CHISELLERS
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.
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