Togidashi can also have 4 different Togidashi Maki-e as

(1) Hira Togidashi Maki-e

The designs by powder sprinkling or paintings need to use heavier powders big enough to be Fun-katame (coating and polished to protect the surface). After the surface dries, which needs 2-3 days, good quality Suruga or Hooh charcoals is used for rough polishing and then, rubbed with Urushi into the surface. The next step is to burnish the surface after it was dried and rub with Urushi again onto the surface, and polish with Tsubaki charcoal to prepare for the final polish-up work.

The final polishing starts with Doh-suri (using fingers or cotton wool to polish with polishing powders mixed with seed oil) moving the fingers or cotton wool clockwise on the surface to erase any hair thin scratch lines made by charcoals, and to bring out its luster. This is followed by cleaning the left oil or polishing powders from the surface by finger with a bit of very fine polishing powers. This step needs to be done again on the surface where the powder was sprinkled. This step is called Kasane-suri.

Standard Samples:
DE-121, Fuji (Wisteria) & Swallows. Coarser gold powders have to be used when the design needs to be burnished repeatedly. This design uses #8 and #10 gold powders to be graded and black Urushi was painted over to be burnished repeatedly. The flowers were painted and Raden and Kirigane (gold foils) were set by hand on many places. MSRP $2,000.00

DE-121

DE-125, Toki (Japanese crested ibis). #8 and #10 gold powders were used to draw the water and grade the bottom. #7 gold powder was used to draw the bird, and painted with beige color for the body, and #8 gold powder was used to draw the bill. MSRP $1,300.00

DE-125

(2) Nashiji Togidashi Maki-e

This is Togidashi method, which is used with Nashiji-nuri. After gold powder was sprinkled and transparent Urushi was painted onto it, burnishing is needed to shine the surface. All the other parts were drawn with Urushi or powder sprinkled, and need to be coated with transparent Urushi and burnished. This is considered a Nashiji-nuri process while Togidashi Maki-e is also performed.

Standard Samples: When gold powders were sprinkled all over on the base, the surface will look like a skin of pear and that's why they call it Nahi (pear) ji (surface). Gold powders can be sprinkled from very thick to very thin and gold powders also have different sizes for this technique. The finish will always be Togidashi, burnished repeatedly to complete. MSRP $800.00

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(3) Ukiage Togidashi Maki-e

Ukiage means floating or a raised work on the surface. The difference in this method from the previous ones are the use of #9 size of powders sprinkling over the part, and a bit heavily painted with E-Urushi (the high quality sticky Urushi for drawing lines for powder sprinkling) followed by sprinkling smaller powders a few times and burnishing. And then, use Roiro-Urushi, mixed with around 10% of Nashiji-Urushi to coat on the surface, and again polishing the surface but leaving the raised part to make this part look like it's floating. The painting of Roiro-Urushi mixed with Nashiji-Urushi can make the lines between the raised work and the Urushi painted surface more clearly but softly visible. And this is the reason that this method is called Ukiage Togidashi Maki-e.

Standard Sample. DE-107 Hagi (Bush clover). Gold powder used to raise the leaves and paint with heavy Urushi on the design and then, gold powder was sprinkled onto it. It was then again covered with thinly painted Urushi and burnished with care to make the raised visible part look like it is floating on the base, which is called "Ukiage". MSRP $1,600.00

DE-107