Help with koshirae identification

[Ricardo Artesao]

Greetings everyone!

Can anyone help me identifying this style of koshirae? All i know it is an Aikuchi, but i have no clue about the finishing style...

First from Victoria and Albert museum.

Second, i do not remenber.

Can anyone provide a propper, complete and correct english/Japanese  classification?

How is it made?

Is the wood texture achieved by carving the lacquer? Or, is the wood carved and then lacquered?

Thank you!

[eternal_newbie]

It's described here as "lacquerwork" which implies the lacquer is either carved or applied to give it that texture.

 

https://www.mandarinmansion.com/item/aikuchi-snakes-and-centipedes

 

You can see other types of texture/patterns created with lacquer, some of them quite striking, in this thread:

 

 

[Ricardo Artesao]

17 hours ago, eternal_newbie said:

It's described here as "lacquerwork" which implies the lacquer is either carved or applied to give it that texture.

 

https://www.mandarinmansion.com/item/aikuchi-snakes-and-centipedes

 

You can see other types of texture/patterns created with lacquer, some of them quite striking, in this thread:

 

 

Thank you sir! Indeed lacquer is used sometime along the process, but, we cant find complete english/Japanese identification of the style i posted. I have seen that piece from Mandarin Mansion. But, there too, the description is only that is a simulation of wood.  i think there is one style that uses urushi covered plain wood, another that uses urushi covered carved wood simulating old wood, and a third one that uses plain wood covered in carved urushi simulating old wood. 

Also, would be nice a description of the process.  Ps:thank tou for sharing that link. some very beautiful textures there 

Edited December 19, 2025 by Ricardo Artesao

[Toryu2020]

From the Urushi Kogei Jiten -

 

Tagaysan Nuri ~ a type of kawari-nuri that brings out the wood grain with a finished look like Ironwood.

Mokume-nuri - common in the middle-ages, red lacquer on top of black lacquer creating a woodgrain pattern.

Mokume Arai dash-nuri - a type of sabi-nuri where the lacquer is manipulated by fingers, awls and spatula to create the wood grain.

Sabi-nuri - urushi mixed with paper powder (Kami no ko) is then manipulated to build up patterns like Matsu-kawa and sakura-gawa...

[Ricardo Artesao]

20 hours ago, Toryu2020 said:

From the Urushi Kogei Jiten -

 

Tagaysan Nuri ~ a type of kawari-nuri that brings out the wood grain with a finished look like Ironwood.

Mokume-nuri - common in the middle-ages, red lacquer on top of black lacquer creating a woodgrain pattern.

Mokume Arai dash-nuri - a type of sabi-nuri where the lacquer is manipulated by fingers, awls and spatula to create the wood grain.

Sabi-nuri - urushi mixed with paper powder (Kami no ko) is then manipulated to build up patterns like Matsu-kawa and sakura-gawa...

Greetings sir! Now, that is a wonderful bit of information! 

Thank you so much for the help! Now i have a very solid start in researching the subject.

It really helped alot!

Thank you once again!

Cheers!