CHISELLERS
sword-furniture, kanamono, etc., he carved netsuke in the round from shakudo or shibuichi.
- Kikuju-sai. Vide Masanobu (Nara).
- Kikuoka. Family name. Vide Mitsuyuki.
- Kinai. Ishikawa. 1640. An expert of Ichizen who belonged originally to the Miyochin family. He was celebrated for chiselling iron guards with designs à jour, his favorite designs being dragons and phœnixes. His works are marked Yechizen no Kuni Kinai. He died in 1680.
- Kinai. Takahashi. 1660. The second of the same name and the greatest of the family. His pierced decoration on guards is admirably delicate and fine, and he imparted to the iron a soft, brown patina of great beauty. His works were known as Kenjo Kinai, or “Presentation Kinai;” that is to say, worthy to be presented to the Sovereign. He prefixed to his name the words, Yechizen no Kuni. He died in 1696.
- Kinai. Much of the work produced in Yechizen after the time of the two great Kinai masters is spoken of as “Kinai,” meaning that it is in the Kinai style. Vide Chiusaku, Yoshitsugu, and Kanemori. The successive representatives of the Takahashi family produced good work in the same style.
- Kingenshi. Vide Sadayoshi.
- Kingyokudō. Vide Hirosada.
- Kinkado. Vide Mitsutaki.
- Kinriuzan. Fumoto. Vide Shigemitsu (Omori).
- Kinshichi. Tsuchiya. 1650. A pupil of Katsuhisa (Kawamura). Kaga.
- Kiriusai. Vide Muneyuki; also Somin.
- Kiriusei. Vide Soyoyuki.
- Kiso-Hōgen. Vide Koriusai.
- Kiujo. Goto. 1630. Mitsutada. Kyoto.
- Kiukiuken. Vide Tamagawa Yoshihisa.
- Kiusuke. Chiyo. 1680. There were three experts of this name, father, son, and grandson. They worked chiefly in silver. Tsuyama (in Mimasaka).
- Kiusuke. Chiyo. 1680. A silversmith of Tsuyama. His son and grandson of the same name succeeded him.
- Kiuzayemon. Chiyo. 1740. Called also Kansei. An expert of Tsuyama.
- Kiuzō. Vide Mariyuki.
- Kiuzui. Vide Hisayori.
- Kiyohisa. Tanaka. i860. Bunjiro; commonly called Fujiwara Bunjiro. An expert chiseller, celebrated for his skill in reproducing the works of the old masters. Yedo.
- Kiyokaze. Fujii. 1700. Gembei. A pupil of the great Kaneko Yukinaka. Hagi.
- Kiyonori. Goto. 1700. Rihei. Celebrated for making Kanto-tsubo; that is to say, guards ornamented with Chinese figures and landscapes. Yedo.
- Kiyosada. Kusakari. 1790. Hachisaburo. Generally known as Kusakari Hachisaburo. Regarded as the greatest inlayer of Sendai. Celebrated for dragons (amaryo), landscapes, flowers, especially convolvulus, etc. Sendai.
- Kiyosai. Vide Nagatake.
- Kiyoshige. Tanaka. 1830. Minomatsu. Son of Kiyohisa and a skilled expert. Yedo.
- Kiyoshige. Ito Katsumi (Vide). While still a pupil of Toriusai, was granted the art rank of Hokkyo, and used the mark Seiu Hokkyo Kiyoshige.
- Kiyotaku. Inouye. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
- Kiyotoshi. Ito. 1840. A celebrated expert of Yedo. Art name, Jūzō. Had rank of Hōgen.
- Kiyotsugu. Yoshioka. 1660. Had the title of Inaba-no-suke. Founded the Sendai branch of the Yoshioka family.
- Kiyoyasu. Ito. 1750. Celebrated for inlaying in the Sumi-ye (sepia painting) style. Yedo.
- Kiyoyori. Kusakari. 1830. Pupil of Teramitsu (Omori). Yedo and Sendai.
- Kiyoyoshi. Goto. 1690. (Called also Seirei.) Common name, Shichibei. Kaga.
- Kiyoyoshi. Goto. 1630. A pupil of Goto Seijō. Remarkably skilled in inlaying iron with gold, and in copying old masterpieces. Yedo.
- Kiyoyoshi. Shiwamura. 1710. Celebrated as a maker of nanako. Yedo.
- Kizayemon. 1700. Jakushi. A celebrated artist of Nagasaki. Like many of the Nagasaki experts, he
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