Japan Marks - Suzuki Kichigoro and K. Suzuki & Co. |
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SUZUKI KICHIGORO (鈴木吉五郎) HISHIYA (菱屋) SUZUKI SHOKAI (K. SUZUKI & CO.) (鈴木商會) |
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 1920 Advertisement for K. Suzuki & Co. (Kichigoro Suzuki) Manufacturer & Dealer in Bishu Porcelain. Head Office No. 10, 11, & 12 Chikaramachi 4 chome, Nagoya. Tel. No. 586 Higashi L. D. Branch Office No. 8 Kitanagasa-dori 3 chome, Kobe. Tel. No. 815 Sannomiya L. D. Telegraphic Address: Yamasuboshi, Kobe Codes Used: A, B, C, 5th Edition & Private. |
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Suzuki Kichigoro was a manufacturer and dealer in Bishu (Owari)
(present day Aichi) porcelain ware. Bishu is another name for Owari and Bishu porcelain is Owari porcelain and regarding Bishu (Owari) porcelain, it is of a very white color. His business name in 1893 was Hishiya located in Nihonbashiku, Tokyo. In 1920, his factories were located in Chikaramachi, Nagoya and Kobe, Tokyo. The artist Suzuki Kichigoro was a highly noted sculpturer and carver. He was a very diverse artist and worked in several mediums and mixed his mediums: ivory, tortoise shell, cloisonne, lacquer, copper, gold, silver, atimony, bronze, zinc, leather, wood, bamboo, and porcelain. His created art works were: sculptures, vases, trays, tobacco containers, mantel ornaments, card plates, censers, tablets, boxes, match boxes, paper weights, pen plates, dust pans, flower pots, ladies bags, dresser ware, cloisonne ware, and makiye ware. |
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| Suzuki Kichigoro is the inventor of antimony ware in 1885. | |
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His porcelain wares are signed ... Note: I am unable to confirm the trade marks or signatures for Suzuki Kichigoro. |
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| SIGNATURES OF SUZUKI KICHIGORO, K. SUZUKI & CO. | |
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References: General view of commerce & industry in the empire of Japan By Japan. Nōshōmushō. Shōkōkyoku, 1893 - Listed under Tokyo - Business Name: Hishiya Name of Principal Person or Owner: Suzuki Kichigoro Business Place: No. 17, 2 chome, Yokoyamacho, Nihonbashiku - Dealing Articles: Antimony Wares. Official Catalogue of the Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair) 1893, Moses Handy, 1893 - Group 97. Exhibit #980. Kichigoro Suzuki, Tokyo. Zinc ware. Group 92. Exhibit #688. Kichigoro Suzuki, Tokyo. Art metal work. Ost-Asien, Volume 1, 1893 - Listed as a manufacturer for Cloisonne ware, Gold, and Silver ware. Up-to-date guide for the land of the rising sun, H. Hotta, Z.P. Maruya & Co., Ltd., 1903 - Kobe Porcelain and Pottery Postores - Suzuki Shoten, Sannomiya-cho Sanchome and Suzuki Branch Store, Sannomiya Sanchome. Japan, its history, arts and literature, Volume 7 By Frank Brinkley, 1904 - Reference must also be made to a recently introduced alloy consisting of eighty-five parts of lead and fifteen of antimony. The compound is largely used to manufacture cheap and gaudy utensils, such as flower-vases, cigar-trays, tobacco-ash-holders, etc., which are loaded with decorative designs in the repousse style, gilded in parts or otherwise coloured. This "antimony ware" is cast in brass moulds. Its effect is not unpleasing, but it can scarcely be classed among art-products. The inventor (1885) was Suzuki Kichigoro. The exhibition of the Empire of Japan, official catalogue of the St. Louis World's Fair 1904, Japanese Commission, 1904 - Exhibit #21. Suzuki, Kichigoro, Yokohama-cho, Nihonbashi-ku, Tokio and Motomachi, Kobe - Exhibited under various categories: Ivory and Tortoise Shell Works - Mantel ornaments. Cloisonne Works - Flower vases, card plates, censers, tablets. Gold and Silversmith Works - Flower vases, censers, card plates, boxes, match boxes, paper weights, pen plates, dust pans. Marble, Bronze, Cast Iron Works - Basins, Mantel Ornaments, Censers, Flower pots. Fine Leather Goods - Ladies bags. Porcelain Works - Frame, Flower vases, Tea sets, Bread plate, Card plates, Flower pots, Tablets, Flower basins, Tea set. Handbook of Japan and Japanese exhibits at World's fair, St. Louis, International Expostion, 1904, Hajime Hoshi, 1904 - Listed under the Manufacturers of Tokyo Art and General Goods for Porcelain, Cloisonne, Sculpture, Wood and Bamboo Works, Antimony, and Gents and Ladies Furnishings (Dresser ware). Illustrated Catalogue of an important collection of antique and modern Japanese and Chinese porcelain, pottery, enamels, bronzes, and oilier objects belonging to....K. Suzuki, Tokyo, to be sold March 15th. ICth and 17th, 1906. 10 pi., 8vo., New York, 1906 - Kichigoro Suzuki auctioned his oriental collection in New York. The Japan year book, Yoshitaro Takenobu, The Japan Year Book Office, 1906 - Paris Exposition 1900, Exhibited and awarded Gold medal to Suzuki Kichigoro, Tokyo, Bronze vase and Makiye shelf. Also listed is his company, Suzuki & Co., Kobe. Japan and her exhibits at the Panama-Pacific international exhibition, 1915, Hakurankwai kyokwai, Tokyo, Printed by the Japan magazine co., 1915 - SUZUKI, KICHIGORO, No. 23, Suda-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. Antimony tobacco boxes, mantel ornaments, flower holders. Suzuki & Co., Nagoya (Porcelain). The Japan Trading Guidance, 1920 - Suzuki, K., & Co., Chikaramachi, 4 chome, Nagoya. (Bishiu Porcelain). |
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