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A dragon, crystal ball clutched in one clawed talon, rises from the roiling clouds on the surface of this quintessential large bronze vase by Oshima Joun enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Unryu Kabin and signed within Ichijoken Joun Saku. Alongside the signature in the box is the stamp of the Kawabayashi Tokeiten, purveyors of watches and fine art-crafts in Tokyo’s swank Ginza district. The vase is roughly 36 cm (14 inches) diameter, the same height and weighs 9.5 kg (21 pounds of bronze!), It is in excellent condition.
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Oshima Joun was born the third generation into a family of metalworkers, son of Ōshima Takajiro, whose own father Ōshima Yasubei established the Oshima name in metalwork. He ran a studio with his brother Ōshima Yasutaro called the Saneisha, and they used the names Much lauded in his lifetime, he exhibited at the 2nd National Industrial Exposition in 1881, and at the Paris Exposition Universales (1900), and the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910. Joun served as professor at the Tokyo Art School from 1887 to 1932 where he held a great influence over the development of generations of metal craftsman. There is a dearth of information available, specifically, for more on this artist see Victor Harris, Japanese Imperial Craftsmen, Meiji Art from the Khalili Collection (London, 1994) and or Arts of the East and West from World Expositions (2004).
