However, as natsume gradually became to be used with chaire, it began to have gorgeous makie (Japanese lacquer sprinkled with gold or silver powder) decoration suited for shoin kazari (decoration of shoin [one of Japan's most important residential architectural styles, established in the Momoyama era] rooms and buildings) (The natsume with makie decoration considered to be made in the Muromachi Period has been preserved, but this needs to assume the possibility that originally it was not used as a tea utensil.)
しかし次第に茶入と同時に用いられるようになることで、書院飾りに適した豪華な蒔絵が施されるようになった（室町時代とされる蒔絵の棗も現存しているが、これは本来は茶器ではなかった可能性を想定する必要がある）。