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AN IRON ARTICULATED SCULPTURE OF A LOBSTER 江戶時代 鐵自在龍蝦 銘 清春 (明珍清春)
EDO PERIOD (18TH-19TH CENTURY), SIGNED KIYOHARU (MYOCHIN
KIYOHARU) 多組鐵件搥打接合巧製而成,工序繁複。身可曲,眼、鬚、
爪、肢皆可動,工藝精湛,一爪銘款。
The iron lobster constructed of numerous hammered plates jointed
inside the body, the body bends and the eyes, antennae, limbs, fns 附雙木盒
and legs move, the details fnely carved and chiseled, signature on one
of limbs 展覽
11º in. (28.6 cm.) long 「2011亞太傳統藝術節特展-日本明治美術」,國立臺灣傳統
With double wood boxes 藝術中心,2011年7月8日-2012年1月8日,展覽圖錄頁110。
「驚人的明治工藝」,東京藝術大學美術館,2016年9月7
HK$400,000-550,000 US$52,000-71,000 日-10月30日;京都細見美術館,2016年11月12日-12月25日;
埼玉縣川越市立美術館,2017年4月22日-6月11日;展覽圖錄
展品編號11。
EXHIBITED
Preparatory Offce of the National Headquarters of Taiwan
Traditional Arts, “Japan Arts of Meiji Period; Asia-Pacifc Traditional 著錄
Arts Festival Special Exhibition,” 2011.7.8-2012.1.8, cat. p. 110. 郭鴻盛及張元鳳主編,《明治之美》,國立臺灣師範大學文物
“Meiji Kogei: Amazing Japanese Art,” shown at the following 保存維護研究發展中心,2013年,頁280。
venues: Tokyo University of the Arts Museum, 2016.9.7-10.30. 龍蝦甲殼紋理異常精細,刻畫入微,一絲不苟。在鐵塊上刻鑿
Hosomi Museum, Kyoto, 2016.11.12-12.25. Kawagoe City Art 如此攝人的細節,所需功夫極高。 明珍清春之自在雕塑創作
Museum, 2017.4.22-6.11, cat. no. 11.
極為稀少,兩罕例包括大英博物館藏一自在龍,及東京國立
LITERATURE 博物館藏一自在鷹,後者戴於原田一敏編「自在置物」,《綠
Kuo Hong-Sheng and Chang Yuan-Feng, chief eds. et al., Meiji no bi 青》期刊別冊11,2010年,圖版17。
/ Splendid Beauty: Illustrious Crafts of the Meiji Period (Taipei: National
Taiwan Normal University Research Center for Conservation of
Cultural Relics, 2013), p. 280.
The spiny shell of this lobster is very intricate and it requires
extraordinary effort and technique to create such magnifcent details
from a sheet of iron.
Articulated sculptures by Myochin Kiyoharu are extremely rare.
There are articulated models of a dragon in the British Museum
and an eagle in the Tokyo National Museum. For the eagle in the
Tokyo National Museum, see Harada Kazutoshi, ed., Jizai okimono
/ Articulated Iron Figures of Animals, Rokusho 11, special edition
(2010), pl. 17.