An Encounter with Crafts, Inherited Techniques, and New Value
This beauty can be achieved only manually, not through mass production.
MINASE pursues the ultimate level, with complete dedication of passion and time.
This art comes about when a traditional craft and MINASE’s manufacturing resonate with each other.
This decorative technique is thought to have originated in the Nara period.
It entails embedding gold dust and raden (nacre) into the surface of lacquerware and polishing them.
This decorative technique entails mixing lacquer and egg white and applying it to produce lacquerware that features intentional irregular surfaces, upon which different colors of lacquer and nacre are applied before the surfaces are polished flat.
Using her own coloring materials, contemporary artist Ms. Towa TAKAYA layers delicate spectrums of colors onto surfaces, creating multi-layered pictorial spaces that fluctuate depending on the light, environment, and viewing position.
