Kanshitsu Tray "Ship Sailing at Night"
H 5.5 / ø 39.5 cm,Year.2024Takashi Tomono
1983 -- Lacquerware
- Awarded 6 times at the Japan Kōgei Assoc. Exhibition
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Price Range
$5,500 - 14,000
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Description
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CategoryLacquerware
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DimensionsH 5.5 / ø 39.5 cm
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Year presented2024
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RarityUnique
Techniques Used
Dry lacquer
For works of dry lacquer (kanshitsu), first a clay form is created and plaster is used to take a mold of the form. Next, repeated layers of hemp cloth and lacquer are applied to the mold until they are built up to the desired thickness. Finally, the mold is removed and additional coats of lacquer are applied to finish the piece. The hemp fibers are strengthened when the lacquer bonds with them, making dry lacquer an excellent technique for creating sturdy forms with a significant degree of freedom.
Awards received
- The 42nd Lacquerware Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (2024)
- Wajima Museum of Urushi Art Incentive Award
Comment on Award
Lacquer art is made using a natural material, urushi lacquer, and working on it little by little every day. The process is always filled with agony and loneliness. But on the other hand, there is the freedom of creating a completed form that hasn't been seen yet with one's own hands. I imagine every night as I work, that this adventurous feeling must be similar to the feeling when you are rowing a small boat across the ocean or a large lake. I put the materials and production process all together with the scenery and emotions to complete a vessel that can be used.
(from the Japan Kōgei Association Lacquerware Traditional Kōgei Exhibition Catalogue)
