Japanese traditional pillow

admin on 07 5, 2010

The Japanese traditional pillow is made with a real husk of the soba. These contents are natural material. Therefore, it is very weak at the humidity. It is necessary to dry this when moisture piled up.
It is the best maintenance about futon and the pillow to dry.
As for this, adjustment is possible by the height of the pillow by exchanging the quantity of the buckwheat chaff. Therefore, these pillows can form a pillow suitable for you.
Also, this has moderate flexibility. And it is said that it is effective in stiffness in the shoulders because your favorite form can transform it.



When you sleep, a unique sound becomes the pillow of the buckwheat chaff. Many Japanese seem to feel that this sound is comfortable. This is a Japanese custom.
The life of the buckwheat chaff pillow is 3-5 years. When three years pass, a pillow is destroyed by pressure. And a small harmful insect may occur if it becomes humid. Therefore, you please dry this by all means. And you please please change the buckwheat chaff of the contents in approximately 3 years.



The tender pillow has good the touch. However, it seem to tend to become the stiffness in the shoulders.
Therefore, you should choose the pillow as follows.

  • Height

  • The softness (the materials of the contents)

  • Size

  • Form


  • The pillow has possibility to change by these combinations.


    The height of the pillow is different in a type to like by each people. As a tendency, a man likes pillows of a high type. In addition, as for the woman, the pillow of a low type seems to be liked. It is a method to find the sleep that it is comfortable to discover the pillow which matched each people that is the best.
    From this, it may be said that it is important that we know the height of the pillow which matched us.
    We introduce a easy method by a method to know the height of the pillow.

  • At first you please prepare a straight stick of the length of about 3ft.
  • And please stand straight with your both legs.
  • next you please make the stick to a back along the backbone perpendicularly.
  • Please measure the rear of your head and perpendicular length with the stick.


  • Please make that this width is the size of the pillow most suitable for you an aim.

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