Vintage Japanese Hand Crafted Wood Hida Shunkei Lacquer Tray Obon Ozen 13.5" Tetsubin The overall finish combines black

The overall finish combines black ground with red-lacquered carved relief and traces of gilt — a treatment associated with southern Chinese folk craft of the late Qing and Republic periods

Hasui Kawase (1883–1957) stands as a luminary within the realm of Japanese woodblock print artistry

Japanese woodblock - Tsukasa Yoshida b

Having been used lovingly and protected in a storage box for over a century

Vintage Japanese Hand Crafted Wood Hida Shunkei Lacquer Tray Obon Ozen 13.5" Tetsubin The overall finish combines blackThis is a vintage Japanese wooden lacquered tray called an obon or ozen. It was made in the Hida Takayama region of Gifu prefecture in the Shunkei lacquer ware tradition and hand crafted in the mid to late Showa ear c 1960's 1980's. This type of natural lacquer ware has been famous in Japan for centuries. What makes Hida Shunkei lacquer ware so special is the way that the beauty of the surface of the wood is brought out by the application of a