Specialists in conserving urushi objects
LLC Onishi Lacquer Art Restoration Studio offers professional conservation and restoration services specialising in Japanese lacquered objects (cultural properties of lacquerware). We provide practical conservation treatment and advice for the care of a wide range of urushi objects such as traditional boxes and furniture, export lacquerware and lacquer coated parts of arms and armours. Our clients include public institutions, museums and galleries mainly in the Kyushu area but also throughout Japan.
As urushi objects have a layered structure of a variety of materials, they might gradually lose their decorative and functional features due to degradation of each material and structural distortion. With many years of experience, we always consider the best possible approach that we can do and carefully undertake conservation-restoration work. We hope that not only the objects but also the history and people’s feelings behind them will be passed on to the next generation.