This wood grain pattern is easy to match with floral kimonos. I love Ms. Hiroko Kumagai so much that I now have five different colors, so I'm offering this one for sale. Tokyo Yuzen Hiroko Kumagai Tsuke-obi (pre-tied obi) Wood Grain Masterpiece Artist Hiroko Kumagai is a leading figure in Tokyo Yuzen and has won numerous awards at traditional craft exhibitions. With the completely new concept of "natural forms," she is known for expressing natural shapes in her works, and she stylishly expresses natural beauty with a chic, monotone color scheme that doesn't use many colors. She was a master of Tokyo Yuzen who was active from the 1950s to the 1970s. In addition to works using traditional Yuzen techniques, her works are characterized by a modern sensibility, depicting the wood grain of trees, leaves, and the surfaces of stones, and other natural forms on kimonos and obi. Hiroko Kumagai studied Japanese painting from a young age, and later, she applied her Japanese painting skills to Edo Yuzen, establishing her unique abilities and style as "Tokyo Yuzen," making her one of Japan's leading dyeing artists.