Kitsune Sukajan Jacket 'Akuma no Hana' Zaisu The lace-up closure and unisex

The lace-up closure and unisex cut make them an easy

Rather than crisp and graphic

and carries the protective purpose of the shrine guardian rather than reading as a simple monster

and the dark blue ground does give the cloth the feel of a clouded night sky

Kitsune Sukajan Jacket 'Akuma no Hana' Zaisu The lace-up closure and unisexThe red sukajan crowded with spirits and a temple gate This sukajan tells a darker story. The back is a busy, full colour scene of folkloric figures and spirits among cherry blossom on a vivid red ground, while the front carries a red torii gate the threshold between the everyday world and the sacred. Embroidered in dense raised thread, it's a jacket with real narrative. The embroidery is rich and detailed, worked in genuine relief so the figures,