Leather canister ver.1Yoko Ichikawa is a lacquer leather artist, who creates beautiful objects using traditional techniques that she has modernised in an original way. Yoko shapes treated leather, then stitches the leather up with hemp thread and finally paints the lacquer to preserve and harden the surface. Yoko does not paint every part of the work with lacquer. A lacquer leather container preserves its contents well. From as early as 550AD people kept treasure in