| | Stockno.: | K24-044 | Artist: | Kawabata Kinsa V (1915-1999) | Description: | Brown-red lacquered jikirō (lidded container used to serve confectionary at the tea ceremony) decorated with various traditional Japanese instruments. On the lid a biwa with plectrum, on the sides and body of natsume we see two types of Japanese drum (taiko and small Japanese hand drum called Kotsuzumi), a koto (zither), a Japanese flute and a Sho (recoginizable by the seventeen bamboo pipes) which is used in gagaku (traiditional Japanese court music). Tamenuri is used for colouring (lacquering technique that uses a coloured-lacquer undercoating and a transparent-lacquer topcoat).
With original box and second outer box, inscription on original box reads: musical instruments, gold and silver lacquer tamenuri jikirō (gakki maki-e tamenuri jikirō).
*Kawabata Kinsa V was born in 1915 as Miyoshi in Nara prefecture. He started learning about lacquer at age 12 in 1928 from the fourth Kinsa (Kawabata Taisaburō, 1891-1975) who adopted him in 1941. | Signed: | on bottom made by Kinsa (Kinsa saku), on box Kinsa plus artist’s seal reading Kawabata, on cloth with artist’s seal. | Size: | 14 (h) x 22.5 (w) cm. | Condition: | In perfect condition | Price: | Euro 900 | Reference: | | | | |
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