INAMI TADASHI: A FINE WAJIMA LACQUER ‘LILIES’ SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX)

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INAMI TADASHI: A FINE WAJIMA LACQUER ‘LILIES’ SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX) By Inami Tadashi (1923–2011), signed Inami to the tomobako Japan, late 20th century, Showa (1926–1989) to Heisei era (1989-2019) Of rectangular form with gently rounded corners, bearing a lustrous roiro ground finely decorated in gold and silver takamaki-e and hiramaki-e. The cover depicts two large lily blossoms borne on slender, leafy stems, their delicately curling petals rendered in varying degrees of relief. The interior is richly decorated in nashiji and fitted with silver rims, the removable ita (baseboard) accommodating the original writing implements. a silver suiteki (water dropper) and a suzuri (inkstone). SIZE 5 x 25.5 x 23.2 cm With an inscribed wood tomobako (storage box), titled Yuri maki-e go-suzuribako and signed Inami, 百合蒔絵 御硯箱 井波 [Lily-design maki-e writing box, Inami]. Inami Tadashi (1923–2011) was born in Kanazawa into a distinguished family of Kaga maki-e artists. After graduating from the craft-technology course attached to the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1944, he studied traditional lacquer techniques under his father, the second-generation Inami Kirokusai. He later served as director of the Wajima Lacquerware Research Institute and became a leading figure in postwar Japanese lacquer art, receiving the Japan Art Academy Prize in 1994.

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