A Japanese bronze figure, Meiji period (1868-1912), cast by Izumi Seijo and carved by Kaneda Kenjiro, of an old man standing with a gnarled walking stick, his face and clothes naturalistically depicted with very detailed wrinkles on his face and, hands, stamped mark 'Izumi zo', 'Kaneda sei', 63cm high Izumi Seijo (1865-1937) was a noted bronze founder working in Tokyo. Listed as being a member of the Tokyo Sculptures Association and the Japan Metalwork Association, he was also a, permanent committee member of the Tokyo Chukinkai (the Tokyo Cast Metalworkers' Association). He began exhibiting in around 1895 and won a price with one of his four exhibits in the Paris Exposition of 1900. Examples of his sculpture are in the, Japanese Imperial Collections, the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Kaneda Kenjiro, who together with Ishikawa Komei co-founded the Kankokai Craft Company in 1877, later became the adoptive father of the eldest, daughter of the renowned lacquerer, Shibata Zeshin. Although he is best known for his ivory carvings, he also commissioned figures in bronze, as offered here. He exhibited several works at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in 1904. For a, fisherman figure cast by the same artists in the Ashmolean Museum, see Accession No. EA2008.8.
A Japanese bronze figure, Meiji period (1868-1912), cast by Izumi Seijo and carved by Kaneda Kenjiro, of an old man standing with a gnarled walking stick, his face and clothes naturalistically depicted with very detailed wrinkles on his face and, hands, stamped mark 'Izumi zo', 'Kaneda sei', 63cm high Izumi Seijo (1865-1937) was a noted bronze founder working in Tokyo. Listed as being a member of the Tokyo Sculptures Association and the Japan Metalwork Association, he was also a, permanent committee member of the Tokyo Chukinkai (the Tokyo Cast Metalworkers' Association). He began exhibiting in around 1895 and won a price with one of his four exhibits in the Paris Exposition of 1900. Examples of his sculpture are in the, Japanese Imperial Collections, the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Kaneda Kenjiro, who together with Ishikawa Komei co-founded the Kankokai Craft Company in 1877, later became the adoptive father of the eldest, daughter of the renowned lacquerer, Shibata Zeshin. Although he is best known for his ivory carvings, he also commissioned figures in bronze, as offered here. He exhibited several works at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in 1904. For a, fisherman figure cast by the same artists in the Ashmolean Museum, see Accession No. EA2008.8.
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