Jump to content

JapaneseArtFan

Members
  • Posts

    3
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Not Telling
  • Location:
    London, UK.

Profile Fields

  • Name
    Martyn

JapaneseArtFan's Achievements

Newbie

Newbie (1/14)

  • First Post
  • Conversation Starter
  • Week One Done
  • One Month Later
  • One Year In

Recent Badges

0

Reputation

  1. Dear Steve San, Truly an epic translation, in which I remain indebted for your help. As you have identified, the masks shown on this work are a collection of Bugaku and Gagaku masks from the Atsuta shrine treasury. This fits in with the artists history as a monk that studied these treasures with Tessai. I suspect the dates are a reference to the date that each individual mask was created. Thank you for your help with this translation. A wonderful forum of very educated and helpful souls. Piers, thank you for suggesting I visit
  2. Dear Morita San, I humbly thank you for the translation of the artist's go. Please forgive my poor command of the English language - I did not mean to infer it was by Tessai. Whilst I could identify the second Kanji was not sai, I noted the first Kanji was signed in the same manner as Tes (鐡). That, along with the work, lead me to believe this artist may have been a monjin of Tessai (or circle of hands, as I poorly described). Your generous translation has opened up a wide research opportunity and I have been devouring any material I've been able to find in my library on the artist you identified. I will return to share the information once I have gathered everything together to create a meaningful post. Thank you again for your time.
  3. Dear community, You may wonder why I have arrived at a Japanese Sword forum with the attached item. Whilst I have an ever growing passion for Japanese art and culture I admit to only owning a few Tsuba. This being said, I do posses a deep interest in Japanese metal works, and the origin, and own a humble collection of Kagamibuta. Perhaps the only link to Japanese swords on the following item is that I believe it to be crafted in a similar spirit as the Japanese Sword, and that the case top looks to be made of the metal composition Shakudo. I have tried to decipher the Kanji on this item for a while with very little success (I have been slowly learning to read Kanji but have a long way to go). I believe it may make reference to a temple around the Nara region. The masks around this item make me reminisce of temples in Nara. I suspect the work comes from a circle of hands around an artist named Kano Tessai. Beyond this I am floored. I recently showed it to a friend with Kanji skills, who suggested I visit this forum to ask if anyone can help translate. As there are a number of sections with kanji, I have taken separate photos to try and capture all the kanji in a readable format. Please click on images for the larger views. I realise this is a big ask - and if it's not possible, or the item off topic for this forum, I fully appreciate your stance and thank you for taking the time read this post. Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Section 5 Section 6
×
×
  • Create New...