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Antique Japanese Gajo Book of Paintings, Kodojin
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Pre 1920 item# 843660 (stock# MOR2509)
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Alternating pages of paintings and calligraphy show the mastery of brush for which Kodojin is known. Elegant running cursive lines and strict crisp characters extol virtues between seasonal imagery. The scene of medaka fish is particularly compelling in its freshness and sense of life while the stark ancient pine is unmistakably Kodojin. The snail in soft color is quite an unusual scene signed with his poetic name Haritsu. The book is covered in sea blue satin with a signed dark blue sleeve ...click for details
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Suzuri Token Ink Stone, Aoki Mokubei, Kodojin
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Pre 1900 item# 843189 (stock# MOR2507)
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Two ceramic ink grinding stones by Aoki Mokubei (also Mokube or Mokube-e), one of which features a rosewood lid, the other enclosed in a wooden box annotated by one of Japans most unusual scholar-artists Fukuda Kodojin. The first stone is covered in white glaze decorated with waves and frets in dark oxide. The other is covered in deeply crackled glassy green glaze. Each stone is stamped beneath Mokube and measures roughly 5 x 3-1/2 x 1 inches (12 x 9 x 2 cm). The rosewood lid of the light co ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Carved Bamboo Sago Tea Scoop
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Pre 1920 item# 843171 (stock# MOR2502)
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A minutely carved image of a bat cirling over a planted pine-bonsai in the light of the moon just showing through the dark clouded sky. The piece is cut from a round of susu-take, bamboo taken from a roof which is stained a rich amber from a century or more of smoke. The light color on top forming the clouds is a natural rope mark where the smoke did not penetrate to the wood (the bamboo would have been secured to the beams with a rope). A fine carving, the bamboo is 7 inches (18 cm) long, 2 ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Carved Bamboo Hitto Brush Pot, Shojo
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Pre 1920 item# 842870 (stock# MOR2501)
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A mischevious shojo sprite pads forward with a long dipping scoop over his shoulder, a huge pot behind (likely filled with rice wine as the shojo is very fond of drink). Opposite a long inscription fills the open area. The pottery vessel is deeply carved into the bamboo with the Shojo in relief before it. The piece is 5-1/2 inches (14 cm) tall, roughly -3/4 inches (7 cm) diameter at the base and dated 1901. The bamboo is a rich amber red, lighter in the carved section, with a fixed wooden ba ...click for details
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Momoyama period Japanese Sansui Kano Screen A
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Pre 1700 item# 842209 (stock# ANR2495)
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A typical Muromachi style Sansui screen showing scholarly travelers in a ragged landscape of precipitous hills and temples dusted with clouds of gold flake likely dating from the late 16th century. It is bordered in fine antique patterned brocade with a black lacquered frame. The gold mist engulfs the scene, giving life to the unusually large figures, a Muromachi-Momoyama trait. In the area about the travelers’ path, gold has been rubbed into the paper, giving it a soft sheen. The screen mea ...click for details
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Momoyama period Japanese Sansui Kano Screen B
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Pre 1700 item# 842206 (stock# ANR2495)
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A typical Muromachi style Sansui screen showing travelers in a ragged landscape of precipitous hills and temples dusted with clouds of gold flake likely dating from the late 16th century. Bordered in fine antique patterned brocade with a black lacquered frame. The gold mist engulfs the scene, with, giving life to the unusually large figures, a Muromachi-Momoyama trait. A softer line seems to bring us toward the later in this era, a departure from the hard cold lines of earlier works. The scr ...click for details
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Important Japanese Pottery Vase by Ito Tozan
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Pre 1920 item# 841877 (stock# TCR2490)
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A massive museum quality Chinese style Pot by leading Kyoto artist Ito Tozan enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The bulb-form body is sculpted with 14 flutes, a pair of beast heads serve as handles. The glaze is olive covered in red, bleeding through in places, the combination of color quite striking. The vase is 18 inches (46 cm) tall, 14 inches (36 cm) diameter and in perfect condition and comes with the original rosewood stand. The box is simply titled Horo-Kama Kabin signed insid ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Shunga Makimono Scroll
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Pre 1920 item# 837704 (stock# ALR2483)
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A 19th century silk hand scroll depicting love-makers performing various contortions; just short of 18 feet (5.5 meters) long, 1 foot (30.5 cm) wide. Each image is 10 x 14-1/2 inches (25 x 36.5 cm) and are well painted, pigment on silk. The scroll, wrapped ijn silk, opens to crushed silver with each image framed in gold-flaked paper, ending in bone rollers. There is a repair to the opening of the roll, and hard creases in the scroll between each painting, but the paintings themselves are in f ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Scroll, Stacking Luck by Hakurei
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Pre 1920 item# 833868 (stock# ALR2478)
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Men are assisted in their endeavours of piling up pearls of wisdom by auspicious animals in this fine antique scroll signed Hakurei enclosed in a period annotated wooden box. Turtles roll along the burning pearls and cranes fly them in from above, handing off their treasures to a young man who passes them up to a middle aged man who in turn passes them to a vividly dressed elder in court dress who places them on the pyramid. Perfect for the New Year display. The scroll is 22 x 81-1/2 inches ( ...click for details
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