It is well known that most of the Japanese love the products of Western brands, such as Gucci, Prada and Coach, Chanel, and especially Louis Vuitton. It is said that the cash from the Japanese account for the majority, for example a second version is almost 65% of the total sales of Louis Vuitton. In fact you can easily see many Japanese products that carry the Louis Vuitton, particularly women, in major cities and even in peripheral areas. I had wondered about this for years because the Japanese love Louis Vuitton so much? These days I have made an investigation into this question, I first discovered when the Japanese began to have the products in this brand. After the Meiji Restoration in 1867, the new leaders of Japan have gone to Europe and America in the inspection trip to learn the Western system. According to documents in that period at least three Japanese have gone to shops is by Louis Vuitton in Paris and bought some stock. In the list of our customers are written the names of these three Japanese men: Shojiro Goto, and Iwao Oyama SAIONJI Kinmochi. These 3 people are famous here in Japan but I think they are so famous in Italy as in Japan. So now I present to you a little 'these 3 first buyers of Louis Vuitton.
1) GOTO Shojiro: 后 藤 象 二郎 was a samurai. Generally, the noble of the Edo period samurai are appointed, but I do not agree on this in particular because at the end of the Edo period almost all the nobles were not to be military officers, but simply state employees or officials as it is today. He was a senior official of a daimyo, Yamanouchi Yodo, the fief of Tosa, Kochi province of Shikoku island. During the Meiji Restoration, this man has taken an active part in the movement which was intended slaughter of the Shogunate and after the Restoration he obtained an important place in the new Meiji government.
2) Oyama Iwao: 大 山 巌, considering it was a "real" samurai. He too was given the anti-shogunate forces, and then scored the important posts of the government as a soldier and a politician. He is best known as the maximum degree of the Japanese army. He dragged the vittoria il Giappone in 2 guerre, la prima guerra sino-giapponese e la guerra russo-giapponese, come comandante. Lui avera profonda conoscenza dell'Europa infatti ha studiato in Svizzera e conosceva benissimo per esempio la lingua frencese. Dopo le guerre ha ottenuto il Minostero della guerra del Giappone diversi anni. A proposito, quando vado al corso di latino all'Istituto italiano di Cultura di Kudanshita ogni volta passo davanti a una statua di bronzo, una statua equestre: la statua di OYAMA Iwao. L'avete mai vista?
3)SAIONJI Kinmochi: 西園寺公望 è conosciuto bene come il fondatore dell'Università Ritsumei-kan di Kyoto. È nato in una famiglia of the aristocratic class who served the Japanese imperial family. Unlike the other two people, has taken a particularly meritorious. During his youth he went to France to study and then assoribito culture, knowledge and thought in France, or rather Western, for 10 years, from 1871 to 1880. After his stay in France, he entered politics and has led the Government to pacifist thought. He was appointed Prime Minister of Japan for 2 times but failed to escape the war.
be recognized that the history of these three persons not related to the Louis Vuitton fashion of today, that this trend should be initiated around 1980 because the first Louis Vuitton store was opened in 1981 in Ginza.
Up to this opening the Japanese generally did not know this brand. So almost 100 years have passed since the first Japanese have purchased products from Louis Vuitton in Paris. About what you think of the industrial goods of Louis Vuitton stores that sell all over the world? I think they are good quality products in relation to prices. For example, I believe that my briefcase genuine leather "made in Japan" which costs almost worth € 250.00 or more, one of Louis Vuitton, which costs about € 900.00. But in the first period of Japanese buyers, Louis Vuitton products were 100% handmade bags were of very good quality. I think that most buyers today, especially in Japan, do not ask for quality Louis Vuitton and other brands rather think they pay too much money out of proportion to the design. Then I think there is another case dependent on a habit of the Japanese: we Japanese are most likely to want homologous to the other. So I think that these Japanese have become incapable of understanding the quality of the products even if they can produce high quality appliances, machines, etc.. I think those early purchasers could distinguish good from evil things without being dragged by the other as at the same time understand the changing times. We could learn from them?
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