ARTIST ARTIZANS
a carver of ventilating panels (ramma), but he also excelled in producing elaborately chiselled netsuke. His carvings are never coloured or of ivory.”
- Mori no Koriu. Present day. Carver in ivory of Tokyo.
- Mori. Yasokichi. Worker in cloisonné enamels; pupil of Hara Fujio.
- Morikawa. Tōyen. 19th cent. (d. 1892.) A highly skilled wood-carver of Nara and Kyoto.
- Morikawa. Kyōyen. 19th cent. (d. 1890.) A highly skilled wood-carver of Osaka; son of Morikawa Tōyen, but died before his father.
- Nagai. Rantei. 19th cent. (d. 1853.) A netsuke-carver of Kyoto, originally a Samurai of Unshiu. It is related that being asked by the Court to chisel a thousand monkeys on a walnut, he finished the work in ten years, and the officials appointed to receive it had to put dots of red ink on the monkeys in order to count them. He received the art title of Hokkyo and a present of 30 riyo. He is said to have been a very proud man. If the slightest fault was found with his work, he refused to deliver the specimen. When he received the price, he spent it at once on sake.
- Nogami. Yataro. Present day. A skilled bronze-caster of Tokyo; art name, Riuki.
- Nagamichi. 19th cent. (d. 1855.) A netsuke-shi of Osaka.
- Nagao. Taichiro. The Soken Kisho says: “This artist was a Samurai of Wakayama in the province of Kishiu. He studied carving under Ogasawara Issai (mentioned as the best living netsuke-carver, of the era when the Soken Kisho was written). His works are clearly chiselled and elaborate, almost equal to those of his master.”
- Nagoya. Shichirozayemon. 13th cent. Metal-founder. (Second son of the Hojo Vicegerent Yoshitoki. Had the rank of Shikibu-no-jō and was also called Asataki.)
- Nagoya. Yashichiro. (d. 1471.) There were three of this name, but nothing is known of the two first. Yashichiro cast tea-utensils for the Ashikaga Shogun Yoshimasa, and was appointed founder of bronze and iron to the Shoguns, the Imperial Court, and the eight princes of Ise.
- Nagoya. Yashichiro. 16th cent. Chuami. Metal-founder.
- Nagoya. Yashichiro. (d. 1535.) Metal-founder.
- Nagoya. Yashichiro. (d. 1593.) Made tea-utensils for Ota Nobunaga, and received a pension of 3,000 koku of rice. Metal-founder. Art name, Zensho.
- Nagoya. Yagoro. (d. 1600.) Metal-founder.
- Nagoya. Yashichiro. (d. 1606.) Art name, Joyu. Metal-founder.
- Nagoya. Yashichiro. (d. 1619.) Art name, Zenshi. Metal-founder. Very celebrated.
- Nagoya. Yayemon. (d. 1638.) Art name, Sansho. Called also Jomi, and distinguished as “Ko Jomi” (the elder Jomi). Cast a bell for the temple of Daibutsu at Nara, and received the rank of Echizen no Shōjō, being named metal-founder to the Tokugawa Shoguns.
- Nagoya. Yayemon. (d. 1639.) Masataka. A great metal-founder.
- Nagoya. Yayemon. (d. 1708.) Masanori and Jomi. Metal-founder.
- Nagoya. Yayemon. (d. 1722.) Masaharu and Santen Jomi. A great metal-founder.
- Nagoya. Yayemon. (d. 1759.) Masamitsu and Jomi. Metal-founder.
- Nagoya. Yayemon. (d. 1784.) Masanaga. Metal-founder.
- Nagoya. Yayemon. (d. 1800.) Masaoki and Jomi. Metal-founder.
- Nagoya. Masanobu. (d. 1820.) Metal-founder.
- Nagoya. Yashichiro. (d. 1674.) Younger brother of Masataka. Metal-founder.
- Nakao. Sotei. 19th cent. (d. 1835.) A metal-caster of Osaka. His son continued the work. The family produced several artizans, as Nabeya Chōbei, Kihan, Kamachō, etc., and all used the mark Nakao Sotei. These bronzes were the first exported from Japan in modern times.
- Nakatani. Toyokichi. Present day. A skilled wood-carver of Osaka. Art name, Shōgō. Son of Nakatani Seisuke.
- Nakatani. Seisuke. 19th cent. (d.
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