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.
このお盆は木目塗りで仕上げられている。
This tray is finished with a wood-grain lacquering technique.
木目塗りの技法は江戸時代に発展した。
The graining technique developed during the Edo period.
Means 'wood grain' itself; 木目塗り is the technique of imitating that grain in lacquer.
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').