Japanese Kinma Lacquer Chu Natsume Floral Scroll Tea Caddy Sanuki Style Ukiyoe minimal outlines

minimal outlines

rigid spear capable of precise thrusts

It has a very unusual configuration for a tansu

During the post–World War II years

A refined Matsumoto Ishōdansu (松本衣装箪笥) from the Shinano region (present-day Nagano Prefecture)

Japanese Kinma Lacquer Chu Natsume Floral Scroll Tea Caddy Sanuki Style Ukiyoe minimal outlinesJapanese Kinma Lacquer Chu Natsume Floral Scroll Tea Caddy Sanuki Style Kagawa Japan, Showa period 3 in H 2. 5 in dia (8 6 cm); Weight: under 1 lb (under 0. 5 kg) A chu natsume () decorated in kinma (), a technique of incising fine line designs into a lacquer ground and filling the channels with contrasting colored lacquer here red, green, and gold against a deep black base. The method, originating in Southeast Asia and refined in Japan most notably