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Snail, Tea Room Scroll by Imai Keiju
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Pre 1960 item# 981599 (stock# ALR2800)
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A snail crawls slowly toward the scrawling gold lines of this tea room scroll by Imai Keiju enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is performed with ink and gold on paper in a crushed paper border with bamboo rollers befitting the humble confines of the tea room. The scroll is 18-1/2 by 43-1/2 inches (46.5 x 110 cm) and is in fine condition. Imai Keiju (1891-1967) was born and lived his life in Kansai, cultural heart of Japan. He studied under Imao Keinen, from whom he received his n ...click for details
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Published Edo p. Japanese Screen Set, So Gessen, B
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Pre 1900 item# 981580 (stock# ANR2799B)
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Sages gather among the pines for tea and scholarly pursuits on this set of late 18th to early 19th century literati landscapes by So Gessen (1741-1809). The pair is published in the book Jidai Byobu Shuei (pre-restoration, pages 76 and 77). The screens measure 70-1/2 x 150 inches (179 x 382 cm) and have been completely restored (with no over-painting) maintaining the original cloth border. So Gessen was an artist initially trained in Edo under Sakurai Sekkan, and later in Kyoto under Maruyama ...click for details
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Black Raku Japanese Chawan Tea Bowl, Soraku
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Pre 1960 item# 979895 (stock# TCR2800)
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Pitted black drapes over the fine orange-peal texture of this Kuro-Raku Chawan by Higaki Soraku I (d. 1983) enclosed in the original wooden box endorsed within. The bowl is 5 inches (13 cm) diameter, 3-1/2 inches (8 cm) tall and in excellent condition. A beautifully formed bowl. Soraku took over the Katsura Kiln, and built it in its current form in 1955 making the decision at that time to concentrate almost uniquely upon tea ceremony wares along with his wife Sohaku. Upon his death in 1983 So ...click for details
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Modern Japanese Kanon Screen, 1966
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Pre 1970 item# 979687 (stock# ANR2796)
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Perhaps an artist struggling with the realities of his time, Red Shinto architecture lies beyond the Goddess of mercy Kanon, supplanted by a roaring tiger and hard industrial forms, the two panel image is signed Sankian and dated 1966. The Tiger called post war Japan struggled with its own identity, losing much of its traditional heritage as it rose to a status of world economic power from the 1950s-1980s.. The screen measures 5 feet by 64 inches (153 x 163 cm) and is in fine condition.
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