LOT DETAILS

Materials:

iron

Measurements:

by 7.64 in. (19.40 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed Myochin zo (made by Myochin); signature on the underside of fin, With wood box titled tetsu sei ebi okimono kacchushi Myochin saku (iron prawn sculpture made by the armorer Myochin) on paper label

Exhibited:

Preparatory Office of the National Headquarters of Taiwan Traditional Arts, “Japan Arts of Meiji Period; Asia-Pacific Traditional Arts Festival Special Exhibition.” 2011.7.8-2012.1.8. cat. p. 114. “Meiji Kogei: Amazing Japanese Art,” shown at the following venues: Tokyo University of the Arts Museum, 2016.9.7-10.30. Hosomi Museum, Kyoto, 2016.11.12-12.25. Kawagoe City Art Museum, 2017.4.22-6.11. cat. no. 13

Literature:

Kuo Hong-Sheng and Chang Yuan-Feng, chief eds. et al., Meiji no bi / Splendid Beauty: Illustrious Crafts of the Meiji Period (Taipei: National Taiwan Normal University Research Center for Conservation of Cultural Relics, 2013), pp. 330-31.