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Subject:Mystery Solved Kawamoto Eizen
Posted By: steve Mon, May 21, 2018 IP: 69.75.231.194
Mystery solved. First, thank you Ajan and Martin for your contributions.
So, my wife googles Eizan Kawamoto and notices, among the results, a picture of his exhibit at the World Fair of 1904 in St. Louis with similar looking vases. I instantly remembered that my grandfather had two bronze medallions from the 1904 World Fair that were kept on their fireplace mantel in their home in Pasadena. The vase was kept to the right of the fireplace. He would let me look at them and I remember they were large and heavy in my small hand.
My great, great, great (great?) grandfather was from St. Louis and must have purchased the vase from Eizan’s exhibit at the fair along with the two commemorative medallions. So, in the last 113 years the vase has traveled from Japan to St Lewis to Grand Rapids to Pasadena and finally to my home. Sounds plausible.
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