{"product_id":"grey-dragon-stripe-yukata-ryumon","title":"Grey Dragon Stripe Yukata 'Ryumon'","description":"\u003ch2\u003eGrey with black stripes and a dragon drawn faintly in the weave, tied in black\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dragon on this yukata does not want to be seen at once. Black vertical stripes run down a mid-grey ground, some thin, some wide, unevenly spaced, and between them a dragon is drawn in faint black ink, coiling through the stripes with its scales and whiskers barely a shade darker than the grey, so it appears only when the eye has stopped on the cloth. From a distance it is a striped robe. From a metre away it has a beast in it. The obi is black, wide and flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the most discreet dragon in the collection and the most Japanese in its manners, because hiding the picture inside the pattern is exactly what the old kimono-makers did when the laws forbade them to show off. The stripe is the disguise. The dragon is the joke.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Ryumon, is the dragon gate, the waterfall of the legend that a carp climbs to become a dragon, and the word also means a stripe. The print is both at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is printed, not woven, with the stripes kept sharp and the dragon kept faint on purpose. The cloth is polyester with a dry hand and a slight texture, chosen because a grey this mid must hold a black stripe and a near-invisible drawing at the same time through washing, and because a yukata should hang light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe obi is included. Cross the fronts left over right, wrap the black obi twice at the waist and knot it at the hip. The obi picks up the widest stripe on the cloth and reads as one more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt three metres it is a grey-and-black striped robe. At thirty centimetres the dragon shows its scales, its claws and its whiskers, drawn in a single tone of ink. It is the print in the collection built most deliberately for the second look.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cut is long, falling to the ankle, with wide square sleeves and the room to walk. Worn at home it is a robe with a secret in it. Worn out with black sandals it is a summer outfit that reads sharp from the street and rewards the person who sits next to you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSizes run from M to XL, by height. 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":59207701102940,"sku":"14:365458#5;5:361386#M 168-177cm","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":59207701135708,"sku":"14:365458#5;5:361385#L 178-184cm","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":59207701168476,"sku":"14:365458#5;5:100014065#XL 185-194cm","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/3386\/6332\/files\/grey-dragon-stripe-yukata-ryumon-1.jpg?v=1790579991","url":"https:\/\/yonaku.com\/products\/grey-dragon-stripe-yukata-ryumon","provider":"YONAKU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}