Vintage Tedman Ted Company Blood Message BLJK-020 Reversible Sukajan Virgin Mary Skull Tattoo Embroidered Japanese Amekaji Bomber Jacket

Discontinued Blood Message by Ted Company Souvenir Jacket with Marian Tattoo Art, Sacred Hearts, Praying Hands and Happy Smile Skull Reverse

A rare, fully reversible Blood Message BLJK-020 sukajan transforming black satin into two radically different canvases of Japanese tattoo-inspired wearable art.

One face presents a monumental devotional composition centered on the Virgin Mary, surrounded by radiant halos, rosary beads, praying hands, crosses, sacred hearts, banners, dragons and embroidered messages of peace, faith and universal love. The imagery spreads beyond the back panel and flows dramatically across the sleeve, creating an asymmetrical, almost mural-like arrangement.

Reverse the jacket and the atmosphere changes completely. The alternate face is constructed from black diamond-quilted satin and embroidered in vivid blood red with the Blood Message Happy Smile Skull, crossed bones, tattoo-inspired lettering and a constellation of philosophical statements about conviction, enthusiasm, beauty and living boldly.

The official Blood Message archive identifies this exact design as Lot BLJK-020, describing the principal side as a solemn Virgin Mary holding a rosary, embroidered across the back and sleeve, while the reverse features the brand’s comic Happy Smile Skull. The model is now officially sold out.

A Jacket Built Like a Two-Sided Manifesto

This is not simply a black embroidered bomber with a decorative reverse.

Each side has its own emotional vocabulary:

The Marian side speaks through devotion, compassion, protection, peace and spiritual symbolism.

The skull side answers with rebellion, mortality, courage, tattoo culture and an insistence on living with conviction.

Together, they form a particularly striking example of late Japanese Amekaji design, where American tattoo traditions, souvenir-jacket construction, biker graphics, sacred imagery and highly stylized English text are recomposed through a distinctly Japanese fashion lens.

It can be worn as a statement of faith, an archival streetwear piece, a tattoo-art garment, a collector’s sukajan or simply as one of the most visually elaborate reversible bombers produced under the Blood Message label.

Identification

Brand: Blood Message
Associated Company: Ted Company / Efu-Shokai
Official Lot Number: BLJK-020
Garment Type: Reversible sukajan / souvenir jacket / satin bomber
Primary Theme: Virgin Mary and Christian tattoo iconography
Reverse Theme: Happy Smile Skull and philosophical tattoo lettering
Primary Color: Black
Accent Colors: Blood red, ivory, silver-grey, taupe and brown
Construction: Fully reversible zip-front bomber
Official Status: Discontinued and sold out
Country of Brand Origin: Japan
Gender: Unisex
Tagged Size: Please request confirmation and exact flat measurements

The official Blood Message archive originally offered BLJK-020 in numbered Japanese sizes 38, 40, 42 and 44. The archive’s fit photograph shows a 168 cm, 65 kg model wearing size 40, though this reference should not be used as a substitute for the measurements of the individual jacket offered here.

The Blood Message Label

Blood Message describes its name literally as “the message of blood.” The official brand concept centers on placing forceful messages into clothing, drawing inspiration from the symbolic language of old-school and new-school tattoo art. Its designs are reportedly developed first through hand-drawn artwork before being translated into garments, effectively transferring the tattoo canvas from the human body to clothing.

This philosophy is unusually visible in BLJK-020.

The jacket is covered not only in images, but in declarations: peace, blessing, courage, devotion, enthusiasm, artistic conviction and love for humanity. The result feels less like ordinary branded outerwear and more like an illustrated personal creed stitched into satin.

The Virgin Mary Face

Monumental Back Composition

The principal back is dominated by the Virgin Mary, portrayed in a vivid red robe filled with ornamental scrolling embroidery.

She appears with hands joined in prayer, a cross suspended from her rosary and an enormous radiating red halo behind her head. The pale veil, downcast expression and symmetrical pose create an atmosphere of solemnity, while the brilliant red palette gives the composition the visual force of a traditional tattoo flash panel.

Above the figure, the brand name BLOOD MESSAGE is embroidered in large ivory capitals.

Around the composition appear several smaller texts and devotional phrases, including references to heaven, peace, blessing and divine favor. The precise, slightly idiosyncratic English is characteristic of Japanese graphic fashion and contributes to the jacket’s period character rather than diminishing it.

The Mary figure is framed by:

• Radiating red halo lines
• A white veil and red ceremonial robe
• Ornamental cloud forms
• Rosary beads
• Christian crosses
• Scroll banners
• A red sacred heart
• Praying hands
• Small celestial stars
• Handwritten-style embroidery
• Messages of peace and universal love

A large heart carries the words “I love all people,” while a lower banner expresses peace on earth. These phrases reinforce the central idea of compassion and spiritual blessing.

Sleeve-Length Narrative Embroidery

The visual drama continues across the wearer’s left sleeve.

Rather than placing one small emblem at the shoulder, Blood Message created a continuous vertical narrative running almost the full length of the arm.

The upper sleeve repeats the Marian figure beneath another radiant halo. Below her appears a dense tattoo collage combining:

• Praying hands
• Rosary beads
• Crosses
• A crowned or armored skull
• A serpentine dragon
• Red flames
• Wings and feathers
• Ribbon banners
• The Blood Message name
• Handwritten moral declarations
• Tattoo-flash ornamentation

This sleeve treatment is one of the strongest features of the jacket. When the arm is relaxed, the motifs stack into an elongated embroidered panel. When the wearer moves, individual elements emerge and disappear around the sleeve’s curvature, making the artwork feel animated.

Front Composition

The front is intentionally asymmetrical.

One side is comparatively restrained, carrying white handwritten-style text welcoming favored people and invoking blessing. The opposite side is densely embroidered with praying hands, rosary beads, a dragon, flames, a sacred heart and the Blood Message name.

This uneven visual distribution gives the jacket a tattooed-body effect. One side feels nearly bare, while the other is covered in an elaborate full-sleeve composition.

At the opposite forearm, a red heart embroidered with “I love all people” provides a softer counterpoint to the more intense skull, flame and dragon imagery.

Marian and Christian Iconography

The Virgin Mary has long represented compassion, maternal protection, humility, prayer, grace and spiritual intercession within Christian visual culture.

Here, Blood Message translates Marian imagery through a Japanese tattoo-fashion vocabulary rather than presenting it as a conventional devotional object. The halo becomes a fierce red sunburst; the robe resembles dense textile ornament; the rosary extends into a larger collage of hearts, banners, flames and streetwear lettering.

Praying Hands

Praying hands traditionally suggest faith, remembrance, gratitude and a request for protection. Within tattoo culture, they are also frequently associated with personal endurance, memorial imagery and loyalty to deeply held beliefs.

Rosary and Cross

The rosary adds a sense of ritual devotion and continuity. Its beads create a strong vertical line across the composition, while the cross provides an immediately recognizable spiritual anchor.

Sacred Heart

The red hearts combine religious symbolism with old-school tattoo flash. Rather than appearing wounded or crowned with thorns, these hearts carry messages of universal love, making the design unusually compassionate for a label whose name and imagery often lean toward skulls, flames and rebellion.

Dragon

The dragon introduces a second cultural language. It places East Asian power, guardianship and transformation beside Western Marian and Christian motifs.

This kind of cross-cultural layering is central to Japanese Amekaji design. Imported imagery is not simply copied. It is recombined into a new visual mythology.

The Happy Smile Skull Reverse

Turn the jacket inside out and the richly colored Marian mural disappears beneath a black quilted surface.

This reverse is not a secondary lining. It is a complete, fully wearable second jacket with its own pockets, embroidery, ribbing and finished construction.

Diamond-Quilted Satin

The reverse uses black satin stitched in a broad diamond pattern. This quilting adds insulation, dimensional texture and a more structured visual surface.

The polished satin catches the light along each quilted section, giving the otherwise monochromatic side subtle depth.

Front Embroidery

One chest bears the BLOOD MESSAGE name in brilliant red lettering.

The opposite chest features a red skull and crossed bones surrounded by short phrases referencing tattoo art, boldness and fortune.

Against the black quilted field, the red embroidery appears almost illuminated. This side is less pictorial than the Marian face, but its restricted black-and-red palette creates a sharper punk, rockabilly and biker character.

Full-Back Happy Smile Skull

The reverse back centers on the Blood Message Happy Smile Skull, an exaggerated grinning skull above crossed bones.

The skull is surrounded by hand-drawn-style embroidered statements, including:

• “Happy Smile Skull”
• “Fortune Favours The Bold”
• A reference to Blood Message being produced since 1996
• A declaration describing tattooing as a splendid art
• A warning that losing one’s enthusiasm is the worst form of bankruptcy
• A statement that the world’s most beautiful things must be felt with the heart

The wording retains the eccentric rhythm and imperfect English often found in Japanese tattoo, biker and Amekaji graphics of the period. These textual quirks are an authentic part of the garment’s design identity.

Rather than using polished corporate copy, the jacket reads like an underground tattoo notebook translated directly into embroidery.

Two Completely Different Styling Personalities

Marian Tattoo-Art Face

• Highly detailed
• Symbolic and narrative
• Red, ivory and silver embroidery
• Religious and spiritual imagery
• Dramatic asymmetric sleeve artwork
• Best suited to collector, tattoo, rock and statement styling

Quilted Skull Face

• Restrained black-and-red palette
• Diamond-quilted texture
• Punk and biker atmosphere
• Graphic lettering
• Easier to coordinate with daily streetwear
• Visually powerful without the full multicolored mural

This duality makes BLJK-020 unusually versatile. It can move from ornate sacred imagery to a darker skull-based aesthetic in seconds.

Materials and Construction

The jacket features:

• Black satin-finish outer fabric
• Fully reversible construction
• Black diamond-quilted satin reverse
• Dense multicolored machine embroidery
• Red tonal embroidery
• Cream rib-knit collar
• Cream rib-knit cuffs
• Cream rib-knit waistband
• Raglan-style shoulder construction
• Reversible metal zipper
• Welt-style hand pockets on both faces
• Interior finishing suitable for wear on either side
• Multi-panel sleeve construction
• Original Blood Message branded presentation tag shown in the photographs

The exact fiber percentages are not visible in the supplied photographs. The fabric appears consistent with the smooth synthetic satin commonly used in Japanese fashion sukajan and souvenir jackets.

The official archive specifically describes the reverse as quilted satin.

Embroidery Quality

This jacket is distinguished by both the volume and distribution of its embroidery.

Many souvenir jackets concentrate their artwork on the back and add two small chest motifs. BLJK-020 goes considerably further:

• Monumental full-back Virgin Mary composition
• Large shoulder and sleeve Marian figure
• Continuous full-sleeve tattoo collage
• Large praying-hands motif
• Rosary and cross detailing
• Embroidered dragons and flames
• Multiple sacred hearts
• Extensive handwritten text
• Large reverse-side skull composition
• Reverse chest graphics
• Full embroidered philosophical wording

The threadwork shifts between dense filled areas, fine lettering, narrow outlines, textured beads and large satin-stitched fields.

The red robe is particularly elaborate. Its surface is filled with pale swirling patterns, preventing the large red area from becoming visually flat. Similarly, the halo uses alternating dark and bright segments to create a radiant, stained-glass-like effect.

Period and Production Assessment

BLJK-020 is a discontinued archival Blood Message design rather than a newly released contemporary sukajan.

The jacket’s design language appears consistent with the 2000s to early-2010s Japanese Amekaji and tattoo-fashion era, though an exact production year is not confirmed by the photographed tag.

Characteristics supporting this period assessment include:

• Dense old-school tattoo imagery
• Handwritten English slogans
• Oversized sleeve narratives
• High-contrast red, black and ivory palette
• Reversible satin construction
• Diamond-quilted reverse
• Japanese interpretation of Western biker graphics
• Spiritual imagery combined with skull motifs
• Numbered Japanese sizing system
• Heavy embroidered branding rather than minimalist logos

Condition

The jacket appears to be in very well-preserved pre-owned condition.

Visible characteristics include:

• Clean black satin with strong remaining sheen
• Bright, saturated red embroidery
• Well-defined ivory and taupe threadwork
• Clean-looking cream rib-knit trim
• Natural creasing from folding and storage
• Minor surface waviness surrounding dense embroidered sections
• Light handling marks consistent with a stored or carefully worn garment
• No major tear visible in the supplied photographs
• No obvious large stain visible
• No immediately apparent catastrophic embroidery loss
• Original Blood Message presentation tag shown with the jacket

The quilting remains clearly defined, and the embroidery retains strong dimensional relief.

Minor raised threads, compression, puckering and slight irregularity may be present around densely embroidered sections. These are normal characteristics of elaborately stitched satin garments.

Please study all photographs carefully, as they form an essential part of the condition description.

Measurements and Fit

The individual tagged size is not clearly shown in the supplied photographs.

Please contact us before purchasing for the exact tag size and flat garment measurements.

Recommended measurements to compare include:

• Chest width from underarm to underarm
• Back length from collar seam to hem
• Raglan sleeve length from collar to cuff
• Hem width
• Upper-arm width
• Cuff opening

Blood Message originally produced BLJK-020 in sizes 38, 40, 42 and 44. Japanese numbered sizing may fit more compactly than modern Western sizing, particularly through the body length, shoulders and ribbed waistband.

For the most reliable fit, compare the supplied flat measurements with a jacket you already own rather than relying only on a familiar S, M, L or XL conversion.

Styling and Display

Japanese Amekaji

Wear the Marian side with faded selvedge denim, a white T-shirt and engineer or service boots. The restrained foundation allows the embroidery to dominate.

Tattoo and Biker Styling

Combine it with black denim, leather boots, silver rings and a plain dark shirt. The praying hands, sacred hearts, skulls and banners connect naturally with traditional tattoo imagery.

Punk and Rockabilly

Use the quilted skull face with cuffed jeans, creepers or combat boots. Its black-and-red palette is immediately compatible with punk, psychobilly and garage-rock styling.

Contemporary Streetwear

Layer the jacket over a long black tee with wide trousers or distressed denim. The shorter bomber silhouette works especially well against oversized lower proportions.

Collector Display

The Marian back can be displayed like a textile mural. When hung with the embroidered sleeve extended, the jacket reveals the entire sequence of Mary, praying hands, dragon, flames, skull and banner work.

Why This Piece Is Collectible

Exact Archived Model

This is not merely attributed to Blood Message. The design is documented by the official company archive as BLJK-020.

Officially Sold Out

Every original size is listed as sold out, confirming that the model is no longer available through the brand’s archived retail page.

Exceptional Embroidery Coverage

The composition extends across the back, chest, sleeve and reverse, far beyond the embroidery found on an average fashion bomber.

Complete Reversibility

Both faces are intentionally designed and finished, rather than one side functioning merely as a lining.

Distinctive Cultural Synthesis

The jacket combines Christian devotional imagery, old-school tattoo flash, Japanese dragon motifs, biker culture, Amekaji construction and philosophical text.

Preserved Brand Tag

The photographed Blood Message presentation tag adds archival interest and reinforces the brand identification.

Strong International Appeal

The design crosses several collector communities:

• Japanese streetwear
• Sukajan collecting
• Tattoo clothing
• Biker fashion
• Y2K Japanese fashion
• Christian iconography
• Skull and sacred-heart imagery
• Reversible bomber collecting
• Archival Amekaji
• Rock and punk fashion

Purchase, Shipping and Vintage Policy

This is a pre-owned collectible garment offered in its present condition. Please review all photographs and written details carefully before purchasing.

Pre-owned garments may display minor wear, storage marks, loose threads, embroidery irregularity, creasing, fading, ribbing variation, surface marks or other evidence of age and previous ownership. These characteristics form part of the garment’s history and individual character.

The item will be packed carefully and shipped worldwide from Japan by tracked EMS or another suitable tracked international service.

Shipping and handling period: approximately 5–10 business days or earlier.

Delivery time begins after dispatch and may vary depending on destination, customs processing, postal conditions and seasonal shipping volume.

All sales are considered final. Returns, exchanges and claims based on expected pre-owned wear, personal fit preference or differences in color perception cannot be accepted. Please ask any important questions before purchasing.

Some prices may be flexible. Respectful offers from serious collectors are always welcome.

Searching for This Design in Another Size?

Should you be searching for this particular Blood Message model, the same Virgin Mary and Happy Smile Skull artwork, or a closely related design in another size, please contact us with your preferred tagged size and ideal flat garment measurements.

Discontinued Japanese sukajan models are often released in limited quantities and can become difficult to locate once the original production has sold through. Although an exact match cannot be guaranteed, we may be able to locate another example, an alternate size or a closely comparable Blood Message design through our sourcing network in Japan.

We are always pleased to investigate suitable options and help collectors find the version that most closely matches their preferred fit, proportions and design.

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Material Tags

satin-finish fabric, quilted satin, embroidery thread, rib-knit trim, metal zipper, synthetic satin, quilted textile, reversible construction, woven ribbing