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Makie(lacquer painting) of Kawatsura Sikki was influenced by Rihe Takahashi, one of three great men in the history of Inakawa-machi. Makie of Kawatsura Sikki started when he brought gold leaf, and paintbrushes from Kyoto to Inakawa-machi during 1830 in the Edo period. Subsequentiy, in 1848, Tousai Tunoda, a great lacquer painter in Aizu(an area famous for lacquer ware) was invited to Inakawa-machi, and he initiated Gohe Kato into new makie techniques; morimakie(raised lacquer work), takamakie(finer raised lacquer work), and kinmakie(gold lacquer). In the Meiji period, a delegation went to Aizu, and a new technique, hiragoku-maruhun, was adopted.