Guinomi Suigetsu 水月 黒 sake cup Japanese soup bowls you will see the fine

you will see the fine continuous wood grains beneath the clear and smooth surface

where it is best known for its excellence in the woodwork of sculpting bulk wood using a lathe

1500 years ago

Superb hand made hand written Tsuki-Usagi (Moon and Hare) makie(decoration with golds) with also makie written Inaho(ear-of-rice) inside the cup

you will be thrilled by the elegance and the detailed beauty that his maki-e decoration possesses

Guinomi Suigetsu 水月 黒 sake cup Japanese soup bowls you will see the fineThe first impression of this original Guinomi ( larger size sake cup) by Reia Momose's is extraordinary distinctive but not pushy. It is made with the kanshitsu (,hollow dry lacquer) method, which only uses urushi lacquer and linen cloth to form the structure. Here she applied 4 layers of 100% natural urushi lacquer coating and linen cloth to create a thick structure and 3 layers of urushi lacquer coating each on both sides of the structure to form