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Subject:Tetsubin Marks
Posted By: Maxime Fri, Feb 20, 2015 IP: 86.196.160.167
Hello
Many thanks to a kind collector who can identify the marks on this tetsubin.







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Subject:Re: Tetsubin Marks
Posted By: Guy Mon, Feb 23, 2015
The second seal reads 王鎖之印 ('Okusari no in' or Okusari's seal?). Meiji period? That's all I can add.

Guy.

Subject:Re: Tetsubin Marks
Posted By: Maxime Tue, Feb 24, 2015
Thank you! I do not find informations about "Okusari". An other translation possible? The tetsubin come from Japan around 1910-1920.





Subject:Re: Tetsubin Marks
Posted By: Guy Wed, Feb 25, 2015
The signature in cursive reads 'Ryūbundō zō' (龍文堂造 - made by Ryubundo).
Ryubundo is the company name of the famous Kyoto metalwork studio, founded by Ryubun (1732-1798)and continued by his adoptive son Shikata Yasunosuke (1786-1841), specializing in tetsubin.
I'm pretty sure about the reading of the 2nd seal but I'm uncertain about the correct pronunciation in Japanese.
The reading of the characters of the 1st seal remains problematic.

Guy.　

Subject:Re: Tetsubin Marks
Posted By: Maxime Thu, Feb 26, 2015
Many thanks for your kind help Guy!
It is right for Ryubundo.
There a third mark under the spout but incomplet. I am going to buy the book "Tetsubin, A Japanese waterkettle" of Petrus Leonardus Wilhelmus Arts, I hope that I shall find the information to identify these marks. Do you know it?

Maxime

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