25417 Sanuki Goto lacquerware (Tsuishu cup (early summer of Hei-sama, 1916)

Height 5.0cm

Diameter 3.0cm

Kagawa lacquerware (Sanuki lacquerware) was started by Tamakaji Zokoku, who appeared in the late Edo period, and three techniques, "kinma", "choshitsu" and "zonsei", were established. After Zokoku's death, his younger brother Fujikawa Kokusai attempted to industrialize practical lacquerware based on the kinma and zonsei techniques, but the time-consuming production led to shoddy production, and zonsei, which had become synonymous with Sanuki lacquerware, disappeared at the end of the Meiji period. Instead, the core of the lacquerware industry was "Sanuki carving", wood carvings with colorful lacquer, and the store "Hyakkaen" that sold these and the surrounding area produced master carvers such as Ishii Keido and Kamada Kado. Isoi Joshin, also known as the founder of the revival of Sanuki lacquer art, studied the works of Zoukoku and Kokusai, and in the early Taisho period invented the "point-carved lacquerware" technique, successfully expressing depth and three-dimensionality. Otomaru Kodo, an apprentice of Keido, produced excellent carved lacquerware works using a variety of colorful lacquer. The Important Intangible Cultural Property Certification System was established in 1955, and Otomaru Kodo was certified for carved lacquerware, and Isoi Joshin was certified for lacquerware the following year. Subsequently, Isoi Masami was certified for lacquerware in 1985, Ota Hitoshi in 1994, and Yamashita Yoshito in 2013. Additionally, at the Nitten exhibition, Akashi Bokkei and Manago Jitsuya have produced panels and objets d'art, breaking new ground in interior decoration.

This work was created in 1916 by a certain Goto, a disciple of Ishii Keido.