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Takahashi Setsuro’s Lacquer Work “Fossil Tale” on Display

Takahashi Setsuro’s Lacquer Work “Fossil Tale” on Display Image: Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Kanazawa

The work uses carved lacquer and embedded gold leaf to represent geological strata and fossils.

Its three-dimensional red and blue kawari-nuri lacquer forms suggest earth and fossils buried in the ground.

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