size:W12㎝、H10㎝、D3.5㎝ weight:600g
Makie is the arts and crafts that exists from ancient times in Japan.Makie is using gold and mother-of-pearl, is a traditional craft technique for performing a gorgeous decorative painting repeatedly painted lacquer.
We will introduce the art piece depicting the flora and fauna in Makie technology to natural stone.All plants and animals to be drawn is not familiar from a long time ago for the Japanese.These paintings be beautiful rustic natural stone us with realistic the idyllic natural landscape of Japan.
By the way, it does not white is present in the urushi of color. Therefore, coating of white is using the acrylic resin.
Urushi is not only living in Asia in the world. In Japan, it has been used since ancient times. Makie is a Japanese traditional craft techniques using urushi. Makie of crafts since the Industrial Revolution, is focused primarily on widely overseas from Europe, went well established as arts and crafts.
In Japan, however, reduces the lacquerware of demand due to the rapid changes in lifestyle after the Second World War, pushed to further inexpensive mass production of alternative, which is imported from neighboring countries in the 1980s, urushi is now craft is located in the middle of a decline.
Urushi is there to symbolize about Japanese culture called "japan lacquer", but currently imports 98 percent of domestic consumption from Asian countries.
Now, in the urushi craft production center of Japan, it is difficult to survive in the craft technology. This is because, does not appear the successor of craftsmen engaged in urushi and makie, they are because only the elderly.
I do not want to extinguish the great craft of urushi. I want you to know the splendor of Makie to more people for that. By all means, please enjoy the splendor of Makie actually touched.