hoyami

Updated: May 11, 2025

By the time the young lady was marriageable, her outfit of lacquer was superb. The names of many of the great lacquer artists of Japan are still venerated. The masterpieces of Hoyami Koyetsu who flourished in the sixteenth century, are still, though rare, procurable. Japan numbers on her roll of fame twenty-eight great lacquer artists.

H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery - The Empire of the East