{"product_id":"blue-ink-dragon-kimono-jacket-sumi-e","title":"Blue Ink Dragon Kimono Jacket 'Sumi-e'","description":"\u003ch2\u003eA dragon painted in blue ink, dissolving into the cloth as it moves\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere most dragons are drawn, this one is painted. The body is a wash of navy and black ink over a pale ground, the head comes up across the back with its antlers reaching for the collar, and the edges of the creature blur into blue mist the way ink does when the brush is wet. Nothing is outlined. The dragon appears where the ink is dense and disappears where it thins, and the effect is of something moving through water rather than sitting on a jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe front carries the tail end of it. Dark strokes sweep down both panels and along the sleeves, with the pale ground showing through in patches, and the lower left goes almost white where the wash runs out. It means the front reads as an abstract in blue and cream until you see the back, at which point the abstract turns out to have a face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is printed, not embroidered, and the printing does what a brush would: soft where the ink is soft, sharp on the antlers and the eye. The cloth is polyester, and here that matters more than usual, because a wash this delicate would go grey on a cotton after ten washes. It is light enough for summer and holds its shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cut is a short open kimono jacket with a flat edge down both fronts, no fastening, wide elbow-length sleeves and a hem at the hip. Worn open over a white tee, the white joins the pale ground and the dragon seems to swim around you. Over navy, the print's dark strokes link up with the tee and the pale patches become the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWear it with white, cream or navy below, and keep everything else quiet. This is a painterly piece, and painterly pieces lose their nerve next to a logo. If you want a dragon but not the roar, this is the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Sumi-e, is the Japanese term for ink-wash painting, the discipline of saying the most with the least ink, and the print honours it: the antlers are a few confident strokes, the mist is a single dilute wash, and there is more pale ground on the jacket than there is dragon. If you have ever liked a brush painting for the parts the brush did not touch, this is that idea, worn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSizes run from M to 5XL. It is cut to Asian sizing and runs small, so take one size up from your usual. Between two sizes, take the larger.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YONAKU","offers":[{"title":"M","offer_id":59208045396316,"sku":"14:350850#5;5:361386","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":59208045429084,"sku":"14:350850#5;5:361385","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":59208045461852,"sku":"14:350850#5;5:100014065","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":59208045494620,"sku":"14:350850#5;5:4182","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3XL","offer_id":59208045527388,"sku":"14:350850#5;5:4183","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4XL","offer_id":59208045560156,"sku":"14:350850#5;5:200000990","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5XL","offer_id":59208045592924,"sku":"14:350850#5;5:200000991","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/3386\/6332\/files\/blue-ink-dragon-kimono-jacket-sumi-e-1.jpg?v=1790578754","url":"https:\/\/yonaku.com\/products\/blue-ink-dragon-kimono-jacket-sumi-e","provider":"YONAKU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}