ashide

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Japanese lacquerwork

  • Qianlong imperial throne
    In lacquerwork: Japan

    …interwoven with the pattern (ashide). The process called Kamakura-bori, carved wood thickly lacquered with red or black, also dates from this period and continued to flourish for another two centuries or so. During this epoch occurred the beginnings of the characteristic Japanese treatment of landscape and flower subjects in…

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