"Raden" Mother-of-pearl

The "Raden" is one of techniques that decorate on surface of lacquerware products. It is a representative way of the lacquerware production. "Raden" means an expression method that using shells.
In addition, products with "Raden" work are all made by hand. Its main raw materials is "Great Green Turban Shell", "Abalone Shell" and "Mother of Pearl Shell".
Since the high adhesive strength is a characteristic of "Urushi(Lacquer)", the patterns which drawn on lacquerware is hard to come off in normal use.