Karuizawa Kataezome Museum

The Karuizawa Museum of stencil dyeing was built by the late Kyoko Kobayashi, who devoted more than 40 years to stencil dyeing under the tutelage of the late Keisuke Serizawa, an intangible cultural asset and living national treasure.
The museum and art works were donated to the town in 2000, and the exhibits in the museum are changed each year according to a different theme.
Visitors can see katae dye works full of vivid colors and exoticism, and on the second floor, folk crafts from around the world collected by Kyoko Kobayashi are on display, giving visitors a sense of the unique atmosphere that she must have given to her works.

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The stencil dyeing technique is to carve a pattern on a piece of astringent paper (Japanese paper coated with persimmon astringent to make it stronger), place the paper stencil on a piece of Japanese paper or cloth, apply antiseptic paste, and brush colors onto the unglued areas with a brush.