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- Also called:
- Miyazaki Yūzensai
- Died:
- 1758
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Miyazaki Yūzen
Japanese painter
Also known as: Miyazaki Yūzensai
Miyazaki Yūzen (born, Kyōto, Japan—died 1758) was a Japanese painter credited with perfecting a rice-paste dyeing method that made possible the economical production of sumptuously decorated cloth. He gave his name to the process (yūzen-zome) by which elaborate designs and pictures were drawn on silk with a rice-paste coating. Later, yūzen came to denote the cloth produced in this way and also the kind of designs (yūzen-moyō) created by Miyazaki Yūzen. The rich, colourful yūzen cloth, a product of Kyōto, is still popular in the 20th century.
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