The Wajima Lacquerware Youth Association has announced a new exhibition showcase for its plate art inspired by Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIV. The group will showcase the FFXIV lacquerware at the ...

Using resin sourced from grasses, trees and other non-edible plants, Japanese technology giant NEC Corp. has developed a bioplastic that features the famous "urushi black" hue of the country's ...

The traditions of Japanese lacquerware are said to stretch back millennia, and it’s widely recognized as one of the country’s representative art forms. By comparison, the Pokémon franchise has a much ...

The ancient craft of urushi, or Japanese lacquerware, is one of Asia’s oldest artistic traditions. Evidence for the use of lacquer – a tree sap used to coat and decorate objects like boxes, bowls and ...

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President Lee Jae-myung, who visited Nara Prefecture in Japan, included ‘drum sticks’ decorated with mother-of-pearl ...

Qumu Shiwu works on a piece of lacquerware work at her workshop in Xichang city, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province. [Photo courtesy of the interviewee] Qumu Shiwu, ...

In a gray-tiled house along Liyang Old Street in Huangshan city, East China's Anhui province, sits an extraordinary studio. It is the workshop of Gan Erke, a master of Chinese lacquerware and ...

The lacquer-ware cottage industry of Jacobabad district in Sindh province is suffering from great neglect and the craftsmen of this small-scale industry were receiving very little attention or ...