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Ryukyuan lacquer, like lacquerwares from other parts of East and Southeast Asia, comes in a number of standard categories: painted lacquer, carved, incised and filled in with gold, painted with gold, and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The use of mother-of-pearl in particular is a common feature of Ryukyuan lacquers, as is the use of particular ...
Chest with a cartouche and carved relief showing an outdoor scene, Ryukyuan lacquerware, circa 1750–1800. Ryukyuan lacquerware is one of the chief artistic products of the Ryukyu Islands (today Okinawa Prefecture of Japan); it is quite distinct from the lacquerware found among the surrounding cultures. Nevertheless, Chinese and Japanese ...
Writing lacquer box with Irises at Yatsuhashi, by Ogata Kōrin, Edo period (National Treasure) Inro in maki-e lacquer, Edo period, 18th century. Lacquerware (漆器, shikki) is a Japanese craft with a wide range of fine and decorative arts, as lacquer has been used in urushi-e, prints, and on a wide variety of objects from Buddha statues to bento boxes for food.
used on one of the Ryukyuan missions to Edo in the mid-nineteenth century, it was presented to the Shimazu clan; discovered by historian Higashionna Kanjun (東恩納寛惇) in Tokyo, it was exhibited at the Okinawa Folk Museum (沖縄郷土博物館), which opened in 1936 in the grounds of Shuri Castle; missing after the war, it was discovered ...
Kohei Kirimoto, an 8th-generation lacquerware artisan, walked through the ruins of his century-old workshop in the Japanese coastal town of Wajima on Thursday, concerned only for his missing cats.
This list of Living National Treasures of Japan (crafts) contains all the individuals and groups certified as Living National Treasures by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the government of Japan in the category of the Japanese crafts (工芸技術, Kōgei Gijutsu).
Ryukyuan lacquerware; S. Suzuri-bako; U. Urushi-e; W. Wajima-nuri This page was last edited on 14 June 2021, at 18:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
[citation needed] Shō Hashi was then recognized as the ruler of the Ryukyu Kingdom (or Liuqiu Kingdom in Chinese) by the Ming dynasty Emperor of China, who presented him a red lacquerware plaque known as the Chūzan Tablet. [10] Although independent, the kings of the Ryukyu Kingdom paid tribute to the rulers of China. [citation needed]