A hand-turned lathe from the feudal age, Yamanaka lacquer ware

At the end of the Edo period, master woodworker Heibei Minoya introduced sensuji-hiki (“thousand-stripe engraving”) and other innovations, and in the early Meiji period Ryōtarō Tsuiki (b. 1874) developed patterns such as kesuji (“hair-line stripes”) and inahosuji (rice-ear-like stripes), establishing artistic techniques still in use today.