Kazumi Murose's solo exhibition will be held at Wako Department Store in Ginza, Tokyo, from Friday January 14 to Sunday January 23, 2022. He is the founder and the advisor of the Mejiro Urushi Studio, as well as a holder of Intangible Important Cultural Property (maki-e). This exhibition will be the culmination of his 50 year pursuit of beauty as an urushi artist.
“Essential Bilingual Glossary of Japanese Urushi (Lacquer) Materials and Techniques” was published in 2020. We selected 105 essential terms and explained them in Japanese and English. Now it is available online in PDF form.
We ask that you abide by the following rules while using it.
Kazumi Murose made urushi bowls for Mr. Yuichiro Miura’s climbing team when they took on the challenge of climbing Everest (Qomolangma) in 2013. We made bowls with the same shape and named them Qomolangma Urushi Bowls. Visit the following sites (in Japanese) for inquiries and purchases.
This is a collection of works by Kazumi Murose. It contains full-color photographs of his artworks, interviews, columns, and introductions of his atelier and creating processes. It comes with an English translation. Visit the following site to purchase it.
To raise funds to plant urushi trees in Okukuji, we have produced our original “Urushi-wo-Hagukumu-Wan (Bowls to grow urushi)”. The profits from the sale of these bowls will be used for the maintenance of our urushi trees. Visit the following site to purchase it.
