HIAGE

Specifications

Design and production

Wood

Japanese native lacquer - natural wood^[1]
100 year old lacquer tree from Futatsui, Akita Prefecture^[2]
Garden Kew Quin collection^[3], a map of the distribution of lacquer trees recorded in the report on the Japanese lacquer industry by the British Consulate in Hakodate (1882), showing the trees growing in the natural wood areas.^[4]
Joboji Cultural Hall : The monument of Urushi lacquer's wood. Log cut where it meets the ceiling. Using 90kg (24 kan) of Joboji lacquer.
Carved with a machete. Inside, finished only with a circular chisel.

Sap of the middle coat

Raw lacquer used for the Joboji Cultural Hall monument and the Japan Urushi Scratching Technique Preservation Society commission work

Top coat sap

Sap of the middle coat

The distribution Urushi of The Society for Japanese Lacquer	Joboji, Iwate Prefecture
Shintaro Omori	Joboji, Iwate Prefecture
Kantaro Watanabe	Asahimura, Niigata Prefecture
Shoji Iwadate	Joboji, Iwate Prefecture
Michiaki Kirihara	Daiko, Ibaraki Prefecture
Shunzo Omori	Joboji, Iwate Prefecture
Tadao Hatayama	Joboji, Iwate Prefecture
Shinichi Yoshida	Joboji, Iwate Prefecture
Takeo Kudo	Joboji, Iwate Prefecture
Seitaro Omori	Joboji, Iwate Prefecture
Kanpei Higashi	Miyoshi, Tokushima Prefecture
Yoshiaki Okamoto	Yakuno, Kyoto Prefecture
Tadashi Ono	Bitchu, Okayama Prefecture
Kitaro Omori	Joboji, Iwate Prefecture

Supplement

1996	Inauguration of Japan Urushi Scratching Technique Preservation Society.
	Joboji Cultural Hall completed
2020	Japan Urushi Scratching Technique Preservation Society^[6] is recognized as a UNESCO^[5] Intangible Cultural Heritage.