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Cigar Long OWL

Kuro-roiro(black) is used for the base so that the gold color stands out. The owl motif is drawn with the Gin-yuji pile up technique and the gold Maki-e technique.
Because Raden(mother-of-pearl) are used for the eyes, the color of the owl’s eyes may look different depending on how the light reflects.
The grasses are expressed with a polishing technique that uses gold Maki-e on iro urushi (colored lacquer).

Cigar Long DESERT MOON

An exotic landscape is depicted in maki-e.
This work effectively combines simple techniques.
The ground and the night sky are finished with different sizes of polished gold nashiji ground, and a trading party of camels going through the desert is represented by yako maki-e.

Cigar Long CHERRY BLOSSOM ＆ ARABESQUE

The body is colored in Toki-iro (pale pink) and drawing with black urushi. 

Both high level technique and perseverance are necessary for drawing a curve line.
To draw little by little with taking a long time makes the smooth fine and curved line success.

Cigar Long WATER DRAGON　

A dragon ascending in a waterfall is skillfully represented. The flow of the waterfall is depicted in eraser silver, the flow of water in tame-sukashi, and the dragon in gold.

Cigar Long MAKI　

Cigar Long "UN" STATUE (Horyuji temple)

Cigar Long WORLD of CHAOS　

The motifs are mysterious creatures that have been resurrected from the Paleozoic Era, which does not exist in this world, or have wandered in from another dimension and been mutated and synthesized.
The base color is matte black of charcoal powder. On top of that, we used silver Taka-Maki-e and heaping up expression of black Urushi lacquer in some parts. A slight smoked shade in silver Taka-Maki-e enhances the three-dimensional effect. I think that the dry and grotesque atmosphere was brought out by using monochrome coloring throughout.

Cigar Long SPIDER with FIREFLAME　

Cigar Long TIGER ＆ BAMBOO

Background of “A Tiger and Bamboo”From the ancient period, “White tiger” has been treated as one of the four gods and defending the west. It is also used as for extracting out “Five poisons” making pressure to dishonest. Tiger fighting against dragon has the meaning that power is not easy to decide on victory or defeat. Technique First of all, the base is polished with the lacquering followed by sharpening of bamboo wood and further polishing it with the lacquering . Over the polished lacquer, the main subject TIGER is drawn with the high gilted lacquer. The parts of tiger’s eyes are expressed finely with the flat lacquering. The body portion is artistically painted to bring the similar golden color shade as of real tiger expressing the sense of strongness.

Cigar Long BAMBOO GROVE