| 释义 |
‖ yūzen|ˈjuːzɛn|
Also yuzen and with capital initial.
The name of Miyazaki Yūzen-sai (fl. mid-18th cent.), Japanese inventor of a technique of dyeing silk fabric in which rice-paste is applied to areas which are not to be dyed, used attrib. and absol. with reference to this process and the designs produced. Also yūzen-zome (see quot. 1983).
1902[see habutai]. 1911Encycl. Brit. XV. 183 The difference between the results of the ordinary and the yūzen process of dyeing is, in fact, the difference between a stencilled sketch and a finished picture. 1958K. Nomachi Jap. Textiles 21 Yuzen pattern is the design printed by the Yuzen process, with beautiful and graceful flowers and birds..as the motifs. The Yuzen process is of three kinds: Yuzen proper, hand painting, and stencil printing. 1964Newman & Ryerson Jap. Art x. 77 Yūzen zome, a method of producing elaborate multi⁓colour designs by starch dyeing. Came into vogue in the Edo period. 1968G. T. Webb tr. Seiroku's Arts Japan II. 214/2 The design of this furisode..a garment traditionally worn only by young girls, is executed in a variety of techniques, including yūzen and shibori dyeing and gold appliqué. In yūzen-zome, a hand-painted dyeing method, the patterns are first outlined with a color-resist of rice paste applied with a paper funnel or a chopstick-like wooden implement, and later filled in with dyes of any color desired. 1980Textile Designs Japan (rev. ed.) I. 21 The invention of a new starch-resist dyeing technique, known as yūzen, during this period..led to undreamed of achievements in the dyeing of free-style graphic designs. 1983Y. Tazawa Biogr. Dict. Jap. Art 652 During and after the Genroku era..stencil dyeing was developed and became popular, for a large number of yūzen designs are mentioned... From amongst these dyes, the term yūzen-zome came to be used thereafter to refer to all such pattern dyeing and it is still used thus to the present day. |