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Title: The industries of Japan : together with an account of its agriculture, forestry, arts, and commerce. From travels and researches undertaken at the cost of the Prussian government
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Rein, J. J. (Johannes Justus), 1835-1918 Rein, J. J. (Johannes Justus), 1835-1918. Japan nach Reisen und Studien. V. 2. Land- und Forstwirthschaft, Industrie und Handel. English Hodder and Stoughton, publisher
Subjects: Industries Agriculture Art, Japanese
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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e gold-foil, the filling of the unevennesses with transparent lacquer, therubbing with magnolia charcoal and water, the repeated very thincoat of transparent lacquer, and then the process of polishing ashas been given in other cases. In conformity to this, we see thegold foil stand out in its natural colour, wherever it lies on theridges of the groundwork, and then in shading to brown where ithas been placed in the hollows, and covered over with several thicklayers of the transparent lacquer. Where the edges of the twigspressed the putty upwards, red, greenish yellow, and black bandsor rings or spots succeed the yellow of the gold foil in the orderin which (counting backwards) the coats of lacquer were laid on. 3. Shi-tan-nuri, i.e. sandal-wood lacquer. Under this class areimitations of the red sandal-wood or Shi-tan (see p. 253). Theyare produced as follows : After the groundwork is finished, thearticle receives a coat of cinnabar lacquer. Before it is fully dry Rein, Japan K Plate V
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Verl. v Wdk Engdiruinn., Leipzig LWu Ans-t v Werner it Winter. Frankfurt *rM. LACOUER PATTERN a Ts ugaru- nuri, b.Wakasa-nuri. LACQUER WORK. 363 it is marked in interrupted parallel lines with a sharpened stick.After drying comes smoothing with charcoal as usual, and thenlaying on of India-ink in stripes, and a washing away of the edges, sothat red and black stripes alternate, but not showing any resem-blance to wood. A thin coat of Se-shime and the polishing processfollows. The effect is surprising, but it needs a great deal of prac-tice and a skilful hand, especially in rubbing with the magnoliacharcoal. This kind of Japanese lacquer ware is seldom met with in theEuropean collections. I found it in 1881, in the shop of Larkin,Grafton Street, London, on a wooden vase which was made in theshape of a blunted cone 1 meter in height, 56 centimeters in cir-cumference at the bottom, and a diameter at the top of 30 centi-meters. Its price was ^IOO. The ground showed the most beau-tiful imit

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