METAL INDUSTRY. 



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generations, from the 15th to the i8th century. The eagle in the 

 Kensington Museum, which is said to have been forged by Miyo- 

 chin Muneharu in the i6th century, and of which a woodcut after 

 a photograph appears on plate XVI., belongs to the most admirable 

 products of their art. 



A large label attached to the work contains the following 

 statement. " Model of an eagle. The bird stands with outspread 

 wings upon a rock, and is made of numerous bits of iron, some 

 cast, others carved or hammered and chased. It is the work of 

 Miyochin Muneharu, a celebrated Japanese metal-worker of the 



Fig. 15. — CAST-IRON KETTLE, WITH INLAID WORK. 



{Original in Royal Industrial Art Museum^ Berlin.) 



i6th century. The width of the wings measures four feet four and 

 a half inches (133 centimeters). Bought from Mitford's collection 

 for i^ 1,000." ^ 



The Tetsu-bin or cast-iron kettle, which is to be found in every 

 Japanese house for boiling the water for tea, is the only one 



1 In the year 1881, in company with a learned Japanese, I visited the Ken- 

 sington Museum in London, and with the permission of the directors undertook 

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