap maker designs traditional soaps shaped like sea bream, a symbol of luck and prosperity in many aspects of Japanese life.
© Tamanohada
Founded in Tokyo in 1892, Tamanohada is one of the oldest Japanese soap makers. But it was only in 2003 that it launched a range of products under its name and began developing new designs to promote its craftsmanship.
From pastries to soaps
Tamanohada’s ‘welcome soaps’, made using quality ingredients and delicate scents, are made in sculpted wooden moulds, the same shape as the metal moulds used to cook taiyaki (which literally translates as ‘grilled sea bream’), Japanese pastries filled with red bean paste. Sea bream is traditionally associated with Ebisu, the god of merchants (and himself the symbol of the beer brand Yebisu), and symbolises prosperity.
Now widely distributed, particularly online, these imperturbable fish are spawning, and all the way into the bathrooms of gourmet soap lovers.
Tamanohada’s products are now available online.
Address: 3-chome-8-12 Midori, Sumida City, Tokyo-to 130-0021, Japan.
© Tamanohada
© Tamanohada
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