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Cigar Long Kuro Ishime

”Kuro Ishime” uses black lacquer for a base color and black dry lacquer powder.
It has a beautiful jet black finish that looks like an obsidian.

“Ishime” is created with the special technique that makes stone like texture on the surface. When the dry lacquer powder is sprinkled on a lacquered surface, surface tension works and the powder gathered in places.
Making use of the clumps created by chance, layer the lacquer, let it fix, and then polish it to create “Ishime”. It will be the “cobblestone-like” finish in the garden.

Cigar Portable Midori Ishime

”Midori Ishime” uses a special blue-green color lacquer for a base color and the same color dry lacquer powder.
The beautiful finish reminds of a turquoise with a color between blue and green.

“Ishime” is created with the special technique that makes stone like texture on the surface.
When the dry lacquer powder is sprinkled on a lacquered surface, surface tension works and the powder gathered in places. Making use of the clumps created by chance, layer the lacquer, let it fix, and then polish it to create “Ishime”.
It will be the “cobblestone-like” finish in the garden.

Cigar Portable Kikyo Ishime　

“Kikyo Ishime” uses the blue, we called “Kikyo” lacquer for a base color and a blue dry lacquer powder.
The brilliant finish resembles lapis lazuli which has a deep blue color that seems to draw you in.

“Ishime” is created with the special technique that makes stone like texture on the surface. When the dry lacquer powder is sprinkled on a lacquered surface, surface tension works and the powder gathered in places. Making use of the clumps created by chance, layer the lacquer, let it fix, and then polish it to create “Ishime”. It will be the “cobblestone-like” finish in the garden.

Cigar Piccolo AMANOGAWA

The design inspired by the “Milky Way” shining in the night sky is expressed with Raden.
A lots of fine shellfish (Mijin shellfish) of different sizes are used and put them in a spiral pattern with a gradation.
By making the base in black (KuroRoiro), the shine of Raden stands out, creating a finish that looks just like the Milky Way shining in the night sky.

Cigar Portable MANTEN

A starry sky is expressed by scattering small shellfish all over the black (KuroRoiro) base. Then the Milky Way more shining brightly is drawn in a spiral pattern in the starry sky. Also shellfishes are spread all over the grip section to create the feeling of a starry sky.
It has a more gorgeous and glittering finish than “Milky Way”.

Writer Portable WILD STRAWBERRY　

Based on Yakou Maki-e technique, we lay out several seashells (Raden).
Though we used many pieces of big shells in abundance and looks gorgeous, this artwork settled down the background kept the entire settled balance by Tame-nuri background.

Writer Long Izumi no Kami Kanesada　

The design is modeled after the sword mountings (“koshirae”) of Toshizo Hijikata’s beloved sword, “Izumi no Kami Kanesada”.
The body was painted using a technique called “Honshu Kanshitsu Kuronurikomi Togidashi”, apply black lacquer to vermilion “ishime” and polish. A phoenix motif is drawn on the barrel with charcoal powder, and a peony motif is drawn on the cap with black lacquer.
The both tips of the pen are made to look like a scabbard tip of sword, “kojiri”, and are finished with charcoal powder to make them matte and fringe it with gold.
For the grip section, a paper mulberry leaf is drawn with silver on a charcoal powder finish base, and draw the veins of the leaf with black lacquer on it, then applied transparent blackish amber lacquer and polished it.
Using various techniques, we have created a piece that resembles the real sword mountings of the sword.

Miyabigi Series SEIBOKUYA

“Seibokuya” expresses the warmth of wood with its grain and the twinkling of the starry sky in Raden.

Since the decoration matches the grain of the wood, the expression of the urushi lacquer part differs from one piece to another.

Cigar Piccolo SHAKEI-SONSETSU

The motif comes from the Shakei-Sonsetsu, a four-character idioms.
It means to study even if one is in a very difficult situation.
The four-character idioms comes from the story that Che Yin, a old Chinese politician read under the weak light of firefly in summer, and Sun Kang, a old Chinese official read with the moon light reflected by snow in winter.

Cigar Long Suzu Ishime (Silver)　

It is “Suzu Ishime” which uses “roasted tin powder” instead of Kanshitsu (dry lacquer) powder.
Using the roasted tin powder made it possible to creates the material finish.
This “Suzu Ishime Silver” uses the black lacquer for the base, and the finish has the hard brilliance like a fumigated silver and hematite.

“Ishime” is created with the special technique that makes stone like texture on the surface.
When the dry lacquer powder is sprinkled on a lacquered surface, surface tension works and the powder gathered in places.
Making use of the clumps created by chance, layer the lacquer, let it fix, and then polish it to create “Ishime”.
It will be the “cobblestone-like” finish in the garden.