![]() You can also rotate it and make sure not to grab a part grabbed by someone else before. Its shape allows you to slide your wrist into it and rest your body for example. The round handle tsurikawa slowly took over to become today the mainstream handle due to human and ergonomics factors. Triangle handles were also pretty common in JR (Japan Railway) trains and Tokyo Metro until the mid-seventies. In 1933, this was the only type available in Osaka subways. Triangle handles (shape developed on old household iron handles) are known to be the most comfortable tsurikawas to grab. In other countries, it is also pretty common to see simple ropes with a ball-shaped bottom. The very first Japanese tsurikawas didn’t have handles but only a strap instead. The most common ones feature a handle usually round, triangular and sometimes pentagonal (very rare). Tsurikawas come in various types, shapes and colors. After 2 years of testing and development, Hanshin adopted it and equipped all its new trains (Type 300) with it! The Toyosan, that’s the name Mikami-san gave to his product, is now the most popular tsurikawa, not only in Kansai area but in the whole country! On a side note, JDM Tsurikawa products also use nylon-reinforced polyvinyl straps similar to Mikami’s to insure strength and durability. ![]() Toyozaburou Mikami developed a new two-ply polyvinyl belt reinforced with fiber and presented it to the local Hanshin train company in October 1952. Transport companies started to search for a better product and that’s when a young man native of Osaka working for a cotton-spinning company came up with a great idea. Leather was easy to cut or stretch and wouldn’t hold well with fire. Other cheaper materials started then to emerge and new standards in safety were about to seal its destiny. After the conflict, leather came back strong and became a standard again until the mid-fifties. Manufacturers and transport companies often refer to “tsurite” (te means hand), a more technical and contemporary term.ĭuring the WWII, the use of skin for tsurikawas was banned and manufacturers used other materials to produce their handles. Although “tsurikawa” is the name commonly used, some people also call them “tsuriwa” (wa means ring). In the early days of Japanese public transportation, those handles were made of leather, hence the name “tsurikawa” which literally means “hang” (tsuri吊) and “leather” (kawa革). In Japan, the word “tsurikawa” describes objects, usually suspended, that help standing passengers to keep their balance while the vehicle is in motion. Nowadays, hardcore Japanese car enthusiasts are still flaunting them to express their freedom. They quickly became the symbol of a reckless youth and bosozokus started to attach them outside heavily modified bikes and cars to show rebellion and disrespect to authority. Stolen in trains by our local young gangsters, also known as bosozokus, the tsurikawas were originally attached inside cars so passengers could slide their wrist inside the ring and safely hang their body outside the window. South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands (USD $)
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