Okabé Kakuya

At 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.

https://shozokan.nich.go.jp/en/collection/object/SZK001350