A Bronze okimono of a boy on an ox


By Sekiguchi Shinya (1877-1932), Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryThe young ox-herd seated on the back of a recumbent ox, holding the halter which is tied through the beast's nose, his basket strapped to his back, signed in an oval silvered-metal reserve Shinya koku; with a wooden tomobako storage box titled Bokudo Okimono (Okimono of a herd boy) and signed by the artist Nihon Bijutsu Kyokai shinsain Sekiguchi Shinya zo (made by Sekiguchi Shinya, a judge in the Japan Art Association) with seal Shinya no in. 17.2cm x 29cm (6¾in x 11½in). (2).
|Born in Shiba-ku, Tokyo in 1877, Sekiguchi Shinya was the son of the celebrated metalworker Sekiguchi Ichiya, who himself was under the tutelage of Goto Ichijo (1791-1876). Shinya studied painting with Hashimoto Gaho (1835-1908) and first exhibited at the fourth Naikoku Kangyo Hakurankai (National Industrial Exposition) in 1895. His works are also recorded in the catalogues of the 1900 Paris Exhibition, and of the fifth National Industrial Exposition (1903).