CHISELLERS
- 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
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