The Exclusive Garden Colors

Japanese love and admire flowers. They sing for flowers, write for flowers and cry for flowers.  When one of our customers suggested to us that we should create a collection of colors strictly related to gardens.  It is easy to tell what colors can be the colors related to gardens, but it not easy for Urushi to make them, because Urushi limited to only six basic colors can only friendly mix with mineral pigments, as any botanical pigment will make Urushi colors darkened in the result.  When I asked one of our top Maki-e shi, Kogaku san about this, this talented, diligent and creative artist immediately accept any proposal and worked on it for more than three months and finally make 11 colors on our pens.

The first group of garden colors. All these colors are specially created by Kogaku himself. He spent a lot of time to find the right pigment to mix with very expensive Japanese made Urushi from Johouji of Iwate prefecture, cost around $500.00 a pound vs. around $100.00 for imported from China or Vietnam. MSRP $2,000.00 each in all colors. These 11 colors under its names as follows:

GN-101 Orange

GN-101

GN-102 Gingko

GN-102

GN-103 Violet

GN-103

GN-104 Lilac

GN-104

GN-105 Rose-pink

GN-105

GN-106 Peach

GN-106

GN-107 Blue burry

GN-107

GN-108 Pale blue

GN-108

GN-109 Mint

GN-109

GN-110 Grass green

GN-110

GN-111 Young grass

GN-111

GN-201 Orange

GN-201

GN-202 Gingko

GN-202

GN-203 Violet

GN-203

GN-204 Lilac

GN-204

GN-205 Rose-pink

GN-205

GN-206 Peach

GN-206

GN-207 Blue burry

GN-207

GN-208 Pale blue

GN-208

GN-209 Mint

GN-209

GN-210 Grass green

GN-210

GN-211 Young grass

GN-211

H-001M  Sakura-to Bara (Sakura and Rose)  by Kogaku (Koichiro Okazaki) on Mikado H-001M The author, Kogaku rarely seriously told me about his own special technique he used for the stone wall. While the stone wall was done by technique of Shishiai Togidashi Maki-e, he used dried Urushi powders in gold and green colors and also palladiuim painted with gradation technique to make the scene perspective from the front green garden too far away horizon, cloud and sky. To border the wall by Taka Maki-e technique and to sheer the line sprinkling #20 powders,etc. H-002M  Sakura by Ikebana by Kogaku on Mikado H-002M H-003M  Rose arranged on Vase by Kogaku on Mikado H-003M H-004Y Sakura-to Bara (Sakura meets Rose) by Masanori (Masanori Omote) on Yokozuna. H-004Y

Model MSRP In U.S. Artist H-001M, Sakkura & Rose $38,000.00 Kogaku H-002M, Sakura by Ikebana on a vase $16,000.00 Kogaku H-003M, Rose arranged on a vase $21,000.00 Kogaku H-004Y, Sakura meets Rose $38,000.00 Masanori