Zenga Art Scroll, Skull by Yamaoka Tesshu
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Pre 1900 item# 974828 (stock# ALR2783)
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A skull stairs blankly into the distance, a message to all about the impermanence of life by the famous Swordsman Yamaoka Tesshu. Ink on paper, remounted in olive grey border patterned with vines and featuring wood rollers. The scroll is 15 x 75 inches (37.5 x 190 cm). Some minor staining in the centre below the signature. Yamaoka Tesshu (1836-1889) was a student of military arts and famous calligrapher. Born into a samurai family, Tesshu began studying swordsmanship from a very young age. ...click for details
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Daruma by Japanese Zen Priest Sohan Gempo (Shoun)
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Pre 1920 item# 974651 (stock# ALR2781)
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A single stroke Daruma image by Abbot of Daitokuji Temple Shoun (Sohan Gempo, 1848-1922). Ink on paper in crushed paper border with black lacquered rollers, typical of the Daitokuji style. It measures 13-1/2 x 73 inches (34 x 185 cm) and is in fine condition. Sohan Gempo, (1848-1922) was born into a Shinto family, however entered the Buddhist priesthood at the age of 12 at Kogen-ji, Kanazawa. After a brief period at Empukuji in Kyoto, he moved to Yokohama and received inka from Nakahara Nant ...click for details
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Zen Calligraphy Screen Set, I Ro Ha by Shoun (Gempo)
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Pre 1920 item# 974560 (stock# ANR2780)
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A pair of six panel byobu by Abbot of Daitokuji, Priest Sohan Gempo (Murasakino Shoun) dating from the Meiji to Taisho period. The subject is an old song used to teach the basics of literacy as it is a panagram, containing every letter in the Japanese alphabet once; a popular subject for Zen artists for its simplicity and usefulness. The song itself seems to say, Keep it Simple, and the title I Ro Ha is used to mean basic. It can be translated according to Dr. Ryuichi Abe:
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Fine Japanese Hand Painted Gold Crane Screen
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Pre 1920 item# 973953 (stock# ANR2778)
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Cranes prance and preen on the edge of a cobalt lake glistening on the gilded panels of this full size six fold screen dating from the early 20th century. Plum blossoms dart in and out of sight among the brilliant viridian bamboo, symbolizing the coming of spring. The extravagant scene is bordered in intricately woven silk with a black lacquered wooden frame retaining the original patterned backing paper. It is 68 x 149 inches (173 x 378 cm) and in excellent condition.
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Rare Edo p. Japanese Buddhist Star Mandala
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Pre 1800 item# 970086 (stock# ALR2765)
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Here is a rare and well depicted representation of the Star Mandala painted in heavy pigment on paper set in a field of green brocade. Mandala are used as symbols of the Buddhist Worlds and objects for meditation in Esoteric Buddhism. To quote Grotenhuis, Stars were considered an important source of supernatural power…The most important of Celestial-Being-centered Mandalas are the Star Mandala. Here we see the central image of Shaka surrounded by various bodies representing the many celestial b ...click for details
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Edo p. Buddhist Art Scroll, Diamond World Mandala
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Pre 1900 item# 970023 (stock# ALR2765 )
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An Edo period mandala representing the Diamond World (Kongokai) painted with heavy pigment and applied gold on wood-block stamped paper. According to Grotenhuis, The Diamond World represents reality in the Buddha Realm, the world of the unconditioned, the real, the universal and the absolute. Mandala are used as symbols of the Buddhist Worlds and objects for meditation in Escoteric Buddhism. The image is framed with Kinran silk woven with gold thread in a green silk field with brass rollers. ...click for details
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Early Japanese Buddhist Scroll Painting, Tower
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Pre 1700 item# 967469 (stock# ALR2765)
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Framed image of a Buddhist Tower, Ancient paper underlies the 7 storied woodblock printed Pagoda with colourful deities visible in its windows, the tower itself made up of hundreds of tiny characters forming a prayer. There are minor losses to the original surface attesting to the great age of the work, which is from the late Muromachi to early Edo era (likely 16th century). It is bordered in brown cloth enclosed in a black lacquered wooden frame. The frame measures 25 x 66 inches (63 x 167 c ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Erotic Screen Painting, Shunga
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Pre 1920 item# 965688 (stock# ANR2760)
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A two panel gold screen featuring two exquisitely detailed silk paintings of erotic imagery. The scenes are incredibly detailed, a scroll hanging in the alcove of one scene signed Hosui (Okamoto Fujitaro, b. 1879). The screen is backed in cloth and features a red lacquered wooden frame. Each panel measures 16 x 21 inches (40 x 53 cm). Paper remains glued on the front framing indicate the screen may have been at one time covered over, thus protecting the paintings from contact with the air an ...click for details
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