NihontoWatchNihontoWatchThe "Nijushiko" (Twenty-four Filial Exemplars) is a book compiled during the Yuan dynasty of China featuring twenty-four individuals famous for their filial piety. While these stories are unfamiliar today, they were used as teaching materials in Terakoya, so people of the past would likely have immediately understood this motif to be the story of "O Sho" (Wang Xiang). The frozen river is represented by gin-iroe with a hiwari-mon pattern, and beneath the melted ice at the riverbank, the river flow and two kin-iroe fish are depicted. The hair of the man standing nearby is in the Tang style, his upper body is bare, and he wears shoes on his feet. O Sho lost his biological mother early and was treated cruelly by his stepmother, but he served her well without resentment. During a period of extreme cold when even the rivers froze, O Sho headed to the river to fulfill his stepmother's wish to eat fish. Naturally, the river was frozen solid. There was no sign or shadow of any fish. The story goes that as he lay naked on the ice in deep sorrow, the ice melted and two fish emerged. This work, which clarifies the theme by placing O Sho and the fish in the center against a shakudo nanako-ji background, richly expresses the world of the story using an abundance of kin-gin-iroe.
NihontoWatchKaga-Goto School加賀後藤派
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Kaga-Goto School
Edo
Kaga
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Tokuho (NBTHK)
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Iebori · Kaga
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The Kaga Goto (加賀後藤) school arose when the Maeda lords of Kaga Province drew masters of the Goto house from Kyoto into their direct service. The founding figure was Goto Kakujo Mitsunobu (覚乗光信), born in Kyoto in Tensho 17 (1589) as the second son of Chojo. By the directive of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Goto family's closely guarded techniques, transmitted as an exclusive isshi soden (一子相伝) lineage, were conferred in full upon Kakujo of the Kanbei house, although it was not the main line. Retained by the Maeda at the extraordinary stipend of 150 koku, he was held in particular favour by Lord Maeda Toshitsune. The school's second principal figure was Goto Etsujo Mitsukuni (悦乗光邦), second son of Teijo, who strengthened the Rihei branch. Together with Enjo (演乗) of the Kanbei house, Etsujo alternated yearly between Kyoto and Kanazawa, training many disciples and devoting himself to the development of Kaga metalwork. The designated corpus reveals a body of work executed entirely in the orthodox Goto house manner (o-ie-ryu).
The prevailing ground is shakudo nanako-ji[[c:1]], upon which designs are rendered in takabori with gold iroe (金色絵) and, in polychrome compositions, gold, silver, and shakudo suemon. Gold nanako-ji grounds also appear, as in Kakujo's Kurikara futokoro-mono set upon a gold plate with polychrome accents. " In complete ito-maki tachi koshirae ensembles, the full suite of fittings is worked in shakudo nanako-ji scattered with the family crest in gold sukidashi takabori with kin-iroe, yielding mountings of courtly splendour. " The setsumei attest to the Kaga Goto's significance within the broader Goto tradition. Etsujo's workmanship adheres "exclusively to the orthodox Goto house style," with skill "in no way inferior to that of his father Teijo," and the construction and nikuoki of Mitsukuni's signed mitokoromono match Teijo's own work. " Their rarity, combined with the exceptional technical standard the corpus documents, underscores the Kaga Goto school's place within the Goto legacy and the Edo-period tosogu canon. Learn more →
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