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  1904年、初代当主・宮川徳三郎は10年余りの問屋番頭の経験を生かし、京都・室町に宮川呉服店を設立しました。着物の需要が多くなるにつれ、二代目・宮川徳太郎は商いの街・大阪に新たに店舗を拡大しましたが、第2次世界大戦のあおりを受け、京都桂に移転を余儀なくされました。幸運にも営業を再開することが出来、着物の仕立て直しや精神誠意のアドバイスを通して、お客と打ち解けあい・信頼を得て、今もなお祇園の方々や芸能界で活躍される落語家や芸人の方々にも着物のアドバイスをさせていただいております。
その後、三代目・宮川章は、だれでも楽しめる伝統的な着物の良さをお客様に提供しつづけ、確固たる地位を築きました。
創業100年を迎える2004年に更なる一歩を踏み出すべく、四代目・宮川昌也（現在二代目徳三郎）は敷居の低い着物屋をコンセプトに、2003年10月にアンティーク着物ショップをオープンさせ、2009年10月には宮川徳三郎商店と改名。 和装における独自のセンスは代々宮川家に引き継がれ、更には日本の伝統美を世界の人々に知ってもらいたいと言う魂もまた、未だ絶やさないでいます。
MIYAGAWA KIMONO SHOP, the head store of the MIYAGAWA TOKUSABURO SHOP, has
been dealing with fabrics for kimonos for almost 100 years and has been
providing our customers with the highest quality material and service.
In 1904, Tokusaburo Miyagawa after he had apprenticed at a wholesale store as head clerk for about ten years, founded the Miyagawa Kimono Shop in Muromachi, which was famous for kimonos. As the demand for kimonos increased, his son, Tokutaro Miyagawa, opened his own shop in Osaka, the well-known mercantile city in Japan. World War Two burnt the site to ashes, so the shop was relocated to the neighborhood of the Katsura Imperial Villa, and our business resumed. Our reputation as retailer and an advisor of kimonos was affirmed by our customers, such as Geisha of the Gion district and television entertainers, especially Japanese comic storytellers. Subsequently, the third generation, Akira Miyagawa, started informing in public more about traditional kimono fabrics. Approaching the one hundred in anniversary of the shop's foundation. The fourth generation of the family and the owner of COROMO, Masaya Miyagawa, wants more people in the world to understand how the kimono embodies the beauty of traditional Japan.
The history of kimonos dates back to the Heian period of the 7th century. At that time, the Imperial family and even ordinary citizens adopted kimonos as a show of fashion. Kimono use blossomed in the 1800s. The end of the Edo period, and most kimonos seen today were developed back then. Modern Western clothing has eroded the popularity of kimonos. Nevertheless, the beauty and the tradition of kimonos are still rooted in the Japanese mind.
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