Description

Product name: Housoge (Gold Lines 1)　[no.19030]
Price: US$1,417
Barrel material: Ebonite
Description: This is the very standard version of Chinkin (gold lines) on Kuro-roiro(black) body. Carve the Housouge motif by the Chinkin technique unique to Wajima.

【Housouge】
Housouge is an imaginary flower which blooms in the heaven.
The same as the "Palmet", it is said that the most popular flower pattern which is one of the representative arabesque pattern in ancient China and Japan.
"Housouge" is used for the stringed instrument housed in Shosoin(正倉院) of Nara as an auspicious omen motif.

The model of the picture is Cigar/Piccolo.

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