CHISELLERS
affected figures taken from Chinese pictures (called “Canton style” or Kwanto-gata), but he also chiselled landscapes and seascapes with admirable effects of distance, dragons (the amaryo type), bamboos tossed by the wind, etc., with the greatest skill. He used his chisel so deftly that its trace resembles the brush strokes of a painter. His work has been largely imitated, and so well recognized is his tender, delicate, yet strong style, that the term “Jakushi” has come to be commonly applied to that class of carving. Nagasaki.
- Koami. Kikuchi. 1650. Yagoro. A pupil of Goto Renjō, and an artist of the highest order. He combined the force and directness of the Goto style with the elaborateness of the Mito. Worked in Mito.
- Kogitsune. 1670. A celebrated expert of Yechizen, famous for chiselling dragons.
- Kogyosai. 19th cent. Art name also Gessan. Yedo.
- Kōji. Yanagawa. 1860. A great expert of Kanazawa, pupil of Yanagawa Harushige. He died in 1877. Was commonly called Kanazawa Sōmin.
- Kōjō. Goto. 1550. Fourth of the great Goto masters. Kyoto.
- Kokusui. Wakabayashi. 1720. Rokubei. Toyama.
- Komai. Matsuhiro. 19th cent. Yedo.
- Komai. Otajiro. Present day. A metal-worker of Kyoto highly skilled in inlaying iron with gold by the Nunome process.
- Komai. Seibei. 19th cent. (d. 1861.) A metal-worker of Higo, skilled in inlaying iron and sword furniture with gold.
- Konju. Iwamoto. 1800. Kingoro. Yedo.
- Konkwan. Iwamoto. 1770. Kisaburo. At first called Asai. A pupil of Riyōkwan, and an expert of the highest merit. Celebrated for carving fish of various kinds, especially crustaceans, and for the beauty of his compositions. Used the marks Hakuhōtei, Shunshōdō, and Nampō, as well as his own name. Died, 1801. Yedo.
- Konuki. Vide Masaharu.
- Koreo. Ishiguro. 1840. A pupil of Koretsune. Called himself Hokuunsai. A skilled expert. Yedo.
- Koreshige. Ishiguro. 1840. Ichiyo. A pupil of Koretsune. Yedo.
- Koretsune. Ishiguro. 1840. Shukichi. Called himself Togakushi, Ritsumei, Shinryo, Hogiyokusai, Gishinken, Kounsai, and Ichiyeian. Second son of Masatsune (Ishiguro), the first, and an artist of superb skill. Yedo.
- Koreyoshi. Ishiguro. 1850. Kwanjiro. Called himself Jikakushi and Kwansai. An expert of the highest skill. Yedo.
- Koriusai. 19th cent. (d. 1879). A metal-chiseller of Owari. Koriusai was his art name, his real name being Toyokawa Mitsunaga.
- Koriusha. Vide Masahiro.
- Koriyama. Mitsunaka. 19th cent. A metal-worker of Yedo.
- Kōsen. Tanikawa. 1820. Chiuzayemon. Art name, Kounsai. Yedo.
- Kosetsuken. Vide Tomonao.
- Kōten. Supposed to have been a pupil of Aoki Jubei (q. v.). A skilled expert of Higo. He worked in the style of Kaneiye.
- Kounsai. Vide Kōsen.
- Kounsai. Vide Koretsune.
- Kozui. Vide Mitsuyori.
- Kuhei. Inouye. 1750. Bunjiro. A pupil of Inouye Higeyasu. Commonly known as Sammonji-ya.
- Kunichika. 19th cent. Metal-worker of Yedo.
- Kuniharu. Tetsuya Dembei. Vide Harukuni.
- Kunihiro. 1670. Kihei. Kaga.
- Kunihiro. 1690. Yozayemon. Kaga.
- Kunihisa. 1640. Jiuzayemon. A son of Kuninaga of Kaga.
- Kunihisa. 1660. Jiuzayemon. A grandson of Kuninaga of Kaga.
- Kunihisa. 1700. Yozayemon. Kaga.
- Kunimasa. 1710. Yozayemon. Kaga.
- Kuninaga. 1620. Jirosaku. A pupil of Goto Kakujō. He worked originally in Kyoto and moved to Kaga in 1620. His finest work was in inlaying. He is counted the earliest maker of inlaid sword-mounts in Kaga. His carving is known as Jiro-saku-bori.
- Kuninaga. 1740. Yozayemon. Kaga.
- Kuninaga. Uyemura. 1680. A skilled
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