Also called dei-e 泥絵. Gold and silver powders mixed with glue and employed to decorate crafts, calligraphy, paintings, and papers. During the Nara and the Heian periods, it was popular to apply gold and silver paint with a brush to dark wood and black lacquerware. Many fine examples of this technique remain today in the Nara *Shōsōin 正倉院. This brilliant gold or silver paint was often contrasted against dark navy or purple silk or paper for decoration on Buddhist paintings and the inside covers of sutra handscrolls. Good examples are the Mandala of Two Worlds *Ryōkai mandara 両界曼荼羅 at Jingoji 神護寺 in Kyoto and at Kojimadera 小島寺 in Nara, and the decorated sutra covers at Chūsonji 中尊寺 in Iwate Prefecture. From the Edo period, there are the handscrolls painted by Tawaraya Sōtatsu 俵屋宗達 (?-1643?) with waka 和歌 calligraphy by Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637).