Tomoe (after Hasui)
Rainy Street Scene
(This smaller unsealed print is clearly based on "City in the Rain" by Kawase Hasui).
Date: 1950s-60s.
Size: 5.5 x 3.625 inches
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print attached along its top edge only to original blank card (7 x 4.625 inches).
Condition: Excellent.

Ide Gakusui
Plum Tree
Size: Approximately 5.75 x 3.825 inches.
Date: 1950s-60s.
Gakusui signature and seal lower left.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo
Woodblock print is tipped along its top edge only to original 7 x 4.5-inch blank card.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

BIRD TREE BY SHIGEO FUKUDA

Vintage wooden puzzle sculpture toy by Shigeo Fukuda (1932-2009 / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeo_Fukuda), as the same type made for his daughter originally. 1965-1969, Japan. H 27 x 21 x 9 cm (10.62 x 8.26 x 3.54in). Attached with the art book titled 'Toy' publishing this same type of his work as the reference.


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SHAKOTAN BLUE 1970

Vintage Japanese oil painting on canvas, 'Fine scenery of Shakotan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakotan,_Hokkaido)' by Yakuwa Shiro (1914-93), 1970. 33 x 24.5 x 1.7 cm (12.99 x 9.64 x 0.66in). Biography notes at the backside as its original condition.


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This is a wonderful vintage Japanese Raku style tea cup of Ohi ware with an amazing amber glaze which was made about 50-60 years ago by Rakusai Ohi. The seal of 'Ohi' is stamped on the bottom. The original wooden box with the signature and the seal of the artist is also included.

Ohi ware has become well known for its use of Ame-gusuri, or amber glaze. Being a Raku style, it was low-fired and is quite light and soft in the hands. Tea bowls or Sake cups are sculpted from a single p...

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�...

THINK

Vintage Japanese oil painting on canvas, titled 'Think' as the two people sitting and thinking, by Kazuko Kamada (or Kamata), 1965. 38 x 45.5 x 2 cm (14.96 x 17.91 x 0.78in). Dynamically thickly painted. Aged deterioration as is, with stain, slight peelings, and partial deformation (extension of canvas surface).


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CRABS ON THE PLATE

Old anonymous Japanese oil painting on canvas, attached with well-matched original wooden frame, early-mid 20th century. Frame: 52 x 42.7 x 4.7 cm (20.47 x 16.81 x 1.85in). Aged deterioration as is as seen.


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Wedding Kimono (Uchikake) Silk embroidery and gold and silver metallic ribbons. Some metal ribbon details are iridescent. This Uchikake is a unique model created in a single copy, in fact the decoration is not composed of assembling pieces of fabric with repetitive decoration as most often, but the scene takes place without interruption. The elements represented are highly symbolic , we can admire the pairs of mandarin ducks (marital happiness), the cranes and peonies (immortality) the 8 treasur...

8 1/4” Dia x 3 9/16” High (21 cm x 9 cm)
This is beautiful Japanese Iro (color) Nabeshima Porcelain Bowl.
It is made by Imaizumi Imaemon 13th Studio Work.
The shape bowl is Kashiki which used for Confectionary Bowl.
The bowl has 5 different Flowers design intricately painted.
The foot of bowl has comb design of Nabeshima Bowl.
It came with Kiri wood Tomobako. The top of Tomobako has
Japanese writing : Nishiki Marumon, Hana Moyo Kashiki”
(brocade, M...

Quirky Burmese reverse glass painting incorporating colored foil of Popa Medaw, (Google Popa Medaw as there is quite a good write up on her myth), 22cm x 32 cm. Acquired in Chiang Mai over 20 years ago, it was around 30 years old at the time. Nats are spiritual beings that predate Buddhism in Myanmar but they manage to coexist without conflict.

Ide Gakusui
Berries
Size: Approximately 5.625 x 3.625 inches.
Date: 1950s-60s.
Gakusui signature and seal lower left.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Ide Gakusui
Chrysanthemums
Size: Approximately 5.5 x 3.5 inches.
Date: 1950s-60s.
Gakusui signature and seal lower right.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo
Woodblock print is attached along the top edge only to original 7 x 4.625-inch blank card.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Hiker by Snowy Cottage
Artist: Not known.
Print size: Approximately 5.625 x 3.25 inches.
Date: 1930s-60s
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

YELLOW DRESS

Vintage Japanese oil painting on canvas, by Saburo Miyamoto, 1961. *Frame is just for the reference image and not attached. Canvas: 45.5 x 53 x 2 cm (17.91 x 20.86 x 0.78in)


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MEN-KABURI

Vintage Japanese Satsuma folk mechanical toy made of paper clay and wood, by Takashi Kashima who had started to make such folk toy since around Showa 32 (1957), as this is 'Men-kaburi' (lit. 'Mask-wearing') that wear its fox mask to against the bad fox when pulling the string, based on a scene from an old tale dated back to the Edo period. H 23 x 10 x 10 cm (9.05 x 3.93 x 3.93in). Aged deterioration including stain, flaws, peelings, etc. as is as seen. ...

Rare Early Ink Painting by Renowned Korean Artist Don Ahn aka Ahn Dong Kuk (1937-2013) painted in 1963. Ink on paper. Frame: 53 x 31.5 inches, 135 x 80 cm. Painting: 48.5 x 27 inches, 123 x 69 cm. We encourage you to research Don Ahn's sales record and market prices on sites such as Artsy, so you can appreciate what a great opportunity this is to purchase an original work of art by the master at a price well below the actual value. Don Ahn was a pioneer of Korean art in America. In the 1950s he ...

This is a beautiful Japanese wedding gown (uchikake). Featured on brownish orange (when you looked at it where the gold does not take over, the basic color looks more like brownish red) silk are flocks of white cranes and stylized water in roundels of gold. The tone of the gold is rich but soft. The design is unique, elegant, artistic and well executed with excellent workmanship. The condition is almost new. The color is ligher than shown in the photos but it can change to soft to strong depen...