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aluminum and solid cast white plastic

Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks in black, pale orange, and green inks on white antique laid paper

Watercolor and charcoal on cream laid paper

Etching and drypoint with light plate tone, with touches of gray wash in some drypoint areas, on off-white antique laid paper

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold, silver, and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques, with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and with shibuchi (copper-silver alloy), brass, silver, and coral inlays; stone, metal, and enamel fittings

Iris prints with silkscreen varnish

Etching and drypoint on white antique laid paper

Watercolor, gouache and touches of black colored pencil on cream wove paper

Engraving printed in black ink on off white antique laid paper

Takamakie lacquer, nashiji gold flakes, and kirigane gold foil on a roiro black lacquer ground, the lower sides with nashiji gold flakes and bokashi kinpun gold dust, the inside and the bottom with dense nashiji gold flakes

Hand-colored sixth-plate daguerreotype

Bronze

Knotted thread, tape measures, eyelets

Salted paper print on wove paper from calotype negative

Lead-glazed ware: molded, brick-red earthenware with medium-green, lead-fluxed glaze; cold-painted pigments over localized unglazed areas