Murose Kazumi: The Light Fantastic of Lacquer

Gift from Heaven, a box for holding letters featuring makie lacquerwork and mother-of-pearl inlay, exhibited at the seventieth Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (2023). (Courtesy the Japan Kōgei Association)

(© Mori Masatoshi)

Funzutsu bamboo powder tube. (© Mori Masatoshi)

Raden mother-of-pearl inlay. (© Mori Masatoshi)

Colored Lights, an octagonal box with makie lacquerwork and raden mother-of-pearl inlay, exhibited at the forty-seventh Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (2000). (Courtesy the Japan Kōgei Association)

(© Mori Masatoshi)

(© Mori Masatoshi)