Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period
A catalogue of the Ashmolean’s Japanese decorative arts from the Meiji period (1868-1912), by Oliver Impey and Joyce Seaman (published Oxford, 2005).
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Incense burner, or kōro, with an entrance gate amid trees
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Literature notes
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. -
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- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (place of creation)
- Date
- c. 1905
- Artist/maker
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Namikawa Yasuyuki (1845 - 1927)
- Material and technique
- metal, inlaid with gold wire cloisonné enamel; silver mounts
- Dimensions
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with lid 8.9 cm (height)
without lid 7.6 cm (height)
7 cm (diameter)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 2000.
- Accession no.
- EA2000.180
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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
Glossary (3)
cloisonné, koro, kōro
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cloisonné
Decorative technique in which wires are attached to a metal body and coloured enamels are applied between the wires.
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koro
A Japanese incense burner.
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kōro
A Japanese incense burner.
Location
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Second floor | Room 36 | Japan
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Second floor | Room 36 | Japan
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Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period
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.
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