Japanese Kinma Lacquer Chu Natsume Floral Scroll Tea Caddy Sanuki Style Ukiyoe and everyday urban life

and everyday urban life

It has a very unusual configuration for a tansu

A refined Matsumoto Ishōdansu (松本衣装箪笥) from the Shinano region (present-day Nagano Prefecture)

Keyaki face (Japanese Elm)

Japanese Kinma Lacquer Chu Natsume Floral Scroll Tea Caddy Sanuki Style Ukiyoe and everyday urban lifeJapanese Kinma Lacquer Chu Natsume Floral Scroll Tea Caddy Sanuki Style Kagawa Japan, Showa period 3 in H 2. 5 in dia (8 6 cm); Weight: under 1 lb (under 0. 5 kg) A chu natsume () decorated in kinma (), a technique of incising fine line designs into a lacquer ground and filling the channels with contrasting colored lacquer here red, green, and gold against a deep black base. The method, originating in Southeast Asia and refined in Japan most notably