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Lot Essay
Ranryo-o is one of the gagaku parformances based on the story of a handsome Chinese Prince Lan Ling Wang from Northern Qi Dynasty.
Although little is known about the artist Takagawa Moritsugu, this work shows the skillful techniques of the artist using various type of colorful soft metals.
For a similar work by Unno Shomin exhibited in the Third National Industrial Exposition which won the first prize and now in the collection of Sannomaru Shozokan, see Kogei no seiki - Meiji no okimono kara gendai no art made (KOGEI - a View of a Century of Modern Japanese Crafts) (Tokyo: The Asahi Shinbun Company, 2003), pl. 35.
Although little is known about the artist Takagawa Moritsugu, this work shows the skillful techniques of the artist using various type of colorful soft metals.
For a similar work by Unno Shomin exhibited in the Third National Industrial Exposition which won the first prize and now in the collection of Sannomaru Shozokan, see Kogei no seiki - Meiji no okimono kara gendai no art made (KOGEI - a View of a Century of Modern Japanese Crafts) (Tokyo: The Asahi Shinbun Company, 2003), pl. 35.