thumb|-style writing box, Nagasaki, 1800–1850, wood covered with black lacquer and inlaid with flowers in under-painted mother-of-pearl shell. thumb|Inlaid paper box with "wheels in flow" () design, National Treasure (Japan)|National Treasure, [[Heian period, 11–12th century, Tokyo National Museum]] thumb|Inlaid writing box with "Eight Bridges" () design, by Ogata Kōrin, National Treasure, [[Edo period, 18th century. The flowers are abalone shell inlays, Tokyo National Museum]] thumb|, Design of minute patterns in mother-of-pearl inlay, Somada school characterized by a combination of and techn
thumb|-style writing box, Nagasaki, 1800–1850, wood covered with black lacquer and inlaid with flowers in under-painted mother-of-pearl shell. thumb|Inlaid paper box with "wheels in flow" () design, National Treasure (Japan)|National Treasure, [[Heian period, 11–12th century, Tokyo National Museum]] thumb|Inlaid writing box with "Eight Bridges" () design, by Ogata Kōrin, National Treasure, [[Edo period, 18th century. The flowers are abalone shell inlays, Tokyo National Museum]] thumb|, Design of minute patterns in mother-of-pearl inlay, Somada school characterized by a combination of and techniques, Edo period, 19th century, Tokyo National Museum
Luodian (螺钿) in Chinese or in Japanese for one of the decorative techniques used in traditional crafts and woodwork. It refers to a method of inserting nacre into a carved surface of lacquer or wood. The basic technique of originated around 3500 years ago in Egypt and later spread along the Mediterranean coast. It was subsequently introduced to Japan from the Tang dynasty during the Nara period.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).