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GREETING. Founded in 1908, Hoshino Gakki Company started out in a period when Western music was still in its infancy in Japan. In the year and decades since then, a period of 100 years, we have kept step with Western music. But the road has certainly not been an easy one. It was a period characterized by war and a long trail of difficult trials ...
50 YEARS IN THE USA. Hoshino U.S.A. is celebrating 50 years of business in the American music market, and we’re pulling out all the stops with something truly special to mark the occasion. For the first time in the history of Hoshino and Ibanez, we’re throwing open the doors to two of our most acclaimed and exclusive guitar building ...
HISTORY. 1908. Established Musical instrument sales division of Hoshino Shoten (=bookstore) 1929. Established Hoshino Gakki Ten Inc. (=the future Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd.) 1935. Began to manufacture stringed instruments in Nagoya. 1955. Constructed the current building of "Hoshino Gakki Ten" at N0. 3-22, Shumokucho, Higashiku, Nagoya.
GREETING. Founded in 1908, Hoshino Gakki Company started out in a period when Western music was still in its infancy in Japan. In the year and decades since then, a period of 115 years, we have kept step with Western music. But the road has certainly not been an easy one. It was a period characterized by war and a long trail of difficult trials ...
Hoshino Gakki was founded in 1908 by Matsujiro Hoshino in the city of Nagoya, Japan. Hoshino originally operated as a bookstore that also sold sheet music. This activity led the company into forming a wholesale business as well, and Hoshino began supplying music stores around Japan.
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From the late 1920s onwards, Hoshino Gakki began importing instruments crafted by a legendary Spanish master luthier by the name of Salvador Ibanez. Now, Hoshino Gakki wasn’t the only company to import Ibanez’s instruments – several others did, most notably Yamaha – but in the 1930s Hoshino Gakki did something that would bind the two ...
