CHIKIRIYA Reversible Sukajan Jacket Burgundy Velvet Whale Peacock Japanese Y2K Souvenir Bomber Free Size M-L

Japanese Two-Face Yokosuka Jumper with Humpback Whale, Goldfish, Chrysanthemums, Peacock, Peonies, Birds, and Lavender Satin Sleeves

COLLECTOR’S OVERVIEW

A richly imagined reversible sukajan by CHIKIRIYA, bringing together two contrasting worlds of Japanese decorative art within one deeply atmospheric souvenir jacket.

The principal face is constructed in plush wine-burgundy velvet and embroidered with an immense pale whale moving through stylized waves, smaller whales, ornamental goldfish, and chrysanthemum blossoms. Silver-white, blue, red, lavender, and muted gold threads emerge dramatically against the velvet ground, creating the impression of a moonlit underwater garden suspended across the wearer’s back.

The reverse transforms the garment into a luminous ivory-and-lavender satin bomber. A full-tailed peacock stands among large peony blossoms, smaller companion birds, drifting petals, and an amber-gold painted atmosphere. The imagery extends across the back as a broad pictorial panel, while corresponding floral-and-bird compositions decorate the chest.

Each side presents a completely developed visual identity. The burgundy velvet face is dark, tactile, aquatic, and embroidered. The ivory-and-lavender reverse is bright, painterly, floral, and ceremonial. Together they form an unusual dialogue between the immense scale of the whale and the ornamental splendor of the peacock.

This is a particularly expressive example of CHIKIRIYA’s approach to Japanese streetwear: traditional and tradition-inspired motifs reassembled with playful imagination, unexpected symbolism, and strong textile contrast.

IDENTIFICATION

Object Type

Vintage reversible Japanese sukajan, also known as a Yokosuka jumper, embroidered souvenir bomber, Japanese tour jacket, or Japanese streetwear jacket.

Brand

CHIKIRIYA.

Origin

Japan.

Tagged Size

Free Size, indicated as approximately Japanese M-L.

Approximate Western Fit

Generally closest to a contemporary Western S-M or a trim M-L fit, depending on body proportions, desired silhouette, and the amount of layering worn beneath the jacket.

Primary Face

Deep burgundy velvet or velour-finish body and sleeves with extensive whale, goldfish, chrysanthemum, and wave embroidery.

Secondary Face

Ivory satin-finish body with lavender sleeves, a large peacock-and-peony pictorial back, corresponding floral chest artwork, decorative shoulder paneling, and striped rib-knit trim.

Construction

Fully reversible bomber construction with raglan-style sleeves, reversible metal zipper, ribbed collar, cuffs and waistband, and welt pockets on both wearable faces.

Principal Motifs

Humpback-like whale, smaller whales, ornamental goldfish, stylized waves, chrysanthemums, peacock, peonies, small birds, petals, foliage, and softly clouded color fields.

Color Palette

Wine burgundy, ivory, lavender, cream, forest green, dark brown, silver-white, cobalt blue, turquoise, red, coral, violet, amber, yellow, and muted gold.

CHIKIRIYA AND JAPANESE STREETWEAR

A Distinctive Decorative Language

CHIKIRIYA is recognized within Japanese fashion for combining traditional imagery with an offbeat, contemporary visual sensibility.

Rather than reproducing classical motifs in a strictly historical manner, its garments often bring together animals, flowers, tattoo-like linework, unexpected scale relationships, and richly colored textile surfaces.

This jacket exemplifies that approach.

A monumental whale occupies the same embroidered world as delicate goldfish and chrysanthemums. The opposite face replaces the oceanic composition with a peacock standing among peonies and small birds. The two scenes are culturally resonant yet imaginative rather than conventional.

Sukajan Heritage

The sukajan developed from embroidered souvenir jackets associated with Yokosuka and other Japanese port communities during the postwar period.

American bomber and athletic-jacket construction was combined with Japanese embroidery craftsmanship, creating garments decorated with dragons, tigers, eagles, maps, Mount Fuji, flowers, city names, and personalized tour imagery.

Over time, the sukajan moved beyond souvenir culture into Japanese rockabilly, motorcycle fashion, punk, visual-kei wardrobes, luxury design, anime fashion, and international streetwear.

This CHIKIRIYA example belongs to a later, more experimental chapter of the tradition. It preserves the reversible bomber architecture and monumental back imagery while replacing familiar tiger-and-dragon combinations with whale, goldfish, peacock, chrysanthemum, and peony imagery.

BURGUNDY VELVET FACE

Deep Wine-Colored Ground

The primary face is constructed from a plush burgundy velvet or velour-finish textile.

Its short pile responds dramatically to light, shifting between wine red, raspberry, dark crimson, maroon, and near-black burgundy depending on the direction of the nap.

Areas brushed in different directions may appear lighter or darker even where the underlying color remains consistent. This natural movement gives the garment depth and allows the embroidery to appear suspended over a shadowed surface.

The wine-colored velvet also creates an unusually luxurious setting for marine imagery. Rather than placing the whale in a conventional blue ocean, the design presents an imaginative crimson sea filled with blossoms, goldfish, and pale foam.

Ivory Ribbing

The velvet face is framed with warm ivory rib-knit at the collar, cuffs, and waistband.

The pale trim provides a clean contrast with the saturated burgundy shell and echoes the silver-white embroidery of the whale.

The ribbing gathers the velvet into the rounded, compact silhouette associated with classic souvenir bombers.

THE MONUMENTAL WHALE

Central Back Composition

The back is dominated by a vast pale whale embroidered diagonally across the burgundy ground.

Its broad body fills much of the composition, beginning near the center and extending toward the lower-right portion of the jacket. The animal’s scale gives the design immediate presence, while the surrounding smaller creatures and flowers create a dreamlike sense of depth.

The whale’s body is rendered primarily in silver-white and pale gray thread with dark burgundy contour details.

Its throat grooves, pectoral fin, eye, mouth, back markings, and broad body are articulated through directional stitching rather than flat filled color.

Humpback-Like Features

The long pectoral fins, pleated throat area, and rounded body appear consistent with a stylized humpback whale.

The animal is not rendered as a strict zoological illustration. Its anatomy has been simplified and enlarged to remain legible as wearable embroidery.

The resulting form feels monumental, calm, and protective rather than aggressive.

Directional Movement

The whale moves across the back rather than appearing in a rigid profile.

Its body curves gently through the surrounding waves, while the fin and tail create a broad diagonal rhythm. This movement prevents the large pale form from appearing static against the velvet.

The whale seems to glide through a layered field of water, fish, and flowers rather than occupying a literal marine landscape.

WHALE SYMBOLISM

Immensity and Inner Depth

The whale carries associations with vastness, emotional depth, intuition, memory, and the unseen world beneath the surface.

Its immense body moves through an environment that humans can observe only partially, making it a fitting symbol of interior life and mysteries that cannot be fully measured.

Protection and Quiet Strength

Unlike the roaring tiger or coiling dragon commonly found on sukajan, the whale expresses power through scale and composure.

Its strength is not announced through aggression. It is carried through presence, endurance, and effortless movement across an enormous environment.

Migration and Journey

Whales travel immense distances through seasonal migration.

They may therefore symbolize travel, return, continuity, and the ability to navigate across changing conditions.

This symbolism connects naturally with the original souvenir-jacket tradition, in which garments recorded journeys, stations, ports, and memories of movement between countries.

Voice and Communication

The whale is also associated with sound and communication across great distances.

Within the jacket’s poetic visual world, the animal becomes an emblem of messages carried invisibly through water, time, and memory.

SMALLER WHALES AND MARINE COMPANIONS

Blue-and-White Whales

Several smaller whales move around the central figure.

Their bodies are worked in combinations of white, cobalt blue, dark blue, pale gray, and burgundy.

One appears above the large whale, another travels beneath it, and an additional form is partly visible along the right side of the composition.

Their placement creates a sense of a larger migrating group rather than a solitary animal.

Layered Scale

The contrast between the monumental central whale and the smaller marine forms gives the embroidery pictorial depth.

The smaller animals may be read as distant whales, younger companions, or creatures swimming at another level within the imagined water.

The precise narrative remains open, allowing the viewer to interpret the scene as family, migration, protection, or a fantastical marine procession.

Stylized Waves

Blue, white, and burgundy wave forms curl around the whales.

The water is embroidered through tattoo-like arcs, foam crests, curling lines, and ornamental scrolls rather than through naturalistic ocean texture.

These wave forms connect the design to Japanese decorative traditions while preserving CHIKIRIYA’s playful graphic character.

ORNAMENTAL GOLDFISH

Red Goldfish

Bright red ornamental fish appear around the central whale.

Their flowing fins, rounded bodies, large eyes, and fan-like tails distinguish them from natural ocean fish.

One goldfish swims near the upper-right floral cluster, while another appears near the lower-center area of the composition.

Scale Contrast

The juxtaposition of the enormous whale with small decorative goldfish is intentionally imaginative.

These species would not ordinarily inhabit the same environment, yet their combination creates a visual world where ocean, garden pond, and floral textile imagery merge into one dreamlike scene.

Goldfish Symbolism

Goldfish, or kingyo, are associated with beauty, abundance, domestic pleasure, summer festivals, cultivated elegance, and the quiet enjoyment of living color.

Their ornamental appearance provides a charming counterpoint to the whale’s monumental serenity.

Whale and Goldfish Duality

The whale represents the immeasurable scale of the open sea.

The goldfish represents the intimate scale of an ornamental pond.

One suggests wilderness and migration.

The other suggests closeness, observation, and cultivated beauty.

Bringing them together transforms the jacket into a meditation on different forms of life moving through different kinds of water.

CHRYSANTHEMUM EMBROIDERY

Floral Clusters

Chrysanthemum-like blossoms surround the whales and goldfish.

The flowers are embroidered in lavender, violet, white, muted pink, red, burgundy, and touches of yellow-green.

Some appear as large radiating blooms with curled petals. Others are reduced to small flowers, buds, or drifting petal forms.

Kiku Symbolism

The chrysanthemum, or kiku, is associated with longevity, endurance, refinement, autumn, nobility, and rejuvenation.

Its many-layered petals unfold from a concentrated center, making it an emblem of ordered beauty and sustained life.

Flowers Within Water

The blossoms appear to float through the marine composition rather than grow from visible ground.

This creates an intentionally surreal atmosphere. The flowers may be read as floating garden forms, underwater blossoms, tattoo imagery, or fragments of decorative textile moving through the sea.

Seasonal Ambiguity

Chrysanthemums traditionally evoke autumn, while the marine animals suggest a timeless ocean environment.

Their combination frees the jacket from one literal season and gives it the quality of a symbolic dream landscape.

BURGUNDY-FACE FRONT

Mirrored Floral-Marine Emblems

The front carries two balanced embroidered arrangements across the chest.

Each composition brings together red ornamental goldfish, blue-and-white marine creatures, chrysanthemum blossoms, curved water lines, and small petal details.

The motifs face inward toward the zipper, creating a wreath-like frame around the wearer.

Compact Narrative

The chest designs act as condensed versions of the monumental back.

The same visual vocabulary appears on a smaller scale: whale-like forms, goldfish, flowers, waves, and decorative movement.

This continuity allows the jacket to remain recognizable from the front while reserving its most dramatic marine image for the back.

Velvet Welt Pockets

Two diagonal welt pockets are incorporated near the lower front.

Their openings are constructed in matching burgundy velvet, keeping them visually discreet and allowing the chest embroidery to remain the primary focus.

Central Reversible Zipper

A metal zipper closes the jacket through the center.

Its dark tape blends into the velvet, while the metal teeth provide a narrow vertical contrast between the paired chest motifs.

IVORY AND LAVENDER REVERSE

Complete Transformation

Reversing the jacket replaces the dark velvet ocean with a bright floral garden.

The central body becomes luminous ivory, while the sleeves shift to soft lavender with ivory inserts and paneling.

The color change is immediate and substantial, giving the garment the appearance of an entirely different jacket.

Ivory Satin Body

The body is made from a smooth ivory satin-finish textile.

Its reflective surface changes between warm white, cream, pale champagne, and soft silver according to the angle of the light.

Natural creasing and directional sheen give the surface movement beneath the painted or printed pictorial artwork.

Lavender Sleeves

The sleeves are constructed in pale violet or lavender satin.

Their color shifts between lilac, orchid, mauve, and soft purple under different lighting.

Ivory shoulder and sleeve panels brighten the arms and connect them visually with the central body.

Athletic Paneling

The reverse sleeves use elongated ivory inserts, lavender sections, and shaped shoulder panels.

This arrangement gives the garment a sporting or varsity influence that contrasts with the ornate peacock imagery.

Striped Ribbing

The reverse is framed with rib-knit combining cream, forest green, and dark brown or burgundy stripes.

The green accents connect subtly with the peacock’s wing feathers and the leaves surrounding the flowers.

THE PEACOCK

Monumental Reverse Image

A large peacock occupies the center of the reverse back.

The bird stands in profile with its neck raised and its immense tail cascading diagonally toward the lower-right corner.

Its body is rendered in deep blue-violet, charcoal, muted green, cream, and gray, while the long tail contains repeated eye-shaped feathers in bronze, olive, gold, black, lavender, and pale green.

Head and Crest

The peacock’s head is shown with an elegant upright crest.

Its face is pale around the eye, and the slender beak extends forward toward a small companion bird.

The neck curves gracefully upward, creating a refined contrast with the broad, heavy tail beneath it.

Wing Structure

The folded wings use overlapping green, gray, cream, and dark feather forms.

These layered sections give the body dimension and prevent it from disappearing against the richly colored background.

Peacock Tail

The tail is the most ornate element of the reverse.

Individual feather eyes are repeated across a wide cascading fan, creating a rhythmic field of dark centers, gold outlines, olive rings, and plum-toned details.

The tail flows from the bird’s body across the lower back and reaches toward the waistband, giving the composition a strong diagonal sweep.

Painterly Surface

The peacock appears to be executed through a printed or painted textile treatment rather than the raised embroidery used on the velvet face.

Its color fields have softer edges and a more illustrative quality, allowing fine feather patterning and broad atmospheric color to cover a large surface without excessive weight.

PEACOCK SYMBOLISM

Beauty and Dignity

The peacock is associated with beauty, confidence, dignity, self-possession, and the deliberate presentation of splendor.

Its tail is not merely ornamental. It transforms the bird into a moving display of pattern, light, and color.

Protection and Watchfulness

The eye-like markings across the tail may suggest vigilance and protection.

The repeated feather eyes create the impression that the bird remains watchful even when turned away.

Renewal

Peacocks renew their elaborate plumage through natural cycles.

They may therefore symbolize renewal, restoration, and beauty returning after apparent loss.

Ceremonial Presence

In Asian decorative art, peacocks frequently appear among peonies and flowering trees.

The pairing creates an image of cultivated elegance, abundance, dignity, and auspicious beauty.

PEONIES AND FLOWERING BRANCHES

Large Peony-Like Blossoms

Large coral, rose, pink, lavender, and cream flowers surround the peacock.

Their full, layered petals appear consistent with peony-inspired imagery.

The blossoms gather across the upper-right and lower-left areas of the back, creating a diagonal floral frame around the bird.

Botan Symbolism

The peony, or botan, is associated with prosperity, beauty, honor, abundance, romance, and cultivated elegance.

Its many-layered form gives it a particularly luxurious presence within Japanese and broader East Asian decorative art.

Peacock and Peony Combination

The combination of peacock and peony is especially auspicious.

The peacock contributes dignity, beauty, vigilance, and renewal.

The peony contributes prosperity, abundance, and flourishing life.

Together they create a composition associated with elegance and favorable fortune.

Floral Front Panels

Corresponding peony arrangements decorate both sides of the reverse chest.

The flowers are enclosed within warm yellow, orange, and coral cloud-like fields, while small birds approach the blossoms from the outer edges.

These panels operate like paired textile paintings placed across the chest.

SMALL BIRDS AND PETALS

Companion Birds

Several small birds move through the peacock composition.

One stands near the peacock’s back, while others fly through the upper background or appear beside the floral chest panels.

Their species is stylized rather than strictly identified, but their compact bodies and active poses give the scene liveliness and scale.

Relationship to the Peacock

The small birds emphasize the peacock’s grandeur.

They create a visual hierarchy between ordinary garden birds and the large ceremonial centerpiece.

They may also suggest community, seasonal movement, and the animated life of a flowering garden.

Drifting Petals

Loose petals appear around the peacock and flowers.

Their curved shapes reinforce the sense of a breeze moving across the pictorial field.

The petals connect the chest, back, flowers, and birds through continuous motion.

REVERSE FRONT

Paired Floral Panels

The ivory chest carries two balanced pictorial panels.

Each includes peony-like flowers, dark foliage, smaller blossoms, warm yellow-orange backgrounds, and an approaching bird.

The arrangements face inward toward the zipper, giving the front a complete and carefully balanced presentation.

Lavender Arrow Pockets

The welt pockets are outlined with lavender trim ending in pointed arrow-like tips.

This detail introduces a strong mid-century athletic character and coordinates with the sleeves.

Clean Lower Body

The lower ivory body remains comparatively open.

This negative space prevents the floral chest artwork from becoming visually crowded and makes the reverse easier to style for everyday wear.

Two-Face Color Coordination

The reverse’s lavender, ivory, green, brown, and coral palette differs strongly from the burgundy face but still relates to it through shared violet floral tones and warm cream ribbing.

REVERSIBLE CONSTRUCTION

Two Fully Developed Faces

The garment has been designed as a true reversible sukajan.

The burgundy side offers velvet texture, raised embroidery, marine imagery, and a restrained tonal palette.

The ivory-and-lavender side offers a smooth satin surface, painterly peacock artwork, floral panels, and brighter athletic color blocking.

Neither face functions as a conventional hidden lining.

Reversible Metal Hardware

The central metal zipper is configured for use from either side.

The slider and lower components should be aligned carefully, as reversible hardware can require more patient handling than a contemporary single-face zipper.

Raglan-Style Sleeves

The sleeves extend diagonally from the neckline toward the underarm.

This construction creates a smooth shoulder profile and allows uninterrupted velvet on one face and long contrasting satin panels on the other.

Shared Ribbing

The collar, cuffs, and waistband serve both wearable faces.

The ribbing’s cream, green, and dark stripes coordinate with the ivory reverse while remaining compatible with the wine-colored velvet.

Pocket Systems

Functional welt pockets are incorporated into both sides.

The burgundy pockets are discreet and monochromatic.

The lavender-and-ivory pockets are highlighted with contrasting arrow-shaped trim.

TEXTILE AND DESIGN EXECUTION

Velvet or Velour Surface

The burgundy side has a soft pile consistent with velvet or velour-finish material.

Its directional nap creates natural shifts in tone and gives the garment a rich tactile character.

Satin-Finish Reverse

The ivory and lavender face has a smooth reflective surface.

Satin naturally records folds, pressure, movement, and directional light, causing colors to shift significantly across the garment.

Embroidery Density

The whale composition uses extensive machine embroidery.

The central whale contains dense silver-white threadwork, while the smaller whales, flowers, fish, and waves are constructed from layered areas of blue, red, violet, gray, and gold.

Directional Stitching

Thread direction follows the whale’s body, throat grooves, fins, and contours.

The chrysanthemums use radiating stitches that reflect their layered petals.

The goldfish use curved scale divisions and flowing fin stitches.

Pictorial Reverse Technique

The peacock-and-peony imagery appears primarily printed or painted onto the satin-finish surface.

This allows complex tonal shading, numerous feather eyes, large floral fields, and atmospheric backgrounds to remain light enough for reversible wear.

Embroidery Puckering

Localized rippling may appear around dense embroidered sections.

This is typical where substantial threadwork is applied to soft velvet or lightweight backing textiles and contributes to the dimensional character of the design.

PERIOD AND STYLE ASSESSMENT

Likely Era

The jacket appears consistent with Japanese streetwear and decorative sukajan production from the 2000s to early 2010s.

Its velvet construction, reversible pictorial face, unusual animal pairing, lavender satin, athletic paneling, and extensive machine embroidery align strongly with Y2K and post-Y2K Japanese fashion.

Heisei-Era Design Character

The garment reflects the playful eclecticism associated with Heisei-era Japanese streetwear.

Traditional flowers, marine animals, peacock imagery, tattoo-like waves, velvet leisurewear, and varsity construction are combined without being confined to one historic design system.

Exact Production Year

The precise year of manufacture is not identified within the supplied photographs.

CONDITION

Overall Condition

Vintage pre-owned condition with gentle velvet nap variation, satin creasing, surface movement, embroidery-related rippling, and age-appropriate handling or storage character.

Both wearable faces remain visually strong, and the principal whale and peacock compositions retain substantial definition and color.

Burgundy Velvet

The wine-colored velvet shows natural changes in nap direction.

Areas may appear lighter, darker, brushed, or gently flattened depending on folds, handling, and light.

Small pale fibers or light lint may be visible against the dark pile.

The color remains deep and saturated in the supplied photographs.

Whale Embroidery

The large whale remains clearly defined.

Its body, eye, mouth, throat grooves, fin, markings, and surrounding wave forms retain strong contrast.

No major missing section of the central whale is visible.

Minor raised fibers, isolated loose thread ends, subtle edge wear, or light embroidery irregularity may be present within the densely worked surface.

Smaller Marine Motifs

The smaller whales, goldfish, chrysanthemums, and wave forms remain substantially intact and legible.

Their blue, red, white, violet, and gold thread colors continue to stand out against the burgundy ground.

Velvet Ribbing

The warm ivory cuffs and waistband remain present and structurally cohesive.

The pale knit may show gentle age toning, mild waviness, relaxation, or light surface wear consistent with use and storage.

Ivory Satin Reverse

The ivory body shows natural creasing, directional sheen, and subtle tonal variation.

Pale satin may reveal pressure marks and changes in reflected light more readily than dark fabric.

No catastrophic tear or major missing panel is visible.

Lavender Sleeves

The lavender sleeves display natural wrinkling and areas of lighter and darker reflective sheen.

The color remains attractive and substantially consistent across the photographed panels.

Peacock Artwork

The peacock, tail feathers, flowers, companion birds, and background color fields remain clearly readable.

The illustration retains strong purple, green, coral, yellow, cream, and dark detailing.

Gentle surface wear, softened printed areas, or minor age-related variation may be present across the pictorial textile.

Chest Artwork

The paired floral panels remain well defined.

The flowers, leaves, birds, and warm cloud-like backgrounds are visible and balanced across the chest.

Zipper and Structure

The reversible metal zipper and lower fastening hardware are present.

The principal body panels, raglan seams, sleeves, pockets, cuffs, waistband, and pictorial fields appear structurally complete.

No large hole, severe tearing, catastrophic seam separation, or major missing textile section is visible in the supplied photographs.

Vintage Character

This garment is not presented as factory-new.

Natural velvet nap movement, satin creasing, ribbing relaxation, embroidery tension, printed-surface variation, and small signs of previous wear form part of its authentic vintage character.

DIMENSIONS AND SIZING

Tagged Size

Free Size, approximately Japanese M-L.

Approximate Western Conversion

Generally comparable to a Western S-M, or a slim-fitting M-L depending on chest measurement, shoulder breadth, sleeve preference, and the amount of layering intended beneath the jacket.

Fit Character

The jacket follows a compact Japanese bomber silhouette with raglan-style sleeves, a gathered waistband, and moderate fullness through the arms.

The reversible construction adds more body than an unlined satin bomber, which should be considered when selecting the desired fit.

Unisex Wear

The jacket is suitable for masculine, feminine, and gender-neutral styling.

Its actual fit will depend upon body proportions and whether the wearer prefers a traditional close sukajan silhouette or a looser contemporary presentation.

COLLECTOR DESIRABILITY

CHIKIRIYA Attribution

The CHIKIRIYA identity adds brand-specific interest for collectors of unconventional Japanese streetwear and decorative sukajan.

Unusual Whale Subject

Whales appear far less frequently on sukajan than tigers, dragons, eagles, koi, or hawks.

The monumental pale animal gives the jacket a distinctive identity within a crowded collecting category.

Velvet Construction

The burgundy pile textile gives the jacket a richer tactile presence than conventional satin.

Its surface absorbs light and allows the silver-white whale embroidery to appear especially luminous.

Whale and Goldfish Surrealism

The improbable combination of enormous whale, smaller whales, ornamental goldfish, chrysanthemums, and tattoo-like waves gives the design a dreamlike character unique to CHIKIRIYA’s decorative language.

Peacock Reverse

The reverse provides another major collector motif rather than a plain alternate face.

The full-tailed peacock and peony composition is expansive, colorful, and highly suitable for display.

Embroidery and Pictorial Textile Contrast

One side is dominated by raised embroidery over velvet.

The other is dominated by painterly imagery over reflective satin.

This difference creates unusually strong tactile and visual transformation.

Fully Developed Fronts

Both faces carry coordinated chest designs and distinct pocket treatments.

The garment remains visually complete from the front regardless of which side is worn outward.

Free-Size Wearability

The Japanese Free Size M-L designation gives the garment flexible styling potential, especially for buyers who favor compact or trim bomber proportions.

Display Potential

Either back functions as a substantial textile artwork.

The whale face offers a dark, marine, almost nocturnal atmosphere.

The peacock face offers a luminous garden scene rich with birds, flowers, and color.

DISPLAY, STYLING, AND CULTURAL VALUE

Burgundy Velvet Styling

Wear the whale face with black trousers, dark denim, ivory knitwear, boots, or restrained monochrome layers.

The rich wine-colored pile and pale whale already provide strong visual contrast, so additional graphics are unnecessary.

Japanese Streetwear

Pair with wide-leg trousers, washed denim, cargo pants, sneakers, or minimalist layered clothing.

The compact bomber silhouette works naturally with both fitted and oversized lower-body proportions.

Dark Romantic Styling

The whale, chrysanthemums, velvet texture, and burgundy palette complement gothic, visual-kei, dark romantic, and alternative Japanese wardrobes.

Black leather, silver jewelry, platform footwear, and long layered silhouettes can intensify the nocturnal marine atmosphere.

Ivory and Lavender Styling

The peacock face pairs beautifully with cream, lavender, plum, olive, faded blue, brown, or black.

Its brighter palette works particularly well with understated supporting pieces that allow the peacock tail and peony artwork to remain dominant.

Feminine Styling

The floral and peacock imagery can be worn with long skirts, dresses, tailored trousers, lace-up footwear, or soft layered textiles.

The bomber structure creates a compelling contrast with flowing garments.

Gender-Neutral Styling

The jacket’s animal symbolism, athletic construction, and reversible palette move comfortably across masculine, feminine, and gender-neutral wardrobes.

Editorial and Stagewear

Velvet and satin respond very differently under directional lighting.

The burgundy face absorbs shadow while the whale embroidery glows.

The ivory face reflects broad highlights and reveals the peacock’s layered tail and floral color.

This duality makes the garment particularly effective for editorial photography, music styling, stage wardrobes, visual merchandising, and Japanese-inspired fashion film.

Wearable Dialogue of Scale

The jacket presents two contrasting models of beauty.

The whale is immense, calm, and oceanic.

The peacock is terrestrial, ornamental, and openly magnificent.

One carries beauty through quiet scale.

The other carries beauty through display.

Textile Display

Displayed on a broad padded hanger, either back becomes a large pictorial panel.

Collectors may alternate the visible face according to season, interior palette, or the thematic focus of a collection.

CARE AND PRESERVATION

Professional Cleaning

Professional dry cleaning by a specialist experienced with velvet, embroidered textiles, printed satin, ribbed knit, and reversible garments is recommended.

Do not machine wash, soak, bleach, scrub, wring, or tumble dry.

Velvet Care

Do not iron the burgundy velvet directly.

Heat and pressure may crush the pile, create permanent shine, or leave flattened patches.

Do not brush aggressively. Temporary pressure variation may relax naturally when the garment is allowed to hang in a dry environment.

Embroidery Care

Do not iron directly over the whale, goldfish, chrysanthemums, waves, or smaller marine forms.

Avoid pulling loose fibers or trimming thread ends without understanding how they connect to the surrounding embroidery.

Printed Satin Care

Avoid aggressive spot cleaning on the peacock side.

Uncontrolled moisture, solvents, or rubbing may soften color, create tide marks, or alter the satin sheen.

Abrasion Protection

Keep both faces away from hook-and-loop fasteners, rough bags, sharp jewelry, textured walls, abrasive straps, and exposed hardware.

Velvet pile, satin, embroidery, and printed surfaces may all be damaged through repeated friction.

Ribbing Care

Do not carry the jacket by the collar, cuffs, or waistband.

Handle the knit evenly and avoid unnecessary stretching.

Zipper Care

Align the reversible zipper carefully before fastening.

Keep velvet, satin, ribbing, and artwork clear of the teeth. Do not force the slider if resistance is encountered.

Reversing the Jacket

Turn the garment slowly while supporting the body and sleeves.

Avoid sharply pulling one cuff through the opposite sleeve, as this may stress the ribbing, seams, artwork, and embroidery.

Storage

Store on a broad padded hanger capable of supporting the reversible construction and embroidered back.

Use a breathable garment cover rather than sealed plastic.

Keep the jacket away from direct sunlight, high humidity, smoke, perfume, dust, and prolonged compression.

Display

Alternate the visible face periodically when displaying the jacket for extended periods.

This helps reduce uneven exposure to light and allows both the whale and peacock compositions to be appreciated.

SHIPPING, OFFERS, AND FINAL-SALE POLICIES

Shipping

Worldwide tracked shipping is available from Japan, generally through Japan Post EMS or another suitable tracked international service.

The jacket will be carefully folded with protective material placed between the velvet, embroidery, pictorial satin, ribbed trim, zipper, and hardware.

Tracking information is normally provided approximately 3-5 business days after dispatch.

Delivery times depend on destination, customs processing, postal conditions, and the international service available at the time of shipment.

Protective Packaging

Special care will be taken to reduce pressure on the whale embroidery, smaller marine creatures, chrysanthemums, goldfish, peacock tail, floral panels, printed surfaces, and velvet nap.

Gentle transit folds may remain upon arrival and should be allowed to relax naturally rather than treated with direct high heat.

Additional Photographs

Additional photographs may be available upon request.

Please contact us before purchase should you wish to examine the embroidery edges, velvet pile, peacock artwork, reverse chest panels, ribbing, zipper, cuffs, waistband, pockets, or interior construction more closely.

Offers

Reasonable offers may be considered on selected items.

Because of the CHIKIRIYA attribution, reversible construction, velvet textile, unusual whale imagery, and complete peacock reverse, price flexibility may be limited. Serious and respectful proposals are nevertheless welcome and considered individually.

Product Representation

Every effort has been made to represent the jacket accurately through the photographs and description.

Velvet and satin change substantially according to lighting, pile direction, camera exposure, viewing angle, and screen calibration.

The burgundy may appear wine red, raspberry, crimson, or maroon. The ivory may appear cream or pale champagne, and the lavender may shift between lilac, orchid, and mauve.

Vintage Condition

This is a pre-owned vintage or vintage-era garment and is not presented as factory-new.

Natural velvet nap variation, satin creasing, printed-surface variation, embroidery puckering, small thread irregularities, ribbing relaxation, and age-related textile character may be present.

Final Sale

The jacket is sold in its present condition as photographed and described.

All sales are final. No returns, claims, cancellations, or exchanges are accepted for accurately disclosed vintage wear, approximate sizing, velvet nap variation, satin variation, color variation, creasing, embroidery tension, printed-surface character, ribbing relaxation, patina, or other age-related characteristics, subject to applicable Etsy rules and consumer law.

Please review all photographs, condition information, sizing guidance, and policies carefully before completing your purchase.

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MATERIAL TAGS

rayon satin, velvet textile, cotton ribbing, embroidery thread, printed satin, metal zipper