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Cigar Long OWL & MOON

The black background without blurring clearly highlights the owl motif.

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 ROKAKU-SANSUIZU　

The two-layered Tame-sukashi technique gives a deep sumi-e like finish to the motif, “Landscape with a Castle”. Draw motifs on a black colored base with the tame-sukashi technique. Then, draw motifs on that previous layer with tame-sukashi technique. This creates depths to the motifs. Unlike aka-tamenuri and kuro-tamenuri, which use shu (vermilion) as a base color, the background does not become brighter but only the motifs become more vivid.

The motif is based on “Landscape with a Castle” drawn to 6 songs 1 double folding screen by Ikeno Taiga, a painter from the middle of the Edo period. The Castle and Landscape are each depicted to the right and left panels.

Cigar Long MAKI　

Cigar Long SUIGYO　

A fish swimming slowly in the water is expressed using Raden. The motif is drawn by pasting thinly cut seashells one by one.
A fish is drawn on the cap and a stream of water is drawn on the barrel.
The cool colors, Shobu is used for the base, imagining “in the water”.

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.