Miyazaki Yūzen

Miyazaki Yūzen (宮崎 友禅), 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 Kyoto 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. 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”) in 1688.