Everything this archive is built from.

Studios & practitioners

• Tamenuri Studio 69×

  Blog, FAQ and glossary from a working pen studio — the backbone of this guide’s technical chapters.

  tamenuri.com
• Suzanne Ross 18×

  Urushi FAQs from a practitioner working in Japan.

  suzanneross.art
• urushi.life 10× urushi.life
• Woodspirit Handcraft 7×

  Independent corroboration of the fuki-urushi cure targets.

  woodspirithandcraft.com
• Megu 5× megu.space
• Kintsugi Art 3× en.kintsugi.art
• Kintsugi Blog 3× kintsugiblog.wordpress.com
• Mejiro Urushi Studio 2× urushigakusha.jp

Reference sites

• Kyuseido 19×

  Well-photographed history and technique essays.

  kyuseidotokyo.com
• Fine Woodworking 17×

  Home-shop guide to using urushi, aimed at woodworkers.

  finewoodworking.com
• Wikipedia 17× en.wikipedia.org
• Guild LacArt 16×

  Technique reference and the bibliography most of the book list comes from.

  guildlac.art
• Artisan Foundation 11× artisanfoundation.jp
• Musubi Kiln Journal 9×

  Maki-e and raden guides.

  musubikiln.com
• On Fountain Pens 9×

  Source of the documented 19-step roiro sequence on a pen.

  onfountainpens.com
• Encyclopædia Britannica 7× britannica.com
• Kōgei Japan 5× kogeijapan.com
• Nihonmono 5× nihonmono.jp
• Architonic 3× architonic.com
• danitrio.com 2× danitrio.com
• kintsugi.art 2× kintsugi.art
• kintsugistudio.com 2× kintsugistudio.com
• kogeistandard.com 2× kogeistandard.com
• urushi-stefos.com 2× urushi-stefos.com
• amazon.com 1× amazon.com
• books.apple.com 1× books.apple.com
• iwayado-tansu.jp 1× iwayado-tansu.jp

Academic & conservation

• AIC Conservation Wiki 8× conservation-wiki.com
• ScienceDirect 5×

  Current materials-science papers on curing kinetics and polymerisation.

  sciencedirect.com
• Columbia University — Media Center for Art History 3× projects.mcah.columbia.edu
• Getty Conservation Institute 2× getty.edu

Museums & institutions

• Google Arts & Culture 4× artsandculture.google.com
• National Crafts Museum (MOMAT) 4× momat.go.jp
• Japan House London 3× japanhouselondon.uk
• Tokyo Traditional Crafts 3× dento-tokyo.metro.tokyo.lg.jp
• Victoria & Albert Museum 2× vam.ac.uk

Suppliers

• Kintsugi Kit 9× kintsugi-kit.com
• PoJ Studio 7× pojstudio.com
• Shizendo 7× shizendo.store
• Dictum 6×

  European storefront carrying urushi and tools.

  dictum.com
• Goenne 6×

  Urushi allergy guidance, and hypoallergenic lacquer.

  goenne.com
• Chimahaga 5×

  Small quantities — a sensible first purchase.

  chimahaga.com
• Watanabe Shoten 3×

  Full range of raw and refined grades, ships internationally.

  urushi-watanabe.net

Forums & communities

• International Association of Penturners 8×

  Practitioner discussion; the realistic cost figures come from here.

  penturners.org
• American Association of Woodturners forum 4× aawforum.org
• FPGeeks 4× fpgeeks.com

Makers

• Pen Boutique 9× penboutique.com
• Nakaya 5× nakaya.org
• Chatterley Luxuries 3× chatterleyluxuries.com
• Pilot 3× pilot.co.jp

Books

These have no link to extract, so they are transcribed from the annotated bibliography in Chapter 36. Several are out of print and easier to find secondhand.

• The Book of Urushi: Japanese Lacquerware from a Master Matsuda Gonroku

  Essays by the maki-e master and Living National Treasure. Possibly the same underlying text as The Story of Urushi under a different English title — check the edition before buying both.

  ISBN 978-4866580609
• The Story of Urushi Matsuda Gonroku

  Essays by the same author.

  ISBN 4-00-335671-3
• Urushi no Waza Günther Heckmann

  Technical materials-and-technique reference.

  ISBN 3-9805755-0-0
• Urushi Craftsman in Paris Mitsuyoshi Atsuta

  On Sugawara Seizo, called the father of urushi art in Europe.

  ISBN 978-4-560-09508-9
• Lacquering Technique Akiyoshi Totoki, Shigeki Kudo & Takaaki Nishikawa

  Photographically documented instructional guide.

  ISBN 978-4-416-71535-2
• Jyussei Practice: Kawari-nuri Jussei

  The standard technical reference for kawari-nuri.

  ISBN 4-88536-551-1
• Urushi Elegant Asia Nagatoshi Onishi

  Travelogue on the origins of Asian lacquer culture. World Urushi Culture Council.

• European Lacquer Monika Kopplin

  Global lacquer history. Companion to La Laque — Art et Techniques by Kopplin, Emmerique, Bousquet & Rey.

  ISBN 978-3-7774-8930-8

Video

68 channels, 4,748 videos and 1,245 hours of workshop practice — indexed, and transcribed where a video carries enough speech to be worth transcribing. This is the layer that shows what text cannot: hand pressure, brush angle, what a coat looks like when it has gone wrong.

Browse the video library ↗ The annotated bibliography ↗ How this is assembled ↗