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Japanese textile artist famed for re-inventing lost dyeing technique

Itchiku Kubota (久保田　一竹, Kubota Itchiku) (1917–2003) was a Japanese textile artist.

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He was most famous for reviving and in part reinventing an otherwise lost late 15th- to early 16th-century textile dye technique known as tsujigahana (lit. "flowers at the crossroads"), which became the main focus for much of his life's work.^{[citation needed]} As homage to the original tsujigahana technique and its legacy, he named the technique 'itchiku tsujigahana'.^[1][2]

Kubota devised a new method of dyeing that produce unique richly coloured products, and he experimented with modern fabrics that would take well to the dyes and stitch-resist work.

Biography

Itchiku Kubota was born in Kanda, Tokyo, in 1917, the son of an antique dealer.^[1] Kubota grew up in an environment rich with opportunities to view traditional Japanese art: the neighbourhood in wh