. The industries of Japan : together with an account of its agriculture, forestry, arts, and commerce. From travels and researches undertaken at the cost of the Prussian government. METAL INDUSTRY. 433 generations, from the 15th to the 18th century. The eagle in theKensington Museum, which is said to have been forged by Miyo-chin Muneharu in the 16th century, and of which a woodcut aftera photograph appears on plate XVI., belongs to the most admirableproducts of their art. A large label attached to the work contains the following Model of an eagle. The bird stands with outspreada rock, and is
. The industries of Japan : together with an account of its agriculture, forestry, arts, and commerce. From travels and researches undertaken at the cost of the Prussian government. METAL INDUSTRY. 433 generations, from the 15th to the 18th century. The eagle in theKensington Museum, which is said to have been forged by Miyo-chin Muneharu in the 16th century, and of which a woodcut aftera photograph appears on plate XVI., belongs to the most admirableproducts of their art. A large label attached to the work contains the following Model of an eagle. The bird stands with outspreada rock, and is made of numerous bits of iron, someothers carved or hammered and chased. It is the work of statement,wings uponcast, Miyochin Muneharu, a celebrated Japanese metal-worker of the. Fig. 15.—CAST-IRON KETTLE, WITH INLAID WORK. [Original in Royal Industrial Art Museum, Berlin.) 16th century. The width of the wings measures four feet four anda half inches (133 centimeters). Bought from Mitfords collectionfor ;£ 1,000. x The Tetsu-bin or cast-iron kettle, which is to be found in everyJapanese house for boiling the water for tea, is the only one 1 In the year 1881, in company with a learned Japanese, I visited the Ken-sington Museum in London, and with the permission of the directors undertookII. F F 434 ART INDUSTRY AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS. among all the iron house utensils which is often artistically orna-mented. The cover is usually made of bronze, rich in copper, andsometimes the handle also. Most of the Tetsu-bin are cast in thethree capitals, and are sometimes ornamented with inlaid work orwith enamel. Among the older, richly decorated kettles, those ofKin-ju-do in Kioto and of Riobundo in Osaka are most generallyfound in collections. Fig. 15, p. 433, repres
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