Bamboo Shoots

Shibata Zeshin Japanese

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The lacquer artist and painter Shibata Zeshin rendered plump bamboo shoots and a single branch of leaves not in traditional ink and mineral pigments but in lacquer (urushi) on paper, using a technique of his own invention.

Bamboo Shoots, Shibata Zeshin (Japanese, 1807–1891), Album leaf; lacquer on paper, Japan

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