{"product_id":"mens-bright-blue-yukata-minamo","title":"Men's Bright Blue Yukata 'Minamo'","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWhite stripes and pale circles on bright blue, like light on water, tied in brown\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe blue on this yukata is brighter than the others, a clear mid-blue rather than a navy, and the print on it is water. Fine white stripes run down the cloth in bands, some close and some spaced, and across them float pale blue circles of different sizes, some the size of a coin, some the size of a plate, transparent enough that the stripes show through them. Bubbles, or moons on a river, or the rings a drop makes. The obi is brown, wide and flat, and against the blue it is a jetty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the freshest piece in the men's range and the most summery, because the blue is the blue of a swimming pool and the circles are the only round things in a collection of stripes. It looks cool, in both senses, and it looks best in sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Minamo, is the surface of the water, the word for the top of a pond or a river where the light lands, and the print is that surface drawn in two colours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is printed, not woven, with the circles kept translucent so the stripes run through them. The cloth is polyester with a dry hand and a slight texture, chosen because a blue this bright must stay bright through washing and the white must stay white, and because a summer yukata should weigh nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe obi is included. Cross the fronts left over right, wrap the brown obi twice at the waist and knot it at the hip. Brown against bright blue is a warm, slightly old-fashioned pairing, and it is the one that stops the outfit looking like sportswear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt three metres it is a striped blue robe. At thirty centimetres the circles appear, the stripes show through them, and the two patterns overlap without either one winning. It is built for the second look and for the light.\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 for a hot morning. Worn out with pale sandals it is the summer outfit of the men's range, and it goes with white, cream and any blue lighter than itself.\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":59207701987676,"sku":"14:691#7;5:361386#M 168-177cm","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":59207702020444,"sku":"14:691#7;5:361385#L 178-184cm","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":59207702053212,"sku":"14:691#7;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\/mens-bright-blue-yukata-minamo-1.jpg?v=1790580032","url":"https:\/\/yonaku.com\/products\/mens-bright-blue-yukata-minamo","provider":"YONAKU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}