Kagawa lacquerware

Japanese: 香川漆器 - かがわしっき

Lacquerware produced mainly in Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture. It is also called Takamatsu lacquerware. It was founded by Tamakaji Zoukoku, and the following techniques that he attempted are mainly inherited: (1) carved lacquer such as tsuishu (red lacquer), tsuiguro (black lacquer), and safflower and green leaves; (2) Sanuki carving, in which colored lacquer is applied over wood carvings; (3) Kinma, in which lacquer is applied to a base of lacquer (→Rantai lacquerware), patterns are carved into the surface with a carving knife, and colored lacquer is filled into the recesses to create the pattern; (4) Sonsei, in which hair carving is done with a knife over the colored lacquer of (3); (5) Zoukoku-nuri, in which red lacquer is applied to the wood base and then makomo (rice grass) is used to add astringency. Other examples include Goto lacquerware, which was invented by Goto Taihei.

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Japanese:

香川県高松市を中心に産する漆器。高松漆器ともいう。開祖は玉楮象谷 (たまかじぞうこく) で，主として彼の試みた以下の技法が継承されている。すなわち，(1) 堆朱 (ついしゅ) ，堆黒，紅花緑葉などの彫漆，(2) 木彫の上に彩漆 (いろうるし) を塗る讃岐彫，(3) 網代の素地 (→籃胎漆器〈らんたいしっき〉) に漆を塗り，その面に彫刻刀で文様を彫り，凹部に彩漆を埋めて文様を表わすキンマ (蒟醤) ，(4) (3) の彩漆の上に刀で毛彫する存星，(5) 木地にべんがら (弁柄) 漆を塗って，マコモ (真菰) で渋みをつける象谷塗 (ぞうこくぬり) など。そのほかに後藤太平の創案になる後藤塗などがある。

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