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A LACQUER SUZURIBAKO [WRITING and a descendant of Shinsai (c.1407-90),
BOX] WITH LANDSCAPES the founder of the school. Igarashi Doho
developed a unique combination of black
ATTRIBUTED TO THE IGARASHI
SCHOOL lacquer coating with extensive use of gold
and silver leaf, flecks, and even nuggets of
EDO PERIOD, 17 TH CENTURY gold and silver. The elegance of this type
of lacquerware appealed to the aristocratic
the rectangular writing box with overhanging nature of the samurai culture. After the
cover, finely decorated in gold, silver and fame of Igarashi lacquer was established in
black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e and hirame on Kanazawa (it became known as Kaga-maki-e),
a black ground and inlaid in gold foil with a Doho returned to Kyoto, where he died in
scene of a fishing village beneath a silvery 1678. Neither of the first two Doho masters
moon, the interior of the cover a lakeside signed their work. For two suzuribako by
landscape, the waterdropper in copper gilt Doho I see Tokyo National Museum, Special
depicting geese, rectangular slate inkstone Exhibition Oriental Lacquer Arts (Tokyo, 1977),
with fundame edge, silver rims no. 301 and 302.
23 x 24.5 cm., 9 x 9¼ in.
For a similar example of the first Igarashi
The first Igarashi Doho moved, together Doho School, see the exhibition catalogue of
with his adopted son Doho II, and pupil, the Tokyo National Museum, Igarashi-ha no
Shimizu Kyubei, from Kyoto, his native city, makie [Maki-e Lacquer of the Igarashi School],
to Kanazawa in Kaga at the behest of Maeda (Tokyo, 2004), p. 11, pl. 3.
Toshitsune, daimyo of the province in around
1700. Doho was the son of Igarashi Hosai ‡ £ 20,000-30,000
€ 22,500-33,700 US$ 24,900-37,300

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