developed and completed in the Heian period, and this technique was the mainstream of maki-e until the late Heian period when the refining technique of gold and silver powder was undeveloped and the particles were rough. Because a sword scabbard in the Nara period kept at Shosoin uses a technique called similar to this technique, it is sometimes said that Japanese maki-e began during the Nara period.

;A lacquer is mixed with charcoal or mineral particles