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Mokushin-kanshitsu

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A form of kanshitsu where cloth soaked in lacquer is wrapped around a carved wooden core. Surface details were molded on with kokuso. The core could either be a single piece of wood or assembled from several pieces.
Literally: wood core dry lacquer
Also known as mokushin kanshitsuzou, mokushin kanshitsu-zukuri.

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