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Kanō Tessai 加納銕哉 (1845–1925)
Sold in June 1937 at the Osaka Fine Art Club 大阪美術倶楽部
Kanō Tessai, a previous owner of this piece, was born to a netsuke
artist’s family in Gifu and studied wood carving as well as painting
in both Kyoto and Nagasaki, becoming a priest for a time before
returning to secular life in 1868. He opened his own business in
Tokyo in 1872 and came to prominence when he was commissioned
to make a stationery set for Ōkubo Toshimichi, one of the leaders of
the Meiji Restoration. He contributed wood carving to a Shibayama
inlaid screen with rose and peacock decoration exhibited at the
second Naikoku Kangyō Hakurankai (National Industrial Exhibition)
in 1881 and then went on to show his own tobacco pouches and a
pipe case at the next two exhibitions, in 1890 and 1895.
