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Otegami (お手紙) — Letters
Notes from the workshops: what we saw, what we asked, and what we carried home.
If you have never owned Japanese lacquerware before, it is easy to assume that Kamakura-bori must be difficult to care for. It is carved...
A traditional Japanese craft does not require a traditional Japanese room. That may be the most important thing I learned while choosing the first...
Look closely at a piece of Kamakura-bori. The first impression may be color: deep red, reddish brown, or near-black in the hollows. Then the...
At first glance, Kamakura-bori can look like richly colored Japanese lacquerware. Look more closely, though, and you begin to see what makes it different:...
