22nd Jul 2026
Lacquer is a skin, not a stone — treat the surface the way you would treat good leather, and the rules become easy to remember. Lacquerware has a reputation for being delicate, and it is largely un…
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14th Jul 2026
Chopsticks are the most personal object on a Japanese table — and the care they ask for is about thirty seconds at the sink, and a few habits worth knowing. Of everything on a Japanese table, chops…
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4th Jun 2026
The deep black and the vermilion red the eye reads as "Japanese lacquer" run through pieces made nine hundred years ago and pieces made last year — in the same register, because the makers acro…
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9th Apr 2026
Kinkaku-ji, Kyoto — where gold speaks in whispers, not shouts. There is a particular kind of light you notice in old Japanese temples — not the blinding brightness of chandeliers or th…
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