A SET OF TWELVE KOZUKA

MEIJI PERIOD (CA. 1909), SIGNED SHUKYO KOKU SEALED SHIN, SOME WITH GO, SHINYUSAI, ROKYOSEN, SHUNPUSHA, SHUKYODO

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A SET OF TWELVE KOZUKA
MEIJI PERIOD (CA. 1909), SIGNED SHUKYO KOKU SEALED SHIN, SOME WITH GO, SHINYUSAI, ROKYOSEN, SHUNPUSHA, SHUKYODO
Each complete with blade, the kozuka of shibuichi worked in katakiribori and decorated in iro-e hirazogan with festivals of the twelve month: New Year's day with manzai dancers, the plum festival in February, the dolls' festival in March, the birthday of Shaka Buddha in April, the Boys' festival in May, the Gion-e festival with mikoshi (divine carriage) in June, celebrating ancestors in July, the moon festival of August and September, merchants celebrating Ebisudo day in October, the shichi-go-san (children's festival) in November and the end of year in December; in a fitted lacquer box containing a two page description of the kozuka in ink on gold paper dated Maiji 42. 10 (October, 1909) and signed Tsukada Shukyo and sealed, probably by the artist (12)

拍品專文

Tsukada Shukyo was born in Kanda Shirogane-cho, Tokyo in the first year of Kaei (1848), the son of Dohi Gishu, a retainer of the Akimoto family of the Tatebayashi clan in Jo province. Shukyo was adopted by Hata Chokkyo in Ansei 6 (1859) and studied painting under Shibata Zeshin. He also worked as a base carver for Kano Natsuo, with whom he became very close, and used the go (art name), Shinyusai. After the government ban on wearing swords Shukyo worked on commissions from Ministry of Home Affairs.