CHISELLERS
and a skilled expert. He received an annual allowance of fifteen rations from the feudal chief of Kaga.
- Ujiiye. Katsugi. 1650. Ichibei, son of Ujiiye Gondayu. Kaga.
- Ujiiye. Kaneko. 1670. Ichibei, son of Ujiiye Katsugi, but subsequently changed his family name to Kaneko. A famous carver. Kaga.
- Ujiiye. Katsugi. 1670. Ichiroyemon, younger brother of Ujiiye Ichibei. An artist of high repute. Kaga.
- Ujiiye. Miyōchin. 1560. First named Iyeyoshi and afterwards Nobuiye. A great expert, but not to be confounded with the still greater Nobuiye, the seventeenth representative of the Miyōchin family, who worked in Joshiu. Ujiiye worked in Kai.
- Ujikata. Katsugi. 1710. Kakunojō. Kaga.
- Ujikiyo. Katsugi. 1690. Kakubei. Kaga.
- Ujimune. Katsugi. 1730. Saburo. Kaga.
- Ujinaga. Katsugi. 1630. Kihei. Pupil of Ujiiye Gondayu. Kaga.
- Ujinaga. Katsugi. 1650. Kihei, son of Ujinaga Kihei. Kaga.
- Ujinao. Hirata. 1650. Ichizayemon. A pupil of the Shōami experts of Kyoto. A maker of iron guards inlaid with gold. Awa province.
- Ujinari. 1670. Jihei, a pupil of Ujiiye Ichiroyemon. Kaga.
- Ujinobu. Katsugi. 1670. Buhei; son of Ujiiye Ichibei. Kaga.
- Ujinobu. 1670. A pupil of Ujiiye Ichiroyemon. Kaga.
- Ujitada. 1670. A pupil of Ujiiye Ichiroyemon. Kaga.
- Ujiteru. Wakabayashi. 1790. Kichirobei. Originally of the Katsugi family, he afterwards changed his name to Wakabayashi. Kaga.
- Ujitsugu. Katsugi. 1670. Rokuro. Kaga.
- Ujitsugu. Katsugi. 1790. Yenshichi. Kaga.
- Ujiyasu. Hirata. 1680. Yohachiro. A maker of iron guards inlaid with gold. Awa province.
- Ujiyasu. Katsugi. 1730. Kichirobei. Kaga.
- Ujiyasu. Katsugi. 1750. Kichirobei. Kaga. (Second of the same name.)
- Ujiyasu. Katsugi. 1760. Kichirobei. Kaga. (Third of the same name.)
- Ujiyasu. Katsugi. 1780. Gonkichi. Kaga. (A pupil of Goto Yenjō.)
- Ujiyoshi. Katsugi. 1750. Gonnojō. Kaga.
- Ujiyoshi. Katsugi. 1690. Ichinojō; son of Ujiiye Ichiroyemon. A celebrated artist, who combined delicate chiselling with rich inlaying. Kaga.
- Ujiyoshi. Katsugi. 1790. Jihei. Kaga.
- Unjō. Goto. 1680. Called also Mitsuyuki. Kyoto.
- Unno. Nenokichi. A highly skilled metal-chiseller of the present day.
- Unno. Shōmin. Present day. One of the greatest workers in metal that Japan has produced. Originally a chiseller of sword-fumiture. Has made many objects for the Imperial Court, and is famous for combining repoussé and chiselling in iron, as well as for sculpture in the round, and for incised chiselling in the kata-kiri style.
- Unno. Shōshiu. Present day. Metal-sculptor. Pupil of the Unno Shōmin.
- Unsui. Katsura. 1720. Nagatoshi. A pupil of Fusayoshi (Yokoya), and an artist of the first rank. Yedo.
- Unsuiken. Vide Toshinobu.
- Unteidō. Vide Hiranori.
- Watanabe. Sukekuro. Vide Yasuyuki.
- Watanabe. Hisamitsu. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
- Watanabe. Jizan. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
- Yagami. 18th and 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
- Yahei. Kishimoto. 1780. A pupil of Goto Shichiroyemon, and a skilled artist of Kyoto.
- Yamada. Gorobei. Muneyoshi. Present day. Son of Yamada Gorobei Munemitsu.
- Yamada. Gorobei. Munemitsu. Present day. A metal-sculptor of Kaga, celebrated for his skill in repoussé work. He is the tenth in descent from Yamada Ichiyemon Iyemasa, who, as well as his descendants up to the time of the father of the present representative of the family, forged armour and iron stirrups inlaid with gold.
- Yamada. Ichiyemon Iyemasa. 16th cent. An armourer of Kanazawa (Kaga), specially skilled in inlaying with gold and silver. The Yamada family continued to work as armour
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