Identifier: industriesofjapa00rein (find matches)
Title: The industries of Japan : together with an account of its agriculture, forestry, arts, and commerce. From travels and researches undertaken at the cost of the Prussian government
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Rein, J. J. (Johannes Justus), 1835-1918 Rein, J. J. (Johannes Justus), 1835-1918. Japan nach Reisen und Studien. V. 2. Land- und Forstwirthschaft, Industrie und Handel. English Hodder and Stoughton, publisher
Subjects: Industries Agriculture Art, Japanese
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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nze. It has become more and more thecustom in modern times to produce the decorations in relief, not inthe casting, but by sculpture (Horu). The article, a vase for in-stance, is cast smooth but with very thick walls. The bronzesculptor, or Hori-mono-shi, draws the ornamentations which areto protrude above the ground, and next cuts away to the requireddepth the superfluous metal around the outlines by means ofchiselling and turning. He then applies himself to the projectingparts, and forms them just as the sculptor or the wood-carver formshis rough block. What he loses by this in time he spares himselfin the preparation and simplifying of the casting. Chasing, Jap. Horu and Hori-age, is the name given to theafterwork with the chisel, burin, and file applied to the relief ob-tained by casting, embossing or sculpturing. By chasing, the seamsof the casting and other accidental unevennesses are removed.Folds, furrows and angles are developed, or better brought out Rciit, Japan H. Plate AT
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V/i! vWilh EngebnaJin,Liq>2if liAAnsUWirntr&.WulUr.Fr2nki~art rN APPARATUS FOR CASTING METAL. a Box-bellows, b. Cross-section of a smelting-furnace, c. d. Model, e.Mould. METAL INDUSTRY. 429 and in general, the imperfections of the first, coarse work are over-come. Engraving, to carve in, to incise, is called in Japan also Horu,but likewise Kiri-tsuke, and is nearly related to chasing. It isdone with the knife (O-gatane) and the bent graver (Tagane), andusually serves for the decoration of flat surfaces, not of raised work.Hori-mono is the name given to every kind of graven or chasedwork, and the article thus decorated is called Hori-mono-zaiku. Damascening, Japanese Zogan (German Tauschirung, FrenchDamasquinure), is the name given to the inlaying of wires andfine strips of gold and silver in the furrows of baser metals. Iron,steel, bronze and copper especially are damascened. The orna-mentation stretched out beforehand must be engraved accordingto the pattern with the burin, o

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