Since the old times, people have been attracted to a brilliant beauty of Japanese urushi or lacquer ware. Among them, Soetsu Yanagi highly valued urushi-e : those on which unknown craftspeople vividly drew auspicious omen motifs or flowers and grass motifs. It could be proved by the fact that Yanagi collected bowls, trays, boxes and many other urushi wares. In this exhibition, about 100 items of urushi crafts from the Museum collection, which include excellent bowls of Nanbu, Hidehira and Jobouji (mostly from Iwate pref.) as well as those made with various techniques like Negoro (coatings of black lacquer covered with coatings of red lacquer), Raden (mother-of-pearl inlay work), Rankakubari (sprinkled picture with eggshells), Shippi (lacquered leather) and so on.
The detailed information on associated exhibition is available in the leaflet.