Comparison of Description Skill on Characteristics of the Urushi Crafts Work Between Expert Craftspeople and Non-expert Craftspeople

摘要

Many of Urushi crafts works have been collected as an art in the museum and art museum. They have been treasured, but some of them spent several hundred years being made, and need to be repaired. Urushi crafts people can repair these works. Before they repair them, they need to observe the condition of the work by the naked eye. This observation is called "Mitate". Expert Urushi craftspeople can identify many characteristics by conducting the Mitate, and they can plan to repair the Urushi crafts work. This research aimed to examine how to understand the characteristics of the making process in the Urushi craftspeople. Urushi craftspeople conducted the Mitate, and they described the making process, material and so on. As the result, it is found that the Urushi craftspeople with long year of experience can identify the detail characteristics like the number of metallic powder in the Maki-e making process.