MIYAZAKI YUZEN

also called Miyazaki Yuzensai born , Kyoto, Japan died 1758 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 (yuzen-zome) by which elaborate designs and pictures were drawn on silk with a rice-paste coating. Later, yuzen came to denote the cloth produced in this way and also the kind of designs (yuzen-moyo) created by Miyazaki Yuzen. The rich, colourful yuzen cloth, a product of Kyoto, is still popular in the 20th century.