A fine uchidashi (repoussé) iron okimono of DaikokuBy Kurose Sosei (1886-1944), Showa era (1926-1989), circa 1930-1940
Seated and leaning against his sack, smiling, holding a mallet in his left hand and clutching the neck of his sack in the other, worked entirely in uchidashi (repoussé) technique from one sheet of iron; signed on the base with chiselled characters along one side Sosei with a kao. 17.7cm x 23cm (7in x 9in).注脚An almost identical example of Daikoku by the maker is illustrated and exhibited in Kagashi Bijutsukan (Kaga City Art Museum), Sobi Yamada: Tetsu uchidashi no meiko Yamada Sobi ten: Botsugyo hyakunen (Sobi Yamada Exhibition: Yamada Sobi, Master of Iron Repoussé, 100th Anniversary), Kaga City, 2016.