Kakō Moriguchi (森口 華弘, Moriguchi Kakō, December 10, 1909–February 20, 2008) was a Japanese textile artist who specialized in making kimono dyed using the yūzen technique of resist dyeing.
His son, Kunihiko Moriguchi, continues his father's work as a yūzen kimono artist.
[4] His designs, commonly taking inspiration from classical depictions of nature in traditional Japanese art, have a painterly feel to them.
This method involves applying flakes of zinc-infused paste to fabric before resist dyeing it.
[6] This technique, revived by Moriguchi, was commonly used in Edo period Japan, but had since been forgotten; Moriguchi decided to revive the technique after having seen a kosode that utilised it in the Tokyo National Museum.