The artist is my mother's cousin.  I appreciate her for having kept all the wooden pattern boards for old red dye and continued to learn and experiment with dye and even created her own modern art.   Her works have been selected in Japan's prestigious Nitten award for three times!

Please see more at the following site.

http://keiko-amano.blogspot.jp/2012/04/haruko-yoshimura-and-japanese-silk-dye.html

The site below, I found the dye technique, history, and a photo of my greatgrandfather on my grandmother's side.  

 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=tsaconf