Trained from the age of eleven, first as a lacquerer and later as a painter, Shibata Zeshin became nineteenth-century Japan's foremost lacquer artist. His extensive body of work spans nearly the entire century and includes inro, netsuke, tiered boxes, trays, screens, and panels. A superb technician he studied hundreds of different lacquer finishes, reviving some techniques that had not been used since the sixteenth or seventeenth century and creating some of his own. He used a wide variety of different materials to create images in lacquer, such as crushed mother-of-pearl to ...

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