Ido glaze chawan was translated from Korea in 16th century, Japanese tea masters has been loved Ido chawan very much just as one of them has been registered as a National treasure. So ido glaze is liked by many potters in Japan, however it's too difficult to make, especially about "Kairagi" crinkled glaze. Sugimoto has completed Ido wares challenging to antique Ido pieces...

The great master in Japan pottery art scene Sadamitsu Sugimoto has been challenging and made up new works celadon pieces at 88 years old. He has boosted 4 types of celadon works, this piece is one of them, celadon named "Sky blue after rain". It has very beautiful blue color just like blue sky after rain. YouTube movie/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfu7E4oyfck Size: 8.6cm(D)/4.5cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist

Slip ware with white mud is called "Kohiki" in Japan. This piece is made of very interesting clay that makes changes in firing, so it's not only white but also complicated color. Firing is made by charcoal, YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMD6XUAmAdQ Size: 9.2cm(D)/ 12.8cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist

A celadon vase with beast head handles clasping ringlets decorated with a band of intense blue featuring civets frolicking among vines burgeoning with grapes enclosed in the original singed wooden box. It is18 cm (7 inches) diameter, 22 cm (9 inches) tall and in perfect condition.
The name Kozan was granted by Prince Yasui-no-Miya in 1851 in honor of the tea ware produced during the later Edo for the imperial Court by the tenth generation head of the Kyoto pottery family Miyagawa Chozo...

INCOMPLETE LION HEAD

'Shishigashira' (Lion Head) used for 'Shishimai' (Japanese Lion Dance) just carved roughly from a single piece of log in such unfinished condition as is with no lower jaw part. Taisho-Showa period, early 20th century...

The great master in Japan pottery art scene Sadamitsu Sugimoto has been challenging and made up new works celadon pieces at 88 years old. He has boosted 4 types of celadon works, this piece is one of them, named "Ice crack celadon". It has very beautiful patterns just like as ice crack. YouTube movie/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFUK2DLgIc Size:9.8cm(D)/13.3cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist

The great master in Japan pottery art scene Sadamitsu Sugimoto has been challenging and made up new works celadon pieces at 88 years old. He has boosted 4 types of celadon works, this piece is one of them, white porcelain named "Tusk white" . It has very beautiful white color just like tusk of elephant YouTube movie/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEcqCVPQY4g Size: 8.8cm(D)/4.5cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist

The great master in Japan pottery art scene Sadamitsu Sugimoto has been challenging and made up new works celadon pieces at 88 years old. He has boosted 4 types of celadon works, this piece is one of them, celadon named "Sky blue after rain". It has very beautiful blue color just like blue sky after rain. YouTube movie/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfu7E4oyfck Size: 8.6cm(D)/4.5cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist

A fabulous chawan by Inayoshi Osamu enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hikidashi Guro Chawan featuring dark glaze spilling over the rim and running through the stone textured clefts. The bulk is covered in earthy green with raw clay at the base. Osamu is very low production, and very selective of what he allows out into the world, and I am proud to be able to offer this. It is 12 cm (5 inches) diameter, 10.5 cm (4 inches) tall and in excellent condition, directly from the artist...

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...

The thatch roofed studio of potter Mashimizu Zoroku by Shibata Banyo dating from the Taisho to early Showa period. Pigment on silk in a red lacquered wooden frame. It is 190 x 170 cm (74 1/2 x 67 inches) and is in overall fine condition with some light foxing and minor handling marks typical of age. For another example of this scene by Banyo see:Rokasensuiso to Yamamoto Shunkyo (2022, Otsu City Historical Museum) page 14.
Shibata Banyo (1885-1942) was an influential artist born in Otsu...

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...

(After) Toshikata Mizuno (1866-1908)
Geisha and Cherry
Dated Sunday 8th, May 1938.
Size: 7.875 x 5 inches (20 x 12.6 cm).
A cover of a menu of the N.Y.K. Line passenger ship, Katori Maru.
Publisher: Likely Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo), who produced another of our ship menu woodblock prints.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print. The traditional means of woodblock print creation was employed for all steps through inking of the carved blocks...

CHOCOLATE PARFAIT

Retro Showa-style chocolate parfait of 'Food sample' (Food model or Fake food) handmade by the Japanese craftsman. Heisei period. H 18 cm (7.08in)...

An exquisite work by great artist Nakajima Yasushi enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The clear white Kyo glaze certainly is like moonlight and the inside of the tea bowl offers a view of a glaze that looks like the enchanted surface of a mountain lake.

Nakajima Yasushi 中嶋 靖 (1938-2017) was born in Hyogo prefecture and graduated from the Kyoto Municipal University of Art in 1962...

ROSE

Vintage Japanese oil painting on wooden board attached with frame, by Yoko Yuasa, 1968, 38 x 30.7 x 4.3 cm (14.96 x 12.08 x 1.69in). Aged deterioration as is as seen.


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SHRINE WITH LARGE CURVED ROOF

Japanese wooden 'zushi' (household Shinto altar) with the motif of Trinity, early 20th century, approx. W 27 x D 14.5 x H 22 cm (10.62 x 5.70 x 8.66in)...

A dimpled bowl decorated with chrysanthemum blossoms floating past a dark shore by Miyagawa (Makuzu) Kozan enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kenzan Utsushi Kikusui Ga Kashi-bachi. It is roughly 20 cm (8 inches) diameter, 8 cm (3 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
The name Kozan was granted by Prince Yasui-no-Miya in 1851 in honor of the tea ware produced during the later Edo for the imperial Court by the tenth generation head of the Kyoto pottery family Miyagawa Cho...