Japanese Tsugaru Nuri Lacquer Zataku Table - Taisho Era Material - Zinc This beautiful hand made pine

This beautiful hand made pine screen would originally have been used in a window

Supplied with a contemporary iron stand

Incredibly sturdy

This may be an apocryphal story

lighting or decorative accessories

Japanese Tsugaru Nuri Lacquer Zataku Table - Taisho Era Material - Zinc This beautiful hand made pineThis Japanese zataku table (low table, ) is crafted in tsugaru nuri lacquer with inclusions of mother of pearl (raden) flakes. Zataku were known as communal dining tables which came to prominence in the Taish era (1912 1926). It would be a dramatic and functional coffee table. Tsugaru nuri lacquer technique mimics the beautiful depths and patterns on the seabed of Wakasa Bay. It is painstakingly intensive work involving hundreds of layers of lacquer,