Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 41 on p. 86, p. 8, illus. pp. 86-87
cloisonné, shakudō
Decorative technique in which wires are attached to a metal body and coloured enamels are applied between the wires.
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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