金工絵 Copy book of Toshiyoshi (also called Kōsō, Seijō, or Toshinaga)

Author 紫原壽良画 Murasakibara Toshiyoshi Japanese

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 380

Sword-fitting maker Murasakibara Toshiyoshi's copybook consists of hundreds of pen-and-ink sketches that have been cut out and pasted to 120 pages. Several sheets bear dates between 1865 and 1884. Toshiyoshi, who went by the artist names Kōsō and Ryūganshi, was one of the best students of Tanaka Kiyotoshi (1804–1876), a self-taught Edo-based artist who went on to establish one of the largest and most important schools of sword-fitting making in Japanese history.

金工絵 Copy book of Toshiyoshi (also called Kōsō, Seijō, or Toshinaga), 紫原壽良画 Murasakibara Toshiyoshi (Japanese, born 1829), Ink on bound paper, Japanese

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