Daruma by Mokurai, Japanese Zen Art Scroll
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Pre 1920 item# 915003 (stock# ALR2622)
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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
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Enso Circle on a fan by Zen Priest Nakahara Nantenbo
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Pre 1920 item# 911602 (stock# ALR2622)
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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
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Japanese Zen Calligraphy Scroll, Nakahara Nantenbo
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Pre 1920 item# 909999 (stock# ALR2618)
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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
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Antique Album Collection of Scholar Stone Paintings,
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Pre 1920 item# 906506 (stock# AOR2607)
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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
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Precious objects by Suzuki Shonen, 1902
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Pre 1920 item# 905952 (stock# ALR2606)
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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
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Scholar Stone Painting by Tani Nyoi, 1874
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Pre 1900 item# 905949 (stock# ALR2605)
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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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