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IRON AND INLAID IRON WORKS OF ART
Various Properties

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A BALUSTER REPOUSSÉ-IRON FLOWER VASE Kaga-shi Chiiki Shienbu Jumin Kyodoka Bunkashinkokei (Citizens’
By Kurose Sosei (1886-1944), Showa era (1926-1989), Collaborative Cultural Promotion Unit, Regional Support Department,
circa 1930-1940 Kaga City), Uchidashi Yamada Sobi no sekaiten (Iron Repoussé and the
Of baluster form, with short neck, flat rim, ovoid body and slightly World of Yamada Sobi), exhibition catalogue, Kaga, 2003, cat. no.8.
recessed base, worked on one side in uchidashi (repoussé) technique
with a design of a female tenjin (heavenly being) trailing floating robes Kurose Sosei was the best pupil of Yamada Sobi (1871-1916). Sobi,
and holding a lotus blossom in her right hand, with stylized clouds the son of an armourer, pioneered the application of the uchidashi
above, signed with chiselled characters on the base Sosei with a kao; (repoussé) technique, previously used mainly for the decoration of
with signed and sealed silk cloth and wood storage box inscribed armour, to high-quality items such as animal figures, iron panels, and
outside Tetsu uchidashi tenjin no zu kabin (Repoussé iron flower vase flower containers. Sobi showed at international exhibitions including
with design of a heavenly being) and signed inside Kashu Sosei (Soyo Paris (1900) and St. Louis (1904) and his son followed in his footsteps,
of Kaga Province) and sealed Sosei. 31cm (12¼in) high. (3). participating in the Teiten official national exhibition and its successor
from 1930 until 1933, again in 1936, and finally in the prestigious
£15,000 - 20,000 special exhibition held in 1940 to mark the 2,600th anniversary of the
JPY2,100,000 - 2,800,000 foundation of the Japanese Empire; see Nitten Hensan Iinkai (Nitten
US$19,000 - 25,000 Editorial Committee), Bunten, Teiten, Shinbunten, Nitten shuppinreki
sakuin(An Index of Exhibitors at the Bunten, Teiten, Shinbunten, and
Nitten Exhibitions), Tokyo, 1990, p.103. His work was included in
exhibitions held in Kaga City in 2003 and again in 2016, the latter
marking the centenary of his father’s death (see http://kagashi-ss.
co.jp/bijyutukan/sobi_yamada/).

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