Kiichiro Nakamura As an exchange student of Applied Chemistry, Nakamura attended the Vienna International Exposition in 1873. After this experience, he began studying dyeing practices, and later conducted research for western dyeing techniques in places such as the Aniline dyeing factory in Stuttgart. Through his research, he was able to bring back to Japan an enormous body of knowledge concerning forty different dyes, their respective colors and the chemicals essential to produce them. In 1875, Nakamura was appointed to a technical post in the Ministry of Agricultural and Commercial Affairs and was given the title "somedono" and taught dyeing techniques in the Kyoto Prefectural Department of Chemistry. In this capacity, he became the first in Japan to conduct instructions on Aniline dyeing, a western technique. He also significantly contributed towards the improvement of the traditiona Kyozome (Kyoto dyeing) style and Nishijin fabric dyeing. When the Department of Chemistry (Chemistry Bureau) was abolished in 1883, Nakamura moved to Tokyo and served as an instructor at the Hachioji Textile and Dyeing Technical School from 1887. In 1895, he assumed the position as head of this training institute which was renamed the Hachijoji School of Textiles and Dyeing. BACK