Ichijo (metalwork)

Japanese: 一乗（金工） - いちじょう

…There were also 14 branches and sects of Goto, known as Waki-Goto, of which Kaga-Goto was the most prosperous and continued to produce in Kanazawa. At the end of the Edo period, Ichijo (1791-1876) emerged from the Shichiroemon family in Kyoto, who became famous as a master craftsman of his generation and marked the end of the Goto family. [Harada Kazutoshi]…

From [tsuba]

...Famous names include Hamano Masatsugu and Noritsugu, Omori Hidehide and Hidemitsu, Ishiguro Masatsune and Masayoshi, Iwamoto Konkan, Someya Tomonobu, Tetsugendou Shoraku, Otsuki Kouki, and Mogarashi Munenori. At the end of the Edo period, Ichijo (1791-1876), who was the last of the Goto clan, began making tsuba, even though the Goto clan did not, as a rule, make them, and developed a dignified style. Kano Natsuo also established his own unique style by expressing his subjects on iron tsuba in a realistic style....

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Japanese:

…また分家，分派は14家に及び，これらを脇後藤と称しており，その中では加賀後藤が最も栄え，金沢で製作を続けた。幕末には京の七郎右衛門家に一乗(1791‐1876)が出て，一世の名工として名をあげ，後藤家の掉尾を飾っている。【原田一敏】。…

【鐔∥鍔】より

…浜野政随･矩随，大森英秀･英満，石黒政常･政美，岩本昆寛，染谷知信，鉄元堂正楽，大月光興，藻柄子宗典らが著名である。幕末には後藤家の掉尾を飾る一乗(1791‐1876)が，原則として鐔を製作しなかった後藤家一門にあって鐔の製作に乗り出し，格調ある作風を展開した。また加納夏雄は対象を写生画風に鉄鐔に表現して独自の作風を樹立した。…

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