Kiso Shunkei

...However, the "Red Lacquer Design Chinese Wood Drawer" handed down in Shosoin shows the technique of today's Beni Shunkei lacquering, in which the wood base is dyed with sappanwood and then coated with transparent lacquer, which has been practiced since the Nara period. In the early modern period, various types of Shunkei lacquering were produced in various places, but today Hida Shunkei from Gifu is the most common, with a few others such as Noshiro Shunkei from Akita (said to have been established by Hida craftsman Yamauchi Sankuro in the early Edo period), Awano Shunkei from Ibaraki, and Kiso Shunkei from Nagano still maintaining the tradition. Hida Shunkei is said to have begun in the early Edo period, when tea master Kanamori Sowa, son of Kanamori Kaori, lord of Takayama Castle, had lacquer artist Narita Sanzaemon make trays. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Kiso Shunkei" is listed below.

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…しかし正倉院に伝来する《赤漆文欟木厨子》は，木地を蘇芳（すおう）で染めて透漆を塗った今日の紅春慶塗の技法をみせ，すでに奈良時代から行われている。近世になり各地で各種の春慶塗が行われたが，現在は岐阜の飛驒春慶が主で，他に秋田の能代春慶(江戸初期，飛驒の工人山打三九郎が開いたという)，茨城の粟野春慶，長野の木曾春慶などがわずかにその伝統を守っている。飛驒春慶は江戸初期，高山城主金森可重の子である茶人金森宗和が塗師成田三左衛門に盆類をつくらせたのに始まるといわれる。…

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