mokumen.

Brit.

/mɒˈkuːmeɪ/, U.S.

/ˌmɑˈkumeɪ/

Forms: 1800s– moku-me, 1900s– mokume, 1900s– mokumé.

Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese mokume.

Etymology: < Japanese mokume wood grain, lit. ‘wood eye’ (1548; 1603 as mocume in Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam in sense ‘eye on a go board’) < moku- wood ( < Middle Chinese) + me eye. Compare mokum n., mokume gane n.

A style or technique of decorative metalwork made to resemble wood grain, usually by laminating and then manipulating layers of metal of contrasting colours. Also: the mixed-metal laminate (of variable composition) used in this technique. Frequently attributive.In quot. 1900 designating a similar effect produced ceramically.

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1875 G. A. Audsley & J. L. Bowes Keramic Art Japan I. 40 This description [sc. a variegated or mottled appearance] is called by the Japanese moku-me, which signifies the graining of wood.]

1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 38/2 Attention should be called to the so-called moku-me, a word which might be rendered by ‘veins of the wood’.

1900 W. E. Griffis Mikado's Empire (ed. 9) 658 All kinds of faience and true porcelain are made in Kiōto, the ‘pierced’, the ‘netted’,..‘moku-me’, ‘watered’, [etc.].

1982 O. Untracht Jewelry Concepts & Technol. (1985) 379 Spiral mokumé is a variation of vertical lamination in which the edges of the constituents become the laminate face.

1982 O. Untracht Jewelry Concepts & Technol. (1985) 380 (caption) The horizontal mokumé laminate from which cross sections or longitudinal cuts can be made.

1993 Art Newspaper (Electronic ed.) 25 Lot 45..a Tiffany mixed-metals pitcher, with copper and mokume gourds, brought a strong $37,000.

2000 Evening Standard (Electronic ed.) 25 Jan. The outside is..a piece of technical virtuosity, as are Alistair McCallum's Mokume decorated bowls.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mokume
释义	mokumen. Brit. /mɒˈkuːmeɪ/, U.S. /ˌmɑˈkumeɪ/ Forms: 1800s– moku-me, 1900s– mokume, 1900s– mokumé. Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese mokume. Etymology: < Japanese mokume wood grain, lit. ‘wood eye’ (1548; 1603 as mocume in Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam in sense ‘eye on a go board’) < moku- wood ( < Middle Chinese) + me eye. Compare mokum n., mokume gane n. A style or technique of decorative metalwork made to resemble wood grain, usually by laminating and then manipulating layers of metal of contrasting colours. Also: the mixed-metal laminate (of variable composition) used in this technique. Frequently attributive.In quot. 1900 designating a similar effect produced ceramically. ΚΠ 1875 G. A. Audsley & J. L. Bowes Keramic Art Japan I. 40 This description [sc. a variegated or mottled appearance] is called by the Japanese moku-me, which signifies the graining of wood.] 1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 38/2 Attention should be called to the so-called moku-me, a word which might be rendered by ‘veins of the wood’. 1900 W. E. Griffis Mikado's Empire (ed. 9) 658 All kinds of faience and true porcelain are made in Kiōto, the ‘pierced’, the ‘netted’,..‘moku-me’, ‘watered’, [etc.]. 1982 O. Untracht Jewelry Concepts & Technol. (1985) 379 Spiral mokumé is a variation of vertical lamination in which the edges of the constituents become the laminate face. 1982 O. Untracht Jewelry Concepts & Technol. (1985) 380 (caption) The horizontal mokumé laminate from which cross sections or longitudinal cuts can be made. 1993 Art Newspaper (Electronic ed.) 25 Lot 45..a Tiffany mixed-metals pitcher, with copper and mokume gourds, brought a strong $37,000. 2000 Evening Standard (Electronic ed.) 25 Jan. The outside is..a piece of technical virtuosity, as are Alistair McCallum's Mokume decorated bowls. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1884
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