SIGNED SOMIN WITH KAKIHAN, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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A FINE GOLD OJIME OF TWO ONI
Signed Somin with kakihan, Meiji Period (Late 19th Century)
The two oni finely carved in pale gold, their tiger-skin trousers of copper, the smaller oni pearing from behind the back of the elder, not yet having grown his horns, signed on the underside Somin, with kakihan
1.5cm. high

Literature

International Netsuke Society Journal, October 2002.

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Lot Essay

For an inro with gold panels by Yokoya Somin, see Edward Gilbertson and others, A Japanese Collection made by Michael Tomkinson, part 1, (London, 1898).

Haynes records one Tokyo artist Hoshisan Somin who died ca. 1900-1920, a goldsmith and goldcaster, see Robert E. Haynes, The Index of Japanese swordfittings and associated artists (Ellwangen, 2001), vol. 3, p. 1775.

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