This MedLibrary.org supplementary page on Wagae-nuri is provided directly from the open source Wikipedia as a service to our readers. Please see the note below on authorship of this content, as well as the Wikipedia usage guidelines. To search for other content from our encyclopedia supplement, please use the form below:
Related Sponsors
| This article may not meet the general notability guideline or one of the following specific guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject. If notability cannot be established, the article is more likely to be considered for redirection, merging, or deletion, per Wikipedia:Guide to deletion. This article has been tagged since June 2008. |
 |
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2008) |
 |
This article may contain inappropriate or misinterpreted citations that do not verify the text. Please help improve this article by checking for inaccuracies. (June 2008) (help, talk, get involved!) |
 |
This Michiko, Suganuma. "Japanese lacquerware Wagae-nuri" may contain improper references to self-published sources. Please help improve this Michiko, Suganuma. [http://lacquer.tafejapan.com "Japanese lacquerware Wagae-nuri" by removing references to unreliable sources where they are used inappropriately. A self-published source may normally only be cited as a primary source about the author or source itself and not as an authority. (June 2008) |
Wagae-nuri (和賀江塗?) is a traditional lacquerware of Japan created by Michiko Suganuma (b1940).
Contents |
History
Its history goes back to only a quarter of century, however it’s directly descends from traditional Kamakura-bori of more than 800years. Michiko Suganuma has learnt Kamakura-bori (wood carving part only) after graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. But fifteen years later she became a contemporary technologist of lacquer coating Wagae-nuri name borrowed from Wakae Island where she lived nearby.
Transition period of 20th century & 21st century
The period of Michiko’s transition was like the dawn of the Kamakura-shogunate age. On lacquerware, the technique of producing was to coat lacquer so many times and to carve dried-lacquer afterward till just before the beginning of Kamakura period. However, the then lacquering craftsmen thought up a new design of carving wood first and coating urushi lacquer later. That’s the origin of Kamakura-bori. Michiko Suganuma has produced number of original Kamakura-bori lacquerware. Upon exhibiting own lacquerware of ten at National Gallery of Victoria, she became a Wagae-nuri creator. On top of being elegance and grace, the feature of Kamakura-bori were spilit of simplicity and fortitude. In addition, Michiko Suganuma thought there must be something striking about her own creating lacquerware. That striking moment was the birth time of Wagae-nuri.
Feature and style
There are some features and styles in lacquer Wagae-nuri.
Cinnabar Red
Creative Urushi-ware Artist Michiko Suganuma produced the first model of Cinnabar-red lacquerware the coating method basing on Kamakura-bori technique was named Wagae-nuri and introduced at the National Gallery of Victoria. Another Wagae-nuri for the gallery was the delivered transparent lacquerware of Michiko’s.
Negoro-nuri Style
The undercoat color gradually rose to the surface of the object, people used to call Negoro. The color of the lacquerware was red, but particular goods of Negoro-temple were produced by not best craftsman and were freely used every day. The temple was so easily using the utensils of lacquer for the lower class priests that the undercoat color broken out the surface. This is the origin of Negoro-nuri. Michiko Suganuma creates red with black and the reverse, black with blue , red with yellow, black with green, green with yellow and so on. Showing the undercoat color depends on the hand power of craftsman.
Shin-nuri (enamel) & the Contrary (dullness)
Here is another superb technique of Michiko Suganuma. One is to create cinnabar-red and the other is to finish in two ways. One way is to smooth the coating surface like brilliant enamel and second way is to leave the dullness of like unpolished silver. The most important point of Michiko’s lacquerware is that every surface of object should go as smooth as possible without hitch.
References
- Michiko, Suganuma. "Japanese lacquerware Wagae-nuri".
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 19 June 2008, at 19:22.
Wikipedia Authorship and Review
Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.
Wikipedia Usage Guidelines
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Wagae-nuri".
The URL for this specific entry is:
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.