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Cigar Piccolo SHAKEI-SONSETSU

The motif comes from the Shakei-Sonsetsu, a four-character idioms.
It means to study even if one is in a very difficult situation.
The four-character idioms comes from the story that Che Yin, a old Chinese politician read under the weak light of firefly in summer, and Sun Kang, a old Chinese official read with the moon light reflected by snow in winter.

Cigar Portable CRYSTAL ZARYU

Cigar Portable UNRYU-ZU　

We have created a makie of Unryu-zu, a masterpiece of Soga Shouhaku, an artist of the mid-Edo period.

Silver color was harmonized on a black base while a similar taste to sumie was created by utilizing a technique of heaping up and polishing.
We believe we were able to reproduce a touch of Shouhaku’s humor.

The original painting stored in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) is a masterpiece of Shouhaku, which is painted in eight panel-folding screens. We have used the four panels from the left as a motif.

Cigar Long WATER DRAGON　

A dragon ascending in a waterfall is skillfully represented. The flow of the waterfall is depicted in eraser silver, the flow of water in tame-sukashi, and the dragon in gold.

Cigar Long FLYING DRAGON

The flying dragon is expressed by a special technique using charcoal powder and heaping it up with urushi lacquer.

Cigar Portable MIDNIGHT SPIDER

Cigar Portable SPIDER

Nakaya expressed a Spider (Kumo) by “Sumiko” (charcoal powder) technique. The web was written by a thin brush pen and polished up (“togi-dashi”) after sprinking silver powders. The Spider has an appearance of solidity by “Taka-Maki-e” heaping up technology with black and yellow Urushi lacquer and polish up. (“togi-dashi”). Lastly, we added in detail parts of the Spider and polished up as Roiro (gross) finishing. On the grip section, a craftman used gold powder as base. A flower was written in gold, a butterfly was heaped up by Urushi lacquer and sprinkled by gold powder and rubbed with black and white Urushi and polished. (“togi-dashi”).

D-17 Portable BAT

We expressed bats flying around freely in the middle of the night by Yakomakie (gold Makie).
The moon is drawn by Tame-Sukashi technique and clouds are thinly colored black on gold Maki-e.

Cigar Portable EVENING CHERRY BLOSSOMS　

We lay out branches of cherry trees and blossoms on the center of pen body, sprinkled blossoms to the entire body. A craftsman put a bark to express a detail of branch and bloomed flowers.
In addition, black flowers come floating when we look closely and delighted in the expressive image.

Cigar Portable SEASONAL FLOWERS

This is a black Urushi base of previous artwork “Seasonal flowers”.
Many flowers are drawn on this work. Violet(spring), bracken(spring), peony(a beginning of summer), horsetail(summer), bell-flower (from summer to fall), narcissus (from fall to winter), and camellia (winter).