1. Design Pattern

Draw a design or pattern in lines on a piece of paper. Turn the paper, and trace the design in lacquer lines.

2. Kataoshi

Put the paper on the coated surface, and transfer the lacquer lines to the surface.

3. Kinage

Draw lines clearly along with the basic lines. Before the lacquer dries up, sprinkle powdered gold and silver on the surface. To prevent the powder from flying off, stick it on the surface with thin lacquer.

4. Sumikoage

Pile up taka-makie lacquer or lacquer for taka-makie on top of the raised charcoal powder.

Draw the picture in lacquer lines on top of the gold lines that have appeared on the scraped surface. Repeatedly sprinkle fine charcoal powder on the drawn picture.

Scrape the raised surface with charcoal to remover unevenness.

5. Togi

To smooth the scraped surface, rub it once with charcoal powder and water. Wipe the whole surface with thin lacquer. (Dry it for half a day.) Rub it with a cotton cloth with oil and tsunoko or powder made from burned antlers to make it polish. (Repeat the processes of suriurushi and migaki)

6. Kirigane pasting

After using golden and charcoal powder to raise the highest, kirigane which is the small piece flake of golden foil need to be pasted first.

7. Tsumemaki

Above the whole surface, Sprinkle powdered gold to cover all of it. To prevent the powder from flying off, stick it with lacquer. Apply black lacquer to the whole surface.

8. Dozuri

A liquid, powder or other substance that you rub into a surface to make it smooth and shiny.

Scrape with charcoal the lacquer applied on the whole surface, and polish it to make the powdered gold appear.

9. Keuchi

Draw patterns in lacquer on the three-dimensional picture. Sprinkle powdered gold and silver directly on the patterns draw in lacquer. To make it polish, scrape with charcoal the powdered gold and silver that have been sprinkled.

10. Migaki

Stick the powder with thin lacquer. By the bulbs of the fingers, polish powdered gold and silver with grindstone powder and oil. Wipe the whole surface with lacquer. Carefully and deliberately polish the whole surface with powder oil to finish.