SHOWA PERIOD (MID-20TH CENTURY), SIGNED ON BASE YOSHIO [NAKAJIMA YOSHIO, KNOWN AS YASUMI II (1906-1988)]

Three generations of the Yasumi family were metal artists working in Osaka. All three worked in richly colored purple-red bronze (seido). Ysumi II exhibited widely, beginning with the Shin-Bunten and Hoshukuten exhibitions before World War II and the Nitten exhibitions afterward.