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Works by Keiko Hata

Urushi Lacquer Artist Holding Nature’s Stillness

Based in Kyoto, Japan

Born in Boston and raised in Kansai, she works in urushi lacquer, translating fleeting landscapes, star-filled skies, and the vastness of the cosmos into layered surfaces. M.F.A. in Urushi Lacquering, Kyoto City University of Arts, 2014.

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Angled view of Keiko Hata's Union of Skies (2024): a domed black urushi (Japanese lacquer) center with blue raden (mother-of-pearl) inlay, cradled in a pale gilded ring finished with water gold leaf.
Top view of Union of Skies by Keiko Hata, showing the oval lacquer dome encircled by a gilded band, like a planet within a ring.

Sengetsu — Threadlike Moon

CHF 570.00

Angled view of Keiko Hata's Union of Skies (2024): a domed black urushi (Japanese lacquer) center with blue raden (mother-of-pearl) inlay, cradled in a pale gilded ring finished with water gold leaf.
Top view of Union of Skies by Keiko Hata, showing the oval lacquer dome encircled by a gilded band, like a planet within a ring.

Washūgō no Sora — Union of Skies

CHF 743.00

Three-quarter view of Keiko Hata's Kiraboshi / Hakugin (Glittering Stars · Silver, 2024): a multi-pointed star with textured silver tin-powder rays surrounding a blue-black urushi (Japanese lacquer) core inlaid with glittering raden (mother-of-pearl).
Angled view of Kiraboshi / Hakugin by Keiko Hata, showing the long pointed rays of the silver star and its starry blue raden center catching the light.

Kiraboshi / Hakugin — Glittering Stars · Silver

CHF 628.00

Top view of Keiko Hata's Amamitsuki (Full Moon of the Heavens, 2024) mounted on a round dark wood panel: a textured gold-leaf urushi (Japanese lacquer) moon set with an oval blue raden (mother-of-pearl) window of stars.
The gilded moon of Amamitsuki by Keiko Hata seen from above, its cratered gold-leaf surface holding an oval blue raden window scattered with starlike flecks.

Amamitsuki — Full Moon of the Heavens

CHF 685.00

Top view of Keiko Hata's Amamitsuki (Full Moon of the Heavens, 2024) mounted on a round dark wood panel: a textured gold-leaf urushi (Japanese lacquer) moon set with an oval blue raden (mother-of-pearl) window of stars.
The gilded moon of Amamitsuki by Keiko Hata seen from above, its cratered gold-leaf surface holding an oval blue raden window scattered with starlike flecks.

Shingetsu — New Moon

CHF 512.00

Kintsugi lidded tea cup in Kyoto ware: urushi and 24K gold seams cross the blue shonzui panels and sansui band, the intact gilt lid in place, front view.
Kintsugi tea cup interior where gold urushi seams descend the deep white wall and converge near the center of the bowl.

24K Gold Kintsugi Kyoto Lidded Tea Cup | Across the Sansui

CHF 727.00

Japanese kintsugi bowl in Mino ware: a V-shaped seam of urushi and 24K gold crosses the starry night-blue kamahen glaze to the olive-green rim, front view.
Kintsugi bowl interior where three branches of the urushi and 24K gold seam meet in a small loop on the starry night-blue glaze, close-up view.

24K Gold Kintsugi Mino Ware Bowl | Comet in the Night Sea

CHF 611.00

Kyoto ware earthenware sake carafe in ochre Oribe-green crackle glaze, looped handle and long spout, a plum blossom restored at the spout tip in 24K gold with a silver heart, front view.
Side close-up of the plum-blossom restoration at the spout of a Kyoto ware sake carafe, colored urushi petals, 24K gold outline and silver heart over the chipped tip.

24K Gold Kintsugi Kyoto Sake Carafe | Silver-Hearted Plum

CHF 479.00

Front view of an Arita ware sake cup in white porcelain, cobalt-blue sometsuke bands and a floral roundel, with 24K gold kintsugi seams crossing the rounded body.
Side view of a footed Arita ware sake cup in white porcelain, its 24K gold kintsugi seams crossing cobalt-blue patterned bands around the body.

24K Gold Kintsugi Arita Sake Cup | Linked in Cobalt

CHF 619.00

A Kyoto ware sake cup, where 24k gold Kintsugi and a textured Kawari-nuri Seigaiha wave pattern exist in quiet harmony.
A macro view of the Seigaiha pattern, its layered Kawari-nuri texture a meditation on the rhythm of ocean waves and endless fortune.

24K Gold Kintsugi Kyoto Ware Sake Cup | Seigaiha Motif

CHF 496.00

A front view of a Ko-Imari ware bowl, where lines of 24k gold and iridescent Raden inlay create a celestial dialogue on the porcelain canvas.
lose-up of a Ko-Imari ware kintsugi bowl showing raden (mother-of-pearl inlay) set within deep urushi lacquer, bordered by 24K gold kintsugi seams. The iridescent shell fragments catch light against the dark lacquer surface, alongside hand-painted blue and white porcelain. Restored by The Kintsugi Labo JAPAN.

24K Gold Kintsugi & Raden Ko-Imari Ware Bowl | Celestial Fragments

CHF 611.00

Kintsugi tea cup side view: two urushi and 24K gold lines descend the cherry-blossom wall from the iron-brown rim.
Kintsugi tea cup interior where a long urushi and 24K gold seam sweeps across the cherry-blossom porcelain and forks toward the rim.

24K Gold Kintsugi Kyoto Tea Cup | A Branching Spring

CHF 760.00

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