urushi what??
Glossy, warm, soft, natural vessel ... urushi. And because the texture and color are elegant, it makes the dishes more gorgeous and gorgeous.
Depending on the product, urushi is a highly time-consuming and highly technical product that is manufactured through more than 100 processes and is expensive, but once you get it, you can use it for a long time, and you may be surprised by its new appeal. increase.
The gorgeous table setting enhances the food and enhances the deliciousness of the food. If the table setting is nice, your eating habits will be enriched and you will be looking forward to cooking, and you will also want to invite your friends.
In addition, by incorporating urushi from among the many vessels every day, you can create an elegant feeling, a calm chic and Japanese-style modern atmosphere, and you will be kind to yourself and even heal. ..
■ Laquer ware
As a representative arts and crafts of Japan, it dates back to about 9,000 years ago (Jomon era), and was influenced by Chinese arts and crafts due to the introduction of Buddhism, and the basics of Japanese lacquering will be noticed.
・ Laquer ware is a lacquer ware made by kneading sap collected from lacquer trees.
-Dry the wood, make the wood, make the groundwork, apply the paint, and complete it through more processes.
And it is rare for one craftsman to make it to the end, and it is common to share it with multiple craftsmen, such as "Kijishi" who makes wood, "Nushi" who does painting, and "Maki-e" who does lacquer work. is.
◎ The image is that urushi = expensive, but the reason why it is such an expensive product is that there are many invisible details other than the manufacturing process mentioned above.
For example, before making a bark, let the tree lie down for at least a year before it is completely drained.
moreover
1. Even if you make a wooden base (selecting the material), select the material that suits the product, (cut the dimensions) cut the material to the product size, attach fine parts such as drawing lines, (work) use woodworking bonds, etc. Assembly / (polishing) 5 steps to cleanly polish the assembled product.
2. In the undercoat, (dry) the grain and eyes of the wood are dried. ・ (Kiji polishing) polish the whole again. ・ (Dry the undercoat) apply the undercoat again and dry. 4 steps.
3. In the middle coat, (rusting) fill the scratches and dents on the wood with a special putty, polish and flatten it, (dry) apply and dry the whole, (dry) and then apply and dry the whole. Polishing) Four steps of further polishing the whole.
4. In the finish coating, finish the (wiping) intermediate coating to clean the product, (paint) finish coating, and (dry) dry the lacquer until it dries to complete.
At least 12 steps of painting alone, the material of the painting ・ The lacquer tree can be grown for 10 years and the lacquer can be collected from one tree at only 200CC, and the collected tree is 2 It is unusable again.
-Since the material of urushi is mainly wood, it is light, and the lacquer of the paint is a natural paint with antibacterial action. !!
・ We continue to use uruhi as a strong adhesive to protect and decorate equipment.
■ "Urushi" urushi
It is a sap that oozes from the urushi tree. When a branch is broken or damaged by an insect or animal, lacquer wood exudes lacquer and tries to protect the wound. Lacquer has extremely high adhesive strength and can be applied thinly, so it can give a strong and beautiful luster.
urushi sap
-Due to the high wetness, lightness, and antibacterial properties that are the characteristics of urushi, it has long been manufactured in Japan as a container for soups and as an assortment of dishes such as heavy boxes. Gorgeous lacquer work has been made as a tool for sunny days, sometimes as a gift.
・ Recently, there are vessels that are suitable for daily life, and their uses are becoming wider according to the times.
■ Color
Jet black: It is used to describe deep black or glossy black. The refined lacquer is originally a brownish transparent color, and colors other than black (such as vermilion) are colored by mixing this transparent lacquer with a pigment. So to speak, lacquer black is different from other blacks, and it seems that it has come to be called "jet black" in analogy to the black color peculiar to lacquer.
Vermilion (Vermilion): In the old days, it was a color related to Buddhism and Shinto. It is the color that still remains in temple buildings and shrine torii gates (in Kanto and Kansai, the ratio of red or red torii gates is reversed). On the contrary, "vermilion", which is generally called "red", was the color of the common people. Zhu is preferred to be glossy. For dark vermilion, some people prefer matte.
Maroon: Azuki color. → Vermilion and red iron oxide are used as the undercoat, and after drying, they are polished with charcoal to make them matte, and then painted with transparent lacquer or pear-skin lacquer.
■ Types of coating
Negoro-nuri: A type of Japanese painting technique, it is a lacquer ware that applies red lacquer to the undercoat with black lacquer. The name comes from Negoro-ji Temple in Wakayama Prefecture.
Dry lacquer: One of the manufacturing methods for pheasants such as utensils. A method of laminating linen cloth with lacquer glue (made by mixing raw lacquer with princess glue) to make a base material. The lacquer liquid is dried and hardened after long-term storage.
* Dry lacquerware is lighter and smoother than wood, is hard to break, and is the only place that can be placed in the refrigerator.
Quarter coat: An alloy of copper and silver in a ratio of 1/4, named for its resemblance to metal.
It features a metallic texture created by using tin powder and charcoal powder, and a different expression one by one. Scratches are also inconspicuous, it is safe to put a small pot of ceramics or glass on top, and the back side is a black dry lacquer finish, so it is even more resistant to scratches and durable. Metal for a moment? Glass? It is a vessel that gives off a unique brilliance.
■ Decoration technique
Maki-e (flat lacquer work, high lacquer work, Kende lacquer work, Nikugoken lacquer work) that draws a pattern on the surface coated with lacquer, carves a pattern on the lacquer surface with a knife, and pushes gold leaf or gold powder into this mark. There are gold leaf and lacquer lacquer that expresses patterns with shells.
* Lacquer ware made by using the technique of lacquer painting that skillfully uses gold and silver, such as quarter coating and jewel beetle coating, has a finish that does not seem to be wooden lacquer coating.
■ Types of substrate
◎ Wooden (natural wood): Keyaki (the grain is beautiful and is considered to be the finest wood for lacquer), Mizume Sakura, Tochi, Sennoki, etc. are mainly used.
◎ Natural wood processed product (wood dry / wood flour processed product) = Wood powder mixed with resin and hardened using a mold. MDF (medium density fiberboard, which is also called medium density fiberboard, which is recycled wood made by hot-pressing plant fibers such as wood into a sheet) and natural wood veneer (the surface is natural wood and the core is MDF or plywood).
◎ Made of resin such as plastic / ABS (melanin resin / phenol resin) = The texture is considerably reduced by solidifying only the resin (not available at our shop). ABS resin (molded product of ABS resin) Phenol (molded product of phenol resin), etc.
◎ In addition, there are cloth, paper, bark, bark of trees, etc.
■ Types of surface coating
○ Urushi (Urushi coating / Mixed coating of synthetic resin paint and lacquer)
○ Lacquer ware (painted with traditional methods and materials)
○ Urethane (urethane resin coating)
○ Polyester (polyester resin coating)
○ Cashew (cashew paint / paint made from cashew nuts)
○ Acrylic resin coating
○ Acrylic urethane