Beautiful, vintage, Natsume Kamakurabori carving Caddy signed box, come with original wood box .

Beautiful, vintage, Natsume Kamakurabori carving Caddy signed box, come with original wood box .

Japanese Tea Ceremony  1950s-1960s

Size box: 10 cm H x 9 cm W x 9 cm L

Size tea caddy: 7 cm H x 6.5 cm diameter

What is the Kamakura-bori ?

"Kamakura-bori" is a lacquered craft that has been taken over from the Kamakura period to the present, and its history will be 700 years.

From the 12th century, the Source-limited morning opened the Shogunate to Kamakura, and the Buddha-sculptor who has gathered in Kamakura, which has become the center of Japan, made it with a lacquer and incense instrument used in the temple and craft. It is originated and is affected by the "Zen" culture, and is characterized by the delicacy of carving and the beauty of sinking tones.

In the Meiji era, the upstream classes gathered in Kamakura, which became a resort area, interested in "Kamakurabori" as crafts, and gradually became. There is also an artistic value of art, and it is considered as a highly famous craft as an expensive engraving lacquer.

What is a Natsume?

Natsume are lacquered wooden containers which are primarily used to store and present the matcha used for making usucha (thin tea).

The most formal or shin-natsume are coated with undecorated black lacquer, while red, vermillion, decorated, and unlacquered natsume are varying degrees more informal. Some common decorative styles are maki-e (paintings, such as the common egret or golden bamboo motifs; negoro, a pattern of small black smears on a red base, mimicking the effect of parts of the outer red layer of lacquer wearing away to reveal black underneath; and koma (spinning top) with painted horizontal stripes of green, red, and white mimicking the appearance of a fast-spinning top.