About Sumida Jazz T-shirt

“Sumida Street Jazz Festival” has been held since August 2010 for no admission for all sessions under the concept of “music festival for anyone to enjoy playing and listening to live music for 2 days a year in the music town of Sumida”.
Thanks to all of you, we honorable welcomed more than 100,000 visitors last year.
We believe we have delivered the joy and fun of listening to live music to many audiences.
We do not have big sponsors. The huge cost for the festival is covered by sponsorship by companies, donations from the general public, and food/beverage & T-shirt sales.
It is crucial for us to balance our budgets so we can continually put on this festival for many years into the future.

Please support this festival through your purchase of T-shirts.

Volunteer staff will welcome you wearing a T-shirt of the same design on the days of the festival.  Please visit the festival wearing the same design of the T-shirt.  Those who wear the T-shirt are part of our crowd. So why don’t you join us with wearing the T-shirt.
Please bring additional excitement to the Sumida Street Jazz Festival with!

The T-shirt for this year is designed by Masayuki Kojo-san, an ink-brush warrior painter.

For the commemoration of the 8th anniversary of the Sumida Jazz Festival, we have very different T-shirt design from the previous years, an ink-brush work by Masayuki Kojo-san.

Japan’s popularity has been rising in recent years, so we requested the painter to design a T-shirt under the theme of “Japonesque” based on an idea how it would be like if a samurai plays the saxophone.

Some Samurai may have liked music and could have played the bamboo flute!!

How would a Samurai have felt if he heard a saxophone?
If a music loving Samurai obtained a saxophone, how would he have played the sax?

Well, even when he played the sax, we would not get his hands off his sword.  With that imagination, the T-shirt was designed with a samurai holding the saxophone in one hand and a sword in other hand.

Sumida Ward is famous for its fireworks.  It is said that the fireworks originally developed as an extension of firearm technique practice and improvement of the beacon fire skill for Samurai in the Edo era, and the connection between Sumida Ward and Samurais is quite deep.

In addition, in Sumida Ward, the “Sword Museum" is scheduled to open following the Sumida Hokusai Museum of Art.

With the reasons above, we believe the design of the T-shirt designed with the atmosphere of the Edo-era is perfect fit for an event in Sumida ward.

Please support the Sumida Jazz Festival with wearing the very creative cool designed Sumida Jazz T-shirt.

About the T-shirt designer

Masayuki Kojo

Ink-Brush Warrior Painter
Born in Uji city, Kyoto in 1978.

An ink-brush painter for the warrior of war history such as the age of provincial wars (i.e. 1467-1615) and Three Kingdom Saga “Sangouzhi”.  
Established a unique new style of "beyond frame" with which he uses a mat which is usually used for protection of a restaurant as a canvas.  His works using bold composition attracts attention.
In 2016, he released his design works for a calendar and postcard of "Sanada Maru", a roman-fleuve aired by NHK and the official warrior painter for the Star Wars.  
He is a “Live Artist” and has demonstrated his live art work in front of the temple gate at Chion-in, a National Treasure in Higashiyama, Kyoto this year.

He has been actively engaged in holding “Live Art Competitions” for high school students with the goal of, “want to change the future of the young painters”.

His motto is "appreciate a lifetime and provide inspiration in a moment."

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T-shirt for anybody including guests and visitors

Black

White

[Size] Ladies, XS, S, M, L, XL
[price] 2,500 yen (tax included)

[Attention]] Please confirm your size with length and width

Purchase

You may purchase the T-shirt at the outlet of Kume Textile Industry from June 16th (Fri), also available at the festival site from August 18th to 20th.

 T-shirt for band member

[Size] Ladies, S, M, L, XL, XXL
[price] 2,000 yen (tax included)

[Attention]] Please confirm your size with length and width.

Purchase and Delivery

The names of all bands to play for the festival are printed on the back of the T-shirt.

Only those who will be on the stage may purchase the band T-shirt with made to order and handed to you on July 3rd when we have a meeting for playing bands. To place an order, payment needs to be completed.  Please note that the band T-shirt will not be available for sales on the days of the festival.

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Purchase and Delivery

Delivery for the mail order has started on June 16th.  Please note that the band T-shirt is available for only those who will be on the stage.

Your purchase of T-shirts via mail order will be delivered to you after confirming your payment.   It is regarded as “purchased” after your payment and please note that there might be a case of sold-out before making the payment.

About Kume Fiber which is a manufacture for the original T-shirt.

It is Kume Textile Industry which manufactures our important T-shirts for the Sumida Jazz Festival!

Our honorable T-shirt manufacture in Sumida-ku, Kume Textile Industry founded in 1935 and is the first manufacture which made T-shirts in Japan.
Some downtown neighbors say “If not Kume Textile, I wouldn’t buy a T-shirt”.
Their secret is their obsession with domestic materials.
Usually any T-shirts for a festival get fully stretched around neck after several washes but this does not happen at all for T-shirts by Kume Textile.  You would know first-hand if you have one from the 1st Festival.  Even after several years, it keeps the original shape.
On the top of that, the cotton washed-out is really comfortable which can be enjoyed only by those who have ever worn one.
Please have your first-hand experience for long sustainable quality and comfortableness of the T-shirt

Kume textile industry http://kume.jp/