Edo-Yuzen: Edo-Yuzen Dyeing

October 29, 2015

Edo-Yuzen is also called Tokyo Tegaki Yuzen (Tokyo Hand-painted Yuzen; Yuzen is one of dyeing techniques using rice glue as resist paste) or Tokyo Yuzen (Tokyo was formerly called Edo). It is said that they need to train for as long as 10 years to learn each procedure of Yuzen dyeing.

Edo-Yuzen is influenced by iki (swankiness) and wabi (beauty of simplicity) of people's culture in Edo period (17-19c). Artisans with techniques learned by long training and sophisticated taste dye them by hand-drawing.

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Edo-Yuzen: Edo-Yuzen Dyeing

Translation by: Shione Furuta

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Japanese Traditional Crafts Resource Center
Japanese Traditional Arts Resource Center

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