{"product_id":"katawaguruma-maki-e-oo-natsume-by-nakamura-soin-kaga-lacquer-silver-interior","title":"Katawaguruma Maki-e Oo-Natsume by Nakamura Soin — Kaga Lacquer Silver Interior","description":"Nakamura Soin placed the cart wheels at the water's edge — half submerged, half held by the current — and covered everything in gold. The katawaguruma is one of classical Japanese art's most persistent images: an oxcart wheel left standing in a stream, its spokes articulating time and the patience of things that do not resist what flows around them. On this oo-natsume, the image moves. Waves curl between the wheel spokes. The water does not stop for the wheel. The wheel does not lift itself from the water.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor collectors searching for a katawaguruma maki-e natsume, a Kaga lacquer oo-natsume, a large maki-e tea caddy, Nakamura Soin lacquerware, or a silver interior natsume for tea ceremony: this piece arrives with the authority of a craft tradition that has been refining itself for four hundred years. The exterior is gold on black. The interior — gin-dame, silver-grey — is the image's inverse. Where the outside declares, the inside holds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe oo-natsume is used for thick tea. It is the larger vessel, the one that holds more, the one around which a gathering can form. Nakamura Soin has given this one a gold rim that marks the boundary between the silver interior and the black exterior — a threshold, like the water's surface in the design itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e• Maker: Nakamura Soin (中村宗尹)\u003cbr\u003e• Technique: Kaga maki-e on black lacquer, gin-dame (silver) interior\u003cbr\u003e• Form: Oo-natsume (large-size tea caddy)\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Excellent\u003cbr\u003e• Includes: Tomobako (artist-signed wooden box), cloth, artist leaflet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[ CULTURAL INSIGHT ]\u003cbr\u003eKaga maki-e — the lacquer tradition of Kanazawa and the Kaga domain — is distinguished from Kyoto maki-e by its density: motifs are more fully realized, grounds more deeply layered, compositions more pictorial. Where Kyoto maki-e tends toward suggestion, Kaga maki-e tends toward completion. Nakamura Soin works within this tradition, and the katawaguruma composition on this oo-natsume exemplifies its method: every element is present, rendered, accounted for. The waves are not gestural — they are waves. The wheel spokes are individually articulated. The effect is not of decoration applied to an object, but of a world contained within one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[ DEEP-DIVE ]\u003cbr\u003eThe katawaguruma motif derives from a poem in the Shin Kokinwakashu (New Anthology of Japanese Poetry, 1205) and appears throughout the Heian and early medieval period in textiles, lacquerware, and ceramics. The image is associated with the transience of aristocratic culture — the cart wheel abandoned, standing in the stream, slowly submerging — but in the tea tradition it carries a more deliberate meaning. The wheel in water does not struggle. Its partial submersion is not loss but condition. The image teaches the viewer that contact with what flows is not the end of what is made. Nakamura Soin's gin-dame interior — silver-grey, reflective, quiet — extends this meditation inward. The outside turns; the inside holds still.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e---\u003cbr\u003e【日本語説明】\u003cbr\u003e中村宗尹による、加賀蒔絵の大棗。漆黒の地に金蒔絵で描かれた片輪車文様は、流水に半ば沈む車輪を繊細かつ豊かに表現しています。各車輪の輻（スポーク）の一本一本、波の流れの一筋一筋に至るまで、加賀蒔絵の精緻な技が息づいています。蓋裏・内部は銀溜（ぎんだめ）仕上げで、重厚な外観と静謐な内面が対をなす、格調高い大棗です。共箱・布・栞付き。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ SHIPPING \u0026amp; PACKAGING ]\u003cbr\u003e• Dispatch: Within 1-6 business days\u003cbr\u003e• Carrier: Japan Post EMS \/ UPS (with tracking)\u003cbr\u003e• Packaging: Carefully wrapped with protective materials","brand":"The Modern Zen Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61638306431346,"sku":"260304_a_2341","price":3270.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m20770905488_1.jpg?v=1772715502","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/katawaguruma-maki-e-oo-natsume-by-nakamura-soin-kaga-lacquer-silver-interior","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}