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Okabé Kakuya

Japanese, 1873 - 1918

BiographyAt the MFA from 1904-1908 to work on their East Asian metal work.
Described as an artist in metal whose training in Japane and whose studies since have enabled him to provide the material for a historical and descriptive catalogue of the exhibition on Japanese sword guards
Wrote a book about Japanese sword guards for MFA, Boston in 1907
Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 25 (Apr., 1907), pp. 12-13 (2 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4423327
REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE DEPARTMENT
Paul Chalfin
Annual Report for the Year ... (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Vol. 29 (1904), pp. 65-69
Okabe-Kakuya began an engagement for the department as a specialist in the history of metal objects.

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