Onishi Jōsei

Japanese: 大西浄清 - おおにし・じょうせい

Year of death: Tenwa 2.9.6 (1682.10.6)
Year of birth: Bunroku 3 (1594)
A kettle maker in the early Edo period. The Onishi family was a caster who lived in Sanjo Kamaza in Kyoto, and the first generation was Jorin, who became a disciple of Nagoshi Sansho. Jyosei was the second generation, and is said to be Jorin's younger brother or relative. His name was Muracho, and he was commonly known as Gorozaemon. He was said to be the most skilled of the Onishi family, and he followed Furuta Oribe to Edo with his son, Jorin, and thereafter traveled back and forth between Kyoto and Edo, and in 1656, he became a kettle maker for the shogunate. Jorin also settled in Edo, and became the first generation of the Edo Onishi family. His specialty was thin kettle work that kept the thickness of the kettle under control, and the surface was often a fine sand-like texture. It is said that Jyosei was the first Onishi family to have a shared box (a box with a written ink inscription indicating that it was made by the maker himself), and he is said to have appraised it and issued a certificate of appraisal. Other than kettles, there are the copper lantern in front of the Daiyuin Temple of Nikko Toshogu Shrine, inscribed with the year 1653 (Shoo 2), the temple bell of Shinsenji Temple in Tokyo, inscribed with the year 1660 (Meireki 3), and the temple bell of Eikoji Temple in Tokyo, inscribed with the year 1660 (Manji 3).

(Harada Kazutoshi)

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

Japanese:

没年：天和2.9.6(1682.10.6)
生年：文禄3(1594)
江戸初期の釜師。大西家は京都の三条釜座に住した鋳物師で,名越三昌の弟子となった浄林を初代とする。浄清はその2代目で,浄林の弟あるいは親族と伝える。名は村長,通称五郎左衛門。大西家第一の名手といわれ,古田織部に従って,子の定林と共に江戸に下り,以後京都,江戸を往復し,明暦2(1656)年,幕府御用釜師となった。また定林は江戸に定住し,江戸大西家の初代となっている。作風は釜の厚身をおさえた薄作を得意とし,肌は多くはきめの細かい砂肌である。大西家では共箱(作者自ら自作であることを墨書した箱)のあるのはこの浄清より始まるとされ,鑑定も行い,鑑定状も出したという。釜以外では承応2(1653)年銘日光東照宮大猷院廟前の銅灯籠,明暦3年銘東京品川寺梵鐘,万治3(1660)年銘東京栄興寺梵鐘などがある。<参考文献>香取秀真『新撰茶之湯釜図録』,同『江戸鋳師名譜』

(原田一敏)

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