page_title: Urushi-e
hierarchical_section_title: Urushi-e
caption_attribution_description: English: Okumura Toshinobu (active 1717-50), 'Young Lovers by Mount Fuji', About 1720, Urushi-e (laquer print) Signature: Yamato-eshi Okumura Toshinobu hitsu, Seal: Okumura Publisher: Izumiya Gonshirô V&amp;A Museum no. E.1419-1898
context_page_description: Urushi-e refers to three different techniques in Japanese art. Though urushi-e is most associated with woodblock, the term urushi-e is not exclusive to that medium. It can also refer to pictures using lacquer as a paint on three-dimensional lacquered objects; and paintings using actual lacquer on paper or occasionally silk.
context_section_description: Urushi-e (漆絵 "lacquer picture[s]") refers to three different techniques in Japanese art. Though urushi-e is most associated with woodblock, the term urushi-e is not exclusive to that medium. It can also refer to pictures using lacquer as a paint on three-dimensional lacquered objects; and paintings using actual lacquer on paper or occasionally silk.
caption: Okumura Toshinobu (active 1717–50), 'Young Lovers by Mount Fuji', About 1720, urushi-e (lacquer print) V&A Museum no. E.1419-1898[1]
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