In the Genroku era, Yuzensai, who was then a painter of brilliant and colorful Kacho-ga and portraits, hit on while studying dyestuff the idea of hand-written dyeing that employs the technique of painting and completed the original model of Yuzen-zome (one of the dyeing process).
元禄時代、華やかで色鮮やかな花鳥画や人物画を描く扇絵師であった友禅斎は、染料の研究中絵を書く要領で手書き染色をする事を考案し、友禅染の原型を完成させた。