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Shinji Nakaba Jewelry Philosophy

Shinji Nakaba
Shinji Nakaba

Shinji Nakaba. This amazing master has been making jewelry since 1974. For his works, he uses materials of various values, but his particular passion is glyptic works made of mother-of-pearl (glyptics is the art of miniature carving on especially hard precious or semi-precious stones).

According to Shinji Nakaba, he was trying to find an answer to the question: what happens to a person after death? The desire to find out about this was reflected in his works, giving each of them a shade of mystery.

The reasonable cost of jewelry with a single carved stone provides an opportunity to purchase a unique product for almost every woman. As for necklaces and bracelets, the price here starts from several thousand dollars and more.
The reasonable cost of jewelry with a single carved stone provides an opportunity to purchase a unique product for almost every woman. As for necklaces and bracelets, the price here starts from several thousand dollars and more.

Shinji Nakaba ‘s latest collection was created for a woman who chooses something special for herself, strives for originality in her image.

This is incomparably more than the actual traditional string of pearls, such art products are created for women who prefer to think freely, such an adornment for her is as a sign of involvement in something unusual.

And yet the complete opposite of a body collection. At first glance, she is too bold, provocative, shocking.

But in the context of all the work of Shinji Nakaba, we are already starting to look differently. If the skull symbolizes for us, first of all, death, leaving the boundary, another world, then the body is life, movement, breathing.

Skulls, as a symbol of death, do not need lush decoration. The essence of death is to cut off all unnecessary, in its world there are other values. And these ascetic frames do not draw our attention. We already see a different world. The luster of the pearls is reminiscent of the moonlight and the beauty of the night. And these skulls are beautiful in themselves, they don’t need someone else’s shine.

The cost of such jewelry starts at $ 160. You can find something unusual for yourself on the jeweler’s website – work.s-nakaba.com. Each of his creations is made in a single copy and therefore truly unique.

Shinji Nakaba’s works adorn the Boston Museum of Art, the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, the Museum of Art and Design in New York, and many others.

ring with human face
ring with human face
In these works, we see the very essence of life - warmth and softness of lines. Symbolism can be traced in every subject.
In these works, we see the very essence of life – warmth and softness of lines. Symbolism can be traced in every subject.
Shinji Nakaba. Ring skull
Ring skull
Shinji Nakaba. A series of jewelry seems to open up new possibilities for pearls for the woman herself.
A series of jewelry seems to open up new possibilities for pearls for the woman herself.
Shinji Nakaba. There is no playfulness and eroticism in nudity. As the essence of food is to satisfy hunger, so here is the essence of the depicted life and its continuation.
There is no playfulness and eroticism in nudity. As the essence of food is to satisfy hunger, so here is the essence of the depicted life and its continuation.
Shinji Nakaba. The realism with which the master performs his work is fascinating.
The realism with which the master performs his work is fascinating.
Shinji Nakaba. Skull earrings
Skull earrings
Shinji Nakaba. Tree with skulls
Tree with skulls