ARTIST ARTIZANS
- Takabatake. Toyejiro. Present day. A worker in cloisonné enamel of Kanazawa (in Kaga); remarkable for his imitations of the Chinese style.
- Takamura. Kōun. Present day. A wood-carver of Tokyo, regarded as among the greatest of the century; pupil of Tōun. He stands between the old school and the new.
- Takasaki. Takaichiro. Present day. A skilled worker in cloisonné enamel.
- Takeda. Nobuhide. 19th cent. (d. 1845.) A great wood-carver of Kanazawa. Art name, Yugetsu. Celebrated for chiselling eagles, birds, and flowers, etc., in relief on the panels of letter-boxes. He had a pension of a hundred koku of rice from Mayeda, feudal chief of Kaga.
- Takeda. 19th cent. (d. 1865.) A mask-carver of Kanazawa; son of Takeda Nobuhide.
- Takehara. Torakichi. Present day. A skilled netsuke-shi of Osaka. Art name, Chikko. He has made some excellent imitations of Shūzan’s netsuke (vide Shūzan).
- Takenouchi. Yasuhei. 18th cent. A netsuke-carver of Wakayama, Kishiu. His netsuke are coloured.
- Takeoka. Gohei. Present day. Maker of wooden figures, masks, etc., for the foreign market, as well as for use in Japanese festivals, puppet shows, etc., in the style of Matsumoto Kisaburo (q. v.). Several generations of the Takeoka family were employed in the manufacture of votive images and puppets, from 1688 to the present day; as Takeoka Dengon (d. 1847), Takeoka Kōzō, and Takeoka Denkichi.
- Takeshita. Shōju. Present day. Metal-sculptor. Pupil of Unno Shōmin.
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Workers in cloisonné enamels; pupils of Tsukamoto Kaisuke. |
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- Takusai. 19th cent. (d. 1885.) A skilled bronze-caster of Sado. He cast principally small objects, and was specially skilled in producing a fine, purple patina. His son of the same name is now working.
- Tamaji. 18th cent. A netsuke-carver of Kyoto.
- Tametaka. 18th cent. A netsuke-carver of Nagoya. The Soken Kisho says: “He devised a new style of carving; namely, chiselling vine scroll (karakusa) decoration in relief on the costumes of human figures. Hence his name is well known.
- Tametaka. First half of 19th cent. Netsuke-carver celebrated for chiselling figures and flowers.
- Tanchosai. Jikaku. 19th cent. A bronze-founder of Yedo, contemporary of Seimin.
- Tatsugoro. A worker in cloisonné enamels; pupil of Kaji Tsunekichi.
- Tatsuki. Kanzō. 18th cent. A netsuke-carver of Osaka. His netsuke are very rare.
- Tawaraya. Dembei. 18th cent. A netsuke-carver of Osaka. He was a pupil of Kanjuro, and carved in ivory and wood.
- Teijo. 19th cent. (d. 1861.) A great bronze-caster of Yedo; pupil of Seimin. Teijo was his art name, his real name being Kunibara Yahei.
- Tokoku. Present day. A wood-carver of Tokyo; works almost entirely in hard wood, called Sabita, which is obtained from Hokkaido, and which is almost as good a field as metal for engraving purposes.
- Tomochika. 19th cent. (d. 1873.) An ivory-carver of Yedo (Tokyo), not only one of the greatest but also one of the most prolific carvers of the 19th cent. Younger brother of Ogino Shōmin, like whom he never received any instruction in sculpture. His art name was Chikuyosai. Most of his fine netsuke were chiselled between 1830 and 1870.
- Tomochika. Present day. A netsuke-shi of Tokyo. Son of an adopted son of the celebrated Tomochika, but of far inferior skill.
- Tomokazu. 19th cent. (d. 1867.) A netsuke-shi of Gifu and Osaka, celebrated for skill in chiselling rats.
- Tomotada. 18th cent. A netsuke-carver of Kyoto. The Soken Kisho says: “He obtained renown as a sculptor of oxen, and his work was spoken of throughout the whole of the Kwanto district (eight provinces eastward of Hakone). There are hundreds of imitations, but the originals are admirably clever.”
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