Kirikane Hineri Kougou

This box is for putting some small pieces of natural aromatic trees in a tea ceremony.
We can use for a pill case and an accessory case in gorgeous use.

What is ‘Kirikane’ ?

Kirikane is a decorative technique which is more than 1000 years ago used for Buddhist statues and paintings, using gold leaf, silver leaf, platinum leaf. The bonded leaf is cut with bamboo knife on a deer-skin-covered table, and it is affixed with ‘nikawa’ or ‘funori’ (natural glue) to the work to be decorated. The artist use two writing brushes to do it.