Vintage Map Sukajan, Mount Fuji and Base Towns, Tiger and Dragon Chest, Copper and Mustard Satin, Fits M
Vintage Map Sukajan, Mount Fuji and Base Towns, Tiger and Dragon Chest, Copper and Mustard Satin, Fits M
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A guide for this piece: about $168, based on the 10% US charge on the declared value of goods made in Japan.
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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
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- Good
- Honest Wear
- As Found
A Tour of Duty in Thread
The map jacket is the sukajan at its most personal: a record, in gold and white thread, of the towns and bases a young man passed through. This one names more than a dozen of them around a central Fuji, and its faded copper satin wears the years openly. It is a document as much as a garment.
Best for: Collectors of early map sukajan and military souvenir textiles
Condition notes
Visible wear throughout. Fading and discolouration of the satin, tide marks and staining on the sleeves, fraying at the cuff rib. Embroidery complete and legible.
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A vintage map sukajan in copper satin with mustard sleeves: across the back, an embroidered map of Japan and the Korean peninsula under the script word Japan, with Mount Fuji at its heart and a dragon rising from the waves below; on the chest, a tiger faces a dragon. No size label; it measures as a men's M.
The Piece
The back is a stitched itinerary. Gold outlines trace the islands, and white and green lettering names the towns along them: Sapporo, Chitose, Misawa, Sendai, Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Ashiya, Hakata, Itazuke, Sasebo and Okinawa, with Pyongyang, Seoul and Pusan across the strait. A snow-capped Fuji in grey and white thread stands at the centre, and a golden dragon breaks through blue waves at the hem.
On the front, a striped tiger rears on the left chest and a gold dragon with a pink flame curls on the right. The raglan sleeves are a contrasting mustard satin with a dark piping along the seam, the rib at the collar, cuffs and hem is striped maroon and gold, and the lining is black diamond-quilted.
Many of the names are those of American air and naval bases in Japan, and maps of this kind are among the most sought-after sukajan subjects: the souvenir jacket began as a keepsake embroidered for servicemen stationed in Japan, and the map was the most literal record of where a tour had led.
Details
- Maker: Unmarked; no maker's label present
- Style: Souvenir jacket, zip front, raglan sleeves
- Shell: Satin, copper body with mustard sleeves
- Lining: Black, diamond quilted
- Embroidery: Japan and Korea map, Mount Fuji, place names, dragon and waves on the back; tiger and dragon on the chest
- Colour: Copper orange and mustard yellow, maroon and gold rib
- Size: Not marked; measures as a men's M
- Shoulder: 49 cm (19.3 in)
- Chest width: 52 cm (20.5 in)
- Length: 61 cm (24.0 in)
- Sleeve: 50 cm (19.7 in); centre back neck to cuff 89 cm (35.0 in)
Measured flat by hand; please allow a gentle margin of about 1 to 2 cm (0.5 in).
Condition
- Visible wear throughout, as befits an old souvenir jacket.
- Fading and discolouration across the satin, with tide marks and staining on the sleeves.
- Fraying at the cuff rib; general softening of the rib at the collar and hem.
- The embroidery remains complete and legible; every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade C (good, visible wear) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Checked and photographed in Japan before dispatch. Entrust it to a specialist cleaner familiar with old satin; store on a broad hanger, away from direct light, so the thread and the faded satin are spared further change.
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 wider sukajan collection and in Amekaji.
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