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Where the masters live

Public collections that hold Meiji masterworks and publish their records online.

Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum, Kyoto

Private museum of Bakumatsu–Meiji crafts.

Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan

Imperial Household works; research bulletin on Teishitsu Gigeiin.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Includes Makuzu Kozan high-relief vase inv. 308-1879 (acquired 1879).

Ashmolean Museum

Oliver Impey’s institution; Meiji acquisitions.

Namikawa Yasuyuki Cloisonné Museum, Kyoto

The artist’s house, workshop and garden.

National Crafts Museum, Kanazawa

Suzuki Chokichi, Twelve Bronze Falcons (1893), Important Cultural Property.

Tokyo National Museum

Miyagawa Kozan, Footed Bowl with Crabs (ICP); Suzuki Chokichi, Eagle (ICP); Chicago 1893 works.

Walters Art Museum

Open-access Meiji ceramics, cloisonné and metalwork collected by Henry Walters.

Dallas Museum of Art

John R. Young Collection of Meiji metalwork and cloisonné.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Major Japanese collection.

Khalili Collection of Japanese Art

Meiji no Takara catalogue, ed. Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairley.

Notes on the collections

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Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum, Kyoto

Lot essays cite it as holding a large group of works by Shōami Katsuyoshi¹ and a jar nearly identical to one by Namikawa Yasuyuki sold in 2019².

Vase with Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons, Namikawa Yasuyuki, 1899, 四季花鳥図花瓶, 並河靖之 — Reference Vase with Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons, Namikawa Yasuyuki, 1899, 四季花鳥図花瓶, 並河靖之. CC BY-SA 4.0 (by SLIMHANNYA). Source ↗

Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan

It holds Namikawa Yasuyuki’s Vase with Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons (1899), shown at Paris in 1900.

Suzuki Chōkichi, Incense burner with peacock and peahen, c. 1877–78, Victoria and Albert Museum (photograph by Oleg Yunakov) — Reference Suzuki Chōkichi, Incense burner with peacock and peahen, c. 1877–78, Victoria and Albert Museum (photograph by Oleg Yunakov). CC BY-SA 4.0. Source ↗

Victoria and Albert Museum

Its Kōzan high-relief vase, inv. 308-1879, was acquired in 1879 and, Bonhams records, at first thought to date from the eighteenth century³.

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Ashmolean Museum

A Bonhams footnote points to a Seifū Yohei III vase similar to one sold in 2010, published by Gisela Jahn, Meiji Ceramics (2004), pl. 199.⁴

Twelve Hawks by Suzuki Chokichi, 1893, bronze, lacquer, casting, gilding, and inlay - DSC04872 — Reference Twelve Hawks by Suzuki Chokichi, 1893, bronze, lacquer, casting, gilding, and inlay – DSC04872. CC0 (by Daderot). Source ↗

National Crafts Museum, Kanazawa

It holds Suzuki Chōkichi’s Twelve Bronze Falcons (1893), an Important Cultural Property.

Shōami Katsuyoshi, Plaque with a Bulbul in a Snowy Nandina, 1892, Tokyo National Museum — Reference Shōami Katsuyoshi, Plaque with a Bulbul in a Snowy Nandina, 1892, Tokyo National Museum. Public domain. Source ↗

Tokyo National Museum

Its works include Shōami Katsuyoshi’s Plaque with a Bulbul in a Snowy Nandina (1892), searchable through ColBase.

Yabu Meizan - Bowl with a Multitude of Women - Walters 492280 — Reference Yabu Meizan – Bowl with a Multitude of Women – Walters 492280. Public domain. Source ↗

Walters Art Museum

It holds Yabu Meizan’s Bowl with a Multitude of Women, bought by Henry Walters, as recorded on our Yabu Meizan page.

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Khalili Collection of Japanese Art

It is the comparison most often cited in the lot essays we hold: Yabu Meizan (Impey and Fairley 1995, nos. 57, 66, 95), Kinkōzan (no. 167) and Seifū (vol. 5, no. 85).⁵⁶

Notes

Bonhams, Fine Japanese Art, 2019-05-16, lot 190, lot description and footnote. ↗
Bonhams, Fine Japanese and Korean Art, 2019-03-20, lot 247, lot description and footnote. ↗
Bonhams, Fine Japanese and Korean Art, including the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection of Japanese Art, 2024-09-18, lot 802, lot description and footnote. ↗
Bonhams, Fine Japanese Works of Art, New York, 14 September 2010, lot 6204, footnote. ↗
Bonhams, Fine Japanese and Korean Art, 2018-03-21, lot 2196, lot description and footnote. ↗
Bonhams, Fine Japanese and Korean Art, 2018-03-21, lot 2207, lot description and footnote. ↗