We will be holding a seminar on the artform of urushi during the Washington DC Fountain Pen SUPERSHOW in August 2026!
About the speaker:
Sophia is a urushi and maki-e artist based in Hong Kong. She began to practice the art of urushi in 2022 on a self guided basis before taking formal maki-e lessons at Maki-e School Ginza under Matsuda Shokan in Tokyo in 2024.
Session Date and Time : To Be Announced
Seating Capacity : 20 persons
Venue : To Be Announced
About the seminar:
With over 7000-8000 years of history, the world of urushi is invariably deep and complex, and has been developed into an important traditional craft that is still used today. Urushi has been applied to fountain pens for 100 years and its popularity is continuing to grow. Much of the information regarding urushi is still difficult to obtain outside of Japan and yet internationally there has been more people interested in learning about this craft.
If you would like to learn more about the history and techniques involved in urushi work, we welcome you to join us in this seminar where we discuss what it means to work with urushi in current times.
Please join us as we cover the following topics:
What is urushi and it’s artistic & cultural significance
Basic understanding of the primary urushi styles and their history
How to distinguish good quality urushi work
The value of protecting the urushi artform
We will be holding a seminar on the artform of urushi during the Washington DC Fountain Pen SUPERSHOW in August 2026!
About the speaker:
Sophia is a urushi and maki-e artist based in Hong Kong. She began to practice the art of urushi in 2022 on a self guided basis before taking formal maki-e lessons at Maki-e School Ginza under Matsuda Shokan in Tokyo in 2024.
Session Date and Time : To Be Announced
Seating Capacity : 20 persons
Venue : To Be Announced
About the seminar:
With over 7000-8000 years of history, the world of urushi is invariably deep and complex, and has been developed into an important traditional craft that is still used today. Urushi has been applied to fountain pens for 100 years and its popularity is continuing to grow. Much of the information regarding urushi is still difficult to obtain outside of Japan and yet internationally there has been more people interested in learning about this craft.
If you would like to learn more about the history and techniques involved in urushi work, we welcome you to join us in this seminar where we discuss what it means to work with urushi in current times.
Please join us as we cover the following topics:
What is urushi and it’s artistic & cultural significance
Basic understanding of the primary urushi styles and their history
How to distinguish good quality urushi work
The value of protecting the urushi artform
