{"id":336,"date":"2020-11-23T02:30:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=336"},"modified":"2021-07-31T10:45:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T01:45:58","slug":"shinshitsu-lacquerware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/2020\/11\/23\/shinshitsu-lacquerware\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacquer Core to Surface, New Type of Japanese Lacquerware in Wajima, Ishikawa"},"content":{"rendered":"

I visited this completely new lacquerware craft-brothers. 100% Japanese “Urushi (lacquer)” artwork. This is the “art.” It takes almost 8 to 15 years to make one! Its pinpoints’ precision, texture, design… are just amazing.<\/p>\n

Urushi’s quality is almost the same as amber that will last almost permanently, not only in Japan but in anywhere around the world.<\/p>\n

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Normally, lacquerware\u2019s base is wood. Then, shroud cloth and lacquered on the wooden basis. It just goes through so many more procedures and takes 6 months to 1 year to complete one lacquerware.<\/p>\n

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Painted lacquer is a very strong material resource but depending on different climate condition, wood basis and cloth are not very strong that it will start cracking.<\/p>\n

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However, this new type of artwork and technique \u201cShin Shitsu,\u201d it uses almost 100% lacquer to create almost permanent \u201cart.\u201d <\/p>\n

Currently, Yamagishi brothers are creating a website to promote more about \u201cShin Shitsu*\u201d to the world. So that people all over the world will know about “Shin Shitsu.”<\/p>\n

*Direct translation of “Shin Shitsu” is “Core Lacquer,” meaning that an artwork of its “Core (Shin)” to surface is all based on or full of “Lacquer (Urushi in Japanese).”<\/p>\n

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