CHISELLERS
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.
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