Itchiku Kubota

(1917–2003) was a Japanese 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 (lit. "flowers at the crossroads"), which became the main focus for much of his life's work. As homage to the original technique and its legacy, he named the technique .

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 stitch-resist work. Provided by Wikipedia