©Yoneo Kawabe
Deep blue tea caddy
“The material was dyed with indigo-dye, stored from my grandfather’s time,” says Jihei Murase of this cylindrical tea caddy. The finely fitted lid closes in perfect silence under gravity’s touch. The finish is embellished with gold.
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Jihei Murase
Setagaya City, Japan
Jihei Murase’s grandfather was a fifth-generation woodturner who mastered the entire creation process behind lacquered works, urushiware. His son cont ...
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