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Winter Grove (Fuyu no kodachi) Flower Container

1997
Not on view
The silver flower container bears a depiction of a forest by night, the outlines of the dark trees shown as if lit by the moon. The poetic design looks like an ink painting, but its refined, delicate lines were cut from thin metal sheets and soldered onto the surface, then hammered so that they lie flush with the ground. The artist became a Living National Treasure in 1995, in recognition of his skills in hammering (tankin).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 打込象嵌花器「冬の木立」
  • Title: Winter Grove (Fuyu no kodachi) Flower Container
  • Artist: Okuyama Hōseki 奥山峰石 (Japanese, born 1937)
  • Period: Heisei period (1989–2019)
  • Date: 1997
  • Culture: Japan
  • Medium: Hammered silver with inlaid copper and gold alloy (shakudō), copper and silver alloy (shibuichi)
  • Dimensions: H. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm); Diam. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
  • Classification: Metalwork
  • Credit Line: Gift of Hayashi Kaoru, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2020
  • Object Number: 2020.76.5
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Okuyama Hōseki
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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