Japanese pair of bronze turtle doves signed Sekiguchi Shinya, Meiji Period

Japanese pair of bronze Oriental turtle doves with details finely worked in gold, silver, shakudo, shibuichi and copper standing on kawara roof tiles embossed with a tomoe mon (emblem with swirling commas) and autumnal trailing leaves in various shades of gold signed with chiselled characters Shinya koku 真也刻 (engraved by Sekiguchi Shinya) with tomobako wood storage box and fitted black lacquer base, Meiji Period.

The artist Sekiguchi Shinya 関口真也 (1877-1932) was born in Shiba-ku-Tokyo, the son of the famous metalworker Sekiguchi Ichiya. He first exhibited at the fourth Naikoku Kangyo Hakurankai (National Industrial Promotion Exposition) in 1895. His works are also recorded in the catalogues of the 1900 Paris Exhibition, and the fifth Naikoku Kangyo Hakurankai (1903).

The Oriental turtle dove (kame hato 亀鳩) is a symbol of loyalty, fertility and is the messenger of the Emperor Ojin, later deified as the archery and war god Hachiman, worshipped by the Samurai warrior class.

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