Digital Archiving Hand-Dyed Kaga-Yuzen Designs

Abstract

　Kaga-Yuzen is a dyeing technique and/or a product, especially Japanese traditional clothing ‘kimono’, made with this technique in Kaga province, where is now the south-half part of Ishikawa prefecture of Japan. In this paper, the author presents the work for digitally archiving/preserving the designs or pencil drawings for Kaga-Yuzen kimonos. The author also discuss how digital collections in this data science age should be to increase their social and cultural value. The key idea is direct/indirect collaborations with data science researchers, by providing machine-readable data, metadata, and informative annotations.