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Jomon Period, Expensive Look, Japanese Lacquerware, All About Japan, Eating Utensils, Japanese Crafts, Japanese Culture, Department Store, Over The Years

If you have ever wandered around the souvenir section of a Japanese department store, you will no doubt have come across some highly ornate shiny lacquer eating utensils and boxes. This is the ancient craft of Shikki or Japanese lacquerware, which is said to go back to the Jomon period, at least 15,000 years ago. In this article, we shall consider what Japanese lacquerware is, how it is made and the reason it is so expensive, look at how it has evolved over the years, discuss some different…

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Miho Museum, Medieval Japanese, Muromachi Period, Japanese Lacquerware, Materials And Structures, Japan Crafts, Buddhist Practices, Bust Sculpture, Wakayama

Negoro lacquerware was originally developed at the Neguro-ji Temple in Wakayama Prefecture, where lacquered utensils were used by priests in daily life. It involved covering a layer of black lacquer with another of vermilion, a technique that spread across Japan after the temple's craftsmen fled the...

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11 March, Japanese Lacquerware, Japan Painting, Sumi Ink, Football Design, Japanese Crafts, Colorful Fish, Art Institute Of Chicago, Japanese Antiques

The son of Yūji Okada, another distinguished lacquer artist, Yoshio Okada (b. 1977) has spent decades mastering his demanding and time-honored craft. Success generally comes slowly in the cultural environment of Kyoto (his native city) but at little over 40 years of age he has already garnered local and global...

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