Maki-e (蒔絵, literally: sprinkled picture (or design)) is a Japanese lacquer decoration technique in which pictures, patterns, and letters are drawn with...

decoration technique called maki-e (蒔絵) in which metal powder is sprinkled to attach to lacquer. The invention of various maki-e techniques in Japanese history...

mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. The method is similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the...

Society of Jesus collected Japanese lacquerware luxuriously decorated with maki-e. The terms related to lacquer such as "Japanning", "Urushiol" and "maque"...

wakizashi Fusamune, Edo period, 18th century Maki-e Fuji Tagonoura, by Shibata Zeshin, Meiji period, 1872. Maki-e Writing-table, by Shirayama Shosai, Meiji...

creation of miniature landscapes. Chrysanthemum crest on the battleship Mikasa Maki-e Sake Ewer with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Crests in Alternating Fields...

decorated with various materials such as lacquer and various techniques such as maki-e, and are more decorative than other Japanese lacquerware. Because traditional...

lacquering to produce different effects. Raden is especially combined with maki-e – gold or silver lacquer sprinkled with metal powder as a decoration. The...

period often have gorgeous decorations carved on the blade and lacquered maki-e decorations on the scabbard. This was due to the economic development and...

Reading stand with Mt. Yoshino, decorated with lacquer of maki-e technique. 18th century Ukiyo-e based on kabuki actors became popular. Ichikawa Danjūrō...

Edo period. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Black lacquered hanamaru mon maki-e raden daishō koshirae. Meiji period. Mounting for a katana forged by Motoshige...

the world's leading arts and crafts, and works gorgeously decorated with maki-e were exported to Europe and China, remaining important exports until the...

of artistic techniques like gilding of precious metals, line engraving, maki-e, mother of pearl inlay or lacquer. The objects are housed in Buddhist temples...

after that. Itomaki tachi was decorated with lacquer decorations with many maki-e and flashy colored threads, and was used as a gift, a ceremony, or an offering...

classical style that owed a lot to Japanese and Chinese landscape art. Maki-e, decorating the lacquer in gold or silver dust, was the most common technique...

owned by the Pilot Corporation. Namiki is mostly famous for its handmade maki-e (a Japanese lacquerware craft with a wide range of fine and decorative arts)...

are made in Japan, France and the US. Namiki, Pilot's fountain pens with maki-e lacquering designs, are made in the Hiratsuka factory. In 1915, Ryōsuke...

prints) Yasushi Kataoka (Architect) Natsuo Kirino (Novelist) Shōgyo Ōba (Maki-e lacquer artist, Living National Treasure of Japan) Murō Saisei (Novelist...

inlaid with jewels. Some are decorated with lacquer, including Japanese maki-e. Avid communities of pen enthusiasts collect and use antique and modern...

Maki Horikita (堀北 真希, Horikita Maki, born October 6, 1988) is a Japanese former actress. During her career from 2003 until 2017, she starred in numerous...

for display, the tip points to the right. Black lacquered hanamaru mon maki-e raden daishō koshirae (sword mounting). Meiji period. Daisho kashira (pommel)...

barbarians: Some of the first items traded with the West were decorated with maki-e lacquer". Japan Times. Archived from the original on 24 June 2010. Dutch...

lacquer using a method called maki-e. On the front of the medals are borders of olive leaves, and in the center, a maki-e morning sun rises over a cloisonné...

The Communist Party of Israel, commonly known by its Hebrew abbreviation Maki (Hebrew: מק״י), is a far-left communist political party in Israel that forms...

Maki Goto (後藤 真希, Gotō Maki, born September 23, 1985) is a Japanese singer, lyricist, and former actress. Born and raised in Edogawa, Tokyo, Goto began...

to Japan from China. Since maki-e, in which pictures are drawn by sprinkling gold powder, does not exist in China, maki-e is assumed to have been created...

The kanji 八, meaning 'eight', is written within the triple square. Ukiyo-e (woodblock print) by Utagawa Kunimasa, 1796. The Imperial Seal of Japan—a...

Claude Maki (真木蔵人, Maki Kurōdo) (born October 3, 1972) is a Japanese surfing and flight champion, actor and hip hop singer, under the stage name A.K.T...

cover) Ukiyo-e by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi depicting Minamoto no Tsunemoto hunting a sika deer with a yumi A yazutsu (quiver) decorated with maki-e. Edo period...

for practical reasons (often comfortable modern transport was unavailable, e.g. for lack of decent roads) and/or as a status symbol. During the 17–18th...