CHISELLERS
- 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.
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