Kamakura-bori

An example of Kamakura-bori

Enlargement showing how polishing reveals layers

Kamakura-bori (鎌倉彫) is a form of lacquerware from Kamakura, Japan. It is made by carving patterns in wood, then lacquering it with layers of red, blue, yellow or other colors. It is then polished.

The genre is said to date to the Kamakura period, when Kōun (康運) (or, according to another theory, Kōen (康円), a busshi (a sculptor specializing in Buddhist images), began carving Buddhist implements in the manner that Chin Na-kei (or Chin Wa-kei) had introduced from Song Dynasty China.

Source

This article incorporates material translated from 鎌倉彫 (Kamakura-bori) in the Japanese Wikipedia, accessed August 26, 2008.

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Kamakura-Bori is normally made for higher level persons in Feudal Japan. They normally have Religious/Political figures on them. But in all Kamakura-Bori was for all people who owned a home: almost all home-owners had some form of Kamakura-Bori crafts.

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