Kōami Family

Japanese artists
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Flourished:
19th century

Kōami Family (flourished 19th century) was a group of Japanese lacquerware artists who were eminent for 19 generations in the Muromachi, Azuchi-Momoyama, and Tokugawa periods. Michinaga (1410–78) was a personal attendant to the military ruler Ashikaga Yoshimasa and excelled in two techniques of lacquer design. The takamaki-e technique consists of building decorative motifs with a mixture of lacquer putty, white lead, lampblack, camphor, and gold or silver foil in relief against a lacquer ground. In the togidashi method the decorative motif is drawn in lacquer, sprinkled with gold or silver flakes, and covered with a thin, translucent lacquer that is ...(100 of 237 words)