Art Craft Japan

Phoenix is gracefully depicted with gold makie on the surface of jewel box that is very smoothly coated by black urushi lacquer.  The warm urushi lacquer surface to touch always gives us comfort, despite gold and lustrous black give us chic feeling.

Negoro is a urushi lacquer coating technique established in Negoro area in Wakayama prefecture around 700 years ago. The vase has the beautiful red urushi surface and slender waisted steady gold bag shape.

Personal tray with beautiful pine arabesque patterns is good for keeping your personal items and accessories. This is one of the best gift selections. Please select your favorite tray size that will fit your desk and shelf.

The upper case of the jewel box has tasteful design of grapes drawn with makie crafting technique and with mother of pearls.
The box has a protective indigo velevet pad inside.
All made with natural materials.

This is a large bowl with 29 cm in diameter and is good for serving sweet cakes, sushi and western foods.  You can also use this bowl as a vase and welcome your guest with a beautiful arrangement of flowers.

This is a beautiful large sake cup with 30 cm in diameter for ornamental use. Of course, you can taste a sake with the gorgeous cup. Treasure ship is depicted with gold makie on the smoothly finished red urushi lacquer surface.

Lilies are hand painted with various colors of urushi lacquer over black urushi lacquer coated on the jewel box. The box has protective indigo violet velvet pad inside.  How about decorating your favorite spot with the beautiful jewel box with lilies.

This is the vase peculiar to Japan that has a glossy deep black surface coated by urushi lacquer. Waves and Genji wheels are depicted by gold makie technique. Genji reminds us tales of Genji (Genji monogatari) a thousand years ago written by Shikibu Murasaki.

This is a picture frame coated with reddish orange urushi lacquer. Pattern of rose and cherry blossom on the frame is depicted with gold makie. Please select your favorite pattern. The picture frame is made from all natural wood and good for ecology that is the characteristic of urushi lacquer products.

This is an ornamental plate with phoenix depicted on gold leaf. The phoenix stands out against black urushi lacquer fringe. You can display the gold leaf show plate in your home, office or shop, and create a gorgeous atmosphere in your space.

Shape of the personal box derives from Japanese artistic approach called Rimpa that Korin Ogata familiarized 300 years ago. The waves are also dynamically depicted in Rimpa style with gold makie. We can depict your name, family crest and special messages based on your request.

The pair of cranes indicating a good couple enjoying long life is depicted with gold makie technique on large sake cup that is 23.5cm in diameter. The urushi lacquer surface of the cup is scoured up very smoothly.

Patterns of young pine tree are depicted on the gold leaf. This is good for keeping in trinkets and personal items and has been popular since early times here in Japan.
We can depict your name, family crest and special message based on your request.

Long tailed rooster is designated as a protected species and brings luck as it is often said in Japan.
Gold makie crafting technique is used for depicting long tailed rooster sitting on the plum tree with blossoms.

Beautiful butterflies are depicted with makie crafting technique on the jewel box. If you are interested with makie, please see “Beauty of makie“ on our web page. Please enjoy  a warm touch of urushi lacquer coated on the jewel box.

Personal box has Japanese unique design with cheery blossoms on the rafts.  The cherry blossoms are delicately depicted with gold makie and mother of pearls. Please enjoy the Japanese design and warm urushi lacquer surface to touch.

Side Bulged Four Tiered Box with Big Pine Tree
This is a typical foods serving style for celebratory occasions. Four tiered boxes are used for serving various kinds of foods in each box. It is a pleasure to open up four boxes on the table and see beautifully placed foods in the boxes.

Urushi lacquer dish is soft to touch, and is hard to become hot and has slight warmth to touch, even if hot foods were put in. Delicate Japanese patterns are depicted with gold makie inside the bowl and inside the cover. All of you will enjoy beauties of gold patterns and deliciously placed foods in the bowls when the covers off.

This is the bowls for daily use. You can choose either red or clear brown, or combination of red and clear brown. Small size bowl is for rice, and medium size bowl is for soup. Large size one is for cooked foods and noodle soup. However, you can use any favorite size of the bowl for your dish.

These are urushi lacquer coated bowls you routinely use and are lightweight easy to use bowls that bring your table pleasant atmosphere and conversations.
You can put rice, cooked foods, soup, and noodles in your preference. 

These are the perfect selections for tasting Japanese Soba noodles. You can choose either red or clear brown, or combination of red and clear brown. Foods on the gold and silver plate look good and brighten up your table. You will be comfortable with a warm touch of urushi lacquer coated dishes.

Pair of Bowls has an auspicious symbol of pine and apricot patterns on the covers of each bowl.
This is a good commemorative for couples and also excellent gift for couples. We can depict name and family crest on the bowl by your request.

Red urushi lacquer is coated over black urushi lacquer basecoat and is scraped off until the black basecoat slightly appears. This is the bowl you routinely use and is good for serving foods and flutes.

This is a bowl for ozoni or soup with rice cake and vegetables. Urushi lacquer coated wooden bowl with cover keeps a hot soup hot and has a warm surface to touch. Inside the black bowl is red. Please select your favorite color bowls that increase pleasant feeling on your table.

Gosei is one of the subject for Japanese painting and depicts pine, bamboo, apricot, chrysanthemum, and orchid. These are the soup bowls with different patterns on a front-back both sides of each cover. Name depicting service is available on your request.

This is an easy to use round tray with smooth red urushi lacquer surface. Negoro is a urushi lacquer coating technique established in Negoro area in Wakayama prefecture around 700 years ago.

This tray has unique texture pattern on the urushi lacquer coated surface. The more you use the tray, the more you will have warm feeling on the texture pattern. Deep urumi color that is a mixture of red and black matches any colors of dishes.

This bowl is fringed with patterns of pine arabesque. The pine arabesque is depicted with gold makie and coated with clear brown urushi lacquer by tame nuri painting method. The more you use the bowl, the brighter pine arabesque it appears. This is used at teatime and also dinner time.

Dragon flies are depicted on a smooth surface of black urushi lacquer. Mothers of pearls are used for depicting wings of dagonflies. Cakes, Sushi and hors d'oeuvre is well served on the unique square plate.

These are very thin and light that is unique to Kyoto style urushi lacquer products. The shape of Chrysanthemum is gouged out from a single piece of wood. Therefore, the value of these saucers and plates is high.

Teacup saucer and serving plate are fringed with a premium accent of gold lines. The gold lines match up well with deep reddish orange base color. Use of the high quality tea set makes your tea time more enjoyable.

This is a popular tea set "Spring Autumn Sandal". The dark red brown fringe with cherry blossom patterns matches well with inner red brown. You can select tea serving bowl as well as teacup saucer and tea serving plate.

This is a unique clam shape serving plate with gold cloud patterns. On the plate, Japanese sweet cakes and Western cakes are served with tea. The clam shape serving plate is good to entertain your quests.

These are very popular bowl and plate set in Japan and painted by tame nuri method that has clear brown color. Gold leaf pattern under the urushi coating becomes clear up as time ticks away. This is a method used for Scabbard and samurai warrior helmet. . You can select your favorite size and combination of this set.

Basket is interwoven by thin bamboo and is layered with Japanese paper, and is coated with urushi lacquer by tame nuri painting method. Patterns of maple leaf become premium accent of the basket. This is very light and easy to use for serving foods and cakes.

This is a small size plate good for serving sweet cakes and has pretty looking unique petal shape. Cake box with patterns of cherry blossom matches well with the petal shape plates. Please enjoy the colorful cake plate and box set.

This is a colorful pair of cups for cold sake with red, green and gold stripes, and is the most gorgeous sake cup on our store. The pair of ｃups is colorfully finished up with a painting method for spinning top(Koma) . Optional service for depicting your name and family crest is available on your request.

This is a casual cup routinely used and good for tasting liquors over ice, hot liquors and beers. The surface of the cup is hard to get wet even with the scotch on the rock. Minimum order quantity for a red and black cup is 2 and for the pair is 1.

Large urushi lacquer coated wooden cup has a warm surface to touch that you will be surprised with. The surface of the cup neither gets wet with cold sake nor get hot with hot liquor. Gold and silver dots on a smooth black surface become premium accent of the cup.