Kaga Zougan: Kaga Inlay
January 07, 2016Zougan (inlay) is a decoration technique to carve patterns on material such as metal, ware ceramic, or wood and etc., and insert gold, silver, and other materials into the carved parts there. Metal zougan is important as one of the metal-carving techniques and there are many zougan techniques including hira zougan (Japanese "hira" means flat and hira zougan is literally flat zougan; a method of making the surface of a zougan work flat after fitting metal into the model), which is the mainstream of "Kaga Zougan".
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Kaga Zougan: Kaga Inlay
Translation by: Mie Nakajima, reviewed by Miwa Odagiri
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