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Cigar Portable RASPBERRY (Silver)　

“Iro togi-dashi maki-e”, “Taka-maki-e”, and “raden” are used to draw the motife. The base color is white urushi which seems like ivory.
Mainly silver powders are used to draw all the motif. Also silver powders are used to polish very last for this “Raspberry-silver-“. Using silver powders makes colors more vivid than usuing gold powders.

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 CAMELLIA　

A camellia is decorated on white Urushi lacquer ware by Taka-Makie.

Background is white lacquered gold and camellia is black lacquered after Sumiko (charcoal) finish.

A background of pistil is made by Nashiji and gold Maki-e is applied.

Lower buds are done in silver and gold maki-e after colored Urushi lacquer coating.

The contrast between black and white makes the composition bold, but the work is backed up by technique.

Cigar Portable AQUA JEWEL FISHES

Cigar Portable CRYSTAL ZARYU

Cigar Portable MIDNIGHT SPIDER

Cigar Portable AUTUMN EVENING

We described “Hagi (bush clover)” by the “Yako Maki-e” technique. This motif has many bowstrings so that the contrast of this motif’s edge of the line has also so many. This picture is taken after 1 month from the production. You can see the color slightly changed to red from the edge. As same as “Tame-sukashi” technique, the background in “shu” (red) becomes brighter as time passes. In case of Yako-nuri technique, the main motif (bush clover) is heaped up by black urushi, so this motif shines clearly with bright Shu color as background.

Cigar Portable Goldfishes & Water plants

The main motif is the goldfish, which has long been popular as a summer tradition or as a lucky charm for financial luck. And adding to draw the water plants make goldfishes look like swimming in the water. The background is black with gold shading, and the water plants are drawn with gold urushi lacquer. The body of the goldfishes are drawn with Taka Maki-e technique, and the tails have gold blur. The puffy goldfish swimming gracefully and the swaying water plants create a very beautiful finish.

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.

Cigar Portable HAGI

Palladium powder, which is a type of platinum-based metal, is sprinkled as a base, and the bush clover (Hagi) is painted using the same palladium powder. The bush clover flowers are draw in vermilion and added shading to give them a three-dimensional effect. The metallic color gives it a sophisticated and elegant finish