Background
Kotaro Shimizu was born in Tokyo in 1897.
孝太郎 清水
Kotaro Shimizu was born in Tokyo in 1897.
After graduating from a primary school (1912), learned the method of dyeing and weaving the Nagaita Chugata cloth (a type of Yukata, or a typical Japanese cloth for summer kimono) from his father Kichigoro and succeeded to his business.