A look at Japan’s love of packaging, from impeccably crafted cardboard to lacquered works of art.

there are artists whose families have been making traditional Japanese lacquer work for generations. Lacquer is an artistic process that starts with the resin of the native urushi tree which is ...

In this woodturning video, I will transform some large spalted burls or burrs into a hybrid epoxy resin vase / vessel ... I used several layers of gloss lacquer. At some point making this project ...

It is a treasure from nature,” says fourth-generation lacquer maker Takuya Tsutsumi. He’s on a mission to revive the ancient craft in Japan. Since taking over his 116-year-old family business ...

Introducing our extraordinary olive wood flower vase - a true masterpiece of woodturning ... we have applied multiple layers of clear gloss lacquer as the finishing touch. This not only enhances ...

Dial up the Japanese vibes with this ginkgo leaf-shaped vase, pretty enough to be displayed on its own. Add flowers without them spilling out by throwing in a flower frog to hold stems steady.

“The Vase always suits Japan,” said Onikubo, who completed the Godolphin Flying Start programme in 2021 before joining Net Dreamers, which operates the Japanese racing website netkeiba.com.