Tokai Cat's Eyes Japanese Acoustic Guitar CE 800 D-35 1975

Demo of Vintage Cat's Eyes CE 800 for Reverb clients

[@patricwr]

I believe the reason it’s branded aspen is for export. Many companies exported guitars under more western sounding names. That’s where japanese guitars like Aspen or Lotus or Mountain or Ventura or Nashville or Crown come from- they were all made by other guitar makers like Suzuki or Hayashi or Yamaki or Aria or Morris or Zen-On or Kasuga. So that’s a tidbit for other aspen guitar owners. Perhaps their guitar was made by tokai.

[@oppositeofh8]

thanks for the advice, i'm going to the park, now.

[@patricwr]

We found Waldo!

[@paulmitchell5349]

Pronounced Tock eye. Means 'city' in Japanese.

[@oppositeofh8]

i think tokai is pronounced with a long o & long i.

[@paulmitchell5349]

Short O as in hop. I have a degree in Japanese.

[@senaclester6811]

ᑭᖇOᗰOᔕᗰ 😇