CHISELLERS
- Nagayoshi. 1690. Chōzayemon. Kaga.
- Nagayoshi. Ichikawa. 1710. Kinai. Not to be confounded with the great Kinai. Kaga.
- Nagayoshi. 1750. Kiujiro; son of Nagashige Kuroyemon. Kaga.
- Nagayoshi. 1640. Kanyemon. Kaga.
- Nagayoshi. Ishiguro. 1840. Called himself Jizan. A skilled expert.
- Nakagawa. Yoshizane. Present day. A skilled metal-chiseller of Bizen.
- Nakahara. Yukitoshi. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Chōshiu.
- Nakayama. Shōyeki. 16th and 17th cent. Common name Yojuro. Originally an armourer, he settled (1585) in Kyoto, and acquired a high reputation.
- Nakazato. Norinaga. Present day. A skilled metal-chiseller of Tokyo, who now devotes himself largely to cameo-cutting in shell.
- Namekawa. Sadakatsu. Present day. Kinzoku-shi. A pupil of Shōmin. Remarkably skilled in chiselling figures in relief and incised on iron, silver, shibuichi, etc.
- Nampo. Vide Konkwan. This mark was used by one of the nineteenth century Kikugawa artists also.
- Nanjo. 1780. A pupil of Chokuzui. Yedo.
- Nomura. Family name. Vide Sōtoku and Masatoki.
- Naoaki. Oda. 1830. An expert of Satsuma, highly skilled in tempering iron and chiselling designs à jour.
- Naofusa. 1780. Tetsuya Bunjiro. A pupil of Tetsuya Gembei. Kyoto.
- Naofusa. Hamano. 1800. Art name, Hōkiusai. A skilled expert. Yedo.
- Naokata. Okamoto. 1780. Chobei the adopted son of Tetsuya Gembei, whose name he afterwards took. Kyoto.
- Naokatsu. Inagawa. 1720. Bunshiro. A pupil of Naomasa (Yanagawa) and a skilled expert. Yedo.
- Naomasa. Yanagawa. 1690. Sanyemon. A pupil of Sōmin. A celebrated artist. His carvings of shishi (Dogs of Fo), horses, etc., are splendidly executed, and his nanako grounds are superb. His work is compared by Japanese connoisseurs to a waterfall among autumn foliage. In his later years he called himself Sōyen. Yedo.
- Naomasa. Ozaki. 1770. Magozayemon, or Kizayemon. Art name, Kichōsai. A celebrated expert of Kyoto.
- Naomichi. 1770. Shōsuke. A pupil of Tetsuya Dembei. Kyoto.
- Naomichi. Muneta. 1660. Matabe. Called also Dōchoku. A celebrated expert. Worked chiefly in Osaka. His favourite subjects were human figures chiselled in the shishi-ai-bori and high-relief styles. Imitations abound, but are markedly inferior to the originals, which have been scarce ever since 1770.
- Naomine. Muneta. 1660. Jisuke. Kyoto.
- Naomitsu. Yanagawa. 1720. Rihei. A pupil of Naomasa, after whose death he took the name of Naomasa. A grand expert. Every stroke of the chisel is direct and strong. His work can scarcely be distinguished from that of Naomasa. Yedo.
- Naonori. Konakamura. 1720. Kinchiro. A pupil of Naomasa. Yedo.
- Naoshige. Kimura. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
- Naoshige. Okamoto. 1770. His common name was Tetsuya Gembei (Gembei, the worker in iron), but as he grew famous, men called him “Tetsugen,” and sometimes “Tetsugendō.” He was a pupil of Harukuni, who was known as Tetsuya Gembei. Many of his works are marked Shōraku, and some have Toshiyuki, his early name. He is held to be one of the greatest of Japanese artists. His method of tempering iron and of producing patina is spoken of by Japanese writers of the eighteenth century as skilful beyond precedent. He worked also with consummate expertness in gold, silver, shakudo, and shibuichi. The Soken Kisho says that his work recalls the well-known couplet:—“How lovely is the cherry bloom touched by the morning sunbeams as they glance through the boughs of a pine tree!” He died in 1780, at a comparatively early age.
- Naoshige. Muneta. 1680. Matashichi. Kyoto.
- Naotaka. 1700. A pupil of Naomasa (Yanagawa). Yedo.
- Naotmo. 1780. Ihei. A pupil of Tetsuya Gembei. Kyoto.
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