artwork

HIAGE


Specifications
Design and production
 Wood
  • Japanese native lacquer - natural wood
  • 100 year old lacquer tree from Futatsui, Akita Prefecture[1]
  • Garden Kew Quin collection[2], 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.[3]
  • 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
 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
Related documents
Newspaper
Newspaper
monument
Joboji Cultural Hall
contract
Japan Urushi Scratching Technique Preservation Society
outsourcing contract
working
Production records
Supplement
1996
Inauguration of Japan Urushi Scratching Technique Preservation Society.
Joboji Cultural Hall completed
2020
Japan Urushi Scratching Technique Preservation Society[5] is recognized as a UNESCO[4] Intangible Cultural Heritage.


Katakuti is the most common way to call it, but in the Joboji area it is called Hiage.
A few clamp are hammered on the inside, at the knots.、The wood is covered with linen to prevent splitting.
Footnote : External link
  1. ^.Kahoku Shimpo:1996/08/20:article
  2. ^.Kew
  3. ^.A lacquer legacy at Kew : the Japanese collection of John J. Quin / Hew D.V. Prendergast, Helena F. Jaeschke, Naomi Rumball Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
  4. ^.Intangible Cultural Heritage
  5. ^.Agency for Cultural Affairs,Government of Japan:Traditional skills, techniques and knowledge for the conservation and transmission of wooden architecture in Japan. Japanese lacquer production and refining
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