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The Kura
sold, thank you A set of 5 rare Dutch glass cups imported to Japan in the Edo period and formerly owned by the Confucian scholar Nakai Riken (1732-1817). They are enclosed in a custom made double sided wooden box with drop in doors titled on the side Yoi-O-Gozui (Five fortuitous ways to be drunken) with a long verse carved into each door. Of course, the meaning of the title goes much deeper, and the Gozui is also a Confucian concept...
Mastromauro Japanese art
EUR €1,400 Bronze okimono depicting the study of a powerful tiger in a furtive position.
The animal is represented with its legs bent, its tail curled upwards and its body in a lowered position just before launching the attack.
The streaks of the fur, typical of the animal, are depicted in a masterful way and highlighted with a marked engraving.
This okimono is signed Hideyoshi 秀義 under the belly.
Origin: Japan
Period: Meiji second half of the 19th century.
Dimensions: 10 x 36 x 9 cm....
Haruko Watanabe
Sold, Thank you. Amazing boro made of hand-spun and vegetable indigo dye cotton fragments. It used to be the lining of yogi, which is one kind of futon, in the shape of kimono. It is from the Japan Sea side district in Kansai, such as Fukui or Kyoto. It is partly sewn with hemp yarn. Late 19th to early 20th century. W:95cm, L:165cm
Momoyama Gallery
sold Late Edo (1603-1868) Period Shino Chawan with all highlights of the Japanese aesthetics of wabi sabi. It is in perfect antique condition and comes with its original wooden box, a cloth bag (shifuku) and the attestation of a tea master inside. Shino-ware dates to the Momoyama period when potters were attempting to recreate white porcelain-wares that were being imported from China at the time. Originally they were made in single-chamber anagama style kilns set into the hillsides...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, thank you A covered container made as an incense burner by Koyama Kiyoko slabbed and cored from Shigaraki clay and covered in glassy green motlen ash enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 13.5 cm (5-1/2 inches) diameter, roughly the same height and in excellent condition.
Koyama Kiyoko was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki in 1936. Following the second world war the family moved to Shiga prefecture, eventually settling in the pottery village of Shigaraki...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1980
item #1487870
(stock #12528)
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$300.00 NAMU AMIDA BUTSU IN SWORD STYLE Japanese Buddhist hanging scroll mounted with woodblock-printed paper talisman so-called 'Riken Myogo' ("Namu Amida Butsu" in sword style) as a chanting of homage to Amida Buddha written in sharp‐pointed font like the sword that protect from evil spirit. Showa period, 20th century. Mounting: 26.5 x 127.2 cm (10.43 x 50.07in)...
tomoe art
$700.00 Kano School painting depicted Inkwash landscape/Suiboku Sansui. Painted with ink on paper. Signed Naonobu and sealed. It is attributed to Kano Naonobu.
Kanō Naonobu (1607–1650) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school of painting during the early Edo period...
The Kura
sold, thank you A radical Bizen Mizusashi with two lacquered wooden lids enclosed in a black lacquered wooden box with gold lacquer writing titled Samidare which is in turn enclosed in a kiri-wood storage box by the same title compartmentalized to allow the lids to be stored safely. Samidare is a poetic reading for Rain of the Fifth Month (June in the traditional calendar). It has a seal of overlapping rings impressed into the earth of the base, and dates from the Edo period...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, thank you A crumpled news print from the New York Times dated 82-5 by pioneering Ceramic Sculpture Icon Mishima Kimiyo enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 25 x 14 x 13.5 cm (10 x 5-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition.
Mishima Kimiyo was born in Osaka in 1932, and began her artistic career as a painter in the early 1960s. She started making collages with newspapers, discarded waste papers from printing companies, and old movie posters...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, thank you An elongated bowl playfully decorated in vivid color by Matsuda Yuriko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Zukini Nagabachi. It is 49 x 16 x 7.5 cm (19-1/2 x 6 x 3 inches) and is in excellent condition.
Matsuda Yuriko is an avid exhibitor; it is a wonder she has time to do any work at all. Both within Japan (Nihon Togei Ten, Gendai Togei Ten etc.) and without she has an impressive list of exhibitions in a host of countries...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940
item #1487847
(stock #Koho099)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Shoda Koho
Moonlit Sea From the Hasegawa Night Scenes series. Size: Chuban. Approximately 9.75 x 7 inches. Date: 1910-1938. Publisher: Hasegawa/Nishinomiya Yosaku. An early marginless edition as originally issued. "Made in Japan" stamped on verso. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Two thin surface scratches - lower left and top. Top back corners have paper residue. Two small surface marks in water near right horizon.
Haruko Watanabe
$280.00 Urushi sakazuki (sake cup) made of wood and painted with black urushi. It has hand-painted sculp with red urushi which is for a charm against evil spirits and used in a temple or a shrine. It is from Akita prefecture in Tohoku. Late Edo period (The first half of the 19th century). In good condition. H:3.5cm, Diameter:10.3cm
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, thank you A polished gypsum sculpture reminiscent of the matte works of Nigoshide ceramics from her home prefecture by Sugano Chi enclosed in a swooden box titled Akerakan and featured in the book Sugano Chii (published 1997). It is 16 x 14.5 x 16 cm (6-1/4 x 4-3/4 x 6 inches) and is in excellent condition...
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Sold MAKIE LACQUERWARE DISH 19th-20th century, Japan. D 15.5 x H 2 cm (6.10 x 0.78in). Comical and lovely scene with an ogre on the cloud is trying to pick up the drum he dropped off...
Haruko Watanabe
Sold, Thank you. Tamba-yaki tokkuri (bottle for sake) with hand-drawn letters of the sake maker. Generally in good condition. Early 20th century. H:22cm, Diameter:11cm
Golden Age Antiques
SOLD This is a beautiful complex wire and wireless Japanese cloisonne vase. Though it is not signed, it was made by Gonda Hirosuke during the Meiji Era, circa 1910. All pieces like this we ever seen signed have been signed Gonda. Very few of these wireless fish vases were made by Gonda.
The vase is in excellent condition and has silver rims. It was created before Japan began stamping rims with the "jun gin' silver mark in the early 1900's. It stands 7 inches tall and is 7 inches wide.
Japanese : Other Prints : Contemporary
item #1487801
(stock #05461)
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Sold 3D TIGER Lenticular sheet, Japan, 25 x 35 cm (9.84 x 13.77in). Enjoy it from various angles. selected by Jinta * Please understand that EMS shipping fee is additionally charged, and also confirm our Sales Policy before purchase, since your order will be assumed to have fully acknowledged our Sales Policy under any circumstances. Thank you.
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$250.00 DOROMENKO Primitive Japanese earthen toy for children called 'Doromenko' (lit. 'Mud face') including rare motif like ghost, fox, fish, etc., 19th century, approx. 3-3.5 cm (1.18-1.37in)... |