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These names are difficult 

 to translate Mi-jin and 

 also fun (pun) mean, fine 

 dust ; tsune is common, 

 ara = coarse, goku (koku) 

 = thick, komaka = first 

 powder. 



As some of these powders are more often used, the names of the 

 most important are given, in the order of their fineness, so that the 

 coarsest stand first, in order to be able to use the shorter numbers 

 for their long designations : 



1. Kiri-kane, small square leaves of gold-foil. 



2. Yaki-gane, hira-me tsune san. 



3. „ hira-me sho san. 



4. „ nashi-ji sho s^n. 



5. „ kgma-ka-me tsune. 



6. „ mi-jin tsune. 



7. „ koma-ka-me mi-jin. 



8. „ maru ara-goku. 



9. „ goku gashira dai. 



10. „ ^oku gashira shiu. 



11. „ maru goku mi-jin. 



12. Koban, ara-goku. 



13. „ ara-mi-jin. 



14. „ mi-jin tsune. 



15. „ hana-ko. 



16. Gin-pun, silver-dust. 



Besides these pure gold and silver powders and filings, there are 

 several mixtures of these with colours for shading. To these 

 belong : — 



17. Aka-fun, red powder, a mixture of cinnabar with gold or silver 

 dust. 



18. Kuro-fun, black powder, a mixture of camellia charcoal and 

 gold or silver dust. 



19. Kuri-iro-fun, chestnut-brown powder, a mixture of gold dust, 

 cinnabar, and camellia charcoal. 



20. Nedzumi-iro-fun, grey rat colour, made of equal parts of 

 silver dust and camellia charcoal with some cinnabar. 



21. Shu-muki-gara, old scrapings of cinnabar lacquer, finely 

 pulverized. 



22. Matsu-no-sumi-no-ko, fir-charcoal powder. 



The decorations of the Makiye-shi may be classed in two groups, 

 viz. — 



{a) Hira-makiye, i.e. flat gold lacquer work. 

 [b) Taka-makiye, ix. raised gold lacquer work. 



{a). — Hira-makiye, Flat Gold Lacquer Work. 



As the name indicates, these decorations remain flat or smooth 

 on the surface, while those of the second class stand out in has relief. 

 Hira-makiye embraces all the ornamentation of the finer Chinese 

 wares, e.g. those of Canton and Foochow, and a large number of the 

 most prized and most used of the Japanese. They are principally 

 surface decorations with gold dust, as follows : — 



