Suzuki Chokichi

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Suzuki Chokichi 鈴木長吉
1848 - 1919
Metal craftsman

鈴木 長吉（すずき ちょうきち)
嘉永元年8月15日（1848年9月12日） - 大正8年（1919年）1月29日）
日本の金工家。
本名は鈴木嘉幸（かこう）。 His real name was Suzuki Kakoo.



source : tougyou

This huge piece is now in posession is Swizzerland, if I remember well.
It takes a few people to assemble the various parts of this masterwork, a bronze stand for incense, about 2 meters high.
Each part is decorated finely with patterns and motives, like small animals in the waves.

The original is made with a special wax preparation, then covered in a non-meltable substance to produce a form for the melted metal to be poored in.
roogata chuukin 蝋型鋳金

After the casting, it has to be reworked and polished to make the various joints invisible.

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The 12 Hawks 十二の鷹

Chokichi worked 4 years to complete them.
They look almost alive and ready to take off any moment.



Look here for more masterpieces of metalwork, of the Bakumatsu / Meiji period of Japan.
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Most of the metal work was done under government protection for export, after the Paris exhibitions created an interest in Japanese artwork.

The Paris Exposition of 1867
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Flying Dragon and Pearls 飛龍青銅


made about 1877

總高五尺 飛龍青銅 岩朱銅 玉大小水晶
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Onchin Zuroku 温知図録

東京国立博物館
In posession of the Tokyo National Museum

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shibuichi taka-zoogan 　四分一高象眼　relief inlay


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幕末・明治の超絶技巧　
Craftsmen of the Bakumatsu and Meiji period
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