A BRONZE KORO AND COVER decorated in iroe hirazogan with two panels alternately depicting Shoki with an oni dressed as Manzai dancer on his arm and a group of oni stealing Shoki's sword and hat, tripod legs with cash motif and sacred pearls, elephant mask handles and a pierced domed cover with chrysanthemum finial, silver liner (some old wear), signed Kaneyasu Masanaga zo, late 19th Century

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A BRONZE KORO AND COVER decorated in iroe hirazogan with two panels alternately depicting Shoki with an oni dressed as Manzai dancer on his arm and a group of oni stealing Shoki's sword and hat, tripod legs with cash motif and sacred pearls, elephant mask handles and a pierced domed cover with chrysanthemum finial, silver liner (some old wear), signed Kaneyasu Masanaga zo, late 19th Century
15.5cm. high

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The artist was born in Edo in 1845 and was also known as Ito Seijiro. He was a pupil of Tanaka Kiyonaga and was an adopted son of Ito Katsumi who was the eleventh master of the Ito Family. He died in 1908

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