©Yoneo Kawabe
Tea caddy, hatchet-hewn
This tea caddy is hatchet-hewn, its unintentional form revealing the natural beauty of the wood grain and giving it a singular shape. The surface is lacquered, sprinkled with silver, and finished with sulfur-fumigation, adding to the rustic aesthetic. The caddy is now in the V&A collection.
Artisan
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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