Lacquer and metal two fold screen tilted: The Silver Coloured Sea, detail

NISHIZUKA Eiji

Dates: 1943–2009
Country: Japan

Nishizuka Eiji was a Japanese maki-e lacquer artist born in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture. Maki-e is a lacquer decoration technique in which designs are created by sprinkling fine gold, silver or other metallic powders onto wet lacquer. He studied under his father, Seichi, and began exhibiting at the Nitten (Japan Fine Arts Exhibition) in 1969.

He continued to exhibit regularly, receiving the Special Selection award in 1980 and 1993, and became a Nitten member. At the Japan Contemporary Arts and Crafts Exhibition, he received the Contemporary Arts and Crafts Award in 1969, the 10th Anniversary Commemorative Award in 1971, and the Members' Award in 1978.

His lacquer screen Gin-iro no Umi (The Silver Sea) was exhibited at the Nitten Kanazawa exhibition in 1994 and was the subject of a contemporary article in the Hokkoku Shimbun newspaper on emerging artists from Ishikawa Prefecture. The work depicts a sea through dense, fine linear patterns and silver-toned motif.

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2026chūshōteki - Frieze Masters 2026