Toward the end of the War, many people were forcibly evacuated from Okinawa and other southwestern islands to Miyazaki. When the prefecture set up a vocational center to provide employment for the evacuees, one of the vocational subjects offered was lacquerware production led by Ryukyu lacquerware technicians who were employed there. Miyazaki lacquerware uses a unique technique called Tsuikin painting. Colored Tsuikin mochi, a material made from lacquer, is rolled out thinly, cut, then decorated. Vessels that follow the Ryukyu lacquerware tradition are often decorated with lustrous patterns unique to the tropics.