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Antique Japanese Mingei Kamahen Karatsu Vase
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Pre 1900 item# 749110 (stock# TCR2358)
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A small tokkuri has melted into the side of this large antique Chossen Karatsu Vase , a kiln miss-fire. Raw dark earth supplanted by rivulets of dark ame-yu glaze frosted above with crackled green tinged white. A very unusual piece, as ordinarily mistakes were destroyed. Was it done purposely or testament to the violence within the kiln, where 40 percent loss is standard? An example of rare chance or musakui no sakui, the aesthetic of intention of no intent; we will never know, however it cl ...click for details
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Haunting Japanese Scroll, Important Artist Yano Kyoson
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Pre 1930 item# 746204 (stock# ALR2357)
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A daunting image by radical Nihon Nanga-In member and founder of the Osaka Art College Yano Kyoson (1890-1965) dating from earlier in this influential artists career. Crisp white walls of a strangely elongated house perch on the edge of a dark forest reaching up to the rain washed sky. A single tree ripe with yellow leaves guards the entrance. The light color on silk image is bordered in lavender silk matching the leaden sky, extended with green cloth and features shimmering silvered-yellow c ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Lacquer Box with Sword Parts, Zohiko
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Pre 1940 item# 741877 (stock# MOR2350)
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A lacquered wooden box decorated in built up Takamaki-e with Tsuba and Kozuka by Heian Zohiko dating from the first half of the 20th century. Inside is fine even nashiji. The decorations rise quite high off the surface, almost as if genuine tsuba were lying atop the box. One tsuba is in the shape of a Mokugyo, a Buddhist prayer drum of hollowed wood culminating in two dragons. The second is one of the seven lucky gods (shichi-fukujin) Daikoku seated in front of a rice bale, smoking a pipe an ...click for details
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Fine Meiji Japanese Hakuji Porcelain Gu Vase by Hokuho
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Pre 1920 item# 741051 (stock# TCR2347)
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A large white porcelain vase of Chinese form by prominent Kyoto Meiji artist Daimaru Hokuho enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The vase is crisp with clean sharp lines typifying the Meiji ideal of superlative quality. It is 14-1/2 inches (36.5 cm) tall, 7 inches (18 cm) diameter and in perfect condition. Hokuho would have been rated in the top 10 porcelain artist of Kyoto, along with Suwa Sozan, Ito Suiko, Ito Tozan, Miyanaga Tozan, Takahashi Dohachi, Seifu Yohei, Kiyomizu Rokubei, M ...click for details
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Japanese Silver Iris Blossom, Shobido Muneyoshi
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Pre 1970 item# 740917 (stock# MOR2345)
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A signed silvered image of an uprooted iris by resident artist Muneyoshi of the Osaka Art Studio Shobido enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The razor thin blades of grass spread like a Buddhist halo behind the single open blossom. The delicate flower is roughly 11 inches (28 cm) long and in fine condition, signed on the bulb. For lack of a jun-gin stamp it is unclear whether it is silver plate or solid silver, and so we are pricing it as the later. It is likely the blades, bulb and ...click for details
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Edo p. Japanese Carved Buddhist Image of Rakan
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Pre 1800 item# 738762 (stock# MOR2333)
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An 18th century image of an Arhat (Rakan) with bulbous earlobes and long drooping eyebrows covered in the remnants of a vibrant coat of paint. Glass eyes stare out non-plussed at the area before his knees. Meant to be viewed from below, Rakan images were often placed high in eaves of Zen meditation rooms, to watch over the practitioners and provide examples of proper meditating positions (each Rakan sits in a unique position). This carving is made up of several pieces of wood joined and carv ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Tea Room Carved Sign
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Pre 1920 item# 737056 (stock# MOR2330)
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A wooden sign of three golden characters carved into the surface of a solid slab of burled wood enclosed in a frame expertly carved with the four gentlemen, plum, bamboo, iris and chrysanthemum. It reads Yuraku-sai, A Place of Playful Enjoyment. The sign (with frame) is 11-1/4 x 21 inches (28.5 x 53 cm). It is signed Setsuyo (?) followed by two stamps. There is a chip into a hollow in the wooden plaque, lower left (see photos) otherwise is in excellent condition. This sign would have been h ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Bijin Scroll, Bathing Nude by Gyokuen
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Pre 1930 item# 727750 (stock# ALR2313)
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An intimate view into the daily life of old Japan by female artist Tanaka Gyokuen (b. 1912) enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Yu-A-Bi. A beauty stands up from the steaming waters of a public bath house, safe in the segregated comfort of the steam, she wrings the tenugui across her back. Both sensual and yet without pretense, it is a scene the artist would have visited daily in the myriad backstreets of Kyotos neighborhood boroughs. The public bath was an important part of Kyot ...click for details
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