graining; wood-grain lacquering
A traditional Japanese lacquerware technique that imitates wood grain patterns. Used as a noun for the technique or the finished product.
This tray is finished with a wood-grain lacquering technique.
The graining technique developed during the Edo period.
Standard spelling with okurigana; the reading もくめぬり is unambiguous.
Variant without okurigana; also read as もくめぬり. Less common but found in technical contexts.
Compound of 木目 (もくめ, 'wood grain') and 塗り (ぬり, 'coating, lacquering'), from the verb 塗る (ぬる, 'to paint, to lacquer').