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Think of us as your upmarket general store, with an international goods aisle and a tawdry top-shelf

30/01/2026

Right pals, the shop on Weston Park is back open on Saturday 31st January.

I’m out of hibernation with the cats AND NOW WE’RE BAAAAAACK

24/01/2026

Seven times that cats and dogs in Japan went and got themselves a job (finally amirite?)

You’ve got our fellow retailers Shiba-san, who ran the Suzuki to***co shop in Tokyo… Fukuchan, who stands up and ‘prays’ towards the golden lottery ticket bags on Takashima Island… And Hachi, the cat whose eyebrows look like the lucky number 8 (hachi), harbinger of a surprisingly high number of winning lottery tickets from her to***conist shop in Tokyo.

Then there’s Tama, the famous Station Master at Kishi Station, and Osamu, who when he wasn’t managing the Minato railway line, was moonlighting as a fortune teller on Twitter.

And finally in Head Office: Candy, the Oracle office’s Greeting and Healing Ambassador, and lastly the counter-stress cats at Tokyo IT firm Ferray. Hope they’re in line for promotion soon.

21/12/2025

In the spirit of the season, here’s some tsutsumi for you today. It’s the Japanese art of gift wrapping, and in particular origata 折形, masterfully wrapping with folded paper without cutting, tape, or glue. The tradition began with aristocratic samurai families, and was a precursor to the origami so popular today.

The wrapping paper is folded in such a way to be imbued with meaning. For example, a front-right fold conveys good luck. Meanwhile a left-hand fold is more sombre and expresses sympathy.

Origata differs from the gift wrapping we know in that it only partly conceals the gift inside, and so avoids that awkward dance about whether it’s polite or not to open a gift in front of the gift giver.

Beautiful photos courtesy of the Tachibana Museum (a great little culture museum in Yanagawa, Japan, if you’re ever in that neck of the woods).

20/12/2025

We also offer free click and collect, for only the sassiest felines in town.

David Meowie is waiting to welcome you!

19/12/2025

Get your orders in by 10am on Saturday 20th for pre-Christmas UK delivery. It’s Santa Claws’ last round pals!

Our London store is then open until the 23rd December for general shopping, banter and free click & collect.

15/12/2025

He’s a bit of a suave cat, that Mr Tiddles.

Knows his from his passementerie from his palmettes and likes to spend his weekends curled up, perusing World of Interiors, daydreaming of velveteen sofas to get his claws into. Also partial to a ‘Purrsian’ rug.

And so what serendipity that there’s now a miniature edition of the magazine, scaled down, pint sized for precious paws. It’s limited edition: last few copies in store now.

This edition celebrates all things small but perfectly formed: a très petit Paris flat, dolls’ houses with better wallpaper than my actual house, and truck cabins in Pakistan famous for their colourful, intricately painted interiors.

And just to clarify: whilst Mr Tiddles is a rather, shall we say, ‘voluptuous’ cat, he’s not a giant. That is just a very tiny magazine.

10/12/2025

Check out Tokyo on Christmas Eve in 1991, shot through the lens of the enigmatic photographer Issei Suda. This is part one, part two tomorrow!

Suda’s photobook ‘Holy Night’- in store now- features salary men heading home laden with shopping, young lovers parting ways, and dogs hanging from car windows.

Suda was famous for capturing the theatre of the everyday. Drab street scenes transformed into something otherworldly, at a time when Japan was in the throes of hyper-urbanisation.

“I wonder how many Japanese people actually think of Jesus Christ on Christmas. We just observe Christmas Eve by buying cake and bringing it home to eat; lovers spend it together as the most romantic night of the year. These kinds of customs have become the norm.” – Issei Suda

06/12/2025

It’s weird and we like it: we’ve got weird and wonderful gifts for you this season at Foundland.

You’ve got Levantine chilli jam, a compilation of naff Japanese TV villains from 1970 to 1990, saucy cat greeting cards, and a tool to make a sausage look like an octopus aka a Japanese ‘tako sausage’. Yes, this is a thing.

Plus a Japanese ornament in the shape of a dog carrying a pineapple, Catmopolitan Magazine: the 1980’s bible for the sassiest felines in town, and a kit to make 50 origami cats so that they can all stare at you.

Well why not? All in store now.

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