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A TOKYO SCHOOL BRONZE OKIMONO OF A BOY A BRONZE OKIMONO OF A CHIN DOG
AND FOUR GEESE By Suzuki Chokichi (1848-1919), Meiji era (1868-1912), early 20th century
By Izumi Seijo (1865-1937) for the Kaneda Company, Naturalistically modelled seated, looking up with a quizzical expression,
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century wearing a ruffled collar around his neck, his bushy tail sweeping around
The young boy poised at one end of the rustic plank bridge wearing a to his right hind leg; signed on the underside of his right foot Kako tsukuru
loosely tied coat, herding the four geese, one with its wings flapping within a rectangular reserve.
and losing its balance, signed on the underside with chiselled 13.5cm x 17cm (5 3/8in x 6 5/8in).
characters Tokyo Kaneda sei (Manufactured by Kaneda of Tokyo)
with an impressed seal Izumi Seijo iru (Cast by Izumi Seijo) with a kao. £2,000 - 3,000
JPY260,000 - 400,000
18cm x 57.2cm (23¼in) long.
US$2,500 - 3,700
£4,000 - 6,000 For recent research on the latter part of Suzuki Chokichi’s career, see Joe
JPY530,000 - 790,000 Earle, ‘Suzuki Chokichi: Master of Metal Raptors’, in Victoria Weston ed.,
US$4,900 - 7,400 Eaglemania: Collecting Japanese Art in Gilded Age America, exhibition
Izumi Seijo was a noted bronze caster working in Tokyo. Examples catalogue, Boston, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2019,
of his sculpture are in the Japanese Imperial Collections, the Tokyo pp.25-30.
University of Fine Arts and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. For a
pair of chickens by the artist see Kindai Nippon chokoku no itchoryu:
Hoshu dentoha no eiko (Modern Japanese Sculpture: The Glory of
the Conservative Traditional School), Tokyo, Sannomaru Shozokan
(Museum of the Imperial Collections), 1996, p.58.

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