An antique Meiji period Japanese carved wooden hanging wall mount. Lacquered and painted with mineral paints. Depicting Fish-basket Guanyin (Yulan Guanyin 魚籃觀音).

Age: Meiji period (1868 - 1912)

dimensions: 30" high x 17 1/2" wide

The bodhisattva Guanyin in the manifestation of a young lady with bare feet carrying a basket with a fish...

A Takatsuki stand of wood covered in black lacquer decorated with scrolling vines among which are randomly placed crests in the design of the Daruma Wheel on the stem, and the heraldic Mitsuba-aoi hollyhock crest within the tray. Slightly warped and worn with the centuries, finding a piece from this era in such good, original condition, is exceedingly rare. Early Muromachi, 14-15th century, it is 30 x 30 x 28.5 cm (12 x 12 x 11-1/2 inches)...

Japanese antique eight lobed dish with gold and shell inlaid lacquer (shibayama). Each lobe is decorated in makie, the flora and fauna of the four seasons with archaic designs set in between. The central area of the dish is depicting a female figure holding a lotus with a child attendant holding a bouquet of lotuses...

The size of Makie Kobako: 3 3/4" Long x 3" Wide x 3" High. This is Amazingly Fine Japanese 19 th Century Japanese Antiques Makie Kobako(small box). The Kobako has Roiro(black) background Makie with Hira Makie gold design of Japanese trees as well as Japanese Kamon(family crest). One tree looks like Magnolia tree with flowers. It is finely done. The Kobako came with inside tray as well. The side of Kobako with Red Makie finish over cloth texture finish as photo showing...

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Playable Antique Japanese Buddhist temple hanging lacquered drum. Gold and black lacquer with deer skin hide. Base is secure with four indepenent feet. A round gold gilt flaming archway ascends above the trum. Black lacquer over wood. With hand forged iron nails neatly holding down the tight skin.

Age: Meiji Period 19th Century

Dimensions: 55" high x 26" wide

Biwa-shaped kobako box in gold and silver hira maki-e lacquer.

In the center of the biwa, a bachimen (pick-guard) decorated with a temple in a pine landscape and fake resonance holes in the shape of crescent moons (hangetsu). Back and interior in nashi-ji lacquer.

The biwa is a three-stringed lute used to accompany storytelling...

Oblong brown lacquer kobako box imitating a cherry branch. The lid is decorated with cherry blossoms in gold takamaki-e lacquer. The inside is in brown lacquer.

Japan – Meiji era (1868-1912)
Length: 8.3 in / 21 cm – Width: 2.5 in / 6.5 cm

A Poem card box of straight grained paulownia wood signed Tetsuro decorated with a rabbit in worked lead applied among long lacquered grasses dating from the mid 20th century enclosed in the original signed wooden box accompanied by a label from the Yamagata Museum dated Showa 34 (1959). It is 26.5 × 29.5 × 4.5 cm (10-1/2 x 12 x 2 inches) and is in excellent condition. The storage box is of cross-cut Jindai-sugi cedar, a highly prized grain...

Rectangular suzuribako (writing box) decorated in black and gold takamaki-e with a wide pewter band, representing a bridge pontoon above boats in the waves. Waka poem in chirashi-gaki (scattered writing).

The inside of the lid is decorated with reeds and fireflies near a waterhole in takamaki-e on a black background...

Antique Japanese set of folding Buddhist shrine doors. Made of wood and lacquered black with accents in gold lacquer and green mineral pigment. Extensive gilt copper hardware incised with scrolling vines. The doors are in four sections: two sets that are hinged together and close with a single latch in the center.

Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 48" high x 68" wide

A wild design of three small bean shaped boxes enclosed in a dynamic long bean pod decorated with colored lacquer and mother of pear inlay by Nagai Yasuo. The outer box is 43 × 12 × 7.8 cm (17 inches long), the beans themselves are 9.5 × 6.5 × 5 cm (roughly 4 x 2-1/2 x 2 inches) and all is in excellent condition...

Antique Japanese Shō, mouth organ (flute) used in Gagaku (classical performances traditionally for the imperial court). A musician blows through the silver lined protruding mouthpiece. The air travels through the bamboo tubes creating notes (said to sound like the Ho bird or phoenix). Skillful musicians are able to blow air in and out of the mouth pieces creating sustained, uninterrupted notes. The arrangement of bamboo tubes are said to resemble the folded wings of the phoenix...

Antique Japanese Suzuribako depicting rolling landscape with young pine and early cherry blossom trees. Inside cover lacquered in gold with flowering wild flowers along a bamboo fence and a slender crescent moon finished in silver. The night sky is speckled in gold.

Dimensions: 8 3/4" wide x 9 3/4" high

Age: Meiji period (1868 - 1912)

A classical elegant black lacquer small box and cover, kobako, incense box. Of rectangular form, black lacquer ground (roiro), and makie in gold with design of the “Three friends of Winter “ branches of Bamboo, Prunus in blossom and Pine, symbolising resilience and perseverance. Inside with gold nashiji. Measurements: H 5,5 x W 9 x L 12 cm. Taisho Period, circa 1920-25. Condition: very good.

Daikoku‘s hammer, symbol of power and abundance, capable of granting wishes, made of lacquer and embellished with gold leaf. The decorative motifs on the hammer are floral and geometric and create a harmonious design. Period: Meiji end of 19th century. Dimensions: 16.5 x 7.5 x 7 cm. Conservation status: Excellent condition. There is some lack of gold leaf.

A breathtaking box covered entirely in gold with geese taking flight beyond blossoming plum trees overhanging the waters edge. The flowers are in red and silver, the rest of the surface is powdered gold with kirigane inlay of cut squares of gold intimating lichen and shadow on the stones. The themes are repeated on all sides of the box. Inside fans emblazoned with seasonal flowers and pine boughs decorate the Nashiji surface...

A lacquered writing box in the shape of a kimono sleeve (sode) covered in soaring silver and gold geese among autumn reeds and Togidashi clouds with a secondary (inner) sleeve shape covered in Karakusa vine tendrils on black enclosed in an age darkened kiri wood box. The inside is covered entirely in nashiji gold powder, and contains a grinding stone, and a water dropper of copper inset into the tray...