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[sabiji]

Would be happy if anyone has information in their records or books about an artist named Suzuki Ichirin (period of activity, affiliation with a school).
I would also be grateful for pictures of his works.
Best regards,
Thomas.

[sabiji]

[Kurikata]

This artist is referenced in Haynes.

[Spartancrest]

I presume you already have this information? http://www.japaneseswordbooks.com/Fittings.html

A shibuichi kozuka carved in katakiri with a group of horses playing, signed Suzuki Ichirin and kao. This artist

worked in Edo and is listed in the Soken Kisho (1781) and was therefore working prior to this date.

[sabiji]

@Bruno, thank you very much!

@ Dale, yes, that is exactly the Kozuka. I bought it from Alan in 2016. It was an impulse buy because I liked it - although I am not a Kinko collector.
I was hoping, if available, for more detailed info.

[MauroP]

Hi Thomas,
find here enclosed my record for a tsuba i bought 10 years ago. I'm sorry  it's in Italian, but I've a busy time now.

Tsuba018.pdf

[Curran]

Trans:

 

Tsuchiya School,

from the line of Yasuchika, starting from the 4^th generation

 

Yasuchika the 4^th was active also with the name “Nagahide”. His first name (or real name) was “Shinsuke”. He also used “Sei Unsai” and “Ichirin”. It isn’t known if the 4^th gen was the natural son of (or adopted by) the 3^rd gen. Either way, he also studied with the master Iwamoto Konkon in the province of Mito. There he produced pieces signed “4^th gen Yasuchika, resident of Mito”. The 4^th gen Yasuchika produced works mostly in katakiribori.

 

[from Markus Sesko’s text on the Japanese Toso-Kinko Schools, p.166]

 

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I had not read this before, but it frames perfectly a fuchi-kashira set attributed to the 4th gen that I had been resisting buying. The work was in katakiribori.

Also, I'd been studying this yondai work.

https://www.kusanaginosya.com/SHOP/238.html

 

  --There is something about his katakiribori that stands out to me as distinct, but I haven't figured it out yet.

[sabiji]

Hi Mauro and Curran,
thanks for the interesting links!

[b.hennick]

Hi Mauro:

I am most impressed by your record. I wish that I had seen something like that 20 years ago.

[sabiji]

A quick update.

 

It turned out that Paul Kremers took the kozuka to Japan last year to have it appraised by the NBTHK. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Paul once again!

 

Now I have the Kozuka back; it has achieved Tokubetsu Hozon status. I had hoped that the NBTHK might add a brief note regarding Ichirin (or Ikko), but in the end, only the signature was confirmed.

 

[FlorianB]

Congrats to Tokubetsu Hozon!

 

At least it is the old problem with the NBTHK: you receive a paper but no explanation, leaving you often at a loss.
However, the NBTHK has, alas, neither the staff nor the time to provide further explanations for every piece.

[sabiji]

You're right, Florian. I was just hoping for it—I wasn't expecting it.

 

Although I do have a TH from last year where the generation and the Nengo were also listed. That one, however, was a blade.

 

Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't...

[jesup]

That was one thing I liked about NTHK (at least under Yoshikawa-sensei before his passing; I haven't had anything shinsa'd since 1997 Long Island) -- you got some details with the results often, even for rejections (I had a hitatsura wakizashi that had a gimei Yasumitsu, and I was told it was Echizen shimosaka in the rejection slip)