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169 Y Ф For a similar finely executed example of a bronze and ivory figure by
AN IVORY, BRONZE AND WOOD OKIMONO FIGURE Kaneda Kenjiro, see Joe Earle, Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the
OF A WOODCUTTER Meiji Period from the Khalili Collection, London, The Khalili Family Trust,
The bronze by Kaneda Kenjiro, the ivory attributed to Ashiba Ryushu, 2002, p.381, no.274.
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
The old man resting and seated on large bundles of tied brushwood, Kaneda Kenjiro 金田兼次郎, who together with Ishikawa Komei (1852-
his right leg outstretched, clutching in his left hand a portable ashtray 1913) co-founded the Kankokai Craft Company in 1877, later became
attached to a tobacco pouch and holding a pipe in the other, signed the adoptive father of the eldest daughter of the renowned lacquerer
on one side of the brushwood at the lower right Kaneda sei within a Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891). Although he is best known for his ivory
rectangular reserve and signed beneath the figure’s left foot Ryushu. carvings, he also commissioned figures in bronze like the present piece.
37cm x 40cm (14½in x 15¾in). He exhibited several works at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in 1904.

£5,000 - 7,000 Ashiba Ryushu 蘆葉竜洲 an ivory craftsman, is recorded as a pupil of
JPY740,000 - 1,000,000 Kaneda Kenjiro.
US$6,600 - 9,200

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.