Zakkaya Tsubuyaki (too-boo-yak) Blog

Earlier this week I met with a rep from one of my Japanese vendors. She specifically wanted to discuss why my customers like Japanese incense so much. This conversation coincided with a shop restock of Hibi Incense, one of my all time favorite incense to come out of Japan. Seemed like a good time to make a post to ponder this question: why do we all like Japanese incense so much?  The first thing that attracted me to the Japanese incense that I encountered was the packaging. They are usually packaged in boxes that have beautiful imagery. Sometimes the packages...

Black History Month is a great time to remind everyone that Pink Moon Goods is committed to being anti-racist, anti-hate, and promoting social justice. We proudly believe that Black and Brown Lives Matter and we strive to dismantle systems of white supremacy that endanger the lives of People of Color. We actively seek vendors who share our values of inclusivity and celebration of diversity. Full transparency time. Due to our foundational commitment to offering goods that are beautiful and practical at times we have struggled to boost our representation of Black Owned businesses. Our ultimate goal would be to have...

I have to admit something. Sometimes when I use Japanese words to describe products I have a bit of imposter syndrome. Obviously I am not Japanese but it should be clear that I am very fond of Japanese culture. There are lots of products in the shop from Japan. Some of them do have labels in English describing what they are but some only have the product name written in some form of Japanese language characters. When I can translate them easily I do to make it easier for folks to understand what they are looking at. But often there...

There is a bit of a running joke in the shop that we have a brush for everything. We like to joke about it but the truth is, we do! We have brushes for cleaning dishes and exfoliating your face. We have brushes for cooking and brushes for making you calm. We have brushes for heavy duty scrubbing and light dusting. We even have a brush to help keep the soles of your sneakers white. In total we have 48 brushes in our inventory. Oh wait...I forgot the children's paint brush...49! That is a lot of brushes. Today on the...

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