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*''Japanese'': 鎌倉芳太郎 ''(Kamakura Yoshitarou)''

*''Japanese'': 鎌倉芳太郎 ''(Kamakura Yoshitarou)''

Kamakura Yoshitarô was a 20th century traditional textile artist, designated a [[Living National Treasure]] for his skill at the traditional art of ''[[katazome]]'', or resist-dyeing. Kamakura was also an influential scholar of Okinawan history, publishing works on ''[[bingata]]'' (Okinawan resist-dyeing textile arts) and other aspects of Okinawan culture and history, as well as numerous photographs of historical sites in Okinawa. He also amassed a very significant collection of historical documents and artifacts.

Kamakura Yoshitarô was a 20th century traditional textile artist, designated a [[Living National Treasure]] for his skill at the traditional art of ''[[katazome]]'', or resist-dyeing. Kamakura was also an influential scholar of Okinawan history, publishing works on ''[[bingata]]'' (Okinawan resist-dyeing textile arts) and other aspects of Okinawan culture and history, as well as numerous photographs of historical sites in Okinawa. He also amassed a very significant collection of historical documents and artifacts. Much of his original handwritten notes remain in the Okinawa Prefectural University of the Arts (Okinawa Geidai) Library or other collections today; much of these, a mixture of direct transcriptions of [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] documents and Kamakura's own thoughts or interpretations, have also been published in modern type, as ''Kamakura Yoshitarô shiryôshû''.<ref>Okinawa kenritsu geijutsu daigaku fuzoku kenkyûsho 沖縄県立芸術大学附属研究所 (eds.), ''Kamakura Yoshitarô shiryôshû'' 鎌倉芳太郎資料集, 2002-2015 (five volumes).</ref>

Originally from [[Kagawa prefecture]], Kamakura graduated from the [[Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko|Tokyo School of Fine Arts]], and later became a teacher at the Okinawa Prefectural Number One Girls' High School & Normal School. Beginning in 1924, he played an active role in efforts to conserve [[Shuri castle]].

Originally from [[Kagawa prefecture]], Kamakura graduated from the [[Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko|Tokyo School of Fine Arts]], and later became a teacher at the Okinawa Prefectural Number One Girls' High School & Normal School. Beginning in 1924, he played an active role in efforts to conserve [[Shuri castle]].

==References==

==References==

*"[http://ryukyushimpo.jp/news/storyid-40950-storytopic-121.html Kamakura Yoshitarô]," Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia, Ryukyu Shimpo, 1 March 2003.

*"[http://ryukyushimpo.jp/news/storyid-40950-storytopic-121.html Kamakura Yoshitarô]," Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia, Ryukyu Shimpo, 1 March 2003.

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