Parquet - Yosegizaiku

Japanese: 寄木細工 - よせぎざいく
Parquet - Yosegizaiku

Marquetry is a decorative technique in which many small pieces or boards of wood with different colors and grains are arranged in various patterns and shapes, mainly geometric designs, and then pasted or embedded on other boards. It appears to have started as early as the Koka era (1844-1848). Hakone zaiku is famous, but the Odawara and Hakone regions have long been famous for woodworking and turning, and it is thought that marquetry was born from this background.

It was discontinued for a time, but in recent years it has started to be used as a handicraft to make accessories, hand boxes, cloud prints, etc. For the base, wood such as Aohada and Dogwood are used to represent white, Kurogaki and Jindai Katsura are used to represent black, Nigaki and Hazel are used to represent yellow, and Magnolia and Akakuzu are used to represent red.

[Mitsuo Akiyama]

Hakone marquetry
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Hakone marquetry


Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

寄木細工は装飾技法の一つで、木材の色や木目(もくめ)の違った多数の小片または木板を、おもに幾何学的な図案によっていろいろな文様や形に配列し、これをほかの木板の上に貼(は)り付けたり、埋め込んだりする細工をいう。弘化(こうか)年間(1844~48)にはすでに始まっていたようである。箱根細工が有名だが、小田原や箱根地方は古くから木工細工、挽物(ひきもの)の名産地であり、そのような背景から寄木細工は生まれたと思われる。

 一時中断していたが、近年になって手芸として、装身具・手箱・雲(うん)版などがつくられるようになった。母体には、白を表すにはアオハダ、ミズキなど、黒はクロガキ、神代(じんだい)カツラなど、黄はニガキ、ハゼなど、赤はホオノキ、アカクズなどの木材が使用される。

[秋山光男]

箱根寄木細工
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箱根寄木細工


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