Lot 653
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A PAIR OF TOKYO BIJUTSU GAKKO KEI FUCHI-KASHIRA
A PAIR OF TOKYO BIJUTSU GAKKO KEI FUCHI-KASHIRA

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH--EARLY 20TH CENTURY), SIGNED UNNO YOSHIMORI AND WITH KAO

Details
A PAIR OF TOKYO BIJUTSU GAKKO KEI FUCHI-KASHIRA
meiji period (late 19th--early 20th century), signed unno yoshimori and with kao
Of shakudo ishime-ji decorated in iro-e takazogan with an old man pruning plum branches, the fuchi with bundles of straw, details in gilt (2)
Exhibited
Mikimoto Hall, Mikimoto Ginza, Tokyo, 1980.3.14--23

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Ando Satsuo, Kodogu/The World of Sword Furnishings: Fittings from the Collection of Raymond Bushell (Tokyo: Mikimoto, 1980), no. 95.

Unno Yoshimori II (1864-1919) was the nephew and student of Unno Shomin. He also studied painting with Sakai Doitsu and Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889). He went to Kyoto in 1889 and studied Shijo-school drawing under Imao Keinen and sculpture under Ogura Sojiro. He became a professor at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko in 1898.