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"Kyu-shitsu", which refers to all types of Urushi lacquer coating, is the origin of Wajima-nuri, which began with plain practical lacquerware, and is an honor for the skills that have been accumulated over a long period of time. On the other hand, with the modernization of crafts, it has been establ...

Kanazawa College of Art, Department of Craft, Urushi & Woodworking

Venice Oriental Museum Seminar “Overview of Japanese Lacquer Art”

Urushi Workshop: Simonetta Capetta, Kenta Takeshige

A workshop in collaboration with Urushi LAB and Guild LacArt, Milano, Italy.

Hiroshima City University, Faculty of Art, Department of Design and Applied Arts, Urushi Lacquer Arts

Urushi Workshop: Nathalie Posson, Kenta Takeshige

A workshop in collaboration with Royal Antwerp Academy of Arts, Belgium and NPO De Kunstkliniek ‘URUSHI ~An Introduction in practice~’

We practiced the Roiro-nuri technique by applying a series of processes from the foundation layers to the coati...