Mokume-gane
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Mokume-gane is a Japanese metalworking procedure which produces a mixed-metal laminate with distinctive layered patterns; the term is also used to refer to the resulting laminate itself. The term moku
Tsuba with a hawk and a sparrow, made by Hamano Masanobu, using the mokume-gane technique
Shakudō
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Shakudō is a Japanese billon of gold and copper, one of the irogane class of colored metals, which can be treated to develop a black, or sometimes indigo, patina, resembling lacquer. Unpatinated shaku
Mokume-gane
…metal), itame-gane (wood-grain metal), and yosefuki. The early components of mokume-gane were relatively soft metals and alloys (gold, copper, silver, shakudō, shibuichi, and kuromido) which would form liquid phase diffusion bonds with one another without completely melting. This was useful in the traditional…
Unpatinated shakudō
Fuchi. Shakudo, gold, copper alloy (sentoku). The Walters Art Museum.