Tame Momiji

Tame Momiji-Maki-e - Nama-Ha-Suri-Nuri is a technique in which leafs of plants are painted with strongly pigmented urushi and pressed on urushi lacquer ground to leave the leaf‘s pattern. Momiji-Maki-e-Nuri is one version where „Momiji“ Japanese Maple leafs are used. The remaining urushi is sprinkled with various metal powders, in this case gold, platinum and copper. Some are left pure red and orange urushi. The whole work is then coated with 15 layers of transparent urushi. The leaf pattern are shimmering through the Tame layer. Since urushi becomes more transparent with the time, the pattern will appear stronger