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The Kura
$2,000.00 A hand formed silver vase with lacquered insert attached to a wooden base dating from the Art-deco era. It is 23 cm (9 inches) diameter, 21.5 cm (8-1/2 inches) tall and in overall excellent condition. There is a small impression in the wood base, roughly 1 cm long, on one side...
Momoyama Gallery
$1,500.00 One of a kind! Wonderful Nana Nana Kiju Chawan made by the most famous monk of Japan, Shimizu Kosho (Kōshō), which he made as a commemorative tea bowl to celebrate his 77 birthday. It comes with the originally signed and sealed wooden box of this most famous buddhistic monk. This tea bowl is made of clay of the Jinraku-Gama-kiln, which is famous for folk craft style pottery...
The Kura
$700.00 An Edo period Kogo incense case of pale earth tones decorated with geometric shapes and green copper glaze in the oribe style with a scrawling streak of kintsugi gold extending down two sides. Kintsugi is the art of repairing using lacquer and powdered gold. Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese art form of repairing broken pottery or ceramics using lacquer and powdered precious metals...
The Kura
$470.00 A narrow open-mouthed vessel decorated with autumnal trees by Ito Tozan II enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The piece could serve as a vase, but comes with a black lacquered wooden lid and is titled Mizusashi, making it rightfully a fresh water jar for the Japanese Tea Ceremony. It is 11.7 cm (4-3/4 inches) diameter 22 cm (9 inches) tall and in excellent condition, likely dating from the 1950s...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1910
item #1492084
(stock #Hiroshige173)
Hiroshige Ando
Fuchu, Nichomachi (Titled in image) Size: Approximately 8.5 x 3.5 inches. Date: ca 1910. Publisher: Matsumoto Print Works. No. 40 publisher's tag on back. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Bend lower right corner. Chip upper left corner. Bronze sculpture with dark brown patina of a cicada.
The cicada (in Japanese, semi) is considered as a symbol of humanity. Together with a praying mantis and a spider, they represent the three virtues of a general: humanity, courage and skill.
Japan – Meiji era (1868-1912)
Height: 0.79 in / 2.5 cm – width: 0.79 in / 7.5 cm – depth : 1.96 in / 5 cm
GALERIE TIAGO
Sold Cedar wooden ryoshibako (or bunko) document box, decorated with deer and crane on the outer lid and bat on the inner lid in takamaki-e lacquer...
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Sold YAMABUSHI Wood carving seated image of Shugendo mountain priest as 'Yamabushi' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamabushi), once enshrined at kamidana household altar of esoteric Buddhist believer's house in Shonai region, Japan. Keio era (1865-1868) in the late Edo period. H 26 x W 16 x D 11 cm (10.23 x 6.29 x 4.33in). In naturally sooted condition by the smoke from fireplace (sunken hearth) for many years. Also aged deterioration as is as seen...
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Sold OGRE DECORATION Unique practical substitute made of tin plate for the roof ornamentation found in traditional Japanese architecture so-called 'Onigawara' (lit. 'Ogre tile' / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onigawara), with the implication of talisman as well. Showa period, 20th century. H 29 x W 26 x D 19.5 cm (11.41 x 10.23 x 7.67in)...
The Kura
$495.00 Gold forms a billowing pine tree lavishly applied to the dark lacquered body of this wooden water jar enclosed in the original wooden box titled Ikkan Mage-Mizusashi, Oimatsu signed by both the wood craftsman and the lacquer artist. It is 15 cm (6 inches) diameter 16cm tall and in excellent condition, dating from the early 20th century...
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Inquire for Price Meiji (1868-1912) Japanese Patinated Bronze Bactrian Camel Okimono by Genryusai Seiya 源龍斎誠谷, Signed "Seiya Zo"
It is 10.15 inches (25.8 cm) tall by 10.3 inches (26.2 cm) wide. It is 8.1 Lb. It has tarnished eyes and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos). Our Guarantee: We stand behind all of the items that we sell...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1910
item #1492062
(stock #SeikoA018)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Aoki Seiko (b. 1880)
Red Berries and Birds (aka. Waxwings) Size: Approximately 9.75 x 4.75 inches (24.9 x 12 cm). Date: ca. 1910. Publisher: Matsumoto Print Works. Cat. #368 tags on back. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Upper left corner margin chip. Pinhole near signature. - Rarely seen. The Matsumoto catalog identifies the birds as kashidori, "a noisy, quarrelsome species of jay."
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1930
item #1492061
(stock #SeikoA017)
Era Woodblock Prints
$100 (After) Aoki Seiko
Waxwings (Red Berries and Birds) Date: Friday, July 5th, 1929. Accordion format. Opened out size: 10.375 x 7.625 inches (23.4 x 19.2 cm). Note: Cover of a menu for the Kashima Maru on the N.Y.K. Line Medium: Japanese shin-hanga woodblock print. The traditional means of woodblock print creation was employed for all steps through inking of the carved blocks...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940
item #1492049
(stock #Hasui664)
Era Woodblock Prints
$275 (After) Kawase Hasui
Morning at Niju Bridge (Nijubashi no Asa) Date: Monday, August 17, 1936. Size: 7.5 x 5.375 inches (19 x 13.6 centimeters). Note: This rare print was the cover of a dinner menu for the Yasukuni Maru, a cruise ship on the N.Y.K. Line (Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha)...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940
item #1492048
(stock #Hiroshige172)
Era Woodblock Prints
$175 (After) Hiroshige Ando
Suidobashi, Surugadai (Suido Bridge and Surugadai) Date: Thursday, December 3, 1931. Size: 7.625 x 5 inches (19.5 x 12.6 cm). Note: Concert and tea party menu for the passenger ship Chichibu Maru on the N.Y.K. Line. Publisher: Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo). Medium: Japanese woodblock print. The traditional means of woodblock print creation was employed for all steps through inking of the carved blocks...
Kodo Arts
$750.00 Fine Shigaraki ceramic Mizusashi tea utensil by Rakusai IV in the "suehiro' flaring style. Ca. 1970. Signed box. Rakusai IV was born 1925 in Shigaraki and is probably the most famous Shigaraki potter. The Takahashi family is along with the Ueda family the oldest potter family in Shigaraki and largely responsible for preserving traditions, especially after the second world war. Takahashi Rakusai IV succeeded his father the third Takahashi – who was designated as „Intangible Cultural Property...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1910
item #1492041
(stock #Josetsu001)
Josetsu (Jousetsu) 城雪
Cock and Hen with Chickens under a Plum-tree Size: 7 x 4.75 inches. Date: ca. 1910. Publisher: Matsumoto Print Works. Cat. #164 tag on back. Medium: Japanese woodblock print from a painting by Tokyo artist Josetsu. Condition: A few marks. Slight waviness corresponding to location of tag on back.
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, thank you Decorated with only a single platinum thumbprint this Unmistakable Crimson bowl by Masatomo turns inward as it closes upon the mouth. It is 15 cm (6 inches) diameter, 8 cm (just more than 3 inches) tall and in perfect condition, enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Red Chawan and comes directly from the artist.
Masatomo Toi was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1992, and graduated the Design course at the Tajimi Ceramics Research Facility in 2019. Since he has been developing his s... |