Who is
Itchiku Kubota?
Itchiku Kubota was born in Kanda, Tokyo, in , the son of an antique dealer. He grew up in an environment rich with opportunities to view traditional Japanese art: the neighbourhood in which he lived was filled with dyeing workshops.
In , at the age of 14, he became an apprentice to Kiyoshi Kobayashi, who specialised in Yuzen dyeing. The young Kubota devoted himself to learning the trade, and by the age of nineteen established a dyeing studio of his own.
At 20, he first encountered a fragment of a sixteenth-century textile called Tsujigahana at the Tokyo National Museum, and that moment changed his life.
“Restraining the pounding of my heart, I gazed intently at that small piece of fabric exuding a subtle and profound atmosphere (…). It carried a quality that was almost plaintive and mysterious. In the hall which was practically devoid of visitors, I continued to look at that small piece of fabric, as if placed under a spell, for over three hours”. (Itchiku Kubota, Itchiku Tsujigahana: works of Itchiku Kubota, ).
Tsujigahana was a popular dyeing method in the Muromachi to early Edo period. It briefly flourished and sudden
DOCUMENTARY
Part 1 of 10 of the Kubota Kimonos: A History of Silk documentary. In this episode we find out more about Itchiku Kubota and the Itchiku Tsujigahana technique he used to create his famous Kimonos.
The documentary starts off in Siberia at a Japanese prisoner of war camp in the s, where there are insights into Itchiku Kubota's past, his talents as an artist, and where he got his inspiration for his famous Kimono designs. Itchiku Kubota went on to rediscover a forgotten technique for dying kimonos called Tsujigahana, which he developed as his own technique called Itchiku Tsujigahana.
The video also shows some of the Kubota Museum, along with expert opinion. Interviewees in the video include Sakuo Miyahara (Kubota's apprentice, Director of the Itchiku Kubota museum), Celine Fressart (Art historian, expert on Japanese Textiles), Dale Gluckman (Writer, Curator and Asian Textile Specialist) and many others.
Itchiku Kubota (久保田 一竹, Kubota Itchiku) (–) was a *anese textile artist. He was most famous for reviving and in part reinventing an otherwise lost late 15th- to early 16th-century textile dye technique known as tsujigahana (lit. "flowers at the crossroads"), which became the main focus for much of his life's work. As homage to the original tsujigahana technique and its legacy, he named the technique 'itchiku tsujigahana'.
Kubota devised a new method of dyeing that produce unique richly coloured products, and he experimented with modern fabrics that would take well to the dyes and s*ch-resist work.
Biography
Textile fragment of the Momoyama period (), dyed in the tsujigahanastyle; small tie-dyed dots (kanoko shibori), silk thread embroidery, ink painting (kaki-e), and gold leaf (surihaku) on white plain-weave silk (nerinuki)Itchiku Kubota was born in Kanda, Tokyo, in , the son of an antique dealer. Kubota grew up in an environment rich with opportunities to view traditional *anese art: the neighbourhood in which he lived
The Life of Itchiku Kubota and
the Kubota Collection
Itchiku Kubota is born on 7 October in Mikawa-cho, Kanda District, Tokyo. His father is an antiques dealer.
Kubota becomes an apprentice to Kobayashi Kiyoshi, a kimono artist of the Ozaki School, who specializes in hand-painted yūzen. Kubota also learns goshodoki, a painting style featuring Imperial landscapes with traditional motifs such as gardens, flowers, pagodas, bridges, and carts.
Itchiku becomes interested in batik (roketsuzome) and Okinawan style dyeing (bingata) and begins to study these techniques.
Kubota studies Japanese landscape painting (nihonga) with Shunko Kitagawa.
Kubota enters Waseda University School of Arts, begins to study of portraiture under Gekko Ohashi (a master of actor prints), and opens his own studio.
Itchiku visits the Tokyo National Museum where he is fascinated by a fragment of tsujigahana. He vows to devote his life to rediscovering this lost technique. At the same time, he starts studying kaga-yūzen colouring techniques.
Kubota is drafted during the Second Sino-Japanese War and serves two years in an infantry regiment in Tokyo.
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