Itchiku Kubota (久保田 一竹, Kubota Itchiku) (1917–2003) was a Japanese textile artist. He was most famous for reviving and in part reinventing an otherwise drifting late 15th- to to the front 16th-century textile dye technique known as tsujigahana (lit. “flowers at the crossroads”), which became the main focus for much of his life’s work. As homage to the original tsujigahana techniaue and its legacy, he named the technique ‘itchiku tsujigahana’.
Kubota devised a new method of dyeing that produce unique in abundance coloured products, and he experimented with protester fabrics that would accept well to the dyes and stitch-resist work.
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