By Okabe Kakuya
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He later became a monk and changed his name from Jakushi to Doko or Fukoshi. He was a painter, but he worked in metal as well, and was famous for his representations of Chinese land- The in He used nunome inlay, regulating the thickscapes. ness of the inlaid surface so as to produce an effect like by gradation of color in paintings. that produced He worked during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth Inasmuch as Nagasaki was the only port centuries. open to foreign commerce, Chinese influences in art naturally were felt there sooner than in other parts of Jakushi was the first artist to introduce into Japan.
Little is known of their sword guards, though they must have engaged in this branch of the a smiths from the days of its Yoshinaga, the fourteenth Miochin, Yoshimichi, brother of the sixteenth Miochin, and Nobuiye, the seventeenth Miochin, are generally considered the three Of these, Nobuiye is the greatest masters of the school. art. known to have made sword guards. His name was Yasuiye, but he is popularly known as only one early Koshiu-Miochin, Koshiu being the province in which he lived and worked.
As the surface process was called hira-zogan ("flat inlay"); in this case a groove was cut in the object and the softer metal hammered or pressed into it. As the groove was broader at the bottom than at the top, the inserted metal was held firmly in place. Soft metals which lend themselves readily to moulding were ordinarily used in this process. taka-zogan ( The "high inlay" ), third process, known was used when the as inlaid The relief parts were parts needed to be in relief. finished separately, set into a groove, and then secured in place by hammering the edge of the groove.
