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Ink-stone box with seigaiha wave patterns in lacquer

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Attributed to Seigai Kanshichi

  • Edo period, 17th century
  • lacquer on wood, makie

Crafts – Lacquerware

Seigaiha-nuri is a lacquer technique which is said to have been contrived by Seigai Kanshichi, a master craftsman of the Genroku era. The technique is used to express rippling waves, and gold and silver tacks are placed to express sprays. Handwriting by Tokugawa Mitsukuni is written in hira-makie on the reverse side of the lid, and it is considered to have been owned by Mitsukuni. (「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.1」2003)

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Title/Name Ink-stone box with seigaiha wave patterns in lacquer
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Name
Artist/
Creator
Period/Era Edo period
Century 17c.
Quantity
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Material/
Technique
wood lacquer maki-e
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Contents
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Origin
Excavation
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Place
Tokyo Ibaraki
Provenance
Collection
No.
SZK003104
Category CraftsLacquerware
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Ink-stone box with seigaiha wave patterns in lacquer

Ink-stone box with seigaiha wave patterns in lacquer

Seigaiha-nuri is a lacquer technique which is said to have been contrived by Seigai Kanshichi, a master craftsman of the Genroku era. The technique is used to express rippling waves, and gold and silver tacks are placed to express sprays. Handwriting by Tokugawa Mitsukuni is written in hira-makie on the reverse side of the lid, and it is considered to have been owned by Mitsukuni. (「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.1」2003)