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A RED-LACQUER, SHEET LEAD AND SHELL KIKYOKU Design), signed inside Jun’ichiro kore o seisu (Jun’ichiro made this)
and sealed. 46.2cm x 62cm x 27.3cm (18¼in x 24½in x 10¾in). (4).
(CABINET FOR THE SENCHA TEA CEREMONY)
By Yoshida Jun’ichiro (1898-1969), Showa era (1926-1989), 1941
Constructed probably from hinoki (Japanese cypress) in a variant of £3,000 - 5,000
the typical shodana cabinet form, comprising a cupboard with fully JPY400,000 - 660,000
detachable door to the right and a slightly narrower open section to the US$3,700 - 6,200
left, the cupboard with a tray supported on two rails, the open section
with a drawer below; the exterior covered in dark red lacquer with the Exhibited and Published:
texture of the reinforcing fabric deliberately left visible, the door, the Maki-e to urushi-e no tenrankai (Exhibition of lacquerware and lacquer
drawer front and the base of the open section finished in brighter red painting), Shindoya, Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture, June 28,
lacquer; the pictorial decoration confined to the door and drawer front, 1942, with exhibition leaflet in which the present lot, Tachiaoimon
the door with a bold design of hollyhocks executed in gold hiramaki-e, kikyokutana (Set of kikyoku shelves with hollyhock design), is first on
thick shell and thick lead, the drawer front with grasses in gold and the list.
silver hiramaki-e, the perimeter of the door with formal floral motifs
in shell; the sides of the tray with similar motifs in maki-e, the interior The maker of this handsome and well-preserved set of shelves for the
and base polished black roiro lacquer; the door and drawer front each Chinese-style sencha (steeped leaf tea) ceremony, made in the middle
with a chrysanthemum-shaped silver and gilt openwork pull; signed of the war years, was Yoshida Jun’ichiro, a lacquerer from Niigata
in silver hiramaki-e on the reverse of the door Jun’ichiro saku (Made Prefecture who studied in Tokyo under a number of masters including
by Jun’ichiro); with a wood tomobako box, a contemporary exhibition Uematsu Hobi (1872-1933), an artist whose work is frequently offered
checklist and an exhibition leaflet with brief texts by the artist and two in these Rooms (for a recent example see Fine Japanese Art, 16 May
other writers (dated 1941), the checklist and leaflet in an envelope 2019, lot 52); see also lot 74 in the present catalogue. Yoshida’s formal
addressed to Uchida Sokan, a lacquerer resident in Kashiwazaki City exhibition career began in 1924 with the special exhibition dedicated
(see below); the lid of the tomobako inscribed on the outside Kikyoku to Shotoku Taishi and he continued to show his work at the Teiten,
tachiaoimon (Cabinet for the Sencha Tea Ceremony with Hollyhock Bunten, Nitten and other official events until 1957.

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