Nittosha Blue Label Matches, open indigo and white matchbox with peach illustration and blue-dyed Japanese matches with white heads on a grey surface
Nittosha Blue Label Matches, closed indigo and white Japanese matchbox with peach illustration, made in Himeji, Japan
Nittosha Blue Label Matches, indigo Japanese matchbox on a dark table beside a green plant and an incense dish
Archival black and white photograph of workers assembling matchboxes at the Nittosha match factory in Himeji, Japan
Nittosha Blue Label Matches, indigo Japanese matchbox propped on a grey steel shelf

Nittosha Blue Label Matches

$7.00

Indigo and white, the oldest Japanese palette, on a box of matches made yesterday. Nittosha has been striking fires in Himeji since 1900, and the Blue Label is its modern classic: a retro box design revived in deep indigo, with the color carried all the way into the sticks themselves.

A small object that gets used, struck for a candle or a stick of incense, and somehow never put away.

Nittosha began in Himeji in 1900, when Hiromatsu Onishi started making matchboxes, and grew on advertising matches, the printed boxes that shops and cafés once handed out across Japan. Today it is one of the few manufacturers in Japan still making matches from start to finish.

Part of our Home Scenting and Japanese Minimalism collections.

Designer
Nittosha
Materials
Paper box, blue-dyed wooden matchsticks with white heads
Dimensions
Box 1.4 x 2.2 x 0.6 in (35 x 56 x 16 mm)
Origin
Made in Hyogo, Japan
Features
Approx. 30 matches per box; revived retro Blue Label box design
In the box
One box of matches
Home Scenting · Japanese Minimalism · The Little Things

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