On December 27, I visited a lacquer studio.
I had three amazing points.
1. There is the lacquer studio in the
ordinary residential area in the 23 Wards of Tokyo.
2. Usually, artisans are elderly persons,
but he is very young. (I don’t ask but I think he is probably in his twenties.)
3. Everything except glass can lacquer. And
lacquerware is beautiful.
I think lacquer can be used in various kind
of design because of wide range of usage and lacquer’s own texture. The
lacquerware is truly beautiful. It has colors not only vermilion or gold but
also green, purple and blue etc., glossy like candies, shining in jet black.
The lacquerware’s colors become heavy because of lacquer’s own color and quality,
but they are having color variation with appearing of titanium oxide.
I
visited a lacquerware artisan,Yamaguchi’s studio in Nerima Ward. The studio
located at a residential area from Oizumi-gakuen Station by 10minutes walk.
Traditional products like japan have
systematic division of work. Each process has each artisan. For example, there has
frame process, paint process, decorate process.
Makie is pictures painted by lacquer with
gold dust or colored dust.
It’s very stylish, isn’t it?
I have been made a terrestrial globe
because I heard everything can lacquer.
How about having made your own lacquerware?
Thank you for your reading.
(These photos of works on this report are
‘Onnmakie Yamauchi’ by Yasuji Yamauchi.)
Reporter: Hasegawa
(Japanese Site)
http://tokyo-think-sustainability.blogspot.jp/2012/01/1227.html