Tenugui towels designed by students at Nissei High School (Maizuru City, Kyoto Prefecture) are being sold as souvenirs at the Amabile Maizuru hotel in Maizuru City. The motif is Manganji chili peppers, which originated in Maizuru, and the result is a towel that shines with a youthful sensibility.
At Amabile, a hot bath facility where you can enjoy an enzyme bath will open in April 2023. An employee of the hotel management company liked the work by the high school's illustration art club that was exhibited at the hotel's affiliated hotel, Marche, and commissioned them to design tenugui to be used at the bathing facility and sold as souvenirs.
The completed tenugui (34 cm long and 90 cm wide) was designed by Mina Inada (18 years old), a third year student at Nissei High School. Manganji peppers are studded with characters with faces drawn on them, and polka dots are also arranged. Although there were designs of fish and kamaboko, the design of Manganji Temple was chosen because it ''expresses the uniqueness of Maizuru in an easy-to-understand manner.''
It has been on sale since February, and Mina Inada says, ''The actual product turned out cute. I'm glad it's on sale.'' The price is 660 yen.
