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Artworks
Yoshio Okada
“Floating Moon, Wave Clouds” Kanshitsu Box with Sprinkled Design of Celestial Phenomena, 2020Gold and colored lacquer, gold foil, and shell on a kanshitsu dry-lacquer bodySize 1½ x 5¾ x 4¼ in. (4 x 14.5 x 11 cm)T-4609Further images
Kanshitsu body made from cloth reinforced with lacquer; gold and aokin togidashi maki-e, gold nashiji, red lacquer, and inlays of gold foil and thin shell on a polished black-lacquer ground,...Kanshitsu body made from cloth reinforced with lacquer; gold and aokin togidashi maki-e, gold nashiji, red lacquer, and inlays of gold foil and thin shell on a polished black-lacquer ground, the design continuing down the sides and onto the base; the interior surfaces gold nashiji
Signed inside with gold maki-e characters Yoshio tsukuru (Made by Yoshio)
With fitted kiri-wood tomobako storage box inscribed Tenshō maki-e kanshitsu kobako Ugetsu rōun (Kanshitsu small box with sprinkled design of celestial phenomena, “Floating Moon, Wave Clouds”), signed Yoshio tsukuru (Made by Yoshio) and sealed Yoshio