Think about it for a minute. The difficulty of photographing a black, glossy, 3-dimensional object without including your own reflection. It is not just yourself, and jet black reflects the fluorescent light on the ceiling as well as everything else in the room. If we want to film the lacquered work perfectly, it is necessary … Continue reading Difficulty of Photographing Lacquered Works
During the peak of my activity producing works for my first exhibition, there was one work that was giving me a lot of trouble. The fact is that as I like to present as many works as possible during a personal exhibition, the work I created separately for a general exhibition caused me no end … Continue reading Gold Lacquer Hexagonal Incense Container
A previous tweet caused a serious resonance. This was my thinking on how to determine the price of a job. In my 20s, I created a work out of lacquer that was a lid made for a metalworker teacher, who was a human natural treasure. “Make it any way you like.” “Say a price that … Continue reading Story about when I was taught how to price a job
This can be said to be my “coming of age” work The gold-lacquered amber jewelry box “Time” I created this work when I was about 31 years of age and it won a prize at a Japanese traditional lacquer exhibition. So the title is “Time”….、 I wanted to create a work that depicts light engraved … Continue reading Gold-lacquered Amber Jewelry Box “Time”
Homemade lacquer from Tottori that is starting to reveal its true value The truth is that when I was in Saitama, this was not a lacquer that was easy to use. When I passed it to Professor Murose (living in Tokyo) and asked for his impressions, I was told “the first lacquer dries well, but … Continue reading True Value of Asai Lacquer – Serious and Wholehearted Lacquer
In fact, although I am creating lacquered works, I very rarely create tableware. Until now, I have made virtually no bowls or plates, and when I have made them, these have been requested by people around me and there are hardly any photos of them remaining. However, I have created many different types of sake … Continue reading Making Sake Cups
One of the attractions of lacquer is its transparency. In fact , lacquer material continues to change once it solidifies. Firstly, immediately after solidifying, it forms a somewhat rubber-like moist film coating. It then hardens as the months and years go by, forming a crisp, hard film coating. I do not think that the feel … Continue reading Lacquer grows more beautiful day by day
My first purchase of this year was wood. I went to buy it at a specialist Cypress wood timber store in Iriya. When creating lacquered works, it is not necessary to use such a large piece of wood, so I buy small, high-quality planks and squared timber according to purpose. When you go to buy … Continue reading Various Aspects of the Body of the Works
A single crystal within a bracket inside a lid (work by Mansei Uehara). The work has been produced based on the theme of a crystal that resembles a drop, and the ripples and asssembled butterflies of light that spread out from there. We have created a modeled work that uses techniques and materials to represent … Continue reading Work “Gold Lacuqer-Laden-Hexagonal-Kogo” “Drop”
“Premonition of beauty 2019 －∞directions －」 Two products in Gold-decorated Laden “Hiranatsume” ◆”Gozen-rokuji” This product was created with the image of a scene in which the soft light of morning stretches out before you. Items are differentiated by colors and as only a small amount of the required color can be used on eacah item, this … Continue reading Product “Gozen-rokuji(6AM)” “Gogo-rokuji(6PM)”