Rokuro Uemura

He was born in Niigata Prefecture, Kariwa District. His pseudonym was Genzin (げんじん, also read as Motondo). He graduated in dyeing from the Kyoto Higher Technical School and later from the Industrial Chemistry Department of the Kyoto Imperial University Faculty of Engineering. He served as an assistant at the same university, then as a lecturer at Kwansei Gakuin University in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and as a professor at Mukogawa Women's University.^{[citation needed]}

In 1950, he became a professor at Osaka University of Education. He retired in 1958 and in the same year received a Doctorate of Science from Kyoto University for his dissertation titled "Research on Color Names, Colors, and Dyeing in Ancient Japanese Literature." He also served as a professor at the Niigata Women's Junior College, the first president of Niigata Seiryo Women's Junior College, a professor at Shitennoji University, and the director of the Japan Dyeing and Weaving Academy. Additionally, he was the director of the International Dyeing and Weaving Museum within the Yūkariori Craft Museum in Asahikawa City.^{[citation needed][1]}

He conducted research on ancient Japanese dyeing and weaving and was commissioned by the Imperial Household Agency to investigate the Shosoin textiles. He served as the president and honorary president of the Japan Dyeing and Weaving Culture Association.^[2] His collected works are published in six volumes.^[3]