Art Craft Japan

The surface of the box is densely covered with the gold makie including the inner surface of the box.  Pine trees,  bridge, roof of shrine, gateway to shrine are drawn with the gold makie with three dementional impression. The river flows down to a sea is drawn with the gold makie over the black urushi lacquer.  Inside of the box is all covered with the dazzling gold. This type of natsume box is call flat natsume in Japan because of the wider body against the height. You can use this gorgeous natsume box  to hold a tea or anything that you want to keep.   

Diameter 8.5cm,  Height 6.3cm.                         Art works of Sanao Matsuda

Material: Wooden box, urushi lacquer, gold powders. 

 The surface of the box is smoothly covered with the black urushi lacquer and decorated with beautiful butterflies drawn with the gold makie and the mother of pearls.  The butterfly on the top is shaped with the mother of pearls.  The butterflies on the side of the box are drawn delicately with the gold makie.  The corners of the box are covered with thick gold powders.  The design of the makie Incense case is simple but has extremely gorgeous feeling. You can use the gorgeous Incense case to hold a fragrance bag or anything that you want to keep. 
Length 6.5cm,  Width 5.8cm, Height 8.3cm.       Art works of Sanao Matsuda

Material: Wooden box, urushi lacquer, gold powders, mother of pearls. 

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The surface of the case is covered with the black urushi lacquer and decorated with the gold makie. The pine trees are drawn with the gold makie on the top of the case.  On the right side of the case,  the fan with bamboos are drawn with the gold makie. 
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The surface of the case is covered with thick gold powders, and the top of the case, the bottle gourds are drawn with the makie. The blossoms, are shaped with the mother of pearls.  Inside of the box, the gold powders are sprinkled over the black urushi lacquer and the bottle qourds are drawn with the gold makie. The joint part of upper and the lower box are gracefully finished up with the silver plate. A fragrance bag is hold inside the box.

Length 8.8cm,  Width 5.5cm, Height 3.8cm.       Art works of Sanao Matsuda

Material: Wooden box, urushi lacquer, gold powders, mother of pearls, silver plate. 

The body of box is made by layered clothes with urishi lacquer in order to produce this round shape case design. The surface of the case is covered with thick gold powders.. The waves are depicted by thick gold powders and the rocks in the river are shaped with lead.
The cursive characters created from strips of silver makes this design more elegant. 

Length 8.2cm, Width 7.5cm, Height 3.2cm.       Art works of Sanao Matsuda 
Material: Layered clothes with Urushi lacquer box, gold powders, urushi lacquer, silver scripts and Lead rock.

The surface of the case is covered with thick gold powders. Small boats are lined up in the waves, crossed by a bridge. The cursive characters created from strips of silver makes this design more elegant. The scripts quote a poem by Hitoshi Minamoto from the tenth-century anthology that read; On east road, crossing the boat-bridge of Sano, crossing my mind, thoughts that no one knows. In this design, no scripts for "boat-bridge" were on the case but pictures were there. 

The design is derived from a scene in "Eight Bridges," the tales of Ise ( Ise monogatari).
The surface of the case is covered with the urushi lacquer, and the top and sides of the body are decorated with irises and crossed by the bridges. The iris blossoms are shaped with the mother of pearls, leaves and stems are drawn by the gold makie. The upper tier of this box is a space for an ink stone and a water dropper. The lower tier is a space for holding papers.

The surface of the case is densely covered with gold powders, and the top of 00the case is decorated with chrysanthemums and a fence crossed over a garden. The blossoms, leaves, stems, birds, fence, and rocks are all shaped with the mother of pearls.  Inside of the box, the blossoms, leaves, stems, birds and fence are delicately drawn by the gold makie, and an inks tone and a water dropper are inset at the center, in the right and the left small inner boxes are for a brush rest and a small knife rest. The bottom of the small inner boxes, the chrysanthemum and fence are very delicately drawn by the gold makie into the tiny space as you can see.

Length 16.7cm,  Width 15.4cm, Height 4.3cm.   Art works of Sanao Matsuda

Material: Wooden box, urushi lacquer, gold powders, mother of pearls. 

The vessel and the lid are all painted with urushi lacquer and have a solid warm touch.
The vessel is shaped with the layered thin clothes with the urushi lacquer first, and is covered with the half split stems of pampas grass, and layered with the thin cloth with the urushi lacquer again, then painted with the urushi lacquer many times. The outer side of vessel is painted with the white urushi lacquer and the black urushi lacquer on top of it. By polishing up the side of vessel, the white urushi lacquer naturally appeared on the gnarl portion of the pampas glass and becomes the unique white pattern on the vessel.  Any questions? Feel free to clontact us.

The surface of the case is covered with the dried urushi lacquer powders coated by the urushi lacquer instead of the gold powders are sprinkled over the gold Makie. On the top of box, the pine needles and the pine cones are drawn with the gold makie. The case has no dazzling gold like gold makie but has quiet gleaming black luster with simple gold pine needles and cones.

Diameter 20.0cm,  Height 12.0cm.                    Art works of Sanao Matsuda

Material: Wooden box, dried urushi lacqure powders, urushi lacquer, gold powders. 

The poem of the scene read ; The first day of New Year, with a serene sky, a delivered basket with beautiful dishes and a sitting paper bush warbler on a good shape of branch with an attached letter, saying waiting for the first song of bush warbler, happy couple now thinking about her mother away from.  The first song of the bush warbler give us a feeling of fortune, happiness and hopes for starting. A small palace, apricots, pine trees, a bush warbler were drawn with the beautiful gold makie. The size of gold powder with the urushi lacquer gives makie the different taste of colors. 
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 The surface of the box is covered with the black urushi lacquer and decorated with the gold makie and the mother of pearls.  The blossoms are shaped with the mother of pearles and have deffrent color taste.  The grasses, leaves, stems are are drawn by the gold makie.  Inside of the box is all covered with silver makie. You can use the gorgeous natsume box  to hold tea or anything that you want to keep.  

Diameter 7.3cm,  Height 7.5cm.                        Art works of Sanao Matsuda

Material: Wooden box, urushi lacquer, gold powders, silver powders.

This natume box  is hollowed out of a very old nandina. The tea ceremony house in a garden of Kinkakuji (Golden Pavilion Temple) located in Kyoto has a column of nandina, and is open to visitors. The column of nandina has almost same thickness of this natsume box. The age of the nandina in the tea ceremony house is called over seven hundreds.  The nandina grows very slow but has long life. Nadina sounds like "drive out trouble" in Japanese and is known as a lucky tree. The surface of the box has a natural bark of the nadina with the clear urushi lacquer. 

The design is derived from a scene in "Eight Bridges," the tales of Ise ( Ise monogatari).
The surface of the case is covered with the urushi lacquer, and the top and sides of the body are decorated with irises and crossed by the bridges. The iris blossoms are shaped with the mother of pearls, leaves and stems are drawn with the gold makie.

Inside the upper tier and the lower tier box, a frragrance bag is hold, and the patterns of waves are delicately drawn with the gold makie.

Length 8.5cm,  Width 6.2cm, Height 4.6cm.       Art works of Sanao Matsuda

The surface of the case is densely covered with the gold powders, and the top of the case is decorated with chrysanthemums and a fence crossed over a garden. The blossoms, leaves, stems, birds, fence, and rocks are all shaped with the mother of pearls.  Inside of the box, the gold powders are sprinkled over the black urushi lacquer. The joint part of top box and the lower box are gracefully finished up with a silver plate. A fragrance bag is hold inside the box.

Length 8.4cm,  Width 7.3cm, Height 2.8cm.       Art works of Sanao Matsuda

Material: Wooden box, urushi lacquer, gold powders, mother of pearls, silver plate. 

The surface of the case is decorated with silver paterns and silver guardian dods with the gold makie and the red urushi lacquer. The joint part of upper top box and the lower of box are gracefully finished up with the silver plate. A fragrance bag is hold inside the box.  You can use the gorgeous incense case to hold anything that you want to keep. 

Diameter 8.0cm,  Height 3.3cm.                         Art works of Sanao Matsuda

Material: Wooden box, urushi lacquer, gold powders, silver plate.

The beautiful landscape is drawn over the smooth surface of the box covered with thick black urushi lacquer.  The old thatched-roof house, pine trees, mountains are all drawn with the gold makie.  Inside the box, the surface is painted with the black urushi lacquer and has a smooth warm touch. You can use the gorgeous incense box to hold a fragrance bag or anything that you want to keep. 

Length 6.3cm,  Width 6.0cm, Height 8.8cm.       Art works of Sanao Matsuda 

Material: Wooden box, urushi lacquer, gold powders.