Tsujigahana combines the soft edges of shibori with the refreshing clarity of sharply painted details and softened blushes of color applied through stencils. Made famous in the West by the artist Itchiku Kubota, John will share with you all of the guarded secrets of this ancient process.

The characters for tsujigahana are written 辻が花. The first character, 辻 (tsuji), means crossroads. が (ga - also written ケ) is a term used to link two words, and 花 (hana) means flower. So simply translated, it means flower at the crossroads – nodding to the fact that several techniques are intersecting to produce this look. These techniques are primarily stitched shibori and and hand painting, whether directly with a brush or with the help of a stencil.

You can read a bit more about the technique on John's web page