- Also known as
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Kuchiki Masatsuna 朽木昌綱
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primary name: Kutsuki Masatsuna
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other name: (Lord of) Tamba
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other name: Kuchiki Masatsuna
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other name: Kuchiki Ryukyo
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other name: Kutsuki Masatsuna
- Details
- individual; collector; Japanese; Male
- Life dates
- 1750-1802
- Biography
- Of Fukuchiyama, Kyoto. Lord of Tamba province. The most famous Japanese coin collector; known to have been friends with Isaac Titsingh, the Dutch Japanologist. Parts of his fine collection of East Asian coins were sold to the British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in the 1880s by Howel Wills (q.v.), who had acquired them from Rudolf Frentzel (q.v.).
- Bibliography
- Shin sen sen pu [Newly edited coin book], 3 vols, Osaka and Tokyo, 1790.
Rosen kikan [Paired coins of the Song dynasty], Osaka and Tokyo, 1796.
Saiundo kosen mokuroku [Catalogue of Saiundo's coin collection], 1 vols, Osaka, 1788; 2 vols, Osaka, 1790.
Senka bunryo ko [A study of weights and measures of coins], 1 vol, Osaka, 1794.
Wakan kokon senkakan [A survey of Japanese and Chinese coins], 12 vols, Osaka and Tokyo, 1798.
Articles on the Tamba collection at the British Museum appeared in the Nikkei Shinbun, Tokyo Shinbun, Asahi Shinbun, Kyoto Shinbun on 8 March 1999.
For publications relating to Kutsuki Masatsuna in English, see
(1) Shin'ichi Sakuraki et al, 'Catalogue of the Japanese Coin Collection at the British Museum', BM Research Publication 184 (2010) - available on BM website
(2) Craig Greenbaum's article 'The book Tozai Senpu and Kutsuki Masatsuna's Coin Collection', in Numismatique Asiatique no. 8 (Dec 2013), pp. 51-56.
(3) J. Mark Ritchie's article 'The Tozai Senpu Coin Rubbings and Kutsuki Masatsuna's Vietnamese Coins', in Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society 240 (Summer 2020), pp. 18-21.
(4) Articles about a small exhibition about Kutsuki Masatsuna, curated by Lyce Jankowski, at the Ashmolean Museum in 2017:
Lyce Jankowski, Chinese Coins from a Scholar's Study, The E-sylum, vol. 20, No.26 (June 25, 2017); Coins Weekly, 13 June 2017 (https://coinsweekly.com/chinese-coins-from-a-scholars-study-at-the-ashmolean/); Chinese Money Matters, 22 Sept 2017 (https://chinesemoneymatters.wordpress.com/2017/09/22/chinese-coins-from-the-scholars-study/)
