The Urasoe Museum houses a significant collection of lacquer artifacts, primarily from Ryukyu and Japan, with fewer Chinese pieces.

#RyukyuLT second comm. by Kengo Oyafuso who just arrived at the museum this year. he is not a specialist of lacquer but you can't work at urasoe museum and not study lacquer so he started. he'll present the lacquer artefacts in store at the museum, mostly ryukyuan and japanese pieces, very few chinese ones. lacquer is used since the prehistoric times in china and japan. there are 276 lacquered pieces in the museum, half of them japanes, little bit more than a quarter ryukyu-okinawa, very

#RyukyuLT …museum are not exposed, that's the 21st century, take photographs and 3d scans and put them online for every researcher in the world to study them. the ryukyuan red lacquer is very red, that's a very characteristic feature that could be compared with other countries. the one plank they have, there is a hand writing note saying it's from kume island Yacchi no gama but noone knows how it arrived at the museum.

#RyukyuLT the next comm is by Takayuki Honda of Meiji University. the research group about lacquer is a joint group urasoe museum-meiji university. the meiji university comms are always very sciency while the museum ones are generally focusing on archaeology and art. honda will present analyses in link with shuri castle. lacquer is used in china, japan and all south-west asia, with different types of trees according to the area, with different molecules of lacquer,urushiol,laccol and thitsiol