Box with Design in Chinkin "Nostalgia"
H 19.5 x W 26 x D 13.5 cm,Year.2025Kiyoshi Torige
1955 -- Lacquerware
- Awarded 6 times at the Japan Kōgei Assoc. Exhibition
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Description
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CategoryLacquerware
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Materials
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DimensionsH 19.5 x W 26 x D 13.5 cm
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Year presented2025
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RarityUnique
Techniques Used
Chinkin
For chinkin (“sunken gold”), a chisel or knife is used to incise lines and dots into a lacquered surface. Gold leaf or fine gold powder is then inlaid into the grooves, creating a fine and delicate design.
Awards received
- The 43rd Lacquerware Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (2025)
- Asahi Shimbun Award
Comment on Award
People were enjoying the scene of Humboldt penguins tottering like clowns and swimming in the aquarium as if they were flying in the sky. A few years from this day, I started to make this box, but time passed in vain as I struggled with the lacquer painting, and I had to return to my hometown Noto. I named this piece "Nostalgia", which was my feeling at that time. I don't think penguins have such feelings, but I believe they have memories of the place where they were born.
(from the Japan Kōgei Association Lacquerware Traditional Kōgei Exhibition Catalogue)
