Yukata and tenugui are product names; chusen names a dyeing operation. Tokyo’s traditional-craft reference describes colour being poured onto cloth rather than treating a printed-looking pattern as sufficient evidence of the method.
Technique and structure
The dyer uses a watering-can-shaped container called a yakan to pour dye onto the cloth. The account explains that pouring different colours simultaneously can produce blurred transitions. Its technical specification separately requires manual stencil application and manual injection dyeing, with cotton as the fabric. The stencil work and the pouring therefore answer different questions: how the pattern is laid out and how the colour is introduced. Neither the product name nor a colour gradient alone verifies that process for an unidentified item.
Keep material and method together
The same reference covers tenugui dyed by the method used for yukata. This connects two kinds of cloth through a making technique; it does not make every yukata or every tenugui chusen-dyed. For a shop enquiry, ask for the named process alongside the fibre.
For international readers
Obtain care instructions for the actual cloth. The craft account is not a test of colourfastness, shrinkage or suitability for a particular wash cycle.
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日本語
注染の布：やかんから注ぐ染料とぼかし
注染は、ゆかたや手ぬぐいという製品名ではなく染色の方法です。東京都の資料は、やかん状の容器で染料を注ぐ操作と、異なる色を同時に注いで作るぼかしを説明。綿織物、手作業の型付け、注入による染色という条件を、見た目だけから決めつけず確認します。