Itchiku Kubota was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1917 where he studied techniques in decorating fabric under his inspiration Kiyoshi Kobayashi. He started working with Kiyoshi at the age of 14 when he left school. He went through a desperate prision life during World War II and after he came back at the age of 20, he started to study an artwork ‘Tsujigahana’ which he devoted the rest of his life to. He was such a successful artist as he experimented to re-create a piece from the Muromchi Period (1338-1573)by experimenting on his own for decades. Due to no instructions living to explain how to reproduce the decorative techniques and the silk fabric necessary no longer being available for succession, Kubota decided it was time to create his own art called ‘Itchiki Tsujigahana’. It was a substation of a contemporary silk crepe fabric for nerinuki and synthetic dyes for natural colours. In 1977, 60 years old Itchiku Kubota’s decorated kimono for the first time was displayed at an exhibition in Tokyo’s Mikimoto Gallery and awareded for Cultural Contribution by Japan’s Cultural Association for Folk Costume. This was the turning point in his life. The artwork’s beauty and high quality technique and finish gained reputation. It went around cities such as Paris, New York and London. The next 15 years he create a new work on his kimono canvases for exhibitions throughtou Japan and Europe. In 1990, the French Ministry of Culture awarded the Chevalier de l’Orde des Lettres to Kubota after an exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Itchiku Kubota Art Museum was opened. In 1997 Cultural Contribution by Japan’s Cultural Association for Folk Costume. In 1994, Master Kubota opened the Itchiku Art Museum. Itchiku Kobata sadly past away in 2003 however his son and daughter continue to work on their father’s outstanding capabilities at the artist’s studio, Itchiku Kobo, in Tokyo.