With stylised ho-o bird (phoenix) handles; one side decorated with Hojo Tokimasa, a legendary hero visiting the temple in Enoshima, looking up at the rays emanating from Buddha with his attendants; the other side with a peacock and a hen in a garden with peonies, supported by gnarled tree stump with doves perched on the branches, the base with stylised dragon feet, the cover surmounted by an eagle with outstretched wings perched on a tree stump with doves in flight, signed 'Suzuki Masayoshi'
91³⁄₄ in. (233 cm.) high; 32¹⁄₄ in. (82 cm.) wide

with Grace Tsumugi Fine Art, from whom acquired by the present owner.

Yokohama, Yokohama Museum of Art, Dai-Kai-Ko - The Art of the Period of Opening of the Port of Yokohama from Tokugawa Era to Meiji, 2009, ill. p. 105.
London, Grace Tsumugi Fine Art, Japanese Works of Art, 4-13 November 2010, no. 9.

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Bronze incense burners in similar style were exhibited in the world exhibitions in the early to mid Meiji period including Vienna (1873), Philadelphia (1876), Boston (1883) and Chicago (1893). A large incense burner by Mayaoshi's son Suzuki Chokichi was exhibited in the Paris exhibition in 1878, and is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.