, also known as Miyazaki Yūzensai or Yūzenzai (友禅斎), was a Japanese fan painter who perfected the fabric dyeing technique.

Biography

Miyazaki was born in

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in 1654. He was originally a fan painter, but is also known for his work with . Miyazaki painted his most popular fan designs on kimono, and they were wildly popular. He used rice paste to resist-dye the cloth in a method that he named . It later became known as simply

yūzen is a Japanese resist dyeing technique where dyes are applied inside outlines of dyed or undyed rice-paste resist dyeing, resist, which may be drawn freehand or stencilled; the paste keeps the dye areas separated. Originating in the 17th century ...

. This technique made it easier for Miyazaki to paint his designs directly on the kimono, making them more expressive. His designs were so popular that they were published as (友禅雛形 “Yūzen

maquette A ''maquette'' is a scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture or work of architecture. The term is a loanword from French. An equivalent term is ''bozzetto'', a diminutive of the Italian word for a sketch. Sculpture A maquette ...

”) in 1688.

Fan painting

Miyazaki was first known for his fan painting. He later painted his most popular designs onto kimono.

Development of Yūzen method

Miyazaki developed a method to make it easier to resist-dye designs onto cloth. He is now more famous for this that he is as a fan painter.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miyazaki, Yūzen 1654 births 1736 deaths Japanese textile artists 17th-century textile artists 18th-century textile artists