SHIKKEN DOMOTO (1889 – 1964)

ORNAMENTAL LACQUER BOX
THE ELDER BROTHER OF FAMOUS JAPANESE-STYLE PAINTER INSHO DOMOTO, SHIKKEN DOMOTO WAS BORN IN KYOTO AND WAS INSTRUCTED IN LACQUER TECHNIQUES BY KOSHITSU TOMITA.
A LEADER IN HIS FIELD IN THE KYOTO-OSAKA-KOBE AREA,HE PARTICIPETED IN MANY EXHIBITIONS, INCLUDING THE TEITEN , SHIN BUNTEN, AND NITTEN EXHIBITION.
1889 – BORN ON NOVEMBER 3 IN KYOTO. NAME OF BIRTH : GOSABURO
1924 – FOUNDED WITH SHUETSU KODA ,SENSHU IDA AND OTHERS A CREATIVE-
CRAFTS ASSOCIATION CALLED GOSHO-EN.
1925 – WON THIRD PRICE IN THE ELEVENTH NOTEN EXHIBITION.
1928 – EXHIBITED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE NINTH TEITEN EXHIBITION.HIS
WORKS APPEARED IN THIS EXHIBIT AND IN BUNTEN EXHIBITIONS SEVERAL
TIMES THEREAFTER UNTIL 1938.
AFTER WORLD WAR II, HE SHOWED WORKS IN NITTEN EXHIBITION.
1951 – BECAME A REGULAR INVITATIONAL EXHIBITOR IN NITTEN EXHIBITION.
1954 – IN HIS LATE YEARS, HE WAS A DIRECTOR OF THE KYOTO CRAFT ARTISTS
AND A LEADING MEMBER OF THE KYOTO BRANCH OF ALL JAPAN CRAFT
ARTISTS ASSOCIATION.
1964 – DIED ON JULY 28

PERIOD: SHOWA 1938
CM. 24 X 18 X H.13
ORIGINAL TOMOBAKO