Coffer of Elm Wood with Design in Marquetry

About the Artwork

Tobetsu Town, where my studio is located, is also a town thriving with agriculture. You can see many fields just a few minutes away from my studio.
The scenes of frost columns in the fields on a cold day in autumn and fields lightly covered with snow are beautiful.
I tried to express the black earth and white snow and frost in the marquetry.
I used Japanese elm for the marquetry and jindai elm on the top of the box, and top and bottom of the marquetry.

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Description

• Category
  Wood and Bamboo
• Materials
  Elm wood
• Dimensions
  H 18.0 x W 11.6 x D 28.7 cm
• Year of creation
  2022
• Rarity
  Unique

Techniques Used

Wood joinery

In wood joinery (sashimono), wood boards are cut into panels with care to how the grain patterns will fit together in the final piece. The wooden panels are then cut or carved to create interlocking joints. These joints, which are the key feature of wood joinery, make it possible to connect boards at right angles to produce boxes and other articles. Wood joinery is assembled without the use of nails or any other metal hardware.

Mokuga wood decoration

Mokuga (“wood picture”) is a decorative technique in which slices of wood several millimeters thick are cut into geometric pieces such as rectangles or triangles and then attached to the surface of an object to create a design. Complicated works may use over one thousand small parts, carefully arranged with attention to the alignment of the grain.

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Selected exhibitions

• The 69th Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (2022)
• Selected