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Antique Japanese Buddhist Textile, Priest OHI and KESA
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Pre 1940 item# 473377 (stock# MOR1662)
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Peach bands of silk arranged in vertical columns stagger across six feet of Kesa interspersed with colorful patches featuring flowers and geometrics. The Kesa is backed with sumptuous orange silk. It is accompanied by a smaller piece of the same design called Ohi, a sash worn along with the Kesa. The Kesa is 78 x 45-1/2 inches (198 x 115.5 cm), the smaller Ohi 12 x 57 inches (30 x 142 cm). A fabulous wall hanging, they likely date from the early 20th century and are overall in very good cond ...click for details
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Japanese ZEN SCROLL by Priest YAMADA MUMON w/ Box
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Pre 1980 item# 472976 (stock# ALR1659)
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Here is the character for bamboo written in an expressive, picture form by the former Kancho of Myoshinji Temple, Yamada Mumon (1900-1988) enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The six strokes are performed with a single dipping, the last, long streak fading to white as it passes down the trunk of bamboo. The signature places this from his time at Myoshinji, the seals reading Taishitsu Ro Shi (Taishitsu was one of his pen names) and Mumon. The top seal is Kaishin, Open the Heart. Perfo ...click for details
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SUPERB Japanese BIZEN TSUBO VASE, KOYAMA SUEHIRO
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Pre 1980 item# 472771 (stock# TCR1657)
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Bizen does not get much better than this! Here is a phenomenal Tsubo by Koyama Suehiro (b. 1948) enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Burnt crisp and black on the front, the face changes as we turn the tsubo away from the flame, revealing rivulets of ash glaze running toward the back through a surface heavily textured with particles. Turning more we find these rivulets condensing into streaks rushing around a bare eye lidded with a large kutsuki. Below are pieces of two necks now atta ...click for details
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Amazing Bizen Vase by Konishi Toko II
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Pre 1980 item# 472606 (stock# TCR1656)
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A dramatic piece by Konishi Toko II enclosed in the original signed and stamped wooden box. Firing while on its side has created a tremendous landscape on the vase. Bidoro runs from the point, spreading like liquid to the burnt red back around two eyes (formed where the piece was supported in the kiln) and kuro Goma Kasu of solidified ash chars the surface. The piece is 9-3/4 inches (25 cm) tall and in perfect condition. Toko of course, learned from his father Toko I (1899-1954) and was succ ...click for details
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MODERN Japanese CERAMIC VASE in SIGNED BOX
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Pre 2000 item# 472249 (stock# TCR1655)
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A very funky two legged studio vase reminiscent in color to Bizen, the striated sides playful and modern. The artist has moved beyond simply potting, into the world of sculpture with this piece. The deeply scored sections are decidedly smooth, while the wide flat rising between is lightly raked with an even vertical pattern. Although a rich red over all exposed surfaces, with a smattering of ash glaze on the highpoints, the bottoms of the feet are slate gray. The vase, signed between the two ...click for details
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Edo period Japanese Samurai 2 SCROLL SET
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Pre 1900 item# 471781 (stock# ALR1654)
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This is a 2 scroll set painted with samurai clutching prayer beads enclosed in an ancient wooden box titled Kishi Zenkei no Zo, Kishi Zenko no Zo (Portraits of Kishi Zenkei and Kishi Zenko). One scroll bears the date Ansei 3 (1856), Summer. It is unclear weather this is the actual date of the paintings, or the date of events pertaining to the lives of the two men featured. Also included is an old letter or attribution, and a more modern (pre-war) letter. On the second is written, These two s ...click for details
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GORGEOUS CERAMIC BOWL w/box, Japanese, KAWAI KANJIRO
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Pre 1940 item# 466144 (stock# TCR1640)
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This is a fabulous bowl by 20th century ceramic master Kawai Kanjiro (1890-1966), enclosed in the original signed and stamped wooden box dating from the 1930s. The true mastery of this artist comes out in this most basic of forms. A simple basin, with no foot or adornment, punctuated by 6 lines, and yet the effect is phenomenal. Inside covered in gosu blue glaze with three horizontal bands surrounding a center dial of squiggly lines in white; the outside only glazed halfway down, revealing th ...click for details
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EXQUISITE Nasubi Shaped Kogo Incense Holder
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Pre 1920 item# 465606 (stock# MOR1635)
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A stunning incense container for use with a set of tea implements shaped like an eggplant enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Nasu. Black lacquer spreads over the wood like glass, the removable stem lid textured perfectly. The inner cinnabar contrasting with the outer black and the smooth surfaces contrasting with the roughened natural stem are a playground for the senses. Just less than 2 inches (4.5 cm) in diameter, it is in perfect condition. Appealing to the Japanese artist b ...click for details
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FINE MEIJI Japanese SCROLL, MOON AND WAVES, KAGYO
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Pre 1900 item# 464318 (stock# ALR1632)
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Waves thrash about in a playful frenzy below the calm watchful eye of a full moon partly blanketed by dark clouds in this extraordinary painting signed Kagyo dating from the later 19th century. It is bordered in ivory colored brocade embellished with clouds extended in golden brown silk and features ivory rollers. The scroll is 21-1/2 by 79 inches 855 x 200 cm) and, aside from minor bands of yellowing of the silk expected of age, is in fine condition. It comes enclosed in a period wooden box.
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