Green print of Earthship by Mayumi Oda. Print 16/100. A woman sails in a ship with an owl atop her head and a boat full of vegetables. Below the ship, in the ocean a sea turtle and a whale swim by. The sun smiles down upon the woman in the ship. It measures 11.75" wide 19" tall.

Contemporary print by Mayumi Oda. A baby rides a catfish that leaps out of the ocean. The waves are outlined below the fish. The print is signed at the bottom in pencil.

We are glad to can offer you a real authentic piece of real Japanese tea ceremony culture, a Shigaraki-yaki Edo period antique mizusashi (water jar) with its o r i g i n a l and signed antique wooden box.

Dated Bunsei 13 (1830).

This is one of the rare originals, which are hard to find in and outside Japan.

As it is in brilliant condition, it can still be used for the tea ceremony.

Height : 14,5 cm

Diam...

Hand made more than hundred years ago in Iga, a small tow in the mountains of Mie prefecture, famous as the birthplace of Iga ninja.

Items like ours gave big inspiration to one of the worlds famous potter Tsujimura Shiro.

Iga-yaki is a style of pottery where the ceramic is fired at high temperatures causing it to crystallize in a red hue, with brown-grey burn marks caused by log ashes, and the melting effect of the vidro (feldspatic glass)...

Seated Amida Buddha, the hands placed centrally on the lap in the Amida-join concentration mudra, sculpted in relief from a heavy igneous stone, probably andesite. Muromachi Period ca. 1500, possibly earlier. Old loss to the base, and substantial softening of the lines and contours of the Buddha figure.

Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.0 cm
Depth: 8.5 cm

A charmingly small-scale depiction of Amida Buddha, desirably softened and patinated by time's passage. Uncommon.

Japanese 20th century print of the Treasure Ship on the River of Our Mind 32/50 by Mayumi Oda. Mayumi Oda is a contemporary artist who studied fine art and traditional fabric dying at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts. She is known by many as the Matisse of Japan. A young maiden, playing a stringed instrument, rides on a dragon shaped ship loaded with treasures. The ship floats along orange waves. The print has red and orange pigment with golden clouds and other gold accents...

SIZE : Width 5.1'' , Length 4.6'', Height 3.1'', Weight 290 g + Signed box 290 g

This is a tea bowl of Japanese SHIGARAKI pottery ware. This was made about 30 years ago. SHIGARAKI is the pottery of Shiga Prefecture in Japan.

It is chosen as one of the oldest 6 potterys in Japan. Shigaraki, Bizen, Iga etc are very popular as pottery of Japanese WABI-SABI.

This amazing tea bowl has a very good natural glaze. It presents a lovely sense of view, touch and hold in the hands...

An absolutely stunning Meiji period black Oribe Tea Bowl covered in thick, ink-black glaze with a floral and abstract design.

The slightly irregular kutsu-gata form settles easily into the palm of the hand, with the built up rim resting lightly on the fingers

The Chawan has a seal and is signed by the artist. I was unable to identify him...

Here we show you a real rare antique and authentic small wooden hand carved Buddha Statue in form of a Bodhisattva, called Myoken Bosatsu.

It was made more than 140 years ago in the late Edo Period. The eyes of the statue are made of crystal and that technique is called gyokugan.

Myōken Bodhisattva, or Myōken Bosatsu in Japanese) is a bodhisattva, who is the deification of the North Star. It is mainly associated with the Nichiren, Shingon and Tendai temples...

Gorinto (five-tiered stupa) sculpted in one piece from tuff, a relatively lightweight, soft sedimentary stone composed largely of volcanic ash. Early-Edo Period ca. 1650. Minor old loss.

Height: 42.5 cm
Width/depth of base: 15.0 cm.

The gorinto is a uniquely Japanese style of stupa comprising five geometric forms, which correspond (from bottom) to earth, water, fire, wind, and ethereal space...

A six panel gold screen decorated in a style harkening to the first half of the Edo featuring angular trees interspersed with blossoming cherries, a torrent splashing angrily through the right quarter topped with moriage gold clouds. Many repairs and losses to the heavy pigments attest to the great age of the painting. Excellent size for wall mounting, it is 62 x 138 inches (157.5 x 350 cm). The border is from a later mounting. Due to size the cost of shipping is to be accrued separately.

CONDITION : Good ( little damages due to an age of more than 200 years, but they do not reduce its beauty )

SIZE : Width 20cm (7.9''), Length 15cm (5,9''), Height 42,42cm (16.7''), Weight 930 g

This is a Buddhist statue of Japanese coloured wood carving. It was made about 200 years ago and it is a real authentic original. It is never imitation. Such very old buddhist statues are very rare and valuable...

This Buddhist Scroll painting was drawn about 200 years ago during the Edo Period in Japan. It is hand painted on paper.

You will find a Hermit with tortoise with a Wabi-Sabi atmosphere. It is drawn very well and it is a very good composition.

Such simple touch is the soul of a Japanese painting. It leads to WABI-SABI. This style of painting is called KANO-HA painting...

Although I do not often use the term, this is a masterpiece by Iga artist Banura Shiro enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Even under the glaze the texture of the clay is clearly visible, rivulets of green glass arching around the body with slashes of color over the red terracotta. It is thin walled and quite light beguiling the size. The Tsubo is 15 inches (38 cm) tall, roughly 13-1/2 inches (35 cm) diameter and is in excellent condition...

One of our favorite chawans in our collection is this large E-Shino Tea Bowl, dating from the Meiji Period.

Consider it as one of the best masterpieces of Meiji era E-Shino chawans (Pictured Shino tea bowl), molded massively in the elegant Japanized distortion and completed with aesthetic smoothness.

The immaculate glaze with yuzu-hada (lemon skin) and the dark underglaze markings are some of the beautiful characteristics of Shino ware, which have been associated with th...

Signature and seal: Ganku

Technique: handpainted on silk

Size: 70 x 186 cm / 27,5'' x 73,2''

Ganku 岸駒 (1749 or 1756 - January 19, 1839), or more formally Kishi Ganku, was a noted Japanese painter of the late Edo period and founder of the Kishi school of painting...

A spectacular Meiji period Tenmoku Chawan by Eiraku Zengoro decorated in a flamboyant style with precious metals.

A golden pine trunk rises, almost entirely obscured by the mass of silver pine needles built up both within and without the bowl. It is most powerful in comparison to the ordinarily subdued Kyo-yaki ware of the Meiji era...

Japanese antique Edo Era Teapot of Oribe ware.

Size 20 centimeters in height, width 16x12.5 centimeters, 570 grams in weight.

Oribe ware (¿—²¿Ÿ† Oribe-yaki) is a type of Japanese pottery most identifiable for its use of green copperglaze and bold painted design. It was the first use of colored stoneware glaze by Japanese potters.

It is one of the Mino styles originating in the late 16th century. It takes its name from tea masterFuruta Oribe (1544¨C1615...