Ashmolean Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

The founder, Kaneiye I [Japanese text], appears to have flourished in the second half of the 16th century, originally at Fushimi, a suburb of Kiōto, and later at Hasuike in Hizen province. Much work, however, signed Kaneiye Fushimi in Yamashiro was done in the 17th and 18th centuries, while 19th-century forgeries and imitations, mostly bad, are very common.

The earlier true Kaneiye work consists chiefly of teuba in thin iron modelled in very faint relief (sometimes separately encrusted), usually with sketchy landscapes in the Chinese style, heightened with a minimum amount of gold or copper-gilt. The later workers, some of whom bore the same name as the founder, affected thicker grounds with higher relief, and added Chinese legends to their repertory of subjects.

Round tsuba depicting a sea shore under cloud (EAX.10189)    Tsuba with a river scene (EAX.10190)