Japanese Lacquerware

 

Lacquer, made from the sap of lacquer trees, is the best "protective surfac" liquid. Besides being uniquely beautiful and voluptuous, the well-dried surface is extremely durable (against oil or acid). The silky feel that lacquer has cannot be obtained from any other protective substance.
Lacquer ware, with its long tradition of elegance and manufactured by highly skilled craftsmen, fills your heart with a sense of calmness when used. The longer you use lacquer ware, the more significance you will realize.
It is fascinating that find that lacquer ware is used worldwide in the present time, giving people the pleasure of processing Japan''''s traditional beauty. To have lacquer ware is something to give you modest but everlasting contentment in your daily lives.

 

Japanese lacquerware is composed of many sections, and, as a result, has excellent resistance to corrosion.

All lacquerware in NIHON YA use high-level ECHIZEN-NURI.

 

 

 

 

The hand paint working line of the Japanese lacquer paint reaches 40, and is very time-consuming. The special expert exists at the each stage of work. They are called KIJISHI, SHITAJISHI, KENSHI, NURISHI, MAKIESHI, CHINKINSHI, and FUKITSUKESHI, etc. respectively.
Because the expert demonstrates the maximum technology specializing in the field, the refined beautiful profound shine is born.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The lacquer has antibacterial properties, and can decrease a large amount of coliform counts.
The main element of the lacquer in Japan is an element that is called URUSHIOL. The urushiol has the antibacterial activity and it is assumed the more of ratios of the urushiol, the better.
The urushiol is not so included in the lacquer ware of the main overseas product, and it is made from laccol or thitsiol of a similar material.