After an Earthquake, the Work of Preserving a Trade in Japan

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Japan.- At the bottom of his heart, Kazuo Yamagishi, an artist of the lacquer designated National Living Treasure of Japan, does not live in an anodyne complex of beige departments in a densely populated area of Kanazawa, capital of the Ishikawa Prefecture, on the main island of the country. His real home, the one he had before being displaced, is embodied in a lacquer tray with delicate carved red lines and gold and mother-of-pearl inlays that …