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Daruma by Mokurai, Japanese Zen Art Scroll

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1920   item# 915003 (stock# ALR2622)

Daruma by Mokurai, Japanese Zen Art Scroll
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A fine large rendition of the founder of Zen Buddhism, Daruma by Zen Priest Takeda Mokurai (1854-1930) enclosed in a period wooden box. The ink on silk painting is bordered in maroon satin patterened with clouds with white piping and features large rosewood rollers. It measures 21 by 81 inches (52.5 x 206 cm). Overall very presentable, there are some scattered marks and minor wrinkles along the edge. Mokurai began his journey down the Buddhist path at the age of 7 under the priest Ryodo. De ...click for details


Enso Circle on a fan by Zen Priest Nakahara Nantenbo

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1920   item# 911602 (stock# ALR2622)

Enso Circle on a fan by Zen Priest Nakahara Nantenbo
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1,000.00 

A circle, representing the eternal wheel, by the notorious Nantenbo (1839-1925) graces the delicate blades of this fan mounted as a fine tea room Chagake scroll. It is signed the 82 year old man Nantenbo. Ink on a (used) paper fan on a paper field enclosed in brown cloth extended in Prussian blue with black lacquered wooden rollers. The scroll is 22 by 47 inches (56 x 120 cm) and is in excellent condition, enclosed in period wooden box. Volumes could be written about the life of this artist. ...click for details


Skull by Zen Priest Takeda Mokurai, Japanese Art Scroll

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1920   item# 911339 (stock# ALR2621)

Skull by Zen Priest Takeda Mokurai, Japanese Art Scroll
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1,150.00 

A very rare painting of a skull and scattered bones lost to autumns dead grasses by important 20th century Zen priest Takeda Mokurai. The forgotten creature grins garishly, a blade of grass growing playfully through one eye socket. @This may be the only skull I have seen by Mokurai, a certain rarity in Zen painting. The ink on paper image is bordered in brown cloth with gray extensions and features dark wood rollers. It measures 16 by 68 cm (40.5 x 172.5 cm) and is in excellent condition, en ...click for details


Monks Coming & Going, Japanese Zen Scroll Set by Deiryu

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1920   item# 910006 (stock# ALR2619 )

Monks Coming & Going, Japanese Zen Scroll Set by Deiryu
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3,400.00 

Walking…Walking, this Buddhist path! The mendicants come trundling down the mountain in search of alms; One bowl, filled by thousands! they return to their austerities. Unsupposing brushwork defines this playful set of zen paintings by one of the early 20th centuries more beloved characters, Kutsu Deiryu enclosed in the original signed wooden box. For a similar set see the Hosei-An collection or page 44 of The Art of Twentieth Century Zen (ISBN 1-57062-533-0). THe paintings are performed wit ...click for details


Japanese Zen Calligraphy Scroll, Nakahara Nantenbo

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1920   item# 909999 (stock# ALR2618)

Japanese Zen Calligraphy Scroll, Nakahara Nantenbo
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A Vigorous Cry, Temple under the Ghostly Moon (MyoKo Hito Koe, Yu Getsu Tera); a stirring vision by one of Zens most beloved characters Nakahara Nantenbo. The scroll has been completely remounted in silk patterned with florals in the color of twilight, and features austere black lacquered wooden rollers befitting the scene. It measures 18 x 75 inches (45,5 x 190 cm) and is in fine restored condition, with some old age staining. Born into a samurai family, Nantenbo joined the priesthood to pon ...click for details


Antique Japanese Skull Painting by Tanomura Chokunyu

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1910   item# 909950 (stock# ALR2617)

Antique Japanese Skull Painting by Tanomura Chokunyu
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900.00 

A simple Zen style painting of a skull abandoned to weeds signed Chokunyu (Tanomura Chokunyu, 1814-1907). The lonely image may be a future self portrait by a man who knew his time was ending, the painting signed A 90 Year Old Man Sanomiya Chokunyu. It has been freshly bordered in dark brocade embellished with crawling vines, suiting the painted scene, and features dark wood rollers. The scroll is 17 x 75 inches (43 x 190 cm) and is in fine, restored condition. Tanomura Chokunyu was born in ...click for details


Huge Japanese Edo Zen Calligraphy Scroll, Dragon

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1900   item# 909786 (stock# ALR2618)

Huge Japanese Edo Zen Calligraphy Scroll, Dragon
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1,100.00 

The calligraphic character for Dragon climbs skywar on the age darkened surface of this fine late Edo period scroll. A dramatic and powerful ink on silk calligraphy work in a dark silk border with rosewood rollers. Judging by style likely a student of Scholar/Artist Kameda Bosai. Some minor marks and creases only serve to enhance the sense of antiquity, the scroll measures 27 x 71 inches (70 x 180 cm).


Antique Album Collection of Scholar Stone Paintings,

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1920   item# 906506 (stock# AOR2607)

Antique Album Collection of Scholar Stone Paintings,
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1,450.00 

A collection of 12 scholar stone silk paintings placed in an album of gold flecked paper wrapped in rough silk and enclosed in a hard binding with bone clasps, which is in-turn enclosed in a Kiri wood box signed and dated 1917 Titled Miyoshi Ranseki Jishitsu JuHi ZenSeki Saku. The four character opening comment is signed Yoshinobu (Chinese Ruyan?), and the epilogue (written posthumously) signed La-O (Ra-O). The paintings themselves, all likely by the same hand, bear a number of signatures and ...click for details


Precious objects by Suzuki Shonen, 1902

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1920   item# 905952 (stock# ALR2606)

Precious objects by Suzuki Shonen, 1902
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1,450.00 

Buddhist pearls lie nestled in the cleft of a garden stone in this radically brushed large Zen scroll dated 1902 by Suzuki Shonen enclosed in the original Signed box. Bamboo shades the mushroom of eternity, and the red stone is reminiscent of a cluster of coral, from which prayer beads were popularly made. The painting is bordered in forest green brocade scattered with nobori kiri crests, and features massive ivory rollers. The scroll measures 29 1/2 x 79 1/2 inches (75 x 202 cm). Shonen lea ...click for details


Scholar Stone Painting by Tani Nyoi, 1874

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1900   item# 905949 (stock# ALR2605)

Scholar Stone Painting by Tani Nyoi, 1874
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1,100.00 

A dry ink on paper image of mushrooms growing up along a garden stone dated 1874 by Tani Nyoi (1822-1905). The scene is signed Nyoisanjin, and dated the second month of 1874 hemmed in by origami cranes on cream satin in a field of rough pale green silk and features dark rosewood rollers. The style is very much in the literati tradition predominant during the early Meiji. The dry vigorous strokes evoke a sense of fleeting solidity, as if wind were about to blow the light paper away. And certa ...click for details

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