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The Japanese name for the lacquerware technique called "Tenshitsu" which was created in China in the early Ming Dynasty (around the 15th century). It is also written as "Zonsei". In the description of Chinese carved lacquerware in "Kundaikansochoki", a secret book on Chinese art appreciation and room decorations in the shoin style during the Muromachi period, it says, "There is something called "Zonsei", which comes in both red and black and is carved like gold leaf, and is very rare." This shows that it was respected as an imported product in Japan at the latest in the early 16th century and used for tea utensils, but the origin of the name "Zonsei" is unknown. This technique involves drawing a pattern on a lacquered surface with colored lacquer, and then carving lines with a knife, slightly thick along the outline of the pattern and thin above the pattern, but this technique does not remain in China today. In Japan, Tamakaji Zokoku of the Takamatsu domain developed a style of lacquerware called Zokoku-nuri that imitated this technique at the end of the Edo period, and Kagawa lacquerware has continued this tradition, producing trays, confectionery bowls, tea ceremony utensils, flower vases, low tables, and other items.

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中国で明(みん)代初期（15世紀ころ）に創始された填漆(てんしつ)という漆器技法の日本における呼称。存清とも書く。室町時代の中国美術鑑賞、書院の座敷飾りに関する秘伝書である『君台観左右帳記(くんだいかんそうちょうき)』の中国彫漆器を記したうちに、「存星と云(い)ふものあり赤も黒もあり剔金(てききん)の様(よう)に彫りたるものなり稀也(まれなり)」とあり、わが国で遅くとも16世紀初めには舶来品として尊重され、茶器に用いられていたことがわかるが、存星の呼称の出自は不明である。この技法は、漆塗りの面に色漆で文様を描き、文様の輪郭線に沿ってやや太く、文様の上は細く、刀で線彫りを施すものであるが、現在の中国には残されていない。わが国では江戸末期に高松藩の玉楮象谷(たまかじぞうこく)がこの技法を模した象谷塗を開発し、香川漆器がその伝統を受け継いで、盆、菓子鉢、茶道具、花いけ、座卓などを産している。

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