Mashiko vase by Hamada Shoji, featuring his well-known iron-glazed sugar cane motif. The vase has a slender, cylindrical shape that narrows slightly at the neck before flaring out at the rim. The light, earthy glaze is typical of Hamada's work, giving it a warm, natural look.

The sugar cane motif, created with iron glaze, uses bold, flowing strokes to represent the leaves and stalks of the plant...

The bowl has a soft, rounded form with a gently outward-curving rim, embodying the elegant simplicity typical of Jun ware. The glaze is a pale blue with a subtle, even texture that accentuates the bowl's smooth surface.
A standout feature is the distinctive purple splashes, a signature of Jun ware, adding vibrant contrast to the otherwise tranquil blue glaze...

A shallow bowl in the Mishima style from Izumo named Meigetsu (Bright Moon) by the famous priest Takeda Mokurai dating from the mid to later Edo period enclosed in a fine kiri-wood collectors box titled Izumo Mishima Chawan...

This is a Shigaraki ware ash-glazed flower vase. The vase has a unique and rustic appearance, characteristic of Shigaraki pottery.
The surface features natural kiln effects, with a textured glaze that varies in color from earthy browns to reddish tones. The uneven distribution of glaze and the rough, gritty texture give the vase an organic, almost weathered look.
The shape of the vase is slightly irregular, tapering towards the top with a small, narrow opening...

Old Bizen 4-sided vase in the style of Chinese Bagua Cong, with the Kimura Sotoku kiln mark on the base. Kimura Sotoku is part of the Kimura family, one of the "six families of Bizen."

In the Early Edo period, Mitsumasa Ikeda (1609–1682) supported Bizen ware by providing resources and recognizing top potters...

A beautiful 19th century Mishima style Hakeme-chawan inlaid with designs in white slip from the Rakuzan kilns of Shimane prefecture. It comes in a silk lined cloth pouch enclosed in an old kiri-wood box titled Rakuzan Yaki Chawan. Inside the lid is a poem accompanied by a painting of a soaring bird. It is 13.6 cm (5-1/2 inches) diameter, 6 cm (2-1/2 inches) tall and in excellent condition...

An aka-Raku Chawan decorated with a phoenix by Kikko Jusoken sealed on bottom with what appears to read “the 7th Kyoto Gosho Hakurankai enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 12 cm ( just less than 5 inches) diameter, 89 cm (3-1/8 inches) tall and is in excellent condition.
Kikko Jihei (the firs Jusoken, 1784-1861) was born in Kaminada Village, Iyo country (mod. Ōzu City, Ehime Prefecture), as the eldest son of Todara Genbei, a retainer of the domain...

An austere wide low Chawan tea bowl from the Asahi kilns of Nara prefecture emblazoned with Daibutsuden (Great Buddhist Hall). This was made to fund the rebuilding of the Great Buddhist Hall at Todaiji Temple during the late Meiji period. It is 15 cm (6 inches) diameter, 6 cm (2-1/4 inches) tall. There is a single gleaming gold repair to a chip in the rim.
Tōdai-ji in Nara, Japan, was founded in the 8th century by Emperor Shōmu as the head temple of all provincial Buddhist temples...

A very rare 19th century tea bowl by Ohashi Shuji enclosed in the original wooden box signed by both the artist and a tea aficionado named Horinouchi Fusensai. It is 10 cm (4 inches) diameter, 12 cm (just less than 5 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Ohashi Shuji (1795-1857) studied medicine before coming to pottery at the age of 37. A practitioner of the Hisada School of tea, he studied in Kyoto under Ogata Shuhei, and was adept at many styles...

A pale glazed deep Tsutsu-gata chawan tea bowl by the first generation Kuze Kyuho decorated with dried lotus leaves by famed painter Hirai Baisen enclosed in the original wooden box signed by both artists. It is 11.5 cm (4-1/2 inches) diameter, 10.5 cm (roughly 4 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Hirai Baisen graduated the Kyoto Municipal School of Fine Arts and was a regular exhibitor with the Bunten from 1907-1931...

A fabulous Toyoraku-yaki pottery bowl covered in colorful lacquer dating from the Mieji period enclosed in an old wooden collectors box. Insed Oribe green flows down from the rim to garden scene of iris and ya-giku (wild chrysanthemum) growing along a rived on the white crackled glaze. Outside geometric patterns in alternating gold green and red supported on three black bamboo shaped feet...

A footed square plate with sake cup inserted of raw colored porcelain clay by Kusaba Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Neriage Yakishime Nami-mon Ita-Zara (Mixed Colored Clay Unglazed Wave Pattern Flat Plate). It is 24.7 x 13 x 3.5 cm (10 x 5 x 1-1/2 inches) and in perfect condition, directly from the artist.
Kusaba Yuji was born in Arita, the heartland of Japanese porcelain, in 1955, and graduated the prestigious Nihon Daigaku in 1979. He returned to the family kiln i...

5 low-fired plates in sundown-colors decorated with seasonal images by Nakagawa Wado (1880-1943) from the Jusanken Kiln of Osaka. Each is roughly 14 cm (5-1/2 inches) diameter and in excellent condition.
The Kikko Kiln was established in Osaka in the opening years of the 19th century by Iyo native Toda Jihe, who had learned the ceramic arts in Kyoto under all of the great names of the time, Kiyoizu Rokubei I, Ryonyu the 9th generation head of the Raku family, and Ninnami Dohachi among oth...

A small set of three nesting bowls with pouring lips by Asami Gorosuke of the Kyoto Pottery Tradition dating from the late 19th to early 20th century. The largest is 11.5 x 13.5 x 6 cm, and all are in perfect condition.

A set of five Kosobe-yaki pottery plates decorated with plum blossoms, harbinger of Spring. Each is 12 cm (5 inches) diameter and in excellent condition, dating from the century and stamped Kosobe on the base.
The potter who founded Kosobe ware, Shinpei Igarashi, is said to have trained in Kyoto. He opened a kiln in Kosobe Town, Takatsuki City, during the Kansei era (1779-1801), and the operation continued for about 120 years until the fourth generation, Nobuhira. During this period,...

A meek mouse huddles between erratic designs on the crackled-cream colored surface of this lidded container dating from the later 19th century Awata Kilns of Kyoto. It is 17 cm diameter, 11 cm tall and in excellent condition.
Awata, or Awataguchi, was the end of the Tokaido road connecting Kyoto and the Edo period capital of Tokyo. Potteries began there in the opening years of the Edo period.

A set of five covered bowls from the Akashi kilns of the 19th century decorated with cotton flowers on brown sandy clay. Each bowl is roughly 11.5 cm (4-1/2 inches) diameter, 6 cm (2-1/4 inches) deep. There are minor abrasions to the soft clay along the rims, but no cracks, and overall in rare fine used condition. Akashiyaki is a type of ceramic from Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture influenced by Mishima, Ko-Kiyomizu and Ninsei wares which reached its peak in the latter half of the Edo period. At th...

Antique Japanese okimono of a skull. Made of ceramic with a dark brown finish. Realistically sculpted with details of every process and suture. And with a single porcelain tooth. Comes with tomobako.

Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 5" high x 5 1/2" long