Miyazaki winter pheasant

Japanese: 宮崎寒雉 - みやざき・かんち

Year of death: 1712
Year of birth: Kan'ei 10? (1633)
A kettle maker in the mid-Edo period. For generations, the Miyazaki family had been engaged in the foundry business in Nakai Village, Noto Province (Hōji County, Ishikawa Prefecture), but in the Tenshō era (1573-92), he moved to Kanazawa to serve the Maeda family. His childhood name was Giichi, and he was commonly known as Hikokuro. He later shaved his head and took the name Tokuo. He went to Kyoto and learned kettle making from Onishi Jōsei, and was summoned by Maeda Toshitsune, the lord of Kaga Domain, to build Komatsu Castle, where he returned to Kanazawa and became a kettle maker for the government. His style was sandy, inherited from his master Jōsei, and many of his works were thin and clean, including the Kashiwaba kettle, Otogozen kettle, and Daikōdō kettle. In addition to kettles, he also made many Buddhist altar implements, and examples of his works, such as bronze bells and three-piece utensil set with inscriptions dating from around 1667 to 1681, are preserved in temples around Kanazawa City. Since the first Kanchi had no sons, the youngest grandson of Yojiro Tsuji was adopted and succeeded him as the second Kanchi, and the name of Kanchi has been passed down to the present day.

(Kashima Masaru)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：正徳2(1712)
生年：寛永10?(1633)
江戸中期の釜師。宮崎家は代々,能登国仲居村(石川県鳳至郡)で鋳物業を営んでいたが,天正年間(1573～92)に金沢に出て前田家に仕えた。幼名は義一,通称を彦九郎といい,のちに剃髪して徳翁と号した。京都に上り,大西浄清のもとで釜作を学び,小松城造営に際して加賀藩主前田利常に召されて金沢に戻り,御用釜師となった。作風は,師浄清を受け継いだ砂肌で,薄作りのすっきりとしたものが多く,柏葉釜,乙御前釜,大講堂釜などがある。また,釜以外にも仏具類の作品も多く手がけ,寛文7(1667)年から天和1(1681)年ごろの紀年銘を有する銅鐘や三具足などの作例が金沢市近辺の諸寺に伝えられている。初代寒雉には男子がなかったため,辻与次郎の末孫が養子となり2代寒雉を継ぎ,以降代々寒雉の名を継承して現代に至っている。<参考文献>香取秀真『新撰釜師系譜』,木下桂風『釜―歴史と鑑賞―』

(加島勝)

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