tea container"one spring day"

Description

• Category
  Lacquerware
• Materials
  Shells, Pigments, Betula grossa
• Dimensions
  H 5.9 x W 8.0 x D 8.0 cm
• Year presented
  2019
• Rarity
  Unique
• Paulownia Box
  Included
• Artist Signature
  Signed (paulownia box)

Techniques Used

Zonsei

In zonsei lacquerwork, the outlines of colored motifs are engraved to produce additional decorative effects. Typically, one of two techniques is used. In the first, the artisan applies the motifs in colored lacquer before using a carving tool called a zonsei ken to incise the outlines of the design or add decorative line engravings. In the second, the artisan creates motifs using the kinma technique, which are then outlined or engraved in the same fashion. Zonsei, like carved lacquer (chōshitsu) and kinma, is a technique associated primarily with Takamatsu in Kagawa prefecture.

Selected exhibitions

• The 62 th Chūgoku Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (2019)
• Selected