Tailor Toyo TT14465 Reversible Sukajan, Japan Map with Eagle and Dragon, White Tiger Reverse, Red and Black, XL
Tailor Toyo TT14465 Reversible Sukajan, Japan Map with Eagle and Dragon, White Tiger Reverse, Red and Black, 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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Sukajanスカジャン
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
Very Good
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- Good
- Honest Wear
- As Found
An archipelago in rose thread
The map jacket is the souvenir form at its most literal, a record of the places a wearer had been, and here it is set between an eagle and a dragon for full ceremony. The black face answers with a single white tiger, bold enough to stand alone. A big, generous XL with two genuinely different moods.
Best for: Japan map sukajan collectors; larger frames
Condition notes
Light signs of use; soft creasing to the satin, mostly on the ivory sleeves. Embroidery complete on both faces.
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A reversible Tailor Toyo sukajan, reference TT14465: a dusky red face mapping Japan city by city between a diving eagle and a golden dragon, and a black acetate face where a white tiger roars beneath Japan script. Tagged XL.
The Piece
The red face is the richer of the two. Across the back, the islands of Japan are traced in pink thread with the cities named along the way, Aomori, Hakodate, Sendai, Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Kobe and Hiroshima among them. An eagle in white, gold and orange swoops in from above and a golden dragon coils through clouds below, a classic souvenir map composed as a single scene. Two roundels of curling dragons and blossom sit on the chest, and silver satin sleeves complete the side.
Turn it over for the black face. A great white tiger's head, jaws wide and whiskers flared, fills the back under Japan in pale script, worked in cream, grey and red thread, with a pair of smaller tiger heads on the chest. Ivory satin sleeves carry a black stripe, and navy and gold rib closes the collar, cuffs and hem on both sides.
The label carries the Tailor Toyo mark with Mount Fuji, cherry blossom and torii gate and the words Hand Embroidery. Tailor Toyo is the line of Toyo Enterprise, the house most closely tied to the souvenir jackets of postwar Japan, where the map of the country was among the first and most enduring designs.
Details
- Maker: Tailor Toyo (Toyo Enterprise)
- Reference: TT14465 (per care label)
- Style: Reversible souvenir jacket
- Shell: 100% acetate (per label)
- Lining: 100% acetate, worn as the reverse face
- Embroidery: 100% rayon thread; rib 100% acrylic
- Colour: Dusky red and silver; black and ivory reverse
- Size: XL (per label)
- Shoulder: being confirmed against our archive records
- Chest width: 59 cm (23.2 in)
- Length: 63 cm (24.8 in)
- Sleeve: 90 cm (35.4 in), centre back neck to cuff
Measured flat by hand; please allow a gentle margin of about 1 to 2 cm (0.5 in). For the shoulder figure, please write to the Desk.
Condition
- Light signs of use, comfortably within everyday wear.
- The satin shows the soft creasing of a worn jacket, most visible on the ivory sleeves.
- Embroidery on both faces is complete; every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade B (good, light wear) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Checked and photographed in Japan before dispatch. Dry clean only; store on a broad hanger, away from direct light, so the rayon embroidery keeps its sheen.
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 from the maker in Tailor Toyo and the wider sukajan collection.
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