Incense burner, or kōro, with an entrance gate amid trees
Details
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Title
Incense burner, or kōro, with an entrance gate amid trees
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Artist/maker
Namikawa Yasuyuki (1845 - 1927) -
Associated place
Kyoto (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1905 -
Material and technique
metal, inlaid with gold wire cloisonné enamel; silver mounts
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
with lid 8.9 cm (height)
without lid 7.6 cm (height)
7 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
2
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 2000.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA2000.180
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Catalogue text
Baluster shaped incense burner with a lid pierced as a chrysanthemum. A building appears amid trees in a landscape in gold wire on a green ground. Signed; Kyōto Namikawa on a silver tablet.
Turning to landscape as a subject, in the early 1900s, Yasuyuki was almost obliged to use shaded backgrounds, which he had usually avoided before. In this gold-wired incense burner, there is another new technique, the use of triangular cross-sections of wire set in the picture end on, to act as leaves or flower-petals.In: Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)
Glossary of terms
cloisonné
koro
kōro
Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 37 on p. 78, pp. 8, 22, & 74, illus. pp. 78-79
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