{"product_id":"indigo-dragon-pattern-happi-koryu","title":"Indigo Dragon Pattern Happi 'Koryu'","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSmall white dragons scattered across indigo, the happi that reads as a pattern\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the happi coat that looks most like the ones handed out at a festival: indigo, covered edge to edge in a small repeating motif, and worn open over a white shirt by the people carrying the shrine. The motif here is a dragon, drawn small in white line with its coils and whiskers, scattered across the whole coat in every direction, so from a distance the coat reads as a textured blue and from close as a hundred dragons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the calmest coat in the range and the most traditional in its manners, because a small all-over pattern on indigo is what Japanese festival cloth has looked like for two centuries, and it is the one that a person who has been to a matsuri will recognise first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Koryu, is the small dragon, the young one, drawn at the size of a hand and repeated until it is a pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is printed, not woven, with the white kept crisp against the indigo and the dragons placed so no two adjacent ones face the same way. The cloth is polyester, firmly woven with a dry, matte hand and a clean drape, chosen because a happi is a coat for standing in a crowd in July and must stay light, hold a flat collar band and keep its print through a summer of washing. It is unlined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cut is the classic happi: straight through the body, falling to mid-thigh, with wide three-quarter sleeves, a flat collar band and no fastening. It hangs open over a white tee and stays open, with a slit at each side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom across a street it is an indigo coat with a pale fleck all over it. From close the fleck becomes dragons, each with claws, whiskers and a curl of cloud, drawn in a single white line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWear it over a white tee and white trousers, as in the photograph, which is exactly how it is worn at a festival, or over denim for the street. It is the coat to buy first if you want a happi and not a poster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collar band is flat and indigo, the same as the ground, so the pattern runs unbroken across the front. The coat is longer and straighter than a haori, the way a festival coat is, and it hangs open like one over a shirt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSizes run from S 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":"S","offer_id":59207717749084,"sku":"14:1063#Kimono cardigan 21;5:100014066#S","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":59207717781852,"sku":"14:1063#Kimono cardigan 21;5:100014064#M","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":59207717814620,"sku":"14:1063#Kimono cardigan 21;5:361386#L","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":59207717847388,"sku":"14:1063#Kimono cardigan 21;5:361385#XL","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":59207717880156,"sku":"14:1063#Kimono cardigan 21;5:100014065#XXL","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3XL","offer_id":59207717912924,"sku":"14:1063#Kimono cardigan 21;5:4182#3XL","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4XL","offer_id":59207717945692,"sku":"14:1063#Kimono cardigan 21;5:4183#4XL","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5XL","offer_id":59207717978460,"sku":"14:1063#Kimono cardigan 21;5:200000990#5XL","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/3386\/6332\/files\/indigo-dragon-pattern-happi-koryu-1.jpg?v=1790580581","url":"https:\/\/yonaku.com\/products\/indigo-dragon-pattern-happi-koryu","provider":"YONAKU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}