{"product_id":"wada-juho-kaga-maki-e-natsume-pine-raden-tea-caddy-with-signed-box","title":"Wada Juho Kaga Maki-e Natsume Pine Raden Tea Caddy with Signed Box","description":"Experience Authentic Japanese Lacquerware with this Kaga Maki-e Tea Caddy. This Wada Juho creation serves as a Pine Motif Natsume and Raden Inlay masterpiece, featuring Urushi Lacquer artistry and Gold Maki-e Art — a must-have for any Art Collector seeking Ishikawa Craft and authentic Tea Ceremony Chado utensils.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 BASIC DETAILS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Artist: Wada Juho (和田寿峰), Kaga maki-e master\u003cbr\u003e• Form: Chu-natsume (medium tea caddy)\u003cbr\u003e• Technique: Gold\/green maki-e with raden (mother-of-pearl inlay)\u003cbr\u003e• Motif: Wakamatsu (young pine branches)\u003cbr\u003e• Era: Contemporary\u003cbr\u003e• Origin: Kaga region, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: H 6.6 cm × W 6.5 cm (H 2.6\" × W 2.6\")\u003cbr\u003e• Box: Signed tomobako with manufacture card, protective cloth\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Excellent — lacquer surface pristine, maki-e and raden intact\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 CULTURAL \u0026amp; ARTISTIC INSIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKaga maki-e emerged in the Edo period under the patronage of the Maeda clan, lords of Kaga Domain (present-day Ishikawa Prefecture). Unlike Kyoto's restrained elegance, Kaga craftsmen developed a distinctive style characterized by bold compositions, vibrant color contrasts, and liberal use of gold. Wada Juho works within this lineage, applying generations of technique to create contemporary tea ceremony vessels that honor tradition while asserting individual artistic voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe wakamatsu (young pine) motif carries layered meaning in Japanese aesthetics. Pine endures through winter, its evergreen needles symbolizing steadfastness and longevity. \"Young\" pine specifically evokes renewal and vitality — appropriate for tea gatherings that mark seasonal transitions or new beginnings. Juho's rendering shows branches extending from lid to body, creating visual continuity that mirrors the pine's natural growth pattern. The raden inlay catches light as the caddy turns during temae, adding moments of luminous surprise to the ceremony's choreography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Where gold meets shell, light fractures into patient decades.*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe chu-natsume form — literally \"medium jujube\" — references the shape of the jujube fruit. This proportion suits most tea gatherings: large enough to hold sufficient koicha (thick tea) for multiple guests, small enough to handle with grace during preparation. The flat lid and straight sides allow for clear presentation of surface decoration, making natsume ideal canvases for maki-e artistry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJuho's technical execution reveals mastery of multiple maki-e methods. The pine needles appear rendered in togidashi maki-e — a technique where gold powder is applied, covered with lacquer, then polished back to reveal the design flush with the surrounding surface. The branches show dimensional relief work, likely takamaki-e, where lacquer is built up in layers before gold application. This combination of flat and raised techniques creates visual depth that changes as the caddy moves through different lighting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe raden (mother-of-pearl) accents introduce chromatic complexity. Thin shells — likely awabi (abalone) — are cut into precise shapes and embedded into the lacquer ground. Unlike painted decoration, raden possesses inherent iridescence: the nacre's layered calcium carbonate structure diffracts light into rainbow spectra. In dim tea room lighting, these elements appear as subtle highlights; in brighter settings, they activate into luminous focal points.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe signed tomobako provides authentication and provenance. The manufacture card documents technical specifications — outer color black, inner color black, motif \"wakamatsu,\" with raden. This documentation practice echoes centuries-old traditions of lacquer artist's boxes that protected objects while conveying maker identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 日本語解説\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e加賀蒔絵師・和田寿峰による中棗です。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• 作家: 和田寿峰（加賀蒔絵師）\u003cbr\u003e• 技法: 金・緑蒔絵、螺鈿装飾\u003cbr\u003e• 意匠: 若松（わかまつ）\u003cbr\u003e• 産地: 石川県加賀地方\u003cbr\u003e• 寸法: 高さ6.6cm × 幅6.5cm\u003cbr\u003e• 共箱: 作家銘入り、製造カード・布付き\u003cbr\u003e• 状態: 優良\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e加賀蒔絵は江戸時代に加賀藩前田家の庇護のもと発展した伝統工芸で、京蒔絵とは異なる華やかで大胆な表現が特徴です。若松の図柄は常緑樹である松の生命力と若々しい成長を象徴し、茶事において季節の移り変わりや新たな始まりを寿ぐ意匠として好まれてきました。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e寿峰の技法は研出蒔絵と高蒔絵を併用した高度なもの。松葉は研出技法で表面と同じ高さに金粉を定着、枝は漆を盛り上げた高蒔絵で立体感を表現。螺鈿は鮑貝を薄く削って精密にカットし、真珠層が光を虹色に輝かせます。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\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":61580243599730,"sku":"250127-a-1070","price":1017.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m13021044573_1.jpg?v=1770689102","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/wada-juho-kaga-maki-e-natsume-pine-raden-tea-caddy-with-signed-box","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}