Urushi lacquerware is one of Japan’s representative traditional crafts that has had a profound influence on Western arts and has been the product of the utmost expertise of our predecessors over thousands of years of history.
Murose Kazumi, who stands at the apex of this lacquer art and is a Living National Treasure by the Japanese government, has works in the collections of the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and other prestigious museums around the world. In this workshop with a world-renowned authority and a “living national treasure,” you will witness the inherited techniques before your eyes and listen to his philosophy of creating pieces that will thrive for a hundred years into the future.
Immerse yourself and relive the beauty of the jet black depicted in Tanizaki Junichiro’s “In-ei Raisan.”
