Miyazaki Yûzensai

, 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 .

His designs were so popular that they were published as (友禅雛形 “Yūzen maquette”) in 1688.

Fan painting Miyazaki was first known for his fan painting. He later painted his most popular designs onto kimono.

Development of Yūzen method Miyazaki developed a method to make it easier to resist-dye designs onto cloth. He is now more famous for this that he is as a fan painter.