Sencha Maniac Skeleton Bud Logo-Printed Cotton T-Shirt

‘From farm/fieldwork to fabric,’ the Sabotage X Gentle Artefacts capsule collection is the output of a highly unique collaboration, in which a fashion designer and street photographer accompanied Gentle Artefacts to conduct ethnographic fieldwork with craft-scale tea farmers in Wazuka, Kyoto, Japan.

The front of this piece features a signature logo of the collection—a skeleton hand holding a tender spring tea bud, as the new leaf shoots would appear before being harvested for sencha—which designer Mark Ong (Mr. Sabotage) devised while on site at Obubu Farms’s sencha processing facility, bringing an element of the streetwear designer’s playfully macabre sensibility to this tea inspired piece.

The back of the garment reads ‘Sencha Maniac,’ a tag which emerged through interviews with Akky, the master tea farmer at Obubu, who self describes as a tea maniac (sencha, yes, but “all forms of old style teas,” by which he means, traditionally cultivated and processed types).

The images for the editorial, shot by Takeshi Hayakawa and featuring models from Kyoto and Osaka, was captured on site at Obubu Tea Farms during the spring harvest (May 11th to 13th, 2025).

·       100% cotton (slub jersey 300 GSM) in cream.

·       Ribbed crew neck and cuffs.

·       Garment wash. Logo print front and back.

·       Ribbed collar.

·       Machine wash cold or cool. Turn inside out to wash. Hand wash recommended to sustain integrity of the print.

·       Do not tumble dry. Lay flat to dry. Cool iron.

Slight oversized—but fits true to size. Take your usual size. If between sizes, consider taking one size down.