Tailor Toyo Quilted Sukajan, Royal Blue with Dragon and Tiger under Japan, Black Sleeves, Size XL
Tailor Toyo Quilted Sukajan, Royal Blue with Dragon and Tiger under Japan, Black Sleeves, Size XL
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Every piece is measured by hand, in centimetres as Japan measures. Please allow 1–2 cm (about ½ inch) for the give of the material and the hand that held the tape. すべて手採寸（cm表記）。素材のゆとりや採寸の個人差により、1〜2cm程度の誤差が生じる場合がございます。あらかじめご了承ください。
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Widths are taken across one layer with the piece laid flat; double them for the full circumference.幅は平置きの片面を採寸しています。周囲は2倍してください。
Condition report
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- Honest Wear
- As Found
Coiled in thunder
Most souvenir jackets keep the dragon and the tiger on opposite faces; here they are wound into one struggle beneath a flash of red lightning. The quilted, padded body makes it a true winter sukajan, and the black sleeves frame the royal blue like a lacquer box.
Best for: Collectors of Tailor Toyo; cold-weather sukajan wardrobes
Condition notes
General signs of use, with no conspicuous damage noted; relatively good overall.
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A Tailor Toyo quilted souvenir jacket in royal blue satin: a dragon and a tiger locked together among clouds beneath Japan in red script, two snarling tiger heads on the chest, and black satin sleeves. Tagged XL.
The Piece
The back is a single tangled composition. A silver and green dragon rears from the upper left with its whiskers flying, a gold and black tiger twists through its coils, and pink and cream clouds with a flash of red lightning fill the space between them, all beneath Japan worked in red script across the shoulders.
The front is simpler and bolder: two gold tiger heads with open jaws face each other across the zip. The body is padded and quilted for warmth, the raglan sleeves are black satin edged with twisted cord, and green, gold and cream striped rib closes the collar, cuffs and hem. A red lining shows at the collar.
Tailor Toyo is the souvenir jacket label of Toyo Enterprise in Tokyo, which supplied embroidered jackets to American servicemen in the 1950s, and the dragon and tiger together are the classic subject of its embroidery.
Details
- Maker: Tailor Toyo (Toyo Enterprise)
- Style: Quilted souvenir jacket
- Shell: Quilted satin, padded
- Lining: Red
- Embroidery: Dragon, tiger, clouds, lightning; tiger heads on the chest
- Colour: Royal blue; black sleeves; striped rib
- Size: XL (per label)
- Shoulder: being confirmed against our archive records
- Chest width: being confirmed against our archive records
- Length: 66 cm (26.0 in)
- Sleeve (yuki, centre back neck to cuff): 88 cm (34.6 in)
Measured flat by hand; please allow a gentle margin of about 1 to 2 cm (0.5 in). For the chest width, please write to the Desk and we will confirm it for you.
Condition
- General signs of use, with no conspicuous damage noted; relatively good overall.
- Every photograph is part of the description; please study them closely.
Condition grade B (very good, light wear) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Checked and photographed in Japan before dispatch. Specialist dry clean only; do not press the quilting, and store the jacket on a broad hanger.
Delivery from Japan
Packed by hand in Japan and shipped insured and tracked by EMS or an equivalent express service. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
Considered offers are welcome through Send an Offer, and each one is reviewed personally. More in the Tailor Toyo collection and the sukajan collection.
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