Itchiku Kubota is a Japanese male, born In Kanda, Tokyo, Japan in 1917. He grew up in Tokyo with his family and at the age of 14 began to study as an apprentice, learning the art and craft of Japanese yuzen (rice-paste resist) dyeing at the studio or Kiyoshi Kobayashi. he discovered a passion for Japanese Textiles arts at a young age and spent the majority of his time practicing the dying techniques. He was drafted into the army during World war II. It was only near the end of the war that he was imprisoned by the Russians in Siberia. Kubota later recounted he found “solace in the simple pleasures of nature that were still perceptible in the stark surroundings of a Siberian prison camp: the sun, the sky and the mountains ” These were themes which would resonate in his work later in life. After the finish of the war he started a family of his own with a a son and daughter. |