Japan: Its History, Arts, and Literature/Volume 7/Chisellers

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Artist Artizans

Japan: Its History, Arts, and Literature, Volume VII (1902)
by Captain F. Brinkley

4109831Japan: Its History, Arts, and Literature, Volume VII1902Captain F. Brinkley

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CHISELLERS
OF SWORD-FURNITURE

Adachi. Yusai. 19th cent. Yedo.
Akao. Family name: vide Yoshistugu Tashichi.
Akihiro. 19 cent. Yedo.
Akushi. Tamagawa. 1700. Founder of the Tamagawa family of Mito.
Aoki. Family name: vide Harustura.
Aoyagi. Family name: vide Yoshimitsu.
Arakawa. Ikki. 19th cent. (d. 1895.) A Tokyo metal-chiseller of the highest skill.
Arichika. Kimura. 1850. A skilled artist of Tokyo, pupil of Yasuchika (the 6th generation from Tō-u).
Arinobu. 19 cent. Owari.
Aritsune. 19th cent. Yedo. Art name, Kakutei.
Asanji. Watanabe. 1780. Toyama.
Atsuoki. 18th and 19th cent. Art name, Sensai.
Atsuoki. Sasayama. 1860. Art name, Ichigyosai. A Kyoto expert of high rank. One of the best carvers of the 19th cent.
Ayabe. Masayuki. 19th cent. Yedo.
Bikwan. Vide Katahiro.
Bunji. 1700. An expert; in the service of the feudal chief of Owari.
Bunjo. Goto. 1690. Kyoto.
Bunsui. Yoshida. 1650. At first called Nomura Rokubei. A pupil of Goto Renjō, an expert of the first rank. Specimens bearing his name are found not infrequently, but they are all forgeries, as he is known never to have marked any of his work. Kyoto.
Buzen. Yoshioka. 1740. An artist who worked for the Tokugawa Court. Yedo.
Chiba. Tomotane. 19th cent. A metal-worker of Yedo.
Chikaatsu. Yoshioka. 1690. Otojiri. Yedo.
Chikatomo. Yoshioka. 1670. Wakichi. A pupil of Kiyasugu. (Yoshioka.) Yedo.
Chikatsugu. Yoshioka. 1700. Yedo.
Chikayoshi. Ishiguro. 1840. Mannosuke. Yedo.
Chikuzanken. Vide Matosada. (Ogawa.)
Chiruiken. Vide Takahiro. (Yasui.)
Chitomo. Chiyo. 1760. Called also Chiusuke. An expert of Tsuyama.
Chiubei. Iwamoto. 1680. Founded the Iwamoto family of Yedo. Worked in Yedo.
Chiubei. Tokaya. 1700. A pupil of Somin. Yedo.
Chiubei. 1650. Saburohei. A skilled artist of Kaga, in the employ of the feudal chief of that province.
Chiusaku. 1700. An artist of Yechizen, who worked skilfully in the Kinai style.
Chōbei. Kikugawa. 1720. Muneyoshi. An artist of the highest skill in the Shizumebori style. He chiselled flowers, especially chrysanthemums, with such ability that the term Ckōbei-Kiku (Chobei chrysanthemum) came to be generally applied to fine work of that class. His son and grandson had the same name and worked in similar style. Yedo.
Chōjō. Goto. 1590. Commonly called Shichibei. Son of Goto Kojo and founder of the Kami-Goto family, Kyoto, and afterwards Mino.
Chokuzui. Vide Naoyori.
Chōkwaku. Goto. 1700. Nothing certain is known about this expert. He is said to have been adopted into the Shōami family, and he worked in Kyoto.
Chōōken. Vide Motomori (Nemoto).
Chōroku. Shōami. 1820. An expert of Aizu.
Chōsendo. Vide Terumitsu (Omori).
Chōunsai. Yoshitane. 19th cent. A metal-worker of Yedo.
Daimonji-ya. Vide Gorobei.
Daisuke. Shoami. 1530. Founder of the Oshiu branch of the Shōami family. Morioka (Nambu).
Dempachi. Muneta. 1650. Kyoto.
Denjō. Goto. 1570. Called also Mitsuhiro, son of Goto Tokujō. Kyoto.
Dennai. Shōami. 1600. An expert of Akita (in Dewa).
Denzaburo. Wakabayashi. 1690. Called also Kaneko. Toyama.
Denzaburo. Kaneko. 1690. A pupil of Goto Tsūjō. Worked at Toyama (Yetchiu).
Denzaburo. Yokoya. 1780. Called also Tamotake, Yedo.
Dōnin. Vide Hikoshiro. (Hirata.)
Dopposai. Vide Mitsuyuki. (Kikuoka.)
Dōriu. Hasebe. 1640. A pupil of Gioto Yechijō. Residence uncertain.
Fuchō. Dainichi. 1750. An expert of Osaka, whose work is much admired by Japanese connoisseurs for chasteness and delicacy. He had some reputation as a poet.
Fujii. Masahiko. Present day. Metal sculptor. Pupil of Unno Shōmin.
Fujiki. Vide Masayuki (Tsuji).
Fujiwara. Kiyotoshi. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Fukawa. Kazuo. Present day. An eminent metal-sculptor.
Fukushige. Shōami. 1580. Worked in Owari, after the style of Yamayoshibei.
Fūkō. Vide Takanaga (Yasui).
Fumiyo. 1890. Art name, Kansai. A pupil of Natsuo; considered one of the best recent chisellers of iron guards.
Funada (Katsutani). Nakazawa. 19th cent. Skilled metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Ikkin.
Funakoshi. Shummin. Present day. A great metal-chiseller who adopts the styles of Matsuo and Shōmin. A pupil of Ikedo Minkoku, who had been taught by Haruaki (q. v.). He took the two ideographs Haru (Shun) and Min to form his art name of Shummin. His chiselling is very fine, and he is admirably skilled in repoussé work.
Fusamitsu. Vide Yeiju.
Fusanao. Fujiki. 1690. Called also Kobachi. A pupil of Goto Shujo (Mitsutaka), Yedo.
Fusanori. Miyochiu. 1560. A skilled expert. Kamakura.
Fusayori. Hamano. 1790. Kiuzō. Known also as Yeizui. A skilled expert of Yedo. Art name, Riyochiken.
Fusayoshi. Miyochin. 1550. A great expert. Especially celebrated for chiselling chrysanthemums à jour. Worked in Kōzuke and also in Kiushiu.
Gakan. Fuse. 1610. A pupil of Goto Yeijō. Kyoto.
Gammon. Vide Yoshitsune.
Ganshoji. Vide Nagatsune.
Gantoshi. Masuhiro.
Geki. 1750. A skilled expert of Sendai, where chiselling is very delicate.
Gekkindo. Vide Masatatsu.
Gembei. Uyemura. 1720. A pupil of Munemine. His house was known as Masuya. Kyoto.
Gempachi. Goto. 1620. Kyoto.
Gempachi. Mizuno. 1650. A skilled expert, but died very young. Kaga.
Genchin. Furukawa. 1680. Kichijiro. Also called Shoju. A pupil of Somin. He carved admirably in his master’s style. (Katakiri.) Yedo.
Genji. Mizuno. Vide Teruyoshi.
Genjō. Goto. 1550. Younger brother of Kojo, the 4th Goto master. A great expert, generally spoken of as Goto Kumbei. Kyoto.
Genjō. Goto. 1550. Kyoto.
Genjō. Goto. 1690. Called also Mitsuyoshi and Kambei. Kyoto.
Genjō. Goto. 1630. Sometimes called Kakujō. Kyoto.
Genjō. Vide Narimasa.
Genju. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Taizanken.
Genjūken. Vide Motoharu (Katōji).
Gen-no-jo. Goto. 1670. Kyoto.
Genroku. Mizuno. Vide Mitsumasa.
Genshichi. Mizuno. 1650. A skilled expert, but died very young. He and Gempachi were sons of Yoshinori-Kaga.
Gentaro. Goto. 1690. Kyoto.
Genyemon. Goto. 1690. Called also Mitsuhisa. Kyoto.
Gishinken. Vide Koretsune.
Giyemon. Kimura. 1670. A pupil of Goto Kambei. Kyoto.
Giyokuriuken. Vide Katsushiro.
Gokokuzan. Mitsunaka. 18th and 19th cent. A skilled worker of Yedo.
Gon-no-jō. 1780. A pupil of Iwamoto Kwanri, and a skilled expert. Sendai.
Gorobei. 1700. His house was called Daimonjiya. A celebrated guardmaker, whose decoration à jour was of the most elaborate and delicate character. His works came to be called “Daigoro-tsuba,” a term subsequently synonymous with particularly choice open-work chiselling. Kyoto.
Goro-saku-bori. Vide Yoshishige.
Goroyemon. Ukai. 1740. A skilled expert of Osaka; the teacher of Fuchō.
Goto. Yoshinori. 18th and 19th cent. Yedo.
Goto. Mitsuyoshi. Vide Yenjo.
Goto. Denjo. 19th cent. Yedo.
Goto. Mitsubumi. 19th cent. Yedo.
Goto. Tōjō. 19th cent. A skilled worker of Yedo. Received the art title of Hōkyō.
Goto. Yoshitoru. Present day. A skilled metal-chiseller of Osaka.
Gyokkeisha. Vide Masayori.
Hachibei. Tokita. 1630. A pupil of Goto Yekijō and a fine expert. Kyoto.
Hachirobei. Goto. 1790. An expert of one of the Kyoto branch families of the Goto. Art name, Kenjō.
Hakuhōtei. Vide Kankwan.
Hakuunshi. Vide Koreo.
Hakushusai. Vide Masanaka.
Hamano. Chiku-yuki. 19th cent. A metal-worker of Yedo.
Hambei. Inouye. 1750. A pupil of Inouye Shigeyasu. Kyoto.
Hankeishi. Vide Masayori.
Haruaki. Kono. 1830. Chuizō or Bunzō. Art names, Geisuō, Sanso, Taio. A pupil of Yanagawa Naoharu. Had no fixed place of abode, but worked chiefly in Yedo. A contemporary of Goto Ichijō and one of the greatest experts of the 19th century. Attained the title of Hōgen.
Haruchika. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Haruhiro. Nakamura. 1820. Itahei. A pupil of Harunari (Hirata). Yedo.
Hamhisa. Nishimura. 1820. Ginjiro. A pupil of Harunari (Hirata). Yedo.
Harukuni. Okamoto. 1760. Dembei. An artist of great reputation, whose skill in manipulating iron was such that he received the name of Tetsuya Dembei (Dembei the iron-worker). He founded the Okamoto family of Kyoto, and was the teacher of the still more celebrated Tetsuya Gembei. In early life he called himself Kuniharu. Kyoto.
Harumasa. Otsuka. 1820. Shichibei. A pupil of Harunari (Hirata).
Harunari. Hirata. 1810. Hikoshiro. Eighth and best of the Hirata experts. Called also Tomokichi. Yedo.
Harushige. Yanagawa. 1860. A skilled expert of Yedo; teacher of Koji of Kanazawa.
Harutomo. Omura. 1820. A pupil of Harunari (Hirata). Yedo.
Harutoshi. Uchino. 1820. Tojiro. called also Ichigenshi. A pupil of Harunari and a skilled expert. Yedo.
Harutsugu. 1820. A pupil of Harunari (Hirata). Yedo.
Harutsura. Aoki. 1830. A Kyoto expert of the very highest skill. Teacher of the celebrated Natsuo. His works are among the finest of the 19th century.
Haruyori. Hamano. 1810. Ginjiro. A skilled expert generally called Shunzui. Yedo.
Hashimoto. Isshi. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo; very skilful and prolific.
Heisuke. Shōami. 1770. Heishichi. An expert of Tsuyama in Mimasaku.
Hideaki. Ishiguro. 1850. Kinjiro. Yedo.
Hidechika. Nomura. 1779. A pupil of Masahide (Nomura). His real name was Ichikawa Magohei. Yedo.
Hidekatsu. Shoami. 1770. An expert of Matsuyama in Iyo.
Hidekiyo. Komatsu. 1800. Sennosuke. A pupil of Teruhide (Omori). A celebrated expert. Yedo.
Hidekuni. Kawarabayashi. 1860. A Kyoto expert of great skill. Art name, Tenkōdō.
Hidemasa. Shoami. 1740. An expert of Matsuyama in Iyo.
Hidemasa. Nomura. 1780. Denzayemon. Original family was Yano. Awa.
Hidemitsu. Omori. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Hidenori. Vide Soden. According to some authorities, Hidenori and Soden were distinct, and both worked in the same style at Hikone.
Hidenori. Shiraishi. 1800. Denkichi. A pupil of Teruhide (Omori). Worked at Hirado in Hizen.
Hideo. Naomaru. Vide Onishi.
Hideoki. Omori. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Hidesaburo. 1760. One of the pupils of the Akao family, who carved in the style of Yoshitsugu Kohei. Yedo.
Hideshige. Tsuchiya. 18th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Hidetake. Yoshioka. 1670. Kizayemon. Generally known as Yoshioka Kizayemon. A pupil of Yoshioka Kiyotsugu, and a skilled expert. Sendai.
Hidetomi. Kusakari. 1800. Kiuzō. A pupil of Teruhide (Omori). Sendai.
Hidetomo. Omori. 1800. Sadabei. Called himself Riurinsai. A pupil of Teruhide (Omori), and a skilled expert. Yedo.
Hidetsugu. Uyemura. 1740. Ihei. A pupil of Takafusa (Uyemura). Kyoto.
Hideyasu. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Hideyori. Hayata. 1800. Heishiro. A pupil of Teruhide (Omori). Worked at Hirado in Hizen.
Hideyori. 1810. Commonly called Shūzui. Yedo.
Hideyoshi. Omori. 1800. Kitaro, and sometimes called Sakai Itsuki. Called himself Ittokusai. A pupil of Teruhide (Omori), and a skilled expert. Yedo.
Hikokoro. Vide Yasuyuki.
Hikoshiro. Hirata. 1620. Called Donin. The first to employ cloisonné enamels in the decoration of sword-furniture. Such work became thenceforth a specialty of the Hirata family. Yedo.
Hikoshiro. Wakabayashi. 1740. Son of Kokusui, and an expert of note. Toyama (Yetchiu province).
Hirakuni. 1650. Sanyemon. Kaga.
Hirakuni. Akao. 1810. An expert of Sendai who carved in the style of Tempo.
Hirata. Soko. Present day. A skilled uchimono-shi of Tokyo.
Hirayori. Hamano. 1810. Commonly called Kiuzui. Yedo.
Hiroaki. Ishiguro. 1850. Zenkichi. Yedo.
Hiromasa. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Tōjū.
Hirosada. Miyochin. 1850. Art name, Kingyokudo. A skilled expert of Yedo. Remarkable for making shakudo dragons with rounded scales. Often used the mark Cofu Saishin.
Hirotoshi. Otherwise called Kwanri.
Hirotoshi. Uchikoshi. 1810. Yenzo. Originally known as Konishi Bunshichi. Art name, Ichijōsai. A great expert of Kyoto. Studied under Yoshinaga (Tamagawa).
Hiroyoshi. Kuwamura. 1630. Sazayemon. A great expert. Pupil of Goto Teijō. He was appointed to work for the Daimyo Daishoji Hida-no-Kami, and had an annual allowance of 100 Koku of rice. He called himself Kokō, and afterwards jokū. Kaga.
Hiroyori. Murata. 1750. Ikujiro. Known also as Kwanzui. Called himself Ichiyōken. Yedo.
Hisachika. Ishiguro. 1840. Kanejiro. Yedo.
Hisaharu. Suzuki. 1810. Tetsujiro. A pupil of Kiyohisa (Tanaka). Yedo.
Hisakiyo. Hamano. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Hisakiyo. Goto. 1670. Shichibei. A skilled expert. His carvings of grapes and bees on fuchi and kashira are celebrated. Kaga.
Hisamitsu. Watanabe. 1810. Chiugoro. Art name, Tōkosai. A pupil of Kiyohisa (Tanaka). Yedo.

N.B. The name is also pronounced Toshimitsu.

Hisanaga. Nara. 1710. A pupil of Toshihisa. Some of his carvings are marked Denzo. An expert of great skill. Yedo.
Hisanori. Nara. 1770. Signed many of his works Unteido. Yedo.
Hisateru. Kunesake. 1810. Ginjiro. A pupil of Kiyohisa (Tanaka). Yedo.
Hisatsugu. Takahashi. 1820. Kanejiro. Art name, Tounsai. Aizu.
Hisatsugu. Yoshioka. 1640. Rizayemon. At first called Shigeyoshi. Third son of Shigetsugu. Yedo.
Hisayori. Nara. 1760. Yedo.
Hisayori. Hamano. 1800. Hanai. Commonly called Juzui. Yedo.
Hiyobu. Hōgen. Nomura. 1790. Posthumous name, Minamoto Masayori. Artistically known as Yūsen or Hiyobu-jo, and called in literary circles Shjoishi-gekkaan-koō. Eldest son of Masahide (Nomura). He received the honorary title of Hōgen in recognition of his artistic skill.
Hiyōji. Kawakami. 1770. Toyama (Yetchiu).
Hōgiyokusai. Vide Koretsune.
Hōjō. Vide Mitsuaki (Goto).
Hōjō. Goto. 1670. Mitsukata. Kyoto.
Hōju. Vide Tomihisa.
Hokiusai. Vide Naofusa.
Honjo. Vide Narikado.
Horiaki. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Horiuken. Vide Takaru. Yeiji.
Hosuiken. Tsuchiya. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Kaga.
Hozanken. Vide Motonori (Yasuyama).
Huzui. Vide Yasuyori and Toyoyori.
Ichibei. Nara. 1730. Pupil of the celebrated Yasuchika. He was known as “Miidera Ichibei,” on account of the beauty of the landscapes of the temple of Miidera carved on his fuchi and kashira.
Ichiga. Yamazaki. 1770. Niziyemon. There were five experts called Ichiga. The first flourished in 1670, and was a pupil of Goto Shujō; the fifth, at the close of the 18th cent. All were fine carvers. Kyoto.
Ichigenshi. Vide Harutoshi.
Ichigyosai. Vide Atsuoki.
Ichijiusai. Vide Mitsutatsu.
Ichijō. Goto. One of the greatest experts of the 19th cent. Born, 1791; died, 1876. Taught in Kyoto, but worked in Tokyo. Received the title of Hōkyo in recognition of his skill.
Ichijū. Takeshima. 1600. Tozayemon. A pupil of Goto Tsūjō. A splendid artist, standing in the highest rank. Yedo.
Ichimudo. Vide Terutoki. (Omori.)
Ichirobei. Yamada. 1700. An expert of Nagasaki who made guards of the Kanto-tsuba style; namely, decorated with Chinese figures and landscapes.
Ichiroyemon. Tanaka. 1700. A skilled artist of Saisuma.
Ichiruisai. Vide Tomoyoshi. (Kikugawa.)
Ichisō. Kawada. 1720. A Satsuma expert.
Ichiunsai. Vide Masayoshi.
Ichiyeian. Vide Korestune.
Ichiyemon. 1610. A pupil of Goto Yetsujō. A skilled expert. Kaga.
Ichiyodo. Vide Mitsuyori.
Ichiyoken. Vide Hiroyori.
Ichizayemon. Fukui. 1660. A pupil of Goto Yetsujō. A skilled artist. Kaga.
Ichizo. Vide Nariyuki and Narisuke.
Ihei. Inouye. 1750. A pupil of Inouye Shigeyasu.
Ikedo. 19th cent. (d. 1897.) A great metal-chiseller of Tokyo. One of the last carvers of sword-furniture.
Ikken. Present day. A skilled metal-chiseller of Tokyo.
Ikkin. Funada. 1840. Shosuke. An artist of skill who studied for some time under Goto Ichijō and finally worked in Kyoto.
Inaba-no-suke. Yoshioka. A title borne by four celebrated artists of the old Yoshioka family; namely, Shigehiro (1600), Yasutsugu (1610), Kiyotsugu (1630), and Terutsugu (1680), and by those of lesser note in modern times. The mark “Inaba-no-suke” was not permitted to be used whenever a member of the noble family of Inaba (distinct from the Yoshioka family) happened to hold the position of Councillor of state (Goroju).
Inagawa. Family name. Vide Naokatsu and Yoshikatsu.
Injō. Goto. 1620. Mitsutomi. Kyoto.
Iranken. Shōami. 1570. An expert of Owari.
Ishin. Shōami. 1800. An expert of Matsuyama in Iyo.
Issai. Vide Tokiakira.
Isshiken. Vide Okinari.
Issho. Nakagawa. 1860. A skilled artist of Yedo.
Isshunan. Vide Masyori.
Itao. Shinjiro. Present day. A highly skilled metal-chiseller of Kagawa (in Kishiu). He manufactures iron dragons, eagles, crabs, etc. with universal joints, as skilfully as did the great Miyochin Yoshihisa, and many of his masterpieces have been sold in foreign markets as Miyochin’s work. Formerly he was employed solely by Yamanaka, the well-known dealer of Osaka, and subsequently by Sano of Tokyo.
Ito. Vide Masanaga and Masatsune.
Ito. Shoyei. Present day. Metal-sculptor. Pupil of Unno Shōmin.
Ito, Katsumi. Masatatsu. Present day. A metal sculptor of the highest skill. Tenth representative of the Ito family founded by Ito Masanaga, who with all his descendants, down to the present representative, were makers of sword guards for the Tokugawa Shōguns. A pupil of the celebrated Toriusai, his early years (he was born in 1829), were devoted to chiselling sword-furniture. In 1860, he was adopted into the Ito family, his rival for that honour having been the equally celebrated Kano Natsuo. From 1864 he was directed by the Shōguns to inscribe the name Katsumi upon his guards, etc., but in later years he used the mark Taikiu. After the Restoration (1867) he devoted his chisel to carving metal objects suited to the changed tastes of the time; as plaques, paper-weights, book-markers, etc.
Itoku. Vide Masanori.
Ittoku. Tsuji. 1750. Gendayu. Art name, Ransuido. An expert of Omi.
Ittosai. Vide Teruhide (Omori).
Iwama. Masayoshi. 19th cent. A metal worker of Yedo.
Iyefusa. Miyochin. 1560. Pupil of the celebrated Nobuiye, and a great expert. Odawara.
Iyehisa. Miyochin. 1600. A great expert. Sagami.
Iyemori. Shōami. 1790. A kyoto expert skilled in inlaying with gold.
Iyenori. Saotome. 1550. A pupil of the celebrated Nobuiye and a skilled expert. Hitachi.
Iyesada. 1560. Highly skilled for chiselling à jour. Said to have been a pupil of Nobuiye.
Iyesada. Shōami. 1670. An expert of Matsuyama in Iyo.
Iyetaka. Vide Shigeyoshi Tsunetada.
Izawa. Tadatsura. 19th cent. (d. 1875.) A metal-worker of Nagoya, particularly skilled in producing the tama-mokume grain; which is obtained by putting balls (tama) of different metal into a cylinder, heating the latter red, and then beating the whole mass together.
Jakui. Vide Katsuhisa. (Kuwamura.)
Jakushi. Vide Kizayemon.
Jichikuken. Vide Motonaga, (Ogawa).
Jidayu. Wakabayashi. 1710. Ozawa. Toyama.
Jikakushi. Vide Koreyoshi.
Jikiyokusai. Vide Masakiyo.
Jikokusai. Vide Masatsune.
Jikosai. Vide Masayoshi.
Jikyo-sai. One of the art names of Ishiguro Masayoshi.
Jimiyo. Vide Masatsune.
Jimpo. Nomura. 1750. Tsu Hachiyemon. Generally known as Tsu Jimpo. A pupil of Masanori. (Nomura.) A grand artist; one of the greatest masters. He died in 1762 at the age of 52. Kyoto. (Many imitations of his work exist.)
Jingo. 1630. A guard-maker of Yatsushiro. His specialty was inlaying iron with brass designs in high relief. Hence guards in that style are called jingo-tsuba.
Jinyemon. Vide Mitsuaki.
Jinyemon. Goto. 1550. Founded the Noto branch of the Goto family, but afterwards lived and worked in Kaga. A great expert.
Jiriuken. Vide Teruaki. (Yokoya.)
Jiriuken. Miyaki. 1720. A pupil of Sōyō. His early work is mediocre, but in his later years he carved grandly. Yedo.
Jiriuken. Vide Tsuneyuki.
Jiriusai. Vide Toshiharu.
Jiriyusai. Vide Tsuneyuki.
Jiro-saku-bori. Vide Kuninaga and Yoshishige.
Jitekisai. Vide Yoshisato.
Jitsujō. Goto. 1660. Kyoto.
Jiujiro. Suzuki. 1840. A skilled expert of Tokyo.
Jiuyemon. Kurose. 1650. A pupil of Goto Renjō. Kyoto.
Jizaburo. Tamagawa. 1800. Worked in Mito.
Jizan. Vide Nagayoshi.
Jōchi. Sasaki. 1630. Shobei. A pupil of Goto Yenjō. Kyoto.
Jōchiku. Isono. 1630. Originally called Matsuya Bunyemon, but afterwards Kozayemon. A celebrated expert both as a carver and as an inlayer. Kyoto.
Jōchin. Furukawa. 1790. A skilled expert, even better than his father Genchin. His carving is generally incised, but sometimes in relief. Yedo.
Jōchiu. 1640. A pupil of Jōchiku and almost as fine an expert. The works of the two men are often confounded. He was subsequently adopted by Jōchiku. Kyoto.
Jōha. Goto. 1580. Mitsunobu. Kyoto.
Jōhaku. 1640. Wasuke. A pupil of Jōchiku and a skilled expert; afterwards changed his name to Shōyei. Yedo.
Joi. Nara. 1720. One of the greatest masters. A pupil of Nara Zenzo (Hisanaga). He displayed extraordinary skill in shishi-ai carving, and is considered the peer of the “Three Nara Masters.” (Vide Toshihisa.) He sometimes marked his works Issando Nagaharu. Yedo.
Jōkan Inshi. Vide Mitsutsune.
Jōken. Goto. 1680. Mitsuyoshi. Kyoto.
Jokū. Vide Hiroyoshi.
Jokwo. Torii. 1740. Uhei. Commonly known as Masuya Ukei. Osayka.
Jomi. Yeizuke. Present day. A great metal-worker of Kyoto. (b. 1839.) Celebrated for vases of woven metals; for various beautiful patinas; and for plaques with elaborately chiselled landscapes. Jomi is his art name; Yasuchika his personal name.
Jōrin. Goto. 1630. Uhei. A skilled expert of Osaka. Called also Mitsunari. Kyoto.
Jōriu. 1640. A pupil of Jōchiku. Yedo.
Jōsen. Goto. 1620. Kyoto.
Jōshin. Goto. 1540. The third of the great Goto masters. Kyoto.
Jōshiu. Vide Mitsutomo.
Jōtetsu. Isono. 1660. A daughter of Jōchiku. Her work is generally spoken of as Musume-bori, or “the girls’ carving.” Kyoto.
Jōtoku. 1650. Date uncertain. A Yedo expert, supposed to have been a pupil of Jōchiku.
Jōunsai. Vide Shiratoshi.
Jōunsai. Vide Kwanri.
Jōwa. Vide Masachika (Nara).
Jōyeiken. Vide Takakiyo (Sakawa).
Jōyeiken. Vide Yoshihisa.
Jōyen. Goto. 1600. Kyoto.
Jōyen. Fujii. 1660. A pupil of Goto Renjō. Kyoto.
Jōyen. Fujinaka. 1700. A pupil of Masanori Nomura. Yedo.
Jōyo. Goto. 1670. Mitsuchika. Kyoto.
Jōzui. Vide Sukeyori.
Jubei. Aoki. 1580. Generally regarded as the second generation of Kaneiye. Was employed by the feudal chief of Higo and settled at Hasuike. Art name, Tetsujin. A great expert, remarkably skilled in the making of iron guards. He inlaid some of his guards with brass.
Jugyokusai. This art name was originally used by Katsuyoshi, and is now employed by his pupil Yoshikawa Issei; both metal-chisellers in the Ishiguro style.
Jujō. Goto. 1720. The twelfth Goto master.
Junjō. Goto. 1650. Called also Mitsuakira. Kyoto.
Jūzō. Vide Kiyotoshi.
Jūzui. Vide Hisayori.
Kagawa. Katsushiro. Present day. A highly skilled metal-chiseller of Tokio; pupil of Mori Ryoken and of Matsuo. He spent five years chiselling a five branched Paullownia within a square of 0.18 in. side for the furniture of a sword belonging to the Emperor.
Kagawa. Katsushiro. Present time. A highly skilled worker in metal. Famous for chiselling naturalistic subjects as plaques, vases, etc., using several metals. Has been employed to carve sword furniture for the Emperor.
Kageiye. Miyochin. 1560. A celebrated expert. Sagami.
Kahei. Mori. 1700. A pupil of Yanagawa Naomasa. Yedo.
Kaigunshi. Vide Kaneyuke.
Kaijō. Goto. 1620. Mitsutsune. Kyoto.
Kaijō. Goto. 1660. Mitsukatsu. Kyoto.
Kaizantei. Vide Motochika. (Hayama.)
Kajima. Ippu. 19th cent. (d. 1860.) A metal-chiseller of Yedo, who made kanamono, ita-gusari, ojime, etc.
Kajima. Ippu. Present day. One of the greatest metal-workers of the century. From 1855 to 1887, he produced only sleeve links, bracelets, broaches, etc., for the foreign market, making them of iron inlaid with gold in the Nunome style. But from 1887, he began to manufacture the now celebrated Toge-dashi-zogan. (See text.)
Kajima. Yeijiro. Present day. A metal-worker of Tokio, skilled in inlaying. A cousin of the much more celebrated Kajima Ippu. Yeijiro’s father of the same name produced some fine specimens of inlaid armour.
Kajutsura. 1820. A skilled expert of Kyoto; teacher of Harutsura. Celebrated for chiselling insects.
Kakō. Vide Hirayoshi (Kuwamura).
Kakujō. Goto. 1590. Mitsunobu. With Mitsusato and Mitsumasa (which see), he makes the three Mino-bori (Mino carvers) of the Shimo-Goto Family. Mino.
Kakuriyo. Tsuji. 1780. Heishiro. Called himself Shisuidō. An expert of note. Omi.
Kakutei. Vide Aritsune.
Kambei. Goto. 1670. Mitsutoyo. The Kami-Goto Family. Kyoto.
Kambei. Goto. 1690. Vide Genjō.
Kampei. Nishigaki. 1730. A carver of Higo.
Kanamaru. So-no-shin. An unidentified artist.
Kanaya. 1600. An artist of Fushimi. Celebrated for his carving of landscapes, birds, foliage and prairie-grasses. His work is compared by Japanese connoisseurs to a moonlit waterscape seen through an opening in a forest.
Kaneatsu. Takao. 1640. Kichizayemon. A pupil of Umemura Sukesaburo and a skilled expert. Kaga.
Kanehide. 19th cent. Yedo.
Kaneiye. 1500. A celebrated guard-maker whose date is somewhat uncertain. He marked his work Yamashiro-no-ju. His tempering and chiselling of iron were counted extraordinarily good, and in subsequent generations special luck was supposed to attend the possession of his guards, so that they commanded great prices. Japanese connoisseurs consider that the Kaneiye family forged guards before the time of the above, and they are accustomed to speak of the older work as “Oshodai Kaneiye” (the very old generation of Kaniiye). Vide Jūbei (Aoki).
Kaneko. Vide Ujiiye.
Kanemori. 1680. An expert of Yechizen, who worked skilfully in the Kinai style.
Kanemori. Shōami. 1550. An expert of Kaneda in Dewa.
Kanenori. Nomura. 1720. Saburoji. Called himself Kanyeishi. A skilled expert. Hikone. (Omi.)
Kanesada. 1600. Supposed to have been a pupil of Aoki Jūbei.
Kanetaki. Yoshikawa. 1680. Called also Tamayoshi. Worked at Hikone.
Kanetomo. Iwata. 1810. Bennosuke. Art name, Toyosai. Pupil of Kiyohisa (Tanaka). Aizu.
Kaneuji. Shōami. 1750. A Kyoto expert.
Kaneyasu. Masatoshi. Metal chiseller (Kinzokushi) of present day. A pupil of Toriusai (q. v.) and adopted son of Ito Katsumi (q. v.)
Kaneyori. Amano. 1760. Son of Shozui, and commonly called Kenzui. Art names, Kaigenshi, Miseki, and Seishin. Used also the marks Otsuriuken and Miboku. (Vide Shōzui.) A celebrated artist. Yedo.
Kaneyuki. Hamano. 1670. Called himself Kaiganshi, and afterwards Miboku. A son of the celebrated Shōzui. Yedo.
Kankyo. Vide Masayori and Masanobu.
Kanshikan. Vide Terukazu.
Kanshiro. Nishigaki. 1750. A carver of Higo.
Kanyeishi. Vide Kanenori (Nomura).
Kanzayemon. Nishigaki. 1770. A carver of Higo.
Kariuken. Vide Yoshinori.
Kasetsuken. Vide Tomonao.
Katahiro. Nomura. 1760. Bikwan. Yedo.
Katatomo. Nakano. 1830. A skilled forger of swords and chiseller of sword-guards. Especially remarkable for combining various metals. Yedo.
Katsu. 1700. A female expert of Yedo. Her work is good, but nothing definite is known about her.
Katsuchika. 19th cent. A great metal-worker of Yedo, and chiseller of netsuke.
Katsuhira. 19th cent. Yedo.
Katsuhisa. Kuwamura. 1650. Genzayemon. Called himself Jokui. An expert of great repute. Kaga.
Katsuiye. Miyochin. 1550. A great expert. Kozuke.
Katsukata. Shōami. 1670. Chiuzayemon. Worked at Wakamatsu in Aizu.
Katsukuni. 18th and 19th cent. Mito.
Katsukuni. Shinozaki. 1750. Tokuro. A skilled expert; one of the best of the Mito artists. (Vide Yasuhira.) Mito.
Katsumasa. Miyochin. 1540. A great expert. Kozuke.
Katsumi. Ito. 1860. A great artist, still living, but now better known for miscellaneous work than for sword furniture.
Katsumori. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Katsunari. Shōami. 1620. Worked at Wakamatsu in Aizu.
Katsusaburo. Shōami. 1700. There were two experts of this name, father and son, the latter being also called Gorobei. They worked at the close of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, and were skilled silver-smiths. Tsuyama (in Mimasaka).
Katsushiro. 18th and 19th cent. A skilled metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Giyoku-riu-ken.
Katsutada. Fujita. 1700. An artist of Osaka, notably skilled in carving masks and cuttle-fish.
Katsutane. Kanasugi. 19th cent. Art name, Shōkatei. Yedo.
Katsuyoshi. 19th cent. Art name, Rakurakusai. Yedo.
Kawada. Family name. Vide Ichizo.
Kawaji. Tomomichi. 18th and 19th cent. Choshiu.
Kawasaki. Tashiro. Present day. A skilled metal-chiseller of Tokyo. Pupil of Natsuo. Remarkably clever in working out naturalistic designs, as carp, ai (river trout), etc., for pouch-clasps.
Kazuharu. Ishiguro. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Kazunori. Omori. 19th cent. Yedo.
Kazutani. Kanasugi. 19th cent. Art name, Kenkosai. Yedo.
Kazutomo. Omori. 1810. Yetsusuke. Called himself Kenkosai. A skilled expert. Yedo.
Kazutoshi. Kishiba, 19th cent. Yedo.
Kazutsune. Omori. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Son of Kazutomo; and same art name as his father.
Kazuyuki. Kumagaye. 1840. Goro. A pupil of the celebrated Goto Ichijō, and a skilled expert. Yedo.
Keiho. Vide Masahiro.
Keijō. The fourth representative of the Goto family. Vide Mitsumori.
Keirinsai. Vide Yasuhisa.
Keisai. Vide Masatsune.
Keito. Vide Masayori.
Kenjō. Goto. 1610. Seventh of the great Goto Masters. Kyoto.
Kenkōsai. Vide Kazutomo, Kazutani, and Kazutsune.
Kensui. Vide Masanao.
Kenzui. Vide Kaneyori and Hisayori.
Kichibei. Uyemura. 1720. Commonly called Masuya Kichibei. A pupil of Munemine (Sōhō), Kyoto.
Kichibei. 1730. One of the pupils of the Akao family.
Kichiguro. Tamagawa. 1820. Worked in Mito.
Kichijuro. Tamagawa. 1780. A pupil of Yoshihisa of Mito and a skilled expert, though his works are little known.
Kigu. 1750. Family, etc., unknown, and date uncertain. The name is often found on good specimens having carp, craw-fish, etc., in relief on a polished ground.
Kihei. Inouye. 1750. A pupil of Inouye Shigeyasu. Kyoto.
Kihei. Goto. Vide Zenjo.
Kijusai. Vide Terumitsu (Omori).
Kikkōdō. Vide Naoyasu.
Kikō. Vide Masanobu.
Kikuchi. Family name; vide Tsunekatsu, Tsunemitsu, etc.
Kikuda. Mitsugiyoku. Present day. A highly skilled metal-chiseller of Tokyo; employed by the Imperial Court. He carved a celebrated silver hand-warmer (Shuro) for the Emperor, decorated with designs of wisteria.
Kikugawa. The name of a great family of metal-chisellers. The first began to work in the second half of the 18th century; the fourth is now working in Tokyo. The second (Tomoyoshi), who flourished up to about 1840, was specially celebrated. He used the mark, Ichiriusai Kikugawa. In addition to beautiful specimens of 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 affected figures taken from Chinese pictures (called “Canton style” or Kwanto-gata), but he also chiselled landscapes and seascapes with admirable effects of distance, dragons (the amaryo type), bamboos tossed by the wind, etc., with the greatest skill. He used his chisel so deftly that its trace resembles the brush strokes of a painter. His work has been largely imitated, and so well recognized is his tender, delicate, yet strong style, that the term “Jakushi” has come to be commonly applied to that class of carving. Nagasaki.
Koami. Kikuchi. 1650. Yagoro. A pupil of Goto Renjō, and an artist of the highest order. He combined the force and directness of the Goto style with the elaborateness of the Mito. Worked in Mito.
Kogitsune. 1670. A celebrated expert of Yechizen, famous for chiselling dragons.
Kogyosai. 19th cent. Art name also Gessan. Yedo.
Kōji. Yanagawa. 1860. A great expert of Kanazawa, pupil of Yanagawa Harushige. He died in 1877. Was commonly called Kanazawa Sōmin.
Kōjō. Goto. 1550. Fourth of the great Goto masters. Kyoto.
Kokusui. Wakabayashi. 1720. Rokubei. Toyama.
Komai. Matsuhiro. 19th cent. Yedo.
Komai. Otajiro. Present day. A metal-worker of Kyoto highly skilled in inlaying iron with gold by the Nunome process.
Komai. Seibei. 19th cent. (d. 1861.) A metal-worker of Higo, skilled in inlaying iron and sword furniture with gold.
Konju. Iwamoto. 1800. Kingoro. Yedo.
Konkwan. Iwamoto. 1770. Kisaburo. At first called Asai. A pupil of Riyōkwan, and an expert of the highest merit. Celebrated for carving fish of various kinds, especially crustaceans, and for the beauty of his compositions. Used the marks Hakuhōtei, Shunshōdō, and Nampō, as well as his own name. Died, 1801. Yedo.
Konuki. Vide Masaharu.
Koreo. Ishiguro. 1840. A pupil of Koretsune. Called himself Hokuunsai. A skilled expert. Yedo.
Koreshige. Ishiguro. 1840. Ichiyo. A pupil of Koretsune. Yedo.
Koretsune. Ishiguro. 1840. Shukichi. Called himself Togakushi, Ritsumei, Shinryo, Hogiyokusai, Gishinken, Kounsai, and Ichiyeian. Second son of Masatsune (Ishiguro), the first, and an artist of superb skill. Yedo.
Koreyoshi. Ishiguro. 1850. Kwanjiro. Called himself Jikakushi and Kwansai. An expert of the highest skill. Yedo.
Koriusai. 19th cent. (d. 1879). A metal-chiseller of Owari. Koriusai was his art name, his real name being Toyokawa Mitsunaga.
Koriusha. Vide Masahiro.
Koriyama. Mitsunaka. 19th cent. A metal-worker of Yedo.
Kōsen. Tanikawa. 1820. Chiuzayemon. Art name, Kounsai. Yedo.
Kosetsuken. Vide Tomonao.
Kōten. Supposed to have been a pupil of Aoki Jubei (q. v.). A skilled expert of Higo. He worked in the style of Kaneiye.
Kounsai. Vide Kōsen.
Kounsai. Vide Koretsune.
Kozui. Vide Mitsuyori.
Kuhei. Inouye. 1750. Bunjiro. A pupil of Inouye Higeyasu. Commonly known as Sammonji-ya.
Kunichika. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Kuniharu. Tetsuya Dembei. Vide Harukuni.
Kunihiro. 1670. Kihei. Kaga.
Kunihiro. 1690. Yozayemon. Kaga.
Kunihisa. 1640. Jiuzayemon. A son of Kuninaga of Kaga.
Kunihisa. 1660. Jiuzayemon. A grandson of Kuninaga of Kaga.
Kunihisa. 1700. Yozayemon. Kaga.
Kunimasa. 1710. Yozayemon. Kaga.
Kuninaga. 1620. Jirosaku. A pupil of Goto Kakujō. He worked originally in Kyoto and moved to Kaga in 1620. His finest work was in inlaying. He is counted the earliest maker of inlaid sword-mounts in Kaga. His carving is known as Jiro-saku-bori.
Kuninaga. 1740. Yozayemon. Kaga.
Kuninaga. Uyemura. 1680. A skilled artist of Kyoto, generally known as Masuya Kuhei.
Kunishige. Miyochin. 1570. A great expert. Kozuke.
Kunitada. 1760. Gonzayemon. Kaga.
Kunitomo. Kobayashi. 1700. Date uncertain. A pupil of the Shōami experts in Kyoto.
Kuniyasu. Yozayemon. A pupil of Kuninaga Jirosaku. Kaga.
Kurokawa. Eisho. Present time. A Kinzoku-shi (metal-chiseller), celebrated for his skill in joining different metals to form a decorative design, and also for the Kiri-hame process (vide text), by means of which the artist produces plaques showing exactly the same decoration on face and back.
Kuwamura. Family name. Vide Hiroyoshi, etc.
Kuwamura. Yensuke. 19th cent. (d. 1877.) A skilled metal-chiseller of Kanazawa.
Kwaizantei. Vide Motomochi (Hiyama).
Kwakujusai. Vide Masahiro.
Kwanjō. Goto. 1640. Mitsunaga. Kyoto.
Kwanjō. Iwamoto. 1790. Shosuke or Shoshichi. Yedo.
Kwanju. Hamada. 1720. Toraizo. Art name, Gyokuriusai. A pupil of Joi, and a skilled expert. Shinshu.
Kwanri. Iwamoto. 1780. Kijiro. Called also Hirotoshi. Adopted son of Iwamoto Konkwan. Yedo. Art name, Jounsai.
Kwansai. Vide Koreyoshi.
Kwanzui. Vide Hiroyori.
Kwōrin. Otsuki. 1400. There is some uncertainty as to the date of this expert; but most authorities agree in placing him at the end of the fourteenth century. His work is excellent, though severe in style. Some of his pieces are marked “Nagoya no riyoshuku ni Kore wo tsukuru” (made in an inn in Nagoya).
Kwoyetsu. Fujimoto. 1660. Denjuro. A pupil of Goto Yetsujō. A skilled expert. Kaga.
Masaaki. Noda. 1820. Risuke. A skilled expert. Yedo.
Masachika. Tsuji. 1660. Genyemon. This artist came to Yedo in the year 1659, and four years afterwards was taken under the patronage of the Prince of Mito. He and his pupils and descendants worked thenceforth in Yedo. They were the younger branch of the Tsuji of Omi (vide Mitsumasa). Masachika did not mark his pieces, but the specimens attributed to him are very fine. He had no less than seven pupils, all of whom acquired some reputation; namely, Masanori, Masayuki, Masatoshi, Masamori, Masaoki, Masatomo, and Masataka.
Masachika. Tsuji. 1780. Gengoro. Grandson of the first Tsuji Masachika, used the mark Tōun-sai. Yedo.
Masachika. Nara. 1760. Seiroku. He became a pupil of Joi and called himself Jowa. During two or three years after the death of his father, Masanaga, he used the latter’s name on his works. He is not the peer of Masanaga, but nevertheless stands high.
Masachika. Ishiguro. 1840. Toyojiro. Yedo.
Masachika. Hirata. 1750. Ichizayemon. A pupil of Tsu Jimpo. Worked in Awa Province.
Masachika. Tsuchiya. 1840. Art name, Sekiyenshi. An expert of fair skill. Yedo.
Masachika. Tsuchiya. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Masachika. Ito. 1760. Matakichi. A Yedo expert, who carved in the Masatsune style.
Masafusa. Shimada. 1720. Shojiro. Toyama.
Masafusa. Shimada. 1660. Ken-ni Shōjiro. A pupil of Morisada (Katsugi). A skilled expert. Toyama (Yetchiu).
Masafusa. Fujiki. 1670.
Masafusa. Shōami. 1570. An expert of Kameda (in Dewa).
Masafusa. Vide Masayuki (Tsuji).
Masaharu. Nomura. 1740. Kasuya Genshiro. Yedo.
Masaharu. 1750. Marked his pieces, Rinfudo. Family unknown and date uncertain. Yedo.
Masaharu. Tamagawa. 1800. Yūzō. Mito.
Masaharu. Tamagawa. 1840. Jugoro. Called himself Konuki. A skilled expert. Yedo.
Masahide. Ishiguro. 1840. Called Shogutei. Yedo.
Masahide. Nomura. 18th cent. Metal-worker of Hikone.
Masahide. Nomura. 1780. Hidegoro. Yedo.
Masahide. Nomura. 1770. Sadashiro. Pupil of Masatsugu (Nomura). Yedo.
Masahide. Nomura. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Masahira. 1730. Kanshichi, successor of Shigetsugu Kihachiro. Kaga.
Masahiro. Ichiguro. 1820. Matakichi. Called himself Gantōshi, Keiho, Kwakujusai, and Kōriusha. A grand artist. Yedo.
Masahiro. Ito. 1850. An expert of Yedo.
Masahisa. Tamagawa. 1790. Bumpei. Mito.
Masakata. Ito. 1730. Genjiro. Son of Masatsune (Ito), and scarcely inferior to his father as an expert in carving à jour. Yedo and Bushiu.
Masakatsu. Minagawa. 1840. Genjiro. Yedo.
Masakatsu. Okada. 1740. Zenzayemon. Hagi.
Masakazu. Okamoto. 1730. Kohei. Hagi.
Masakazu. Tsuji. 1810. Genzō. Yedo.
Masakiyo. Ishiguro. 1830. Wasaburo. Called himself Jikiyopusai. A skilled expert of Yedo.
Masakiyo. Shōami. 1690. Worked at Wakamatsu in Aizu.
Masakuni. Nomura. 1770. Pupil of Masatsugu (Nomura). Yedo.
Masamichi. Nomura. 1730. Chotaku. Carver to the feudal chief of Awa. Tokushima.
Masamitsu. Nomura. 1760. Magoshichi. A pupil of Masatsugu. A celebrated expert. Yedo.
Masamitsu. Vide Yeijō.
Masamitsu. Kanedo. 1630. Kichi-no-jō. A celebrated Shitabori-shi, or preliminary chiseller who blocked out designs for the finishing expert. Kanazawa (Yedo).
Masamori. Hosono. 1600. Sōzayemon, or Yoshimasa. An expert of Kyoto, celebrated for having been the first to develop the capabilities of Kebori-zogan, or hair-line inlaying. His chiselling in relief is also very fine, and, on the whole, he belongs to the highest rank of artists.
Masanaga. Ito. 1700. Jingozayemon. Founder of the Ito family, which thenceforth enjoyed the distinction of making sword-guards for the Shōguns.
Masanaga. Tamagawa. 1780. Bumpei. Lived first in Mito (Hitachi) and afterwards in Yedo. A great expert, not inferior to his father Yoshinaga.
Masanaga. Ishiguro. 1840. Yeisuke. Yedo.
Masanaga. Nara. 1730. Shichirozayemon. A pupil of Toshinaga (Chikan). A celebrated expert. Yedo.
Masanaga. Nara. 1750. Pupil of Toshihisa. Used the mark Masaharu at first and afterwards that of Seiroku. An expert of the highest repute. His autumn landscapes, in which a mantis and eularia (suzuki) occupy the foreground, are celebrated for strength and delicacy.
Masanaga. Nara. 1740. Son of Masanaga, the first of the Nara family, but not so skilled as his father.
Masanaka. Nara. 1750. Pupil of Masachika. (Nara.) Yedo.
Masanaka. Kuwabara. 1750. Tokuzayemon. A pupil of Nara Masanaga. Yedo.
Masanaka. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Hakushusai.
Masanao. Nomura. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Hikone.
Masanao. Shimada. 1740. Kensui Shodayu. A great expert. Toyama (Yetchiu).
Masanao. Nomura. 1720. Originally Wakabayashi Masagoro. A pupil of Masamitsu (Nomura). Yedo.
Masanari. Ito. 1820. An expert of Yedo.
Masanobu. Ito. 1680. Commonly called Tsuba-ya Tasuke, or “Tasuke, the guard maker.” A skilled expert of Kyoto. Not a member of the Ito family proper.
Masanobu. Goto. 1630. Adopted by the painter Tanyu, and raised to the rank of Hokkyo in recognition of his excellence. Signed some of his work Tōun. Kyoto.
Masanobu. 1750. Kambei. Son of Masahira Kanshichi. Kaga.
Masanobu. Nara. 1750. Zenji. Called himself Kikuju-sai, and Kikō. His first name was Masatsugu, then Masayuki, and finally Masanobu. A great expert, celebrated for his carvings of the Amariyo (a kind of dragon). Lived first in Yedo and afterwards in Osaka.
Masanobu. Shōami. 1620. Celebrated for having produced the eight views of Omi Lake on iron guards inlaid with gold. Kyoto.
Masanobu. Hamano. 1790. Tarobei. A skilled expert. Used four of Shozui’s art names: Otsuriuken, Mibobu, Rifudo, and Kankyo.
Masanori. Ito. 1830. An expert of Yedo.
Masanori. Shōami. 1400. Ichirobei. Nothing certain is known of this artist, even his date being more or less speculative. He lived in Kyoto, and a large number of experts in various provinces claim him as their ancestor. His immediate descendants do not appear to have continued the work; at all events, no record of them is extant. The family resumes its place on the list of sword-mount experts in 1480, the time of Takatsune. (Vide.)
Masanori. Murakumi. 1640. Tadushichi. Younger brother of the celebrated Jochiku, and a skilled carver and inlayer. Yedo.
Masanori. Hashibe. 1630. A pupil of Goto Teijō. Kyoto.
Masanori. Nomura, 1700. Shoyemon. Called also Itoku. A highly skilled artist. Yedo.
Masanori. Okada. 1720. Hikozayemon. Nagato.
Masanori. Tsuji. 1680. Katsunosuke. Pupil of Tsuji Masachika (the first). Yedo.
Masanori. Tsuji. 1680. Pupil of Tsuji Masachika (the first). Called Jusaburo. Yedo.
Masanori. Nara. 1730. Pupil of the first Masanaga. He marked his works Masatsugu or Masayuki, as well as Masanori. Yedo.
Masaoki. Ishiguro. 1810. Sadakichi. Yedo.
Masaoki. Tsuji. 1680. Hamada Kiichi. Pupil of Tsuji Masachika (the first). Yedo.
Masasada. Takita. 1810. Seisuke. Mito.
Masasada. Hamano. 1740. Called also Masakazu. Personal name, Masazane. A pupil of Shozui.
Masashige. Shōami. 1650. A Kyoto expert, skilled in inlaying brass with silver, shakudo, etc.
Masashige. Nara. 1700. Pupil of Masachika (Nara). Yedo.
Masasuke. Tsuji. 1760. Mohachi. Yedo.
Masatada. Nomura. 1730. Shōyemon. Yedo.
Masataka. Okamoto. 1690. Sayemon. Called also Kozen. A skilled artist. Hagi.
Masataka. Tsuji. 1680. Gengoro. Pupil of Tsuji Masachika (the first). Yedo.
Masataka. Tsuji. 1790. Genyemon. Yedo.
Masatani. Ito. 1800. Matazk. An artist of Yedo.
Masatatsu. Wada. 1850. Art name, Gekendo. A highly skilled artist of Kyoto.
Masatatsu. Present day. A skilled metal-chiseller of Osaka.
Masatoki. Nomura. 1660. Kozayemon. The first of the Nomura family to attain distinction. Kyoto and Yedo.
Masatoki. Yamazaki. 1820. Ishimatsu. Art name, Seiseisai. Worked at Sukura in Shimosa.
Masatomi. Okada. 1760. Hikobei. Hagi.
Masatomo. Tsuji. 1680. Yamada Masahachi. Pupil of Tsuji Masachika (the first). Yedo.
Masatomo. Tsuji. 1830. Genzō. Yedo.
Masatomo. Umetada. 1660. Hikobei. Hagi.
Masatomo. Ito. 1700. Yaiichi. Second son of Masanaga (Ito) Bushiu.
Masatomo. Okada. 18th cent. Metal-worker of Choshiu.
Masatoshi. Tsuji. 1680. Seijiro. Pupil of Tsuji Masachika (thefirst). Yedo.
Masatoshi. Ishiguro. 1810. Yasusuki. Yedo.
Masatoshi. Ito. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Masatoyo. Wada. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Masatoyo. Nomura. 1770. Pupil of Masamitsu (Nomura). Yedo.
Masatsugu. Shōami. 1720. Date uncertain. Kyoto.
Masatsugu. Umetada. 1700. A Kyoto expert, famous for inlaying shakudo with gold. He always marked his work “Yamashiro.”
Masatsugu. Nomura. 1760. Magoshichi. His original family name was Nakamura. A great expert. Yedo.
Masatsugu. Vide Kenjō.
Masatsune. Nomura. 1800. Masagoro. A nanako expert. Yedo.
Masatsune. Ishiguro. 1780. Shusuke. Called himself Kimiyo, Togakushi and Jikokusai. He was also known as Koretsune. One of the greatest artists of modern times. Born 1759, died 1828. Celebrated for his bronze carvings as well as for his sword-mounts. Yedo.
Masatsune. Ishiguro. 1800. Taminosuke. Son of Togakushi, and nearly as great an artist as his father. Yedo. Art name, Keisai.
Masatsune. Ito. 1710. Jinyemon, or Jinzaburo. A celebrated Yedo expert, guard-maker to the Shōguns’ Court. His decoration à jour is marvellously delicate, not inferior to that of the best Kinai work.
Masatsune. Igarashi. 1680. A skilled expert of Higo; supposed to have been the ninth in descent from Kaneiye. His art name was Tetsubaku.
Masatsune. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Seisai.
Masaya. Nomura. 1700. Shōyemon. Called also Tomoyoshi or Yuki. A great expert, celebrated for his combination of metals forming the rare and beautiful mokume (wood-grain) grounds. He entered the service of the feudal chief of Awa and settled in Tokushima.
Masayasu. Ikagawa. 1800. Gensbichi. He called himself Yōshōdō. Celebrated for chiselling ornamental designs on the blades of swords. Mino.
Masayasu. Hirata. 1720. Yahachiro. A maker of iron guards inlaid with gold. Awa Province.
Masayori. Hamano. 1740. Tarobei. His name is generally pronounced Shōzui. A pupil of the celebrated Nara Toshihisa, whose fame he rivals. He did not create a style of his own, but his work is strong, delicate, and full of artistic beauty. He called himself, Otsuruiken, Miboku, Kankyo, Rifūdō Shijun, Yūkotei, Shūhōsai, Hankeishi, Isshunan, Gyokkeisha, and Keito. Worked in Yedo and died in 1769.
Masayori. Vide Hiyobu Hōgen.
Masayoshi. Nomura. 1710. Kahiro. Called also Suihaku. Yedo.
Masayoshi. Nomura. 1790. Kotōji. Called also Ichiunsai. A great expert. Yedo.
Masayoshi. 1820. Isuke. A Samurai who became a pupil of Tomomasa Daishido. Yedo.
Masayoshi. Tsuchiya. 1770. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Masayoshi. Ishiguro. 1830. Shōzō. Called himself Jikosai. A pupil of Jimiya, and a skilled expert. Yedo.
Masayoshi. Nara. 1750. Called commonly Shōzui Bozu (the old man Shōzui). A pupil of Masayori (Shōzui), celebrated for imitating old works. Yedo.
Masayoshi. Ito. 1750. Jinyemon or Matakichiro. An expert of Yedo, grandson of Masatsune (Ito).
Masayoshi. Nomura. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Masayuki. Nomura. 1710. Shōjiro. Called also Riyōyen. Yedo.
Masayuki (sometimes called Masafusa). Tsuji. 1680. Shōjiro. Pupil of Tsuji Masachika (the first). Yedo. He founded a branch family, that of Fujiki, and took the name of Fujikikohachi. Afterwards he called himself Ryō-yei.
Masuya. Kuhei. Vide Kuninaga.
Masuya. Kichibei. Vide Kichibei.
Masuya. Yohei. Vide Yohei.
Masuya. Uhei. Vide Jōkwō.

Masuya.

Vide Jōchiku.

Bunyemon.

Masuya Kuyemon (or Kihei). Vide Munemine.
Matabei. Muneta. 1540. There were three of this name in the family. The second (1560) is celebrated as the first maker of Go-no-me nanako. The third used the mark Dōi. Vide also, Norinao and Naomichi. Kyoto.
Matashichi. Muneta. 1560. Vide also, Naoshige. Kyoto.
Matashichi. Shōami. 1700. The date is uncertain. An expert of Chikuzen.
Matazayemon. Muneta. 1520. There were three of this name. The second Matazayemon (1560), and the third (1600). The last sometimes used the mark Dōsei. Kyoto.
Matsumoto. Kanjiro. Present day. One of the pioneers of the school of modern craftsmen who have carried to a high pitch of excellence the art of inlaying iron, bronze, shibuichi, and shakudo with gold and silver. Works in Tokyo.
Matsumura. Shōami. 1850. Bunyemon. An expert of Aizu.
Meiju. Umetada Okada. 1640. Originally an artist of Kyoto, but moved to Hagi in Choshiu, and founded the Okada family of that place (vide Nobumasa).
Meishin. Vide Shigeyoshi Umetada.
Miboku. Vide Masayori and Kaneyori, Norinobu and Masanobu.
Minjo. 19th cent. (d. 1864.) A great metal-chiseller of Yedo.
Minkoku. 19th cent. A great metal-chiseller of Tokyo, who worked in conjunction with Shuraku, Temmin, Riumin, and Minjo, forming the gonin-gumi (five men company), who produced many splendid works between 1854 and 1860. Minkoku is now too old to work.
Minriu. 18th and 19th cent. Great metal-worker of (Tokyo) Yedo.
Mitane. Shigeyoshi. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Mitsu. The second ideograph of this name is disguised, and cannot be read, nor has it been identified as the mark of any expert. The name is found, however, on very beautiful rings and tips of shakudo, with finely polished ground, delicate decoration of herons, river scenes, etc. Probable date, 1730.
Mitsuaki. Goto. 1850. Sixteenth representative of the Goto family. Called Hōjō. Yedo.
Mitsuaki. Ishiguro. 1850. Tetsugoro. Yedo.
Mitsuaki. Goto. 1570. Jinyemon. Kaga.
Mitsuchika. Vide Reijō.
Mitsuchika. Vide Joyō.
Mitsufusa. Hayata. 1830. Zennosuke. A pupil of Terumitsu (Omori). Hirado (Hizen).
Mitsufusa. Yatobe. Tamagawa. 1790. Hikoroku. A celebrated artist of Mito. His name is commonly pronounced Tsūjū. Father of the great Yoshinaga of Mito.
Mitsuharu. Goto. 1670. Kyoto.
Mitsuharu. Vide Yekijo.
Mitsuharu. Goto. 1710. Commonly called Kambei. Kyoto.
Mitsuhaya. Shōami. 1810. A guard-maker of Kyoto.
Mitsuhide. Vide Yenjō.
Mitsuhiro. Goto. 1700. Kyoto.
Mitsuhisa. Vide Taijō.
Mitsuhisa. Vide Genyemon.
Mitsuhisa. Yatabe. 1740. Hikoroku. A skilled expert of Mito, pupil of Koami.
Mitsukata. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Choshiu.
Mitsukatsu. Vide Kaijō.
Mitsukuni. Vide Yetsujō.
Mitsukyo. Vide Senjō.
Mitsumasa. Vide Shoyō.
Mitsumasa. Goto. 1620. One of the three Mino-bori (vide Kakujō). Mino.
Mitsumasa. Goto. 1720. The twelfth Goto Master. Kyotō.
Mitsumasa. Vide Teijō.
Mitsumasa. Mizuno. 1660. Genroku. Kaga.
Mitsumasa. Kikuoka. 1770. Brother of Mitsuyuki Kikuoka.
Mitsumasa. Tsuji. 1750. Tanji. Called himself Rinsendo. An expert of the highest rank, skilled in every kind of work, takabori, kebori, zōgan, etc. His work is compared by Japanese connoisseurs to a spray of plum-blossom in a beautiful vase. He worked chiefly in Omi province, but lived for some time in Yedo with Sōyō. He died in 1776, at the age of 53.
Mitsumichi. Ishiguro. 1810. Sanjiro. A pupil of Jimiyo. Yedo.
Mitsumori. Goto. 1760. The fourteenth Goto Master. Called Keijō. Yedo.
Mitsunaga. Vide Kwanjō.
Mitsunaga. Vide Shunjō.
Mitsunaga. Vide Seijō.
Mitsunami. Goto. 1690. Kyoto.
Mitsunari. Goto. 1600. Kihei. Vide Zenjō. Kyoto.
Mitsunobu. Goto. 1690. Kyoto.
Mitsunobu. Vide Kakujō.
Mitsunobu. Miyagawa. 1830. Kichijō. A pupil of Terumitsu (Omori). Yedo.
Mitsunori. Goto. 1860. Seventeenth representative of the Goto family. Called Tenjō. Died 1879. The last of the Goto experts. Yedo.
Mitsunori. Goto. 1760. Kyoto.
Mitsunori. Goto. 1680. Kyoto.
Mitsunori. Vide Keijo.
Mitsunori. Goto. 1670. Kyoto.
Mitsunori. Vide Joren.
Mitsunori. Vide Zenjō.
Mitsuoki. Goto. 1680. Kyoto.
Mitsusada. Vide Renjō.
Mitsusada. Murakami. 1750. Todayu. Toyama.
Mitsusada. 1720. Iyemon. A pupil of Sōmin.
Mitsusato. Goto. 1610. One of the three Mino-bori (vide Kakujō). Celebrated for deeply chiselled landscapes. Mino.
Mitsusato. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Mitsushige. Vide Sokujō.
Mitsushima. Goto. 1660. Shichizayemon. Kyoto.
Mitsushiro. Otsuki. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Mitsusuke. Goto. 1670. Kyoto.
Mitsutada. Goto. 1610. Kyoto.
Mitsutada. Vide Kiujō.
Mitsutaka. Vide Yenjo.
Mitsutaka. Saito. 1830. Ginzō. Pupil of Teramitsu (Omori). Sendai.
Mitsutaka. Morimura. 1840. A highly skilled expert of Yedo. Celebrated for chiselling insects.
Mitsutaka. Vide Shūjō.
Mitsutake. Goto. 1640. Kyoto.
Mitsutaki. Kikuoka. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Kinkōdō.
Mitsutatsu. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Ichijiu-sai.
Mitsutatsu. Omori. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Mitsuteru. Mikami. 1730. A pupil of Yanagawa Naomitsu. Yedo.
Mitsutoki. Kakinuma. 1830. Shinzō. A pupil of Terumitsu (Omori). Yedo.
Mitsutomi. Vide Injō.
Mitsutomo. Vide Renjō.
Mitsutomo. Goto. 1720. Rihei. Kyoto.
Mitsutomo. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Mitsutoshi. Vide Kwanjō.
Mitsutoshi. Kikuoka. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Mitsutoshi. Vide Tsūjō.
Mitsutoyo. Vide Shūjō.
Mitsutoyo. Vide Shūjō and Kambei.
Mitsutsugu. Yoshioka. 1740. Kayemon or Munehiro. Yedo.
Mitsutsuke. Goto. 1760. Kyoto.
Mitsutsuna. Vide Kaijō.
Mitsutsune. Otsuki. 1750. Yamashiro-ya Kihachi. Said to be the nineteenth in descent from Kwōrin. Kyoto.
Mitsutsune. Nakai. 1590. Founder of the well-known family of Hagi (vide Nobutsune) guard-makers. Frequently used the mark Jokan Inshi. Suwo.
Mitsutsune. Nakai. 1390. The founder of the Nakai family. He worked at Suwo in Yamaguchi, and his art name was Sakan Inshi.
Mitsuyori. Vide Ritsujō.
Mitsuyori. Murata. 1760. Hanjiro. Called also Kōzui. Used the mark Ichiyodo. Yedo.
Mitsuyoshi. Goto. 1830. Fifteenth representative of the Goto family. Called Shinjō. Yedo. Art name, Shintoken.
Mitsuyoshi. Nishimura. 1750. Sasaya Genzuki. A good expert pupil of Mitsutsune (Otsuki). Kyoto.
Mitsuyoshi. Vide Joken.
Mitsuyoshi. Vide Genjō.
Mitsuyoshi. Tachibana. 1840. A skilled expert of Yedo. Art name, Shōjō, indicating his love of wine.
Mitsuyuki. Vide Unjō.
Mitsuyuki. Kikuoka. 1760. Ritōji. Called himself Dopposai and Saikaan, which names are found on his works. A pupil of Yanagawa Naomitsu, and an expert of the highest order. He carved in the Yokoya style, and Japanese connoisseurs, speaking of the delicacy and strength of his chiselling, say that it resembles feather-grass drooping heavy with dew, but not touching the ground. Yedo.
Mitsuyuki. Goto. 1680. Kyoto.
Mitsuzane. Vide Rinjō.
Miyasaka. Yoshimasa. Present day. Metal-sculptor. Pupil of Unno Shōmin.
Miyōchin. Family of armourers and workers in metal. The genealogy of the family extends back to the second century of the Christian era, but as armourers their history may be said to commence with the sixteenth representative, Munemichi. The names are as follows, in chronological order:
Miyōchin. Munemichi. 640 A.D.
Miyōchin. Munetsugu. 670. Said to have forged armour for the Emperor Tenji.
Miyōchin. Munetoshi. 690.
Miyōchin. Munematsu. 720.
Miyōchin. Munemori. 760.
Miyōchin. Munemaro. 800. Armourer to the Emperor Kwamma and Seiwa.
Miyōchin. Muneshima. 820.
Miyōchin. Munekuni. 840.
Miyōchin. Munetora. 860.
Miyōchin. Muneyori. 880.
Miyōchin. Muneshimo. 890.
Miyōchin. Munemori. 910.
Miyōchin. Munetoshi. 930.
Miyōchin. Munezane. 980. Said to have forged a shield of gold for Minamoto no Mitsunaka.
Miyōchin. Munekazu. 1010.
Miyōchin. Munekuni. 1030.
Miyōchin. Munenaka. 1060.
Miyōchin. Munetsune. 1100. Known in the artistic world as Go-Munetsugu, or the “second Munetsugu,” having changed his name to Munetsugu in his late years. Said to have forged iron armour decorated with eight varieties of dragons (hachi-riyō).
Miyōchin. Muneyoshi. 1140.
Miyōchin. Munesuke (1). 1154 to 1185. Called also Masuda. Had the rank of Idzumo no Kami. Worked first in Idzumo for Yoritomo; then in Kyoto, and finally for the Minamoto in Kamakura. He is said to have forged the suit of armour worn by Yoshitsume, and now preserved at the Kasuga Temple. Commonly he is spoken of as the first representative of the family, but the fact is that the art of decorative forging first became admirable in his hands.
Miyōchin. Munekiyo (2). 1200. Worked at Kamakura. Had the rank of Giyobu Taiyu.
Miyōchin. Muneyuki (3). 1215. Worked at Kyoto. Had rank of Giyobu Taiyu.
Miyōchin. Munemasu (4). 1225. Worked at Katsuyama in the province of Kii. One of the greatest of the Miyōchin artists. Had the rank of Hyoye-no-Suke.
Miyōchin. Muneyoshi. 1200. Second son of Munesuke.
Miyōchin. Munehide. 1200. Third son of Munesuke.
Miyōchin. Muneyasu. 1200. Fourth son of Munesuke.
Miyōchin. Yoshikiyo. 1220. Son of Muneyoshi.
Miyōchin. Yoshitsugu. 1220. Son of Muneyoshi.
Miyōchin. Munenao. 1230. Second son of Munekiyo.
Miyōchin. Muneshige (5). 1240. Lived at Odawara. Had the rank of Sakyo no Tayu.
Miyōchin. Munekane. 1240. Second son of Muneyuki.
Miyōchin. Munesumi. 1250. Third son of Muneyuki.
Miyōchin. Muneto. 1240. Second son of Munemasu.
Miyōchin. Munetada (6). 1270. Worked at Sano in Mino. Had the rank of Shin-dayu.
Miyōchin. Shigeiye. 1270. Second son of Muneshige.
Miyōchin. Yoshishige. 1270. Third son of Muneshige.
Miyōchin. Munetsuna (7). 1300. Worked in Kyoto. Had rank of Sakon no Tayu.
Miyōchin. Muneyoshi. 1310. Second son of Munetada.
Miyōchin. Munemitsu (8). 1320. Worked in Kyoto. Had rank of Hyobu Taiyu.
Miyōchin. Munenori. 1330. Second son of Munetsuna.
Miyōchin. Munemasa (9). 1330. Worked in Kyoto. Had rank of Sakon no Tayu.
Miyōchin. Muneyasu (10). 1380. Worked in Kyoto. Had rank of Hyoye-no-Suke. Made a gold helmet for the Shogun Yoshimitsu. He received large estates in recognition of his skill.

The first ten generations of the family, from Munesuke in the twelfth century to Muneyasu in the fourteenth, are known as “Miyochin no Judai,” or the “Ten generations of Miyōchin.” They occupy in the history of armour-forging a place somewhat analogous to that occupied by the fourteen generations of Goto masters in the history of sword-mount decoration. Muneyasu, the tenth representative, is specially celebrated.

Miyōchin. Munetoki. 1380. Second son of Munemasa.
Miyōchin. Yoshihiro (11). 1400. Worked in Kyoto. Had rank of Sakyo no Tayu.
Miyōchin. Yoshitada (12). 1420. Worked in Kyoto. Rank, Sahiyoye no Jō.
Miyōchin. Yoshinori (13). 1440. Worked in Kyoto. Called also Gorodayu.
Miyōchin. Yoshinaga (14). 1450. Worked in Kyoto. Rank, Shikibu Tayu. One of the greatest of the family.
Miyōchin. Yoshiari (15). 1480. Worked at Kamakura. Called also Shinjiro.
Miyōchin. Yoshiyasu (16). 1520. Worked at Fuchiu in Hitachi and at Odawara. Called also Samuro-dayu. The six representatives from (11) to (16) are known as the Rokudai, or the “Six Generations.” They are also called Giyoshi, or the “Honourable Masters.” The names are: Yoshihiro, Yoshitada, Yoshinori, Yoshinaga, Yoshiari, and Yoshiyasu.
Miyōchin. *Takayoshi. 1450. Second son of Yoshinori, and not a representative of the main line, but one of the most celebrated of the Miyōchin artists. Worked at Kamakura.
Miyōchin. Yoshihisa. 1460. Second son of Yoshinaga.
Miyōchin. *Yoshimichi. 1500. Second son of Yoshiari. Worked in Kyoto. Not a representative of the main line, but a renowned master.
Miyōchin. Katsuyoshi. 1510. Third son of Yoshiari.
Miyōchin. *Nobuiye (17). 1520. Originally called Yasuiye. Worked at Shirai in Joshiu. One of the most celebrated of the Miyōchin Masters.

The three names marked with an asterisk, Takayoshi, Yoshimichi, and Nobuiye are those of the “Nochi no Sansaku,” or “Three Later Masters.”

Miyōchin. Narikuni. 1470. Worked at Yawata in Joshiu. Son of Yoshihisa.
Miyōchin. Kunichika. 1420. Son of Yoshihisa.
Miyōchin. Narichika. 1420. Son of Yoshihisa. Worked in Joshiu. One of the great Miyōchin Masters.
Miyōchin. Narishige. 1500. Son of Narichika. Worked at Yawata in Kozuke. One of the great Miyōchin Masters.
Miyōchin. Kunihisa. 1530. Son of Narishige.
Miyōchin. Hisaiye. 1550. Son of Kunihisa. Worked at Kamakura. One of the Miyōchin celebrities.
Miyōchin. Fusanobu. 1530. Son of Yoshiyasu.
Miyōchin. Munehisa. 1580. Grandson of Yoshiyasu.
Miyōchin. Katsumasa. 1580. Grandson of Yoshiyasu. Worked in Joshiu. One of the great Miyōchin Masters.
Miyōchin. Yoshihisa. 1630. Son of Munehisa. Worked at Kamakura. One of the great Miyōchin Masters.
Miyōchin. Yoshishige. 1620. Son of Yoshihisa.
Miyōchin. Sadaiye (18). 1550. Worked in Odawara and Iga. Called also Hachiro and Heiroku.
Miyōchin. Fusaiye. 1540. Second son of Nobuiye. Worked in Joshiu. A great master.
Miyōchin. Fusamune. 1550. Third son of Nobuiye. Worked at Odawara. A celebrity.
Miyōchin. Muneiye (19). 1580. Worked in Omi. Manufactured a celebrated helmet for Tokugawa Iyeyasu. Called also Kindaro.
Miyōchin. Munenobu (20). 1600. Son of Muneiye. Worked in Yedo and Osaka. One of the great Miyōchin Masters.
Miyōchin. Munekiyo. 1620. Second son of Muneiye.
Miyōchin. Munenaga. 1620. Third son of Muneiye.
Miyōchin. Kunimori (21). 1620. Worked in Yedo. Son of Munenobu. Had rank of Nagato no Kami. Called also Kunimichi.
Miyōchin. Harunobu. 1620. Second son of Munenobu.
Miyōchin. Muneshige (22). 1640. Worked in Yedo. Had rank of Nagato no Kami.
Miyōchin. Munetoshi or KunLinichi. (23), 1650. Worked in Yedo.
Miyōchin. Munenushi. 1650. Second son of Muneshige.
Miyōchin. Munemasa. 1650. Third son of Muneshige.
Miyōchin. Munesuke (24). 1710. Worked in Yedo. Had rank of Osumi no Kami.
Miyōchin. Munemasa (25). 1730. Second son of Munesuke. Worked in Yedo, and had rank of Osumi no Kami.
Miyōchin. Munemasa (26). 1740. Worked in Yedo. Had rank of Nagato no Kami. Called also Seijiro.
Miyōchin. Munetaye (27). 1760. Had rank of Osumi no Kami.
Miyōchin. Pupils of Yoshimichi. 1500. Kyoto.
1. Yoshikatsu.
2. Yoshimichi.
3. Yoshiiye.
Miyōchin. Pupils of Nobuiye. 1520. Joshiu.
1. Iyefusa.
2. Nobutada.
3. Nobuyuki.
4. Nobumasa.
5. Nobutsuna.
6. Nobumitsu.
Miyōchin. Pupils of Narishige. 1500. Kozuke.
1. Nariyoshi.
2. Naritada.
3. Naritsugu.
4. Munehisa.
5. Munetoki.
Miōju. Vide Shigeyoshi Umetada (Hikujiro).
Mizuno. Family name. Vide Yoshishige.
Mizuno. Gesshiu. Present day. A skilled sculptor in metal. Pupil of Unno Shōmin.
Mogarashi. Vide Sōden.
Mori. Joken. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Tokyo. Also skilled as a wood-carver.
Moriaki. Ishiguro. 1820. Torajiro. Yedo.
Moriakira. Kuwamura. 1640. Jihei. A great expert. Son of Morihiro. Kaga.
Morichika. Inouye. 1860. A skilled expert of Tokyo. Pupil of Arichika.
Morihira. Katsugi. 1720. Iyemon. Kaga.
Morihiro. Kuwamura, 1620. Jihei. Art name, Riyōyū. A skilled expert not inferior to his brother Morikatsu. Kaga.
Morikata. Yoshishige. 1690. Genshiro. Kaga.
Morikatsu. Kuwamura. 1620. Matsushiro, and afterwards Choyemon. A celebrated carver. Art name, Riyōyū. Kaga.
Morikatsu. Murata. 1780. A pupil of the Shōami family of Iyo. Used the mark Murata Rō, or the “old man Murata.”
Morikuni. Katsugi. 1740. Tozayemon. Kaga.
Morikuni. Katsugi. 1770. Tozayemon. Some very beautiful iron guards by this expert are in existence. Kaga.
Morikuni. Shōami. 1730. Sōsho. A great master in carving dragons and clouds. Matsuyama (Iyo). Marked his work Shōami Sōsho.
Morimichi. Kuwamura. 1660. Zenji. A celebrated expert, not inferior to his brother Moriyuki. Kaga.
Morimichi. Sato. 1810. Yaichiro. Mito.
Morimine. Shōami. 1600. Founded the Iyo branch of the Shōami family, and is therefore sometimes spoken of as the “Second Founder” of the family (vide Takatsune and Norisada). Worked at Matsuyama.
Morimine. Shōami. 1640. Worked at Matsuyama in Iyo.
Morimitsu. Katsugi. 1650. Hachibei. A pupil of Morisada Hanshiro. Kaga.
Morimitsu. Kuwamura. 1660. Kinshiro. A good carver. Pupil of Kōko. Kaga.
Morimitsu. Katsugi. 1680. Kanyemon. A skilled expert: at first an inlayer, and afterwards a carver. Worked originally in Kaga, and then entered the service of the feudal chief of Toyama.
Morimura. Yukimori. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Morisada. Katsugi. 1690. Yoshiro, and afterwards Hanshiro. A skilled artist; grandson of Morisada Yozayemon. He entered the service of the feudal chief of Toyama. His son of the same name (Hanshiro) succeeded him. There were thus four Morisadas of the Katsugi family.
Morisada. Katsugi. 1640. Yozayemon. A highly skilled artist. He worked first in Fushimi and afterwards entered the service of the feudal chief of Kaga, receiving an annual allowance of fifty bags of rice.
Morisada. Katsugi. 1660. Yoshiro. Son of Morisada Yozayemon and counted of equal skill with his father. His son, of the same personal name, succeeded him. Kaga.
Morishige. Kuwamura. 1640. Seishiro. Kaga.
Moritsugu. Vide Sōyō.
Moritsugu. Katsugi. 1690. Genzayemon. Kaga.
Moriyoshi. Katsugi. 1670. Sozayemon. Kaga.
Moriyoshi. Kuwamura. 1610. Yoshiro. The founder of the Kuwamura family.
Moriyuki. Kuwamura. 1640. Jirosaburo. A very celebrated artist. Kaga.
Motoaki. Morioka. 1800. Heizaburo. Pupil of Kaizantei. Mito.
Motoakira. Suzuki. 1780. Shinsuke. Called himself Tankasai. A great expert. Pupil of Sekijōken. Mito.
Motochika. Hiyama. 1780. Hanroku. Called himself Kaizantei. A skilled expert. Pupil of Sekijōken. Mito.
Motochika. Fujita. 1800. Jisaku. Called himself Ontaiken. A skilled expert. Mito.
Motoharu. Katōji. 1780. Jiyemon. Called himself Genjuken. Pupil of Sekijōken and a great expert. Mito.
Motohide. Sato. 1830. Gensuke. A pupil of Seiunsai. Mito.
Motohiro. Shimizu. 1800. Yeikichi. Mito.
Motohiro. 1780. Shinzaburo. Pupil of Sekijōken. Mito.
Motohisa. Nakamura. 1810. Magoshichi. Mito.
Motohisa. Yoshikawa. 1800. Yogoro. Called himself Tōkaken. A pupil of Chikuzanken and a skilled expert. Mito.
Motokore. Ishikawa. 1780. Shōyemon. Mito.
Motokyo. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Motomichi. Yasuyama. 1790. Kinjiro. Mito.
Motomitsu. Gunji. 1800. Sozaburo. Pupil of Kaizantei. Mito.
Motomochi. Hiyama. 1810. Nihei. Called himself Kwaizantei. A skilled expert. Mito.
Motonaga. Nanjo. 1780. Shinzaburo. Pupil of Sekijōken. Mito.
Motonaga. Yamamoto. 1800. Shikohachi. Pupil of Kinzantei. Mito.
Motonaga. Ogawa. 1800. Chingoro. Called himself Jichikaken. A skilled expert. Mito.
Motonobu. Hanawa. 1780. Shinzō. Mito.
Motonobu. Watanabe. 1810. Tsunekichi. A pupil of Ontaiken. Mito.
Motonori. Kūrozawa. 1810. Ichijiro. A pupil of Tōhoken. Mito.
Motonori. Nemoto. 1800. Shinraku. Called himself Chōoken. A skilled expert. Mito.
Motonori. Onose. 1780. Shinraku. Pupil of Sekijōken. Mito.
Motonori. Yasuyama. 1700. Shinsuke. Called himself Hozanken. Originally of the Yokoya family. A pupil of Chōbei (Kikugawa), and, like his teacher, famous for carving chrysanthemums. Father of Seke Joken. Mito.
Motosada. Ogawa. 1780. Shingoro. Called himself Chikuzanken. A pupil of Sekijoken. Mito.
Motosada. Tani. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Osaka.
Motoshige. Sakamoto. 1780. Genzaburo. Mito.
Motoshige. Mimura. 1810. Juzaburo. Called himself Seiunsai. A skilled expert. Mito.
Motoshige. Ogawa. 1800. Genji. Mito.
Mototaka. Nagayama. 1810. Motohachi. A pupil of Tōhōken. Mito.
Mototaka. 1810. A pupil of Jichikuken. Mito.
Mototeru. Yasuyama. 1780. Yeisuke. Mito.
Mototomo. 1780. Joi. Called himself Seishinken. A skilled expert. Mito.
Mototoshi. Yamagata. 1820. A Mito expert. A pupil of Seishinken.
Mototsune. Gunji. 1780. Shimpachi. Mito.
Motoyama. Munehide. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Motoyasu. Uchikishi. 1800. Shōbei. Pupil of Kaizantei. Mito.
Motoyasu. Yasuyama. 1790. Yasujiro. Mito.
Motoyori. Hida. 1810. Ichijiro. A pupil of Tōhōken. Mito.
Motoyoshi. Yamagata. 1810. A pupil of Tōhōken. Mito.
Motoyoshi. Sasaki. 1780. Chiuji. Pupil of Sekijoken. Mito.
Motoyuki. Watahiro. 1780. Hikosaburo. Mito.
Motoyuki. Suzuga. 1800. Gensuke. Pupil of Tankusai. Mito.
Motozumi. Yasuyama. 1760. Shinzayemon. Also called Sekijoken, and afterwards Tōgū. An artist of the highest skill, celebrated for chiselling figures in Chinese and Japanese style in shibuichi. He also carved mountain genii (sennin) with grand power and delicacy in the style of Joi. It is on record that he copied many of the old masterpieces. Lived in Mito, but often visited Yedo. Died at the age of 90 (1791), and worked vigorously on his 88th birthday. His son Tozaburo (also called Shinyemon) carved in the same style but with inferior ability. Mito.
Mukai. Shoko. Present day. An expert sculptor in metal. Pupil of Unno Shōmin.
Muneaki. Nomura. 1730. Sōkuro. Art name, Jumeishi. Hikone.
Muneaki. Nomura. 1730. His name is also pronounced Sōken. Called also Yumeishi. A pupil of Kanenori (Nomura). Worked at Hikone.
Munechika. Miyōchin. 18th cent. Metal-worker of Matsuye (in Haruta).
Munechika. Tachibana and Fujiwara. 1000. At first called Nakamune. The founder of the Umetada family. A nobleman who employed his leisure in forging swords, and thus came to be called Sanjo no Kokaji (the amateur forger of Sanjo). There is no evidence that he made sword-furniture, but he is included in this list as he founded one of the families of repute. He was born in 960 and died in 1030. The name Umetada was not adopted until the nineteenth generation after Munechika, namely, the time of Shigemune.
Munefusa. Fujita. 1650. Date uncertain. Younger brother of Fujita Munehisa and a skilled expert. Kaga.
Munehiro. Vide Sōkwan.
Munehisa. Fujita. 1640. Date uncertain. Danyemon. A skilled expert. Younger brother of Umetada Nobufusa. Kaga.
Munehisa. Sōami. 1650. Yumeishi. A pupil of Sōden. Worked at Hikone.
Munemasa. 1710. Kaheiji. A pupil of Sōmin. Carver to Matsudaira, feudal chief of Hizen.
Munemasa. Inouye. 1650. Kyoto.
Munemime. Uyemura. 1720. Kuyemon or Kihei. A great expert. Called also Sōhō, and commonly Masuya Kihei. Renowned for carving warriors. Kyoto.
Munemochi. Alternative pronunciation of Sōyu. Vide Toshiharu (Nara).
Munenaga. 1690. Kuroji. Son of Munetsugu Jiro. Kaga.
Munenori. 1770. Bennosuke. A pupil of Tetsuya Gembei. Kyoto.
Munenori. Miyōchin. 1540. A maker of guards. He was remarkably skilled in tempering iron. His guards generally have, on the face, Tosa no Kuni-ju Miyōchin Munenori (Miyochin Munenori residing in Tosa), and on the reverse, Shinto Gotesuren (five times wrought iron, Shintō).
Munenori. Alternative pronunciation of Sōden (q. v.).
Munenori. Vide Nobutsugu.
Munenori. 1770. Bennosuke. A pupil of Tetsuya Gembei. Kyoto.
Munesuke. Ki. 1640. Known as Miyōchin Osumi no Kami (Miyōchin Lord of Osumi). A descendant of Nobuiye and a skilled expert. Yedo.
Muneto. Family name. Vide Naomichi.
Munetoki. Umetada. 1830. Shichizayemon. Representative of the thirty-fifth generation of the Umetada family. Worked in Yedo.
Munetoshi. Nara. 1720. Son of Toshinaga, fourth representative of the Nara family.
Munetsugu. 1670. Jiro; son of Muneyoshi Hiyōbu. Kaga.
Munetsugu. Yoshioka. 1690. Chōjiro, or Chōyemon. Afterwards called Sōkei. Yedo.
Munetsugu. Yoshioka. 1820. Bungon. Yedo.
Muneyoshi. 1650. Hiyōbu. Went from Fushimi to Kaga in the year 1645. A great expert. Received an allowance of one hundred bags of rice yearly from the feudal chief of Kaga.
Muneyoshi. Umetada. 1670. Munetaka. Date uncertain. He had the title of Kazuma-no-suke and lived in Osaka. His work, which is of high quality, carried the inscription, Tachibana Muneyoshi.
Muneyuki. Umetada. 1640. Representative of the twenty-eighth generation of the Umetada family. Celebrated for chiselling guards with pierced decoration. He worked for the Tokugawa Court in the time of the third Shogun, Iyemitsu, but resided in Kyoto. By him the first ideograph of the name Umetada was changed from Ume (to bury) to Ume (Plum), and the Umetada artists thenceforth marked their pieces with a plum blossom above the ideograph Tada. The representatives of the family worked during thirty-six generations, and their record was compiled in 1830 by Munetoki, the 35th.
Muneyuki. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Kiriusai.
Nagaatsu. Suga. 1720. A pupil of Narikado (Hirata) and a skilled expert in enamel decoration. Yedo.
Nagafusa. Hirata. 1760. Ichizayemon. A pupil of Masatsugu (Nomura). Worked in Awa.
Nagafusa. Hirata. 1760. Ichizayemon. Takashima. (Awa.)
Nagahide. Hirata. 1770. Shingo. Worked in Awa.
Nagahisa. 1650. Shichibei. Kaga.
Nagahisa. 1660. Genzayemon. Kaga.
Nagakiyo. 1720. Kanroku. Kaga.
Nagakiyo. Tazawa. 1620. Original family name Katsugi, but changed it subsequently to Tazawa, and received a yearly salary from the feudal chief of Kaga as a skilled expert.
Nagakuni. Koichi. 1700. Yazayemon. Kaga.
Nagamasa. Koichi. 1650. Saburoyemon. An expert in inlaying. Kaga.
Nagamine. 1730. Jirozo. A grand artist, celebrated for his fine chiselling of men in armour, the figures full of life and motion, and even the faces animated. His father of the same name was also a good expert. Kyoto.
Nagamitsu. 1760. Hambei. Kaga.
Naganobu. 1670. Rokuyemon. Kaga.
Naganobu. 1680. Kichidayu. Kaga.
Nagasada. 1730. Jisuke. Kaga.
Nagasone. Akao. 1800. Saichi. A guard-maker who worked in the Akao style, but used iron approximating to steel. Yedo.
Nagashige. 1720. Kuroyemon; successor of Munenaga Kuroji. Kaga.
Nagashige. Koichi. 1650. Shirazaburo. An inlayer and carver of Kaga.
Nagatake. Imai. 1850. Art name, Kyōsui. Kyoto expert of great skill.
Nagatsugu. Shōami. 1600. Yōshiro. Said to have been the first to inlay brass with gold, silver, shakudo, etc. Hence such work is commonly known as the “Yoshiro style” (Yoshiro-fu). Worked at Mino.
Nagatsugu. Yoshioka. 1640. Chōzaburo. Yedo.
Nagatsugu. 1780. Toyotsugu. Kaga.
Nagatsugu. Koichi. 1760. Yazayemon. Kaga.
Nagatsugu. Koichi. 1740. Yazayemon. Kaga.
Nagatsugu. Koichi. 1670. Yazayemon. Kaga.
Nagatsune. Yasui. 1670. Ichinomiya, Echizen. A great expert. Pupil of Yasui Takanaga. Kyoto.
Nagatsune. Kashiwaya. 1770. Chiuhachi. He marked his works Setsuzan or Ganshōshi. In recognition of his extraordinary ability he received the title of Yechizen no Daijo, and was generally known as Ichi no Miya. He has few rivals and probably no superiors. A favorite design on his early carvings was the tsukushi (a kind of horse-tail grass) with addition of frogs, snails, etc., and his skill in producing these natural objects was extraordinary. Subsequently he chiselled dragons, shishi, figures, etc., with equal facility and accuracy. His artistic spirit is compared by Japanese connoisseurs to the moon rising over mountains; it is at once so high and so pure. He died in 1786. Kyoto.
Nagayori. Azuma. 1760. Matajiro. Commonly called Yeizui. A pupil of Noriyori (Hamano) and a skilled expert. His art name was Tsūtembō. Yedo.
Nagayoshi. Kashiwaya. 1790. Son of Nagatsune, and almost equal to his father in skill. Kyoto.
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.
Naotoshi. Shimamura. 1700. A pupil of Naomasa (Yanagawa). Yedo.
Naotsugu. Shimizu. 1700. Jinyemon. A pupil of Naomasa (Yanagawa). Yedo.
Naoyasu. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Kikōdō.
Naoyori. Toyama. 1770. Denzo. An expert of note, who worked in Yedo, and afterwards Shinano and Yechizen. Called also Chokuzui (another pronunciation of Naoyori).
Naoyoshi. Sano. 1730. Rihachi. A pupil of Naonori; highly skilled. Carved for the Daimiyo Akimoto. Yedo.
Naoyuki. Yanagawa. 1700. Koheiji. A pupil of Naomasa. Some of his works are marked Yanagawa Naomasa. Yedo.
Nanchika. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Narihisa. Hirata. 1650. Hikoshiro. Third representative of the Hirata family. Yedo.
Narikado. Hirata. 1700. Hikoshiro. Fifth representative of the Hirata family. Called also Henjō and Yeijō. Yedo.
Narikata. Umetada. 1740. Kajiyemon. Son of Naritsugu. Yedo.
Narikazu. Hirata. 1630. Hikoshiro. Second representative of the Hirata family. Yedo.
Narimasa. Hirata. 1840. Hikoshiro. Called also Riyozō and Genjō. Yedo.
Narisuki. Hirata. 1790. Hikoshiro. Called also Ichizō. Seventh of the Hirata experts. Yedo.
Naritsugu. Umetada. 1720. Kajiyemon. A Yedo expert of the highest skill. His carving is usually on a ground of shibuichi with profuse use of gold in the decorative design. Born in 1696, died 1735.
Nariwo. Shōami. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Matsuyama (Iyo).
Nariyuki. Hirata. 1740. Hikoshiro. Called also Kiuzō and Ichizō. The sixth representative of the Hirata family, and generally considered one of the best of the Hirata experts. Yedo.
Nariyuki. Hirata. 1880. Hikoshiro. Tokyo.
Natsuo. (d. 1894.) A metal-chiseller of Tokyo, who is justly reckoned one of Japan’s greatest experts.
Nihei. Muneta. 1560. The first maker of nanako grounds in the Muneta family. Kyoto.
Nishimura. Family name. Vide Mitsuyoshi.
Nizayemon. Muneta. 1540. Kyoto. There was a second Nizayemon (1580) in the same family.
Nobuaki. 1530. A pupil of Nobuiye. Celebrated for chiselling guards à jour, and for the beauty of his patina. Kuwana (Ise).
Nobuchika. Hirano. 1810. A pupil of Ontaiken. Mito.
Nobufusa. Miyōchin. 1540. A great expert. Kai.
Nobufusa. Umetada. 1640. Date uncertain. Sei-no-jō. Supposed to have been a pupil of one of the early Kuwamura artists. A fine expert. Kaga.
Nobuhide. Sumitomo. 1750. Sennosuke. A pupil of Masanobu (Zenji). Yedo.
Nobuhiro. Miyōchin. 1560. A great expert. Kamakura.
Nobuiye. Miyōchin. 1520. One of the Nochino Sansaku (Three Later Masters) of the Miyōchin family. Worked principally as an armourer, but also chiselled guards. Joshiu.
Nobuiye. Fujiwara. 1670. A guard-maker of Aki. His work was in the pierced style, and he is celebrated for guards in the Mokko shapes with omodaka leaves chiselled à jour. His pieces are constantly confounded with those of Miyochin Nobuiye.
Nobuiye. 1700. A guard-maker of Kishiu. Not a good expert, but his work is often mistaken by ignorant collectors for that of Miyochin Nobuiye.
Nobukatsu. Kikuchi. 1730. Seijirō. Art name, Gitōken and Sōriuken. A pupil of Naokatsu (Inagawa) and an expert of great skill. Yedo.
Nobumasa. Okada. 1690. Zenzayemon. A grandson of Meiju Umetada, who changed his family name Okada. Hagi.
Nobusada. 1530. A pupil of Nobuiye (Miyōchin) and a skilled expert. Joshiu.
Nobushige. Okada. 1700. Hikozayemon. Hagi.
Nobutaka. Nara. 1730. Ihachi. Younger brother of the celebrated Masanaga, whose name he sometimes used. Yedo.
Nobutatsu. Hayashi. 19th cent. Skilled metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Tokai.
Nobutsugu. Yoshioka. 1710. Choyemon. Called also Sōin. A great expert. According to the Soken Kisho he was called Munenori. Yedo.
Nobutsune. Nakai. 1620. Bunyemon. The first of the Nakai family who worked in Hagi, Nagato province, and therefore the originator of the celebrated Chōshiu guards (iron).
Nobuyasu. Saotomo. 1530. A pupil of Miyōchin Nobuiye. Worked in Mito, where for many generations his family enjoyed the reputation of skilled armourers.
Nobuyoshi. Washizu. 19th cent. Skilled metal-worker of Yedo. Obtained the art title of Hōgen.
Nobuyoshi. Miyōchin. 1550. A celebrated metal-worker. Kamakura. Received the title of Hokkyo, and afterwards of Hōgen.
Noriaki. Noda. 1815. Shirobei. Called himself Saiyōshin. A skilled carver and an able painter. Yedo.
Norikuni. Miyōchin. 1560. A well-known expert. Kozuke.
Norikyo. Goto. 1650. Shichibei. Kaga.
Norimasa. Nakagawa. 1750. A pupil of Noriyuki (Hamano). Yedo.
Norinao. Muneta. 1640. Matabei. Art name, Dōki. A celebrated expert. He invented a special and particularly difficult style of nanako called daimiyo-nanako, in which the lines of nanako alternate with lines of polished ground. He is supposed to be the only expert who succeeded thoroughly in such work. Kyoto.
Norinobu. Hamano. 1790. Kimbei. A skilled artist. Used two of the art names employed by Shōzui, viz., Otsuriuken and Miboku.
Norisada. Shōami. 1500. A Kyoto expert. His era is uncertain, and he is sometimes spoken of as the second founder of the Shōami family, though that position is more commonly assigned to Takatsune (q. v.).
Norishige. Miyōchin. 1560. A skilled expert. Kozuke.
Noriyori. Hamano. 1750. Chiugoro. A pupil of Shōzui, and a celebrated expert. A carving by him on the stone gate of Tentoku-ji cemetery of the Unshiu Daimiyo is one of the finest works of the kind in Japan. It represents the sixteen Disciples of Buddha, and was designed by the painter, Sasawa Hōin. Yedo.
Noriyuki. Hamano. 1740. A pupil of Shōzui (Masayuki), but his style resembles that of Jōi. An artist of the highest skill. Yedo.
Noriyuki. Nakamura. 1770. Gensuke. A pupil of the celebrated Nakahara Yukinori. Nagato.
Ogiya. Katsuhira. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Seiriyōken.
Ohori. Masatoshi. 19th cent. (d. 1897.) A celebrated Uchimonoshi (metal-hammerer) of Tokyo.
Oishi. Akichika. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Okada. Setsuga. Present day. A highly skilled metal-chiseller of Tokyo. Has carved sword-furniture for the Emperor, and also diadems for the Emperor and Empress.
Okando. Vide Teruhiko (Murata).
Okazawa. Yeiseuke. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Chōshiu.
Okimichi. Tokioka. 1680. Tōsuke. Kyoto.
Okinari. Horiye. 1750. Yajiuro. Art name, Isshiken. A pupil of the celebrated Shōzui. An artist of the first rank. Yedo.
Okiyoshi. 1770. Horiiye. Yaichiro. Son of Okinari, and a skilled artist. Served the feudal chief of Awa and worked in Yedo.
Okutsugu. Yoshioka. 1670. Hide-no-suke. Yedo.
Onishi. Hideo Naomura. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Ontaiken. Vide Motochika (Fujita).
Osaki. Toshiaki. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Otsuki. Family name. Vide Kwōrin.
Otsuriuken. Vide Masayori, Kaneyori, Norinobu, and Masanobu.
Rakurakusai. Vide Katsuyoshi.
Rakusuido. Vide Tsunenari.
Ranzan. Vide Tsuneyuki.
Reijō. Goto. 1650. Mitsuchika. Kyoto.
Rengetsutei. Vide Toshikage.
Renjō. Goto. 1650. Tenth of the great Goto Masters.
Rifudō. Vide Masayuki.
Rifudō. Vide Masayori and Masanobu.
Rinfudo. Vide Masaharu.
Rinjō. Goto. 1650. Mitsuzane. Kyoto.
Rinsendō. Vide Mitsumasa.
Risai. Motokawa. 1780. A Kyoto expert of the highest skill.
Risho. Iwamoto. 1800. Kinjiro. Called himself also Toshimasa. Yedo.
Risuke. Uyemura. 1720. A pupil of Munemine. Kyoto.
Ritsujō. Goto. 1600. Mitsuyori. Kyoto.
Ritsumei. Vide Koretsune.
Riujō. Goto. 1650. Mitsusada. Kyoto.
Riumin. 19th cent. (d. 1863.) A splendid metal-chiseller of Yedo, who produced not only sword-furniture but all kinds of objects. Art name, Shōunsai.
Riurin-sai. Vide Hidetomo.
Riusen. Fujiki. 1660. Yojibei or Shigenori. Pupil of Goto Renjō and father of Masafusa (Fujiki). Kyoto.
Riushatei. Vide Takeaki.
Riu-un-sai. Vide Tomochika (Omori).
Riu-u-sai. Vide Teruhide (Omori).
Riyōkwan. Iwamoto. 1750. Yōhachi. Teacher of the celebrated Konkwan, and himself a skilled expert. Yedo.
Riyonenshi. Yasuyobi. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Riyōyei. Iwamoto. 1770. Suzuki Kinyemon. Pupil of Iwamoto Konkwan. Remarkably good at carving fish designs. Yedo.
Riyōyen. Vide Masayuki.
Riyōyū. Vide Morikatsu and Morihiro.
Riyozō. Vide Narimasa.
Rizui. Vide Toshiyori.
Rokuyemon. Saito. 1800. A skilled inlayer of Sendai.
Saburoyemon. Yamanaka. 1630. Pupil of Goto Yekijō, and a grand artist. Kyoto.
Saburozayemon. Kurose. 1630. Pupil of Goto Seijō. Kyoto.
Saburozayemon. Inouye. 1650. Founded the house called Sammon-ji-ya, and developed an original style of carving called Oike-bori, from the name of the street (Oike-dori) in which he lived. Kyoto.
Sadachika. Nogi. 1790. Mohei. A pupil of Terusada (Yamamoto). Yedo.
Sadahide. 1840. Yasokichi. A pupil of Jikyokusai. Yedo.
Sadahiro. Shōami. 1560. Worked in Owari, following the style of Yamayoshibei.
Sadahisa. Morita. 1810. Sogoro. Called himself Tōsuiken. A pupil of Chikuzanken, and a skilled expert. Mito.
Sadahisa. Takahashi. 1800. Masabei. Called himself Shōsensai. A pupil of Chikuzanken and a skilled expert. Mito.
Sadakage. 1650. Shinyemon. Kaga.
Sadakatsu. Taneda. 1630. Kichinojō. A pupil of Goto Yenjō and a skilled expert. Kaga.
Sadakatsu. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Sadasuke. Inuma. 1800. A Mito expert, pupil of Chikuzanken.
Sadatoki. 1630. Heihachi. A skilled expert who worked originally in Fushima, and moved to Kaga in the year 1625. He received a grant of three hundred koku of rice annually from the feudal chief of Kaga.
Sadatsugu. 1680. Kichirokuro. Kaga.
Sadatsugu. Yoshioka. 1780. Kichijiro. Yedo.
Sadatsugu. 1800. A pupil of Sadachika (Nogi). Yedo.
Sadayoshi. Fujita. 1840. Anshi. Called himself Kingenshi. Yedo.
Sadayoshi. 1770. A pupil of Nagatsune. A skilled expert. Yamashina (Yamashiro).
Sadayuki. 1840. Kinjiro. A pupil of Jikyokusai. Yedo.
Saihaku. Vide Masayoshi.
Saijiro. Goto. 1630. Kaga. (Vide Yoshisada.)
Saika-an. Vide Mitsuyuki. (Kikuoka.)
Saiyoshin. Vide Noriaki.
Sakuma. 1600. Date uncertain. Nothing is known of this expert, but some very fine specimens of iron guards bearing his signature are extant.
Sakuyemon. Chiyo. 1700. A pupil of Kuisuke of Tsuyama. Succeeded by his son of the same name.
Sakuyemon. Chiyo. 1700. There were two artists of this name, father and son. They worked at Tsuyama.
Sammonji-ya. Vide Saburozayemon and Kuhei.
Sano. Naotsune. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Sano. Takachika. Present day. A metal-chiseller of Tokyo.
Saotomo. Vide Nobuyasu.
Sasaki. Family name. Vide Shigekata, Tadatsura, etc.
Sato. Yoshi. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Seibei. Shōami. 1760. Worked at Nihonmatsu in Aizu.
Seijiro. Goto. 1630. A great expert; but not well known. Kaga.
Seijo. Goto. 1630. Mitsunaga. Kyoto.
Seimin. Murata. 1820. Sozaburo. A celebrated chiseller, but chiefly remarkable for his skill in casting bronzes. Yedo.
Seiriyoken. Vide Ogiya Katsuhira.
Seiroku. Vide Masanaga (Nara) and Masachika (Nara).
Seiseisai. Vide Masatoki.
Seishichi. Shōami. 1840. A guard-maker of Osaka.
Seishinken. Vide Mototomo.
Seiunsai. Vide Motoshige (Mimura).
Seiunsai. Vide Taki Yeiji.
Seiunsha. Vide Tōhō.
Seizayemon. Goto. 1670. An artist of remarkable skill. Kaga.
Seki. Yoshinori. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Sekibun. Shōami. 1820. Shichiroyemon. Art name, Yurōsai. Worked at Shonai in Dewa.
Sekiguchi. Ichiya. 19th cent. (d. 1895.) A skilled metal-chiseller of Tokyo. One of the last of the carvers of sword-furniture.
Sekijō. Goto. 1570. Mitsutsune. Son of Goto Takujō. Kyoto.
Sekijoken. Vide Motozumi (Yasuyama).
Senjō. Goto. 1620. Mitsukyo. Kyoto.
Sensai. Vide Atsuoki.
Senshichi. Nishiyama. 1640. A pupil of Goto Yenjō. Kyoto.
Senshisai. Vide Shōami.
Senyushi. Vide Yoshitsune.
Setsuju. 1780. A skilled expert of Mito, said to have been connected with the Miyōchin family.
Setsuya. 19th cent. Art name of a Yedo metal-worker.
Setsuzan. Vide Nagatsune.
Shiatsu. Shinji. Present day. Metal-sculptor. Pupil of Unno Shōmin.
Shichibei. 1700. A renowned inlayer. His skill was so great that the name Zoshichi came to be applied to particularly fine damascening. Kyoto.
Shichirobei. Shōami. 1710. A pupil of Katsusaburo. Worked at Tsuyama in Mimasaka.
Shigeaki. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Shigechika. Machida. 1740. Kinzō. A pupil of Sōyo, and a skilled expert. His father, also called Kinzō, worked in the same way but with less skill. Yedo.
Shigechika. Yokoya. 1720. Called also Machida. Kuizō.
Shigeharu. Nara. 1710. A pupil of the first Toshinaga. Common name, Jiubei.
Shigehiro. Yoshioka. 1580. Morotsugu. Called also Sōtaku. He had the title at first of Buzan-no-suke and afterwards of Inaba-no-suke. Founded the Yoshioka family. Yedo. With regard to the title Inaba-no-suke, which is found on some of the works of the Yoshioka family and not on others, the explanation is that its use in such a manner was interdicted when a member of the noble family of Inaba happened to hold the office of Gorōju. The Yoshioka family worked for the Yedo Court and had a yearly allowance of two hundred koku of rice and eighteen rations.
Shigekata. Sasaki. 1630. Common name not known. A Kyoto expert of some repute.
Shigekuni. Miyōchin. 1560. A great expert of Kozuke.
Shigemichi. Shōami. 1760. A Kyoto expert, celebrated for chiselling guards with clam-shell decoration à jour.
Shigemitsu. Omori. 1710. Shiroyemon or Bunshiro. He also called himself Kinriuzan Fumoto. A celebrated artist; generally regarded as the founder of the Omori family, but his father, Shirobei, a Samurai of Odawara, was the first carver in that family. Yedo.
Shigemitsu. Nara. 1720. Yedo.
Shigemitsu. 18th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Pupil of Nara Yasuchika.
Shigemoto. Kubo. 1780. Commonly known as Tetsuya Kimbei. A pupil of the celebrated Tetsuya Dembei, and himself very famous. Many of his works are marked Takenori. Kyoto.
Shigemune. Shōami. 1840. An expert of Yedo.
Shigemune. Umetada. 1400. Known as Hiko no Shin. Said to be the nineteenth representative of the Umetada family, but probably identical with the first Shigeyoshi (vide). He received the name Umetada from the Emperor Shōko.
Shigenaga. 1680. Shinshichi. Successor of Tomotsugu Saburoyemon. Kaga.
Shigenaga. Yoshioka. 1640. Rizayemon. Afterwards called Sōrin and Shigemoto. Yedo.
Shigenobu. 1780. Kitaro. A pupil of Tetsuya Dembei.
Shigenori. Miyōchin. 1560. An expert of Kozuke.
Shigesada. Shōami. 1690. A pupil of Goto Tsujō. Worked at Akita in Dewa.
Shigesada. Yoshioka. 1840. The ninth representative of the Yoshioka family. Yedo.
Shigetaka. Hirata. 1680. Hikoshiro. Fourth representative of the Hirata family. Yedo.
Shigetsugu. Yoshioka. 1620. A member of the noble Fujiwara family. Had at first the title of Bun-gon-no-suke. Also called Sōjū. He became carver to the Court of the Yedo Shōgun in the year 1600, and died in 1653. In the temple Zōjō-ji, at Shiba (Tokyo), there is a stone carving by him representing the entry of Buddha into Nirvana. The inscription shows that it was carved in his 73d year.
Shigetsugu. Iwai. 1650. Moyemon. A pupil of Goto Renjō. Kyoto.
Shigetsugu. 1700. Kihashiro. Son of Shigenaga Shinshichi. Kaga.
Shigetsugu. Nara. 1720. A pupil of Toshinaga the second.
Shigetsune. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Chōshiu.
Shigetsune. Shōami. 1720. Worked at Wakamatsu in Aizu.
Shigetsune. Shōami. 1650. An expert of Akita in Dewa.
Shigeyasu. Inouye. 1740. Bunjiro. A celebrated expert. Kyoto.
Shigeyoshi. Umetada. 1400. A celebrated sword-smith, who is said to have made guards for the Ashikaga Shōgun, Yoshimitsu, the great art patron and dilettante of mediæval Japan. Kyoto.
Shigeyoshi. Umetada. 1560. Hikojiro. He also used the name Miyojū for marking his pieces. An expert of very high order. He forged sword-blades which are held in the greatest esteem, and made guards and other mounts with equal skill. He was employed by Yoshioka, the last of the Ashikaga Shōguns, by Hideyoshi, the Taikō, and by Hidetsugu. He worked from 1550 to 1600. Kyoto.
Shigeyoshi. Umetada. 1630. Hikojiro. He marked his pieces Meishin, or more commonly, Iyetaka. He was counted a great sword-smith as well as a skilled carver, and received from the government the honorary title of Hokkyo. He worked in Kyoto and Yedo, and it is supposed that the various provincial artists calling themselves by the family name of Umetada were either pupils of his or descended from his pupils.
Shigeyuki. Shōami. 1820. One of the Yedo branch of the Shōami family.
Shikō. Shōami. 1700. An expert of Kyoto who worked in the style of Sōden.
Shimada. Family name. Vide Masafusa and Masanao.
Shinjō. Vide Mitsuyoshi (Goto).
Shinryo. Vide Koretsune.
Shinshichi. 1730. A skilled expert of Osaka, commonly known as Horimono-ya Shinshichi (Shinshichi, the carver). His favorite design was a fishing rod and river trout, which he chiselled beautifully.
Shintōken. Vide Mitsuyoshi.
Shijun. Vide Masayori.
Shiratoshi. Iwamoto. 19th cent. Skilled metal-worker of Yedo. Used the marks Kwanri and Jōunsai.
Shirobei. Muneta. 1650. Kyoto and Gifu (Mino).
Shisuido. Vide Kakuriyo.
Shiuko. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Shōami. Vide Masanori.
Shōbei. Goto. 1570. A pupil of Goto Tokujō. Lived at various places, but chiefly Noto and Kyoto.
Shogoro. 1790. A pupil of Tashichi (Akao), and a skilled worker in the Akao style. Yedo.
Shōho. Iwamoto. 1830. Buto Gempachi or Masakatsu. An expert of considerable note. Many of his pieces are marked Konkwan-mon, i.e., pupil of Konkwan. Yedo.
Shōjō. Goto. 1610. Mitsumasa. Kyoto.
Shōjō. Goto. 1530. Younger brother of Goto Sōjō. Celebrated as a maker of nanako grounds. Kyoto.
Shōjū. Tamagawa. 1760. Saburohei. A pupil of Tsūjū, and a great expert. Yedo and Mito.
Shōkatei. Vide Katsutane.
Shōmin. 19th cent. A celebrated metal-worker of Tokyo, now living; art name, Senshisai.
Shōsensai. Vide Sadahisa (Takahashi).
Shotayu. Vide Masanao.
Shōyei. 1640. He called himself Johaku. A pupil of Jochiku, and a skilled expert. Yedo.
Shōyei. Vide Johaku.
Shōzayemon. Yoshioka. 1630. Second son of Shigetsugu. Carver to the Shōgun’s Court in Yedo.
Shōzayemon. Nomura. 1530. A pupil of Goto Shōjō. Kyoto.
Shizui. Vide Masayori.
Shuchin. Furukawa. 1820. Son of Jochin and a skilled expert. Yedo.
Shuhōsai. Vide Masayori.
Shūjō. Goto. 1620. Mitsutoyo. Kyoto.
Shūjō. Goto. 1690. Mitsutaka. Kyoto.
Shumin. 19th cent. (d. 1866.) A highly skilled metal-chiseller of Tokyo.
Shungetsu. Vide Haruaki.
Shunjō. Goto. 1640. Mitsunaga. Kyoto.
Shunshōdō. Vide Konkwan.
Shunzui. Vide Haruyori.
Shuraku. 19th cent. (d. i860.) A great metal-chiseller of Yedo: pupil of Temmin and of Shugetsu. Many beautiful specimens of his work are extant in sword-furniture, pouch-clasps, and chains (kuda-gusari), etc. He used the marks Taidō Shuraku, and Shuunsai Shuraku.
Shuzui. Vide Hideyori.
Sōchi. Yokoya. 1640. Tsugusada. Yedo.
Sōden. Kitagawa. 1649. Originally called Hidenori. Celebrated as a maker of iron sword-guards, elaborately decorated with figure designs chiselled à jour. He used the mark Sōheishi, and this being commonly misread “mogarashi,” the guards of Sōden’s type are known as mogarashi-tsuba. They are exceptionally large, and generally have the edge curved. He belonged to the Shōami family, according to some authorities, and to the Kitagawa according to others. Worked at Hikone, and originated the Hikone style.
Sōheishi. Vide Soden.
Sōhō. Vide Munemine.
Sōin. Yoshioka. His name is sometimes pronounced Munenori. A great expert. Yedo.
Sōin. Vide Nobutsugu.
Sōjō. Goto. 1520. The second of the great Goto Masters. Kyoto.
Sōjū. Vide Shigetsugu (Yoshioka).
Sōjū. Vide Genchin.
Sōkan. Vide Toshimitsu (Nara).
Sōkei. Vide Munetsugu.
Sōken. Ozaki. 1630. Jiubei. A pupil of Goto Teijō. Kyoto.
Sōken. Vide Muneaki.
Sokuseui. Goto. 1660. Kyto.
Sōkwan. Iwamoto. 1750. Kohachi. Yedo. A great expert. (His name is also pronounced Munehiro.)
Sōmin. Yokoya. 1760. Tomatsugu. Grandson of the great Sōmin. A skilled expert. Yedo.
Sōmin. Kiriusai. 1770. Representative of the fourth generation of the Sōmin.
Sōmin. Yokoya. 1710. Tomotsune, or Jihei. Art name, Tō-an. One of the most celebrated experts of any era. Worked from designs furnished by the painters Tanyu and Hanabusa Itcho. Much of his finest work was in the Kebori (hair-line engraving) style, and he thus came to be known as the originator of the Ye-fu-kebori (engraved pictures). A Japanese connoisseur of the eighteen century says that the impression produced by Sōmin’s work is that of wooded hills reflected in the blue waters of a placid lake as the evening moon rises over their summit. True name, Tomotsune. Yedo. Many of his pieces are marked Tōnan.
Sonjō. Another name for Goto Shōjō.
Sonobe. Yoshiteru. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Sonobe. Yoshitsugu. 19th cent. Metal worker of Yedo.
Sōri. Yokoya. 1710. A pupil of Sōmin. Yedo.
Sōrin. Vide Shigenaga.
Sōriusai. Vide Yoshinori.
Sōtei. Vide Toshimune (Nara). The name Sotei is sometimes pronounced Munesada.
Sōtetsu. Fujinaka. 1600. A pupil of Goto Yeijō. Kyoto.
Sōtoku. Nomura. 1580. Pupil of Goto Takujō. Founded the Nomura family. Kyoto.
Sōyei. Iwamoto. 1800. Heijiro. Yedo.
Sōyen. Vide Naomasa.
Sōyō. Yokoya. 1740. Tomosada. Art name, Kiriusai. Son of Sōmin, and almost as skilled as his father. Yedo.
Sōyō. Yokoya. 1630. Founder of the Yokoya family. Worked for the Court in Yedo. True name, Moritsugu. Yedo. A celebrated artist. Had a yearly allowance of two hundred bales of rice and twenty rations from the Yedo Court.
Sōyū. Vide Toshiharu (Nara).
Sōyū. Vide Teruaki (Yokiya).
Sugiyama. Toshiyoshi. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Mito.
Sukesaburo. Umemura. 1640. A pupil of Tomihisa (Kawamura), and a skilled expert. Kaga.
Sukeyori. 1800. Commonly called Jōzui. A pupil of Tōzui. Yedo.
Sumpei. Ichiju. Present day. Metal-sculptor. Pupil of Unno Shōmin.
Sunagawa. Masayoshi. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Shōhakudo.
Suzuki. Gensuke. Present day. A skilled uchimono-shi of Tokyo. Art names, Reiunsai and Suzu-gen. Seven generations of this family lived and worked in Yedo (Tokyo), the seventh, Suzuki Gensuke (q. v.), being the present representative. The first six manufactured chiefly metal pen-boxes for the girdle, (yatate), incense-boxes (kōgō), etc. They used the mark Genshin.
Suzuki. Katsuyasu. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Son of Ogiya Katsuhisa.
Tadahira. 1630. Saburohei. Went from Fushimi to Kaga.
Tadakyo. 1650. Shōtaro; son of Tadahira Saburobei. Kaga.
Tadamichi. 1700. A Kyoto expert. Family unknown.
Tadashige. Ishikawa. 1820. Jiujiro. A pupil of Tadatsugu (Yoshioka). Yedo.
Tadasuke. Tsuji. 1770. Used the mark Teisuidō. A highly skilled expert. Worked in Omi.
Tadatsugu. Yoshioka. 1800. Daijiro. Yedo. A great expert.
Tadatsugu. Shōami. 1670. A Kyoto expert.
Tadatsune. Wakabayashi. 1820. Hikoshiro. A pupil of Tadatsugu (Yoshioka). Yedo.
Tadatsura. Susaki. 1680. Saburohei. Osaka.
Tadayasu. 1750. A curio-dealer of Yedo. Ito Saburohei by name, had a quantity of fine sword-mounts carved with the inscription Tadayasu, a combination of ideographs corresponding to his name. The work is in the style of Hamano Noriyuki.
Tadayori. Hamano. 1790. Samurosuke. A skilled expert. Generally known as Tōzui (another pronunciation of Tadayori). Yedo.
Tadayoshi. Nomura. 1740. Hanshichi. Yedo.
Tadayoshi. A pupil of Tsu Jimpo. Yedo.
Tadayoshi. 1750. Common name unknown and date approximate. Specimens bearing his name are sometimes found. The ground is polished, and the design is an official cap (kammuri) and an umbrella chiselled in relief. The same name is found on guards evidently by a different hand.
Tadayoshi. Nomura. 1750. Commonly known as Tsuji Heihachi. A pupil of Tsu Jimpo and a skilled expert. Yedo.
Tadayoshi. Akao. 1840. A pupil of the Akao family, and a skilled guard-maker. Yedo.
Tadayuki. Asagawa. 1820. Miyagoro. A pupil of Tadatsugu (Yoshioka). Yedo.
Taguchi. Katsuo. Present day. Metal-sculptor. Pupil of Unno Shōmin.
Taijō. Goto. 1660. Kyoto.
Taijō. Goto. 1660. Mitsuhisa.
Taizanken. Vide Yenju.
Takaaki. Ishiguro. 1850. Mankichi. Yedo.
Takafusa. Uyemura. 1740. Kuhei. A great expert. Kyoto.
Takahiro. Yasui. 1690. Heiyemon. His house was called Kashiwaya, and he marked his works Chiriuken. A skilled artist. Kyoto.
Takaiishi. Shigeyoshi. Present day. (b. 1838.) Originally a chiseller of sword-furniture, renowned for his skill in cutting kiri-mon (i.e., designs on the surface of sword blades), but now celebrated for the production of iron dragons, craw-fish, crabs, etc., with universal joints after the manner of Miyōchin Yoshihisa. Many of his productions have been sold as genuine examples of Miyōchin’s work. His hawks, eagles, etc., chiselled in silver and inlaid with gold are among the finest specimens of metal work ever produced.
Takakiyo. Sakawa. 1800. Gensaburo. Called himself Jōyeiken. A skilled artist. Mito.
Takakusai. Vide Yoshihisa.
Takamitsu. Shōami. 1620. Founder of the Aizu branch of the Shōami family. Marked his work “Matsumura Genshichiro.” Worked at Wakamatsu.
Takanaga. Yasui. 1670. Torabei. A pupil of Yasui Yoshinaga. Used the mark Fukō. Kyoto.
Takasu. Yeiji. 19th cent. Skilled metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Horiuken.
Takatsune. Shōami. 1480. Jirohachi. A Kyoto expert, who resumed the profession of ornamental metal-worker commenced by his ancestor Masanori (vide), and is consequently known as the second founder (chiuko kaizan) of the Shōami family.
Takeakira. Masabayashi. 1800. Date uncertain. Personal name, Zusho, and art name, Riushatei. A skilled expert of Kyoto. A man of noble family.
Takechika. Sano. 19th cent. A skilled metal-worker of Yedo. Used the marks Issai Hōshu Gendō-jin and Shuki Hōzan Issai.
Takemitsu. 1760. Uhei. A pupil of Tetsuya Dembei. Kyoto.
Takenori. Vide Shigemoto (Kubo).
Takenori. Okamoto. 1780. Uhei. Kyoto.
Takenori. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Takeshima. Family name. Vide Ichiju.
Takeshita. Shōjū. Present day. Metal-sculptor. Pupil of Unno Shōmin.
Takeyama. Mahiko. Present day. A metal-chiseller of Osaka.
Taki. Yeiji. 19th cent. Skilled metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Sei-un-sai.
Takujō. Goto. 1570. The fifth of the great Goto Masters. Kyoto.
Tamagawa. Joyei. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Tanaka. Family name. Vide Ichiroyemon.
Taneda. Family name. Vide Sadakatsu.
Tankai. Vide Toshikage.
Tankasai. Vide Motoakira. (Suzuki.)
Tansai. Hirata. 1620. Founded the Hirata family of Awa. Nothing is known of his work and his date is uncertain.
Tanzendō. Vide Yoshitatsu.
Tashichi. Akao. 1780. Generally known as Akao Yoshitsugu, but not to be confounded with Akao Yoshitsugu Kohei. A skilled expert of Yedo, remarkable for his chiselling à jour, and his production of patina.
Tatsufusa. Nara. 1730. A pupil of Yasuchika. Yedo.
Tatsujō. Goto. 1650. Mitsufusa. Kyoto.
Tatsumasa. Nara. 1710. A pupil of Toshinaga. Yedo.
Tatsunari. Arakawa. 1790. Tatsuzo. Brother of Terutoki (Omori).
Tazayemon. Nomura. 1660. A pupil of Goto Renjō and a skilled artist. Kyoto.
Teijō. Goto. 1630. The ninth Goto Master.
Teikan. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Tokyo.
Teisuidō. Vide Tadasuke.
Temmin. 19th cent. (d. 1845.) A Yedo metal-chiseller of the highest skill. He was a pupil of the second Kikugawa and a contemporary of Riumin, with whom he often worked conjointly, the two putting their names on the same specimen. Temmin used the marks Okina Temmin (i.e., old man Temmin); Shojō-okina Temmin.
Tempō. Shōami. 1700. A Kyoto expert, celebrated for carving flowers and leaves tossed by the wind. His pieces are generally marked Yamashiro no Kuni Tempo.
Tenjō. Vide Mitsunori. Goto.
Tenkōdō. Vide Hidekuni.
Teruaki. Yokoya. 1730. Originally known as Ishikawa Kiuhachi and afterwards called himself Jiriu-ken and Yumin. A great carver, but he devoted much of his labour to copying the masterpieces of others. A Japanese connoisseur of the eighteenth century writes: “No one could equal him in ease and rapidity of working. If he were asked to make a carving of some particular object on a kozuka, he would at once take up his chisel, did he happen to be in the mood, and would not cease till he had produced several exquisite specimens, working, all the while, in the simplest, most unconcerned way.” Yedo.
Teruaki. Yokoya. 1700. Iyemon. Subsequently called himself Sōyū. A skilled expert, but his works are very rare. Yedo.
Teruhide. Omori. 1760. Kisōji. Called himself Ittosai and Riu-u-sai. A pupil of Terumasa (Omori). A splendid expert. The Omori style (carving in high relief on grounds inlaid with gold in the aventurine pattern) became widely popular in his hands. The Soken Kisho says of him: “His chisel marks have a force that would rend a rock. His fuka-bori (deeply incised) waves, etc., on a ground of shibuichi are magnificent, and nothing can exceed the exquisite beauty of his high relief peonies on nashiji (aventurine ground). He seems to have based his method of carving flowers on Sōmin’s celebrated ichirin-botan (single-blossom peony). His martial figures are grand.” Yedo. (Said to have been the first to carve wave diaper in high relief.)
Teruhiko. Murata. 1800. Bennosuke. Called himself Okando. Pupil of Teruhide (Omori). Yedo.
Teruhisa. Kuwamura. 1780. Kiuhei. Pupil of Terumasa (Omori). Yedo.
Teruiye. Omori. 1780. Denzo. Pupil of Terumasa (Omori). Yedo.
Terukazu. Omori. 1760. Jisuke. Called himself also Kanshikan. Yedo.
Terukuni. Omori. 1810. Yagohei or Yajiuro. A great chiseller of nanako. Yedo.
Terumasa. Omori. 1730. A skilled expert, generally regarded as the originator of the Omori style. A pupil of Naomasa (Yanagawa). Art name, Yoichi Kambun. Yedo.
Terumitsu. Omori. 1820. Kisōji or Manzō. Called himself Chōsendo and Kijūsai. A great expert. Yedo.
Terumoto. Omori. 1810. Tatsuzō. Yedo.
Terunaga. Omori. 1790. Shirobei or Shigetsugu. Yedo.
Terusada. Yamamoto. 1780. Kambei. A pupil of Terumasa (Omori) and a skilled expert. Yedo.
Terushige. Yokoya. 1750. Minosuke. Sometimes marked his works Nobusada. Yedo.
Terutake. Suguira. 1780. Dembei. Pupil of Terumasa (Omori). Yedo.
Terutoki. Tokuno. 1780. Genjiro. Called himself also Ichimudo. A pupil of Terumasa (Omori) and a highly skilled expert. Yedo.
Terutoki. Omori. 1750. A pupil of Terumasa (Omori). Yedo.
Terutsugu. Yokoya. 1780. Yedo.
Terutsugu. Yoshioka. 1680. Rizayemon. Called also Hidesaburo, and had the title of Inaba-no-suke. Yedo.
Terutsumu. Yoshioka. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Teruuji. Omori. 1800. Yojiuro or Teruchika. Yedo.
Terayoshi. Mizuno. 1660. Genji. Kaga.
Tessai. Vide Yoshitatsu.
Tetsuya. Gembei. Vide Naoshige.
Tetsuya. Gembei. Vide Naoshige.
Tetsuya. Kimbei. Vide Shigemoto (Kubo).
Tetsuya. Dembei. Vide Kuniharu and Harukuni.
Tōan. Vide Sōmin.
Tōdaya. Vide Mitsusada.
Tōgindo. Vide Yoshiteni.
Tōgokushi. Vide Masatsune and Koretsune.
Togu. Vide Motozumi (Oyama).
Tōhōken. Vide Motohisa (Yoshikawa).
Tōji. Tamagawa. 1820. Ginjiro or Ginsaburo. His works are often marked Katsuzumi. A skilled artist. Yedo.
Tōjū. Vide Hiromasa.
Tōkai. Vide Nobutatsu.
Tōkakusai. Vide Yoshihisa.
Tokiakira. 1850. Art name, Issai. A Kyoto expert of great skill.
Tokihide. Kato. 1680. Jisuke. Kyoto.
Tokisada. 1630. Heihachi. A great expert. He received three hundred koku of rice annually from the feudal chief of Kaga for whom he worked.
Tokasai. Vide Hiramitsu.
Tokuoki. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Tōmei. Present day. A skilled metal-chiseller of Osaka.
Tomejiro. Wakabayashi. 1790. Son of Masanao (Nomura). Yedo.
Tomihisa. Makita. 1760. Yayokichi, called also Hōju. Yedo.
Tomihisa. Kuwamura. 1630. Koshiro. A skilled expert of Kaga. The son of Moriyoshi.
Tominsai. Vide Yoshitsune.
Tomishige. Shōami. 1580. Date uncertain. Worked in Owari.
Tomisuke. Uyemura. 1750. Sahei. A pupil of Uyemura Takafusa. Kyoto.
Tomoakira. 1820. Date uncertain. An expert of Bizen, skilled in the Sumi-zogan process.
Tomobumi. 19th cent. Skilled metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Yushinto.
Tomochika. Omori. 1820. Denzaburo. Called himself Riu-un-sai. A skilled expert. Yedo.
Tomoharu. Okamoto. 1590. Sōjiro. Hagi. Founded the Okamoto family of Hagi.
Tomohiro. Takenouchi. 1810. Kumayemon. Called himself Ichigyoku-dō. Pupil of Hidetomo (Omori). Yedo.
Tomokata. Okamoto. 1750. Kuma-no-jō. Hagi.
Tomokiyo. Uyemura. 1700. Hikozayemon. A skilled expert. Kaga.
Tomomasa. Hasegawa. 1810. Yasunosuke. A pupil of Hidetomo (Omori). Yedo.
Tomomasa. Daishinto. 1810. Tōkichi. A Samurai who became a pupil of Hidetomo (Omori) and developed much skill. Yedo.
Tomomichi. 1820. Vide Yoshiaki (Tanaka).
Tomomichi. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Choshiu.
Tomomitsu. Onishi. 1810. Sadasuke. A pupil of Hidetomo (Omori). Yedo.
Tomomitsu. Okamoto. 1630. Sayemon. Hagi.
Tomonao. Yanagawa. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Kōsetsuken.
Tomonobu. Nakai. 1700. Hikozayemon. Hagi.
Tomonori. Hirose. 1810. Yoshiguro. Pupil of Hidetomo (Omori). Yedo.
Tomosada. Vide Sōyō (the 2d).
Tomoshige. 1630. Sukekuro. Pupil of Tsuji Yamashiro no Kami. 1640.
Tomotake. Yokoya. 1750. Yedo.
Tomotoshi. Okamoto. 1730. Kohei. Hagi.
Tomotsugu. Vide Sōmin (the 2d).
Tomotsugu. Okamoto. 1690. Tōzayemon. An amateur who became very famous. Hagi.
Tomotsugu. 1650. Saburoyemon. Son of Tomoshige Sukekuro. Kaga.
Tomotsugu. Tsuji. 1700. Saburoyemon. A skilled expert of Kaga.
Tomotsune. Omori. 1830. Keijiro. Yedo. Some of his works are signed Hirano Tomotsune.
Tomotsune. Nakai. 1680. Zensuke. The most celebrated of the Choshiu guard-makers of the Nakai family. His iron guards chiselled in high relief in full sculpture and à jour are of the highest grade, and were selected by the feudal chief of Choshiu for presentation to the Tokugawa Government. Hagi.
Tomotsune. Nakai. 1640. Sahei. Hagi. Not to be confounded with his celebrated grandson of the same name.
Tomotsune. Vide Sōmin.
Tomoyoshi. Okamoto. 1670. Kohei. Hagi.
Tomoyoshi. Okamoto. 1720. Jinzayemon. Son of Tomotsugu. Hagi.
Tomoyoshi. Hitotsuyanagi. 1780. There were two of this name, father (1750) and son. They worked at Mito.
Tomoyoshi. Hirano. 1730. Izayemon, Riyosuke. A master among the Mito artists. Pupil of Yasuhira and employed by the feudal chief of Mito.
Tomoyoshi. 1820. Vide Yoshiaki.
Tomoyoshi. Kikugawa. 19th cent. Skilled metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Ichiriusai.
Tomoyuki. Nakai. 1700. Zembei. Hagi.
Tomoyuki. Nakai. 1660. Zensuke. First of the Nakai family to carve figures, birds, animals, etc., and therefore the originator of the elaborately chiselled iron guards of Choshiu. Hagi.
Toriusai. Okano. 1850. Kijiro. A Yedo expert of the highest skill. One of the greatest sculptors of sword-furniture in the nineteenth century. In 1846 he received the art rank of Hōgen. Called also Kijiro.
Toshichi. 1720. A pupil of Masu-ya Kihei. Kyoto.
Toshiharu. Nara. 1680. Employed by the Yedo Court. Famous for carving landscapes. Officially known as Echizen, and called Sōyu in his old age. One of the three celebrated masters of the Nara family, who are commonly spoken of as “three pictures en suite” (san-buku-tsui), namely, Toshiharu, Toshihisa, and Yasuchika.
Toshihisa. Nara. 1760. Son of the celebrated Toshihisa. Yedo.
Toshihisa. Nara. 1720. Tahei. An artist of the highest fame. He is included with Toshiharu and Yasuchika in the group of the three Nara Masters, known as the “three pictures en suite” (san-buku-tsui). The Soken Kisho says of him:—“His style was not that of either the Yokoya family or his own family. He carved plants, flowers, birds, etc., with the utmost delicacy, and is universally credited with having struck out a style of his own. The Nara school has found many imitators, but there is about Toshihisa’s work an individuality that defies imitation. Nevertheless we find specimens carefully chiselled and marked ‘Toshihisa.’ They cannot be compared to the genuine work any more than glass can be compared to diamonds.” Yedo.
Toshikage. 19th cent. Skilled metal-worker of Awaji. Art name, Tankai and Rengetsutei.
Toshikatsu. Nara. 1740. Called Chikugo in his old age. Yedo.
Toshimitsu. Watanabe. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Pupil of Toriusai.
Toshimitsu. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Not to be confounded with Nara Toshimitsu.
Toshimitsu. Nara. 1720. Shichirozayemon. Subsequently called Sōkan. An expert of considerable fame. Yedo.
Toshimitsu. Vide Hisamitsu (Watanabe).
Toshimune. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Toshimune. Nara. 1630. Son of Toshiteru. The first of the Nara experts to obtain distinction, and therefore often called the founder of the family. Called Sōtei in his old age. Yedo.
Toshinaga. Nara. 1710. A pupil of the first Toshinaga. Yedo.
Toshinaga. Nara. 1700. Shichizayemon. An artist of considerable skill. Called Chizan in his old age. Yedo.
Toshinaga. 1700. An artist whose family and date are uncertain. His name is found on finely chiselled pieces, having a decoration of a catfish (numazu) and water-grasses in relief.
Toshinaga. Fujita. 1840. An expert of Aizu, who worked in very elaborate style, but showed the inartistic features of the Aizu and Mino style.
Toshinao. Nara. 1750. Yedo.
Toshinobu. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Unsuiken.
Toshioki. Kaneko. 1650. Carver to the feudal chief of Kishiu.
Toshisada. 1720. Family, etc. unknown. A guard-maker of Sado; highly skilled whether in chiselling à jour or in relief, and in tempering iron.
Toshishige. Nara. 1720. A pupil of the second Toshinaga. Yedo.
Toshitayo. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Toshiteru. Nara. 1620. Founder of the Nara family of metal-workers. Moved to Yedo in 1621. Yedo.
Toshitsugu. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Toshitsune. Nara. 1770. Yedo.
Toshiyoshi. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Toshiyoshi. Hamano. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Toshiyori. Hamano. 1790. Nanjō. Commonly called Rizui. Yedo.
Toshiyuki. 1750. A pupil of Noriyuki (Hamano).
Tosuiken. Vide Sadahisa (Morita).
Tou. Vide Yasuchika (Nara).
Tōun. Vide Tamagawa Yoshihisa.
Tōunsai. Vide Masachika (Tsuji).
Tōunsai. Vide Hisatsugu.
Toyoda. Kokō. Present day. A skilled metal-chiseller of Tokyo; the inventor of the process called kiri-bame-zōgan (vide text).
Toyokawa. Mitsunaga. Present day. A metal-chiseller of Tokyo scarcely less skilled than Shōmin; son of Koriusai (q. v.). He has made some magnificent specimens, in which every kind of metal work is employed.
Toyomasa. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Choshiu.
Toyomitsu. Goto. 1720. Matsusaburo. Kaga.
Toyosai. Vide Kanetomo.
Toyotaka. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Choshiu.
Toyotomi. Minota. 1830. Yuho. Pupil of Terumitsu (Omori). Yedo.
Toyoyori. Hamano. 1770. Hikogoro. Generally known as Hōzui (another pronunciation of Toyoyori). Art name, Tsugensai. Yedo.
Tōzui. Vide Tadayori.
Tsu Jimpo. Vide Jimpo.
Tsuchiya. Family name. Vide Kinshichi.
Tsugensai. Vide Toyoyori.
Tsugusada. Vide Sōchi.
Tsuji. 1630. Yamashiro-no-Kami. Went from Fushimi to Kaga in the year 1625.
Tsuji. 1700. Vide Tadayoshi.
Tsūjō. Goto. 1690. Eleventh of the great Goto Masters. Kyoto.
Tsūjū. Vide Mitsuhisa.
Tsukuda. Shukiyo. Present day. A skilled metal-sculptor, celebrated also for combining metals so as to produce fine effects of colour-harmonies. He has produced some magnificent iron tablets with designs in high relief.
Tsunagawa. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Tsunayoshi. Shōami. 1780. Worked at Wakamatsu in Aizu.
Tsunehisa. Kajima. 1810. Yeijiro. A pupil of Kiyohisa (Tanaka). Yedo.
Tsunekatsu. Kikuchi. 1730. A pupil of Naokatsu (Inagawa). Celebrated for skill in chiselling in relief and in the Kibori style. One of the great artists of the Yanagawa school. Yedo.
Tsunekazu. Nara. 1720. Kiraku. A pupil of Yasuchika. Yedo.
Tsunemitsu. Kikuchi. 1740. Iyemon. A pupil of Tsunekatsu. Highly skilled in Kibori chiselling, but his work lacks strength.
Tsunenaga. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Tsunenao. 1770. Kiubei. A pupil of Nagatsune. Kyoto.
Tsunenari. Tsuji. 1760. Used the mark, Rakusuidō. A great carver in the style of Rinsendō. He died young (Omi province).
Tsunenori. Nakai. 1600. Shinzayemon. Suwo.
Tsunesada. 1740. Yedo.
Tsuneshige. Nara. 1730. A great expert, celebrated for combining high and low relief. Used at first the mark Sekiguchi Ryoka, and afterwards that of Kawamura Ichiyemon. Yedo.
Tsunetsugu. Yoshioka. 1770. Rizayemon. Called also Hidesaburo, and had the title of Inaba-no-suke. Yedo.
Tsuneyuki. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Jiriuken and Ranzan.
Tsuneyuki. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Jiriyusai.
Uhei. Vide Jōkwō.
Ujiharu. Wakabayashi. 1720. Uhei. A skilled artist. Originally of the Katsugi family, he changed his name to Wakabayashi, and became carver to the feudal chief of Toyama in Yetchiu.
Ujihira. Katsugi. 1770. Hachirobei. Kaga.
Ujihiro. Katsugi. 1720. Kichirobei. Celebrated for his nanako work. Kaga.
Ujiiye. Katsugi. 1630. Gondayu. Moved from Fushimi to Kaga in the year 1625. A pupil of Goto Kenjō and a skilled expert. He received an annual allowance of fifteen rations from the feudal chief of Kaga.
Ujiiye. Katsugi. 1650. Ichibei, son of Ujiiye Gondayu. Kaga.
Ujiiye. Kaneko. 1670. Ichibei, son of Ujiiye Katsugi, but subsequently changed his family name to Kaneko. A famous carver. Kaga.
Ujiiye. Katsugi. 1670. Ichiroyemon, younger brother of Ujiiye Ichibei. An artist of high repute. Kaga.
Ujiiye. Miyōchin. 1560. First named Iyeyoshi and afterwards Nobuiye. A great expert, but not to be confounded with the still greater Nobuiye, the seventeenth representative of the Miyōchin family, who worked in Joshiu. Ujiiye worked in Kai.
Ujikata. Katsugi. 1710. Kakunojō. Kaga.
Ujikiyo. Katsugi. 1690. Kakubei. Kaga.
Ujimune. Katsugi. 1730. Saburo. Kaga.
Ujinaga. Katsugi. 1630. Kihei. Pupil of Ujiiye Gondayu. Kaga.
Ujinaga. Katsugi. 1650. Kihei, son of Ujinaga Kihei. Kaga.
Ujinao. Hirata. 1650. Ichizayemon. A pupil of the Shōami experts of Kyoto. A maker of iron guards inlaid with gold. Awa province.
Ujinari. 1670. Jihei, a pupil of Ujiiye Ichiroyemon. Kaga.
Ujinobu. Katsugi. 1670. Buhei; son of Ujiiye Ichibei. Kaga.
Ujinobu. 1670. A pupil of Ujiiye Ichiroyemon. Kaga.
Ujitada. 1670. A pupil of Ujiiye Ichiroyemon. Kaga.
Ujiteru. Wakabayashi. 1790. Kichirobei. Originally of the Katsugi family, he afterwards changed his name to Wakabayashi. Kaga.
Ujitsugu. Katsugi. 1670. Rokuro. Kaga.
Ujitsugu. Katsugi. 1790. Yenshichi. Kaga.
Ujiyasu. Hirata. 1680. Yohachiro. A maker of iron guards inlaid with gold. Awa province.
Ujiyasu. Katsugi. 1730. Kichirobei. Kaga.
Ujiyasu. Katsugi. 1750. Kichirobei. Kaga. (Second of the same name.)
Ujiyasu. Katsugi. 1760. Kichirobei. Kaga. (Third of the same name.)
Ujiyasu. Katsugi. 1780. Gonkichi. Kaga. (A pupil of Goto Yenjō.)
Ujiyoshi. Katsugi. 1750. Gonnojō. Kaga.
Ujiyoshi. Katsugi. 1690. Ichinojō; son of Ujiiye Ichiroyemon. A celebrated artist, who combined delicate chiselling with rich inlaying. Kaga.
Ujiyoshi. Katsugi. 1790. Jihei. Kaga.
Unjō. Goto. 1680. Called also Mitsuyuki. Kyoto.
Unno. Nenokichi. A highly skilled metal-chiseller of the present day.
Unno. Shōmin. Present day. One of the greatest workers in metal that Japan has produced. Originally a chiseller of sword-fumiture. Has made many objects for the Imperial Court, and is famous for combining repoussé and chiselling in iron, as well as for sculpture in the round, and for incised chiselling in the kata-kiri style.
Unno. Shōshiu. Present day. Metal-sculptor. Pupil of the Unno Shōmin.
Unsui. Katsura. 1720. Nagatoshi. A pupil of Fusayoshi (Yokoya), and an artist of the first rank. Yedo.
Unsuiken. Vide Toshinobu.
Unteidō. Vide Hiranori.
Watanabe. Sukekuro. Vide Yasuyuki.
Watanabe. Hisamitsu. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Watanabe. Jizan. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Yagami. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Yahei. Kishimoto. 1780. A pupil of Goto Shichiroyemon, and a skilled artist of Kyoto.
Yamada. Gorobei. Muneyoshi. Present day. Son of Yamada Gorobei Munemitsu.
Yamada. Gorobei. Munemitsu. Present day. A metal-sculptor of Kaga, celebrated for his skill in repoussé work. He is the tenth in descent from Yamada Ichiyemon Iyemasa, who, as well as his descendants up to the time of the father of the present representative of the family, forged armour and iron stirrups inlaid with gold.
Yamada. Ichiyemon Iyemasa. 16th cent. An armourer of Kanazawa (Kaga), specially skilled in inlaying with gold and silver. The Yamada family continued to work as armourers armourers down to the present representative, who manufactures vases, etc., decorated in the repoussé style with addition of inlaying. The names of the representatives of the family after Iyemasa are:
Yamada. Iyetada Jiyemon. 1630. Sword-smith as well as armourer.
Yamada. Iyesada Gorobei. 1655.
Yamada. Iyetsugu Ichiyemon. 1685.
Yamada. Iyenaga Jinyemon. 1720.
Yamada. Nagakatsu Gorobei. 1760.
Yamada. Nagamoto Sanyemon. 1810.
Yamada. Nagayo Gorobei. 1840.
Yamada. Iyemitsu Gorobei. 1860.
Yamagata. A name given to the mark, meaning “mountain shape.” The maker of the specimens thus marked has never been identified. They are generally decorated with herons, moorland views, spools of yarn, etc., in relief on a polished ground, picked out with gold (not plating but solid gold). The maker cannot have lived at a later date than the middle of the eighteenth century.
Yamagawa. Koji. 19th cent. (d. 1897.) A skilled metal-chiseller of Takaoka.
Yamashiro-no-kami. Tsuji. 1630. Originally an artist of Fushimi, he moved to Kaga and received an allowance of one hundred and fifty koku of rice yearly from the feudal chief of that province.
Yamayoshi. Shōami. 1540. One of the old experts, contemporary with Nobuiye (Miyōchin). He made guards with the design pierced à jour, but did not polish the iron. Worked in Owari.
Yamayoshi-bei. Shōami. 1570. Son of the first Yamayoshi. Worked in his father’s style, but polished the iron carefully, and gave a recurved rim to his guards. Worked in Owari.
Yamazaki. Family name. Vide Ichiga.
Yanagawa. Family name. Vide Naomasa.
Yasayobi. Vide Riyonenshi.
Yasuchika. Tsuchiya (sometimes spoken of as Nara). 1730. Yagohachi. A great artist, one of the “Three Nara Masters” (vide Toshihisa). His work resembles that of Toshihisa, but is bolder in style, and has a markedly subjective character. He had been called the Kwōrin (vide pictorial art) of glyptic artists. Imitations of his work have been numerous ever since the middle of the eighteenth century, but the essential features of his style are inimitable. Some of his pieces are marked Tōu. Yedo.
Yasufusa. Hirata. 1700. Ichizayemon. A maker of iron guards inlaid with gold. Awa province.
Yasuhira. Shinozaki. 1650. Shōyemon. One of the most celebrated of the Mito experts. The Mito carving is more elaborate than artistic, but the technique is often admirable. Mito.
Yasuhisa. Shingaku. 1770. Tomo-no-jō. Artistic name, Keirinsai. Sendai.
Yasukawa. Sanyemon. 19th cent. (d. 1887.) A skilled metal-chiseller of Takaoka.
Yasunobu. Nara. 1730. Son of Yasuchika. Called at first Yasunobu. An artist scarcely inferior to his father, Tō-ō. The representatives of the Yasuchika family worked generation after generation in Yedo, up to the sixth generation in 1850.
Yasunobu. Noda. 1600. Chiuzayemon. A skilled expert of Kyoto.
Yasushige. Fuse. 1630. Shōzaburo. A pupil of Goto Sakujō. Kyoto.
Yasutomi. Shibayo. 1730. Ihei. A pupil of Yokoya Teruaki. One of the earliest of the Sendai experts.
Yasuyemon. Komori. 1700. A pupil of Goto Kambei. Kyoto.
Yasuyori. Hamano. 1770. Yenjuro. At first called Naoyuki, and generally known as Hōzui (another pronunciation of Yasuyori). Yedo.
Yasuyuki. Tsuji. 1750. An artist of note. Had various names—Masayuki, Watanabe, Sukekuro, and Hikokoro. Yedo.
Yeiji. Nayemura. 1820. A Kyoto expert, skilled in carving dragons among waves.
Yeijō. Vide Narikado (Hirata).
Yeijō. Goto. 1600. Sixth of the great Goto Masters. Kyoto.
Yeiju. Takase. 1780. Izayemon. Pupil of Sekijoken.
Yeisendo. Vide Yoshinori.
Yeishu. Iwamoto. 1780. Yasuchika Shinsuke. Pupil of Iwamoto Konkwan. Celebrated for skill in Kata-kiri chiselling. Worked first in Yedo and afterwards in Mito.
Yeizui. Vide Fusayori.
Yekijō. Goto. 1630. Mitsuharu. Kyoto.
Yenjō. Goto. 1630. Mitsuhide, and commonly known as Kambei. Kyoto.
Yenjō. Goto. 1760. The thirteenth Goto Master.
Yetsujō. Goto. 1660. Mitsukuni. Kyoto.
Yohei. Umemura. 1710. Commonly called Masuya Yohei. A pupil of Sōhō. Kyoto.
Yokoya. Family name. Vide Teruaki.
Yoritoshi. Nomura. Pupil of Hiyobu Hōgen.
Yoritsune. 1580. Nothing is known about this artist, but an inscription on his work shows that he lived in the time of the celebrated master of tea ceremonial, Sen no Rikiu.
Yoshiaki. Tanaka. 1720. Gozayemon. A pupil of Goto Rihei. A skilled expert. Yedo.
Yoshiaki. 1810. An expert of some note. Studied in Mito and settled in Yedo. Commonly called Unno Yoshiaki.
Yoshiaki. Ishiguro. 1850. Kichigoro. Yedo.
Yoshichika. Tsuchiya. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Kaga.
Yoshida. Family name. Vide Bunsui.
Yoshiharu. Kaneko. 1550. Kichi-no-jō. A man of noble origin, who studied carving under Goto Kwōjō, and attained such skill that he adopted the work as a profession, and founded the Kaneko family of artists. Kyoto.
Yoshiharu. 1840. Sentaro. Yedo.
Yoshihide. Mikami. 1840. Wajiuro. Called Kosanya. Yedo.
Yoshihiro. Kuwamura. 1620. Yosabei. A skilled expert with a peculiarly soft style. Adopted son of Koko. Kaga.
Yoshihiro. Noda. 1730. Uhachi. A pupil of Yasuchika (Nara). Celebrated for carving groups of various kinds of fish. His work is tender yet strong. Yedo.
Yoshihiro. Iwamoto. 1750. Chiuyemon; afterwards Yohachi. Called also Kikwan. Father of the celebrated Konkwan (Iwamoto). He is sometimes spoken of as belonging to the Shōami family. Kyoto.
Yoshihisa. Umetada. 1700. The thirty-first descendant of Tachibana no Munechika. On his work is found the inscription Umetada Tachibana no Nanigashi, or “A certain member of the Tachibana family.” A Kyoto expert.
Yoshihisa. 1810. Onominokichi. Art name, Tokakusai. A pupil of Kyohisa (Tanaka). Aizu.
Yoshihisa. Tamagawa. 1770. Saburoshiro. A skilled expert. Employed by the Daimiyo of Mito and afterwards worked in Yedo. Art name, Kiukiuken.
Yoshihisa. Tamagawa. 1790. Tashichi. Called himself Joyeikan. A nephew of Yoshihisa Saburoshiro. Celebrated for his skill in carving dragons. Yedo.
Yoshihisa. Shōami. 1750. Heisuke. Worked first at Tsuyama in Minosaka, and afterwards in Kyoto.
Yoshikawa. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
Yoshikatsu. Inagawa. 1740. Carved in the style of Naomasa (Yanagawa) and attained a high reputation. Yedo.
Yoshikatsu. 1840. Yeijiro. A pupil of Jikosai. Yedo.
Yoshikatsu. Okamoto. 1740. Tōzayemon. A skilled artist. His work was presented by the feudal chief of Choshiu to the Yedo Court. Hagi.
Yoshikazu. Shōami. 1620. An expert of the Iyo branch of the Shōami family. Matsuyama.
Yoshikuni. Yoshishige. 1660. Magoyemon. Kaga.
Yoshikuni. Yoshishige. 1710. Choyemon. Kaga.
Yoshikyo. Goto. 1630. Yoshishige. Employed at the Mint (Kobanza). Kyoto.
Yoshimitsu. Kaneko. 1660. An expert of Kii, sixth descendant of Yoshiharu Kichi-no-jō. Art name, Jogen. A skilled artist.
Yoshimitsu. Aoyagi. 1740. Yeigoro. Called also Mitsunari. A pupil of Inagawa Yoshikatsu, and a skilled expert. Yedo.
Yoshimune. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art name, Hiyaku-ji-ken.
Yoshinaga. Wao. 1740. A Yedo expert, who worked in the style of Yoshitsugu Kohei.
Yoshinaga. Yasui. 1660. Sahei. A pupil of Goto Mitsusadt Riujō. A great expert. Kyoto.
Yoshinaga. Tamagawa. 1780. Saburohei; also called Bumpei. One of the greatest of the Mito artists. Mito (Hitachi).
Yoshinaga. Furukawa. 1650. Sahei. A pupil of Goto Riujō. A fine artist. Kyoto.
Yoshinaga. Umetada. 1650. Shichizayemon. One of the early Umetada workers. His tsuba are solid but of various shapes; some are chiselled à jour. A few have gold inlaying in the numone style. Yoshinaga used the ideograph ume in marking his work. Vide Muneyuki.
Yoshinari. Ogawa. 1840. Minosuke. A pupil of Jikosai. Yedo.
Yoshinobu. 1750. Called himself Hiyaku-ju-ken and marked his works Yoshinobu. A very skilled expert. Yedo.
Yoshinori. Yoshishige. 1630. Shokuro. Pupil of Yoshishige Gorosaku. Kaga.
Yoshinori. Mizuno. 1630. Genji. Kaga. Founder of the Mizuno family. A pupil of Goto Yenjō (Mitsuhide).
Yoshinori. Tsuji. 1780. Shinshiro. Art name, Yeisendo. An expert of the very highest skill. Worked in Omi. Also called Kariuken.
Yoshinori. Seki. 1820. Naokichi. Art name, Soriusai. A great artist. Yedo. Called also Umi-no Yoshinori.
Yoshioka. Family name. Vide Shigetsugu.
Yoshisada. Gotō. 1630. Saijiro. Kaga.
Yoshisato. Ishiguro. 1850. Called himself Jitekisai. Nagasaki.
Yoshishige. Mizuno. 1630. Genji. A pupil of Goto Yenjō and very skilled. Kaga.
Yoshishige. 1620. Gorosaku. Brother of the celebrated Kuninaga of Kaga and pupil of Goto Tokujō. Gorosaku and his elder brother, Jirosaku are equally famous. Their works are commonly spoken of as Gorosaku-bori and Jirosaku-bori, and they are regarded as the originators of the Kaga school of experts. Gorosaku is said to have been taught painting by the artist, Sōsa. He and his brother, Jirosaku, received an annual allowance of fifty bags of rice each from the feudal chief of Kaga. His descendants, his pupils and their descendants took the name Yoshishige as a family name.
Yoshitada. 1840. Chiuzaburo. A pupil of Jikosai. Yedo.
Yoshitaka. Ishiguro. 1850. Kintaro. Yedo.
Yoshitake. Shōami. 1660. Tsutsui. A pupil of Soden. Worked at Hikone.
Yoshitane. Honjō. 1850. Kamenosuke. A celebrated expert of Yedo, skilled not only as a sword-maker, but also as a chiseller of sword-mounts. One of the greatest workers of the nineteenth century.
Yoshitatsu. Fujiwara. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art names, Tessai and Tanzandō.
Yoshiteru. Sonobe. 1840. Art name, Tōgindō. A skilled expert of Kyoto.
Yoshitsugu. Sakai. 1850. Sakujiro. Yedo.
Yoshitsugu. Shōami. 1800. Jiyemon. An expert of Aizu.
Yoshitsugu. Okamoto. 1760. To-no-shin. An elaborate carver with a wide range of designs, being himself a painter. Hagi.
Yoshitsugu. Yoshishige. 1740. Hachitayu. Kaga.
Yoshitsugu. Akao. 1640. Gonzayemon. First expert of the Akao family. Lived at Fukui in Yechizen. Worked in the Kinai style.
Yoshitsugu. Akao. 1670. Kohei or Kichiji. Celebrated as the first to apply pierced decoration to guards of shakudo. Born in Yechizen, but worked in Yedo. Commonly known as Kinai Kichiji.
Yoshitsugu. Akao. 1720. A tolerably skilled expert who worked in the style of Yoshitsugu Kohei. Yedo.
Yoshitsune. Ishiguro. 1850. Ginnosuke. Grandson of Jimiyo. Called himself Senyushi, Gammon and Tominsai. A celebrated expert. Yedo.
Yoshitsumu. 1830. A fine expert of Tokyo, teacher of Toriusai.
Yoshiyasu. Kato. 1670. Jihei. Kyoto.
Yoshiyuki. Kumagaye. 1820. Employed by the Hosokuwa Daimiyo, for whom he carved a celebrated silver vase encircled by a bronze dragon. Worked in Yedo, and attained great repute.
Yoshiyuki. Akao. 1750. A Yedo expert, who worked in the style of Yoshitsugu Kohei.
Yōshōdō. Vide Masayasu.
Yozaburo. Yokoya. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yanagawa. Called also Tomotsune.
Yūjō. Goto. 1460. The first of the great Goto Masters. Kyoto.
Yuki. Vide Masaya.
Yukinaga. Fujii. 1720. Gembei. His sword-mounts are profusely and delicately chiselled. Hagi.
Yukinao. Nakahara. 1710. Kichibei. Kyoto. Founder of the Nakahara family.
Yukinori. Nakahara. 1760. Kichibei. Called in his youth Yukhisia. A celebrated artist. It was his custom to carve all the mountings of a sword with designs en suite. He moved from Kyoto to Nagato, by invitation of the Prince of Chōshiu, and thenceforth worked in Hagi.
Yukitada. Nakahara. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Chōshiu.
Yukitaka. Fujii. 1750. Genyemon. An artist of high repute. Son of Yukinaga (Fujii), he carved in the elaborate style of his father, but with more spirit. Hagi.
Yukitoshi. Nakahara. 1780. Genzayemon. Son of Yukinori, and scarcely inferior to his father. He also attained to considerable repute as a painter. Hagi.
Yukiyoshi. Nakahara. 1800. Hambei. Hagi.
Yūkotei. Vide Masanori.
Yūmeishi. Vide Muneaki.
Yūmia. Vide Teruaki (Yokoya).
Yurōsai. Vide Sekibun.
Yūsen. Vide Hiyobu Hōgen.
Yushintō. Vide Tomobumi.
Zaisui. Funada. 1720. Shōhachi. Teacher of the celebrated Nara Yasuchika, and a great expert. Worked at Shonai in Dewa. He was followed by his son of the same name.
Zeju. Iwamoto. 1830. Pupil of Iwamoto Konkwan. Yedo.
Zembei. Shibaya. 1750. A skilled inlayer of Sendai.
Zenjin. 1700. Date uncertain. Some fine specimens of his work exist, marked Akashi Yechizen.
Zenjō. Goto. 1600. Mitunari, or Kihei. Kyoto.
Zenjō. Goto. 1650. Mitsunori. Kyoto.
Zenshiro. 1610. A carver of Satsuma. Pupil of the Goto family.

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