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Cigar Portable BOOKS & AUTUMN SUNSHINE　

We tried to express the image of autumn with stacked books and leaves. We made use of the watermark on the skeleton barrel for the sunlight filtering through the trees. The transparency of the light will become clearer with the passage of time.

Cigar Portable AQUA JEWEL FISHES

Cigar Portable CRYSTAL ZARYU

Cigar Portable MIDNIGHT SPIDER

Cigar Portable DRAGONFLYS

We painted dragonfly on a transparent acrylic pen.
Akebono lacquering of black and vermilion combined lacquer was applied to the transparent base, inspired by Emile Gallé’s lamps. In order not to spoil the transparency of the base, we heaped up several layers of Shu-ai urushi and painted the motif.

Cigar Long AROWANA

Cigar Long COCKER SPANIEL　

Cigar Long CATS with WOOL BALLS　

We expressed a motif of a cat and a ball. We used Chinkin technique for dot carving and line carving for cat’s whiskers and strings of ball.
The ball is expressed by Chinkin technique with vivid colors. The cat’s footprints on the cover are embedded with foil, which gives a different luster from that of gold powder.

Cigar Long PEACOCK with WISTERIA

The motifs of wisteria and peacock are expressed by Chinkin dot and line engraving.
The body is decorated with nashiji bokashi and wisteria flowers are scattered on the cover.

Gigar Long GOLDEN OWL

The owl is considered a good-luck charm because of its name, which means “no hardship,” “good fortune,” and “old age. The motif of owl is drawn by Chinkin technique only.
The owl motif is realistically expressed by precise technique.