Tokyo School bronze group signed Udagawa Kazuo Meiji period

Code: 10100

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Tokyo School bronze group of a couple eating their meal over an hibachi, signed Nihon Tokyo Udagawa sei 日本東京宇田川製 (made by Udagawa Kazuo in Tokyo) Meiji period 1868-1912.

UDAGAWA KAZUO 宇田川和雄 was listed as a member of the Tokyo Chōkōkai 東京彫工会 (Tokyo Sculptors' Society) with address at Shitaya-ku, Nicho-machi, 3-banchi, Tokyo. He was an artist from the second generation of the Tokyo School, and exhibited at the major exhibitions of his time. In 1890 and 1903 at the Naikoku Kangyo Hakurankai (Domestic Industrial Exhibition) and at the Third National industrial Exhibition, also at the Fifth National Industrial Exhibition in Osaka using his earlier name Udagawa Sutejiro 宇田川捨次郎, before adopting the name Kazuo 和雄. 

He also exhibited at major overseas exhibitions, as Udagawa Kazuo at the Paris Great Exposition in 1900 award winning section 1, the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 award winning section and in 1910 at the Japan-British Exhibition, Shepherd's Bush, London also award winning section. 

For examples of his work see the bronze 'Farmer's wife feeding a baby on the bench' in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, exhibition catalogue 'Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period' by O.Impey & J. Seaman 2005, no. 32 pg. 68.

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