PHAVOS™ -Shijō Nōryō- Ukiyo-e Moonlit Hoodie

PHAVOS™ -Shijō Nōryō- Ukiyo-e Moonlit Hoodie

XS
€120 EUR
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PHAVOS™ -Shijō Nōryō- Ukiyo-e Moonlit Hoodie

PHAVOS™ -Shijō Nōryō- Ukiyo-e Moonlit Hoodie

€120 EUR

Model is 1,80 cm and wears a size S

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The Piece
Cut in heavyweight cream cotton fleece, this hoodie doesn't announce itself — no name, no explanation, just a Killin' Luxury mark at the chest and a 19th-century Kyoto riverbank on the back. It rewards the people who already know what they're looking at, and gives everyone else a great hoodie.

The Artwork
The back print reproduces Cooling Off at Shijō (Shijō Nōryō, 1885), plate No. 10 from Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's Tsuki Hyakushi — "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon." It depicts a young teahouse waitress on the banks of Kyoto's Kamo River, dipping her foot into the water to cool off on a summer evening — a scene drawn from Shijōgawara no suzumi, the centuries-old tradition of gathering along the riverbank to escape the summer heat under the light of the full moon.

The Artist
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892) is regarded as the last great master of ukiyo-e. Coming of age as Japan opened to the West after centuries of isolation, he worked across an unusually wide range of subjects — samurai heroism, ghost stories, historical drama, and, as here, quiet scenes of everyday life — culminating in One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, completed in the final years of his life and widely considered his masterpiece.

The Intervention
The night sky above the water is reworked into the PHAVOS™ logo, so the woman appears to rest directly on it — the moonlit scene folded into the brand's own mark rather than placed beside it.

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