Goshi-Goshi Towel Defeats Foreign Towels
Here are a couple videos from a TV program about introducing Japan’s great “treasures” to foreign countries [shown previously in the Turkish schoolgirls post]. The first video demonstrates how the goshi-goshi towel is vastly superior to anything non-Japanese countries have produced:
Normally I’d be annoyed by a clip that puts giant X’s through the preferred foreign methods of doing something and highlights the Japanese way as clearly perfect. It’s especially lame when they’re doing it for something like the goshi-goshi towel, something that many Japanese people probably don’t even prefer to use when washing themselves, judging from all the foreign brushes and washcloths for sale alongside goshi-goshi towels on store shelves. However, I’ll forgive them because they ended the clip with this declaration:
I’ll concede that the goshi-goshi may indeed be parfect.
The program later sent tubby wrestler Koriki to a hot spring in Hungary to see what Hungarians thought of the goshi-goshi towel, which was pretty interesting:
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The guy in the last clip (of which only 10 seconds play for me…) is 長州小力 Choshu Koriki.
I also like how they get a pretty young thing to try out the Japanese towel, but some bald fat ugly guy for the useless foreign junk.
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Whoops, forgot his name. Thanks!
I’m sold on just the fact that i can wash my back with it…
Im gonna have to head to pacific mall (wikipedia it) and see if i cant pick one of these up.
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Ah, a shameless plug for one of those all too common chinese mass-pirated-goods mall located in some obscure area. Well, good thing most of the goods there are Japanese copies since they won’t get busted on those.
Anyway, the only issue about these towels is that they are soft for getting most of the dead skin off ones back.
It’s like using a softer and longer version of those blue table cleaning cloths, and at least most of the name brands for those are made from anti-bacterial fiber.
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If you get the ones in the 100yen shops they are too small. I’m an onsen nut and I personally just like using the normal onsen towels, however in my shower I have a super scratchy one made of rayon that’s great for getting all those dead skin cells off.
Oh and if these towels are so great, don’t get me wrong I love them but, why does every decent super-sento have 韓国アカスリ?
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parfect? and have you seen the skin conditions here? every second Japanese seems to have some freaky thing going on with their skin. it wouldn’t surprise me if the goshi goshi towels wash away the good germs along with the bad germs.
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My Japanese informant says the goshi-goshi towels are made of nylon and are hard on your skin. She says that people who use them develop nasty rashes over time. So according to her, Bob’s suspicion above is spot on. I’ll stick with my 100% cotton wash cloth, thank you very much. It’s smallish, but long enough on the diagonal to get my entire back washed. It’s smaller than the too-long goshi goshi towel so it takes less soap, and it isn’t that hard to rinse for crying out loud. Parfect my ketsu!
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