Tsuchiya Koitsu
Kyoto Kiyomizu Temple
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Round Takemura seal.
Date: 1930-40s.
Size: 5.5 x 3.5 inches.
Titled and sealed by the artist.
Reference: TK-TM-140.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent

Lanna Thai wooden Buddha sitting in Mara Vijaya (calling the earth to witness) posture on a base with gilded gold.

Age: Thailand, 19th Century
Size: Height 21 C.M. / Width 9.7 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

LEGS STANDING ON ROCK

Inscrutable Japanese metal okimono object as 'iwaza' (stone-like socle used as the base for a Buddhist statue) attaching just legs part, Showa period, 20th century, H 7 x 15.5 x 9.5 cm (2.75 x 6.10 x 3.74in). Metal material but magnet don't attract. Aged deterioration as is, with some scratches and flaws as generally. (*The white ceramic doll is not attached with this item. Please put on something you like and enjoy.)


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Wonderful Ca. 1930 Kyoto-yaki ceramic bowl signed by Nishigawa in a signed original box. Inscripted on the box is the word Nishiki-ga meaning patterned after the obis woven in the Nishiki weaving area of Kyoto. 13cm tall x 28cm in diameter. Great condition.

A very rare Mashiko platter by Living National Treasure Hamada Shoji decorated with a poem cradled in an offset ring forming the mika-tsuki or third day moon by poet Shimizu Hian. The poem reads: Akaki Mi no Omoto no Hotori Dainaru Maruki kono yo no ishi okitari, and is signed by the 76 year old man Hian meaning it was made either in 1958 or 59 (depending upon whether Hian was going by the Western or Japanese manner of counting age). It is 35.5 cm (14 inches) diameter and is in excellent condi...

3 robed figures appear decidedly relaxed on the edge of a rock-strewn river lost in dark mountains. Above a poem reads:
Furusato ha Arukiteyukeru Tokoro ni-te, Yama ari, Mizu ari, kataru yuujin ari (Walking through my home(town) I find mountains, water and friends for conversation).
Ink on paper bordered in patterned silk with bone rollers. It is 59 x 129 cm (23 x 51 inches) and is in overall fine condition, with some toning due to age. Shimizu Hian (1883-1975) was a popular poet...

Antique Japanese bronze koro (censer) in the form of the trickster, Tanuki. In this depiction, Tanuki takes the form of a monk with a wide hat on. Fine details of his fur and vines of grape leaves wraps around him (fittingly as Tanuki is fond of wine). The leaves on the vine and on his hat are made of cloisonné in various fall colors. There is a raised cartouche on the bottom. The hat can be removed to put incense inside the Tanuki container. When the hat is replaced and the incense lit, ...

A large Serving dish covered entirely in a volatile landscape of scholars and winding mountain paths populated by towering temples and bridges spanning precipitous gaps by Shigemori Yoko enclosed in a wooden box titled Sansui E-zara. Performed with blue over a cream colored glaze, it is 33 x 35 x 3.5 cm (roughly 13 x 14 x 1-1/4 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist’s family, with a wooden box signed by her brother Naoki.
Shigemori Yoko (1953-2021) was born in...

Kawase Hasui
Fisherman at Sunset
Date: 1930s. This edition 1950s-60s.
Approximately 5.5 x 3.75 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Artist's oval seal at lower left.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print attached along its top edge only to original card.
Condition: Excellent.

Slightly distorted Kuro Oribe Chawan from the mid 19th century (late Edo) made of light, coarse, unrefined Mino clay. The expertly thrown body was trimmed with a potters knife in its lower part and covered with a very deep black iron oxide glaze inside and outside.

It bears all the characteristics of true wabi-sabi aesthetics and principles, including asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and the appreciation of both natural objects and the forces...

Cotton futonji with tsutsugaki tsuzumi (hand drums) and cherry blossom design, which is made of hand-spun cotton and vegetable indigo dye. The cherry blossoms look "shidare-sakura", weeping cherry. Meiji period (1868~1912). In excellent condition, no hole or no stain. W:130cm, L:144cm

Flowers. Painted with ink and pigments on paper. Signed Baiitsu and sealed. It is attributed to Yamamoto Baiitsu(1783-1856). Circa 19th c.

Yamamoto Baiitsu(1783-1856) was a Japanese Nanga/literati style painter of the late Edo period (1603-1868). Studied painting with famous painter Cho Gessho（1772-1832）. Baiitsu was excellent at painting flowers and birds. In his later years, he remained as the official painter of the Nagoya clan.

Some light marks and light crease are present on...

Three Chinese snuff bottles made of porcelain, painted in underglaze blue, one with little underglaze red accentuations. The small one decorated with fishes among seaweed, the stopper made of jade-imitating glass. The cylindrical bottles painted with a court scene or deers in a landscape, the stoppers made of tiger eye stone. All have bone spoons. Condition: the one with the fishes having a rim chip, the other two with kiln flaws, the court scene one with two losses of the glaze, the other one w...

A Chinese calligraphy brush with a small antler handle having a bit of hair remaining at the ferrule. Ferrule is made of dark horn with dark natural hair bristles. Total Length 9.75"

Width: 15.3 cm (6.1 in)
Height: 5.5 cm (2.2 in)

Fine Japanese Satsuma scalloped bowl; depicts Geisha sitting and conversing in a central cartouche; all surrounded by the finest gilt and polychrome chrysanthemums and detailed diaper work; the reverse decorated in florals; signed Fuzan

KIMONO DESIGN SAMPLES 5pc.

Set of washi Japanese papers printed by wood block. 1930s, Japan.

Photo#1 - 104 x 83 cm (40.94 x 32.67in)
Photo#2 - 120 x 83 cm (47.24 x 32.67in)
Photo#3 - 117 x 110 cm (46.06 x 43.30in)
Photo#4 - 20 x 87 cm (7.87 x 34.25in)
Photo#5 - 65 x 73 cm (25.59 x 28.74in)


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LANDSCAPE 1914

Antique Japanese oil painting on canvas, by an anonymous painter named 'N. Omure', 1914, with some aged vertical flaws just like being the parts of its landscape itself. 45.5 x 38 x 2 cm (17.91 x 14.96 x 0.78in). Aged deterioration as is as seen.


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GOOD MARRIED COUPLE

Wooden Japanese Hina dolls (Dolls displayed at the Girl's Festival), Showa period, 20th century, H 8.7 x W 16 x D 11.8 cm (3.42 x 6.29 x 4.64in). Good facial expressions by the good distance between them as not too close and not too far. Aged deterioration as is as seen.


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