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Unusual 19th C. Japanese Bronze Smoking Daruma Koro
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Pre 1900 item# 613038 (stock# MBR1989)
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A unique Edo period bronze koro, here we find the Daruma, legendary founder of Zen Buddhism, reclining with a pipe, his robes draping lazily about. In his knee is cut the character Kotobuki (fortune), his hand the handle for this removable lid of the incense chamber. The smoke drifts up through the character, as if coming from the pipe resting on his knee. It seems to have once been covered in lacquer in the style imported by Obaku monks in the 17th century. Dating from mid to late Edo (18th ...click for details
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Rare! Japanese Art Deco Revival Kutani Vase
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Pre 1960 item# 612696 (stock# TCR1983)
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A very unusual Kutani vase showing strong Art Deco influence, signed on the base and likely dating from the revival of that style seen in the 1950s. The white porcelain ground is decorated with four stylized tree trunks in overglaze enamels of white, black and various browns, with scattered gold flake between. The vase is 10 inches (25 cm) tall, 5 inches (12 cm) diameter and in excellent condition. Truly a rare find!
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Antique Japanese Art Deco Bronze Vase, Shuho
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Pre 1940 item# 612695 (stock# MBR1982)
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An exquisite Murashi-Do Bronze vase signed Shuho and enclosed in the original wooden box. The baluster form is interrupted by three ribs starting at the shoulder and running partially down the sides. The vase is otherwise entirely undecorated, leaving all impression to shape alone. A fantastic piece, it is 12 inches (30 cm) tall, 7-1/2 inches (19 cm) diameter and in fine condition. It dates circa the first quarter of the 20th century.
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Spectacular Japanese Iga Vase by Umehara Isamu
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Pre 1980 item# 610825 (stock# TCR1979)
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A fine traditional Iga Mimitsuki Vase by Umehara Isamu (b. 1946) covered in running rivulets of green ash glaze and thick smatterings of goma, enclosed in the original signed Shiho Kiri-wood box. The artist has taken the traditional form, with wide base and narrow lip, and attached two squared lug handles up high, balancing the heavy weight of the base. A long drag with the finger down the sides to disturb the shape, and a number of large X marks cut into the side add that sense of Mingei so i ...click for details
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Japanese Iga Vase by Kishimoto Kennin
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Pre 2000 item# 609523 (stock# TCR1976)
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A radical Iga vase by unconventional artist Kishimoto Kennin (b. 1934) enclosed in the original signed and stamped wooden box. The free form Terracotta image is covered in lichen-like pale green ash glaze. The vase is 10 inches (25 cm) tall, 5 inches (12.5 cm) wide and in perfect condition. Possibly better known today for celadon, Kennin went through a radical period some 15 years ago working on pieces like this unusually formed Iga ware. An artist who has tried many styles, he has been work ...click for details
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Meiji p. Japanese E-hyogu Scroll, katana-armor-bow etc
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Pre 1910 item# 609084 (stock# ALR1974)
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Jingu, guardian Empress of Japan, stands ready to defend her princely child Ojin held by General Takenouchi Sukune within a painted border of martial articles. Swords, armor, bows and quivers full of arrows, a horse-bit and court cap, tea bowl and other implements precious to the samurai tradition all hand-painted about the central image, laid scroll-like over top but actually all part of the same canvas. The composition has been freshly mounted in toffee colored brocade reflecting the origina ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Bow and Arrow Parlor Game
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Pre 1900 item# 607386 (stock# MOR1972)
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A small 19th century signed four piece bow with 6 signed arrows held in a lovely silver bound mulberry box; a parlor game from the pleasure quarters of old Japan. The fine wooden arrows are uniquely decorated with an individual pattern of gold bands on each, white feather fletch and ivory knock and tip, the tip capped with iron. Each arrow is 11 inches (28.5 cm) long and in fine condition. The bow is carved wood, each piece capped with silver or a silver alloy over bone. Assembled it is 35 i ...click for details
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Edo period Japanese Samurai Yoroi Kabuto Armor
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Pre 1800 item# 605145 (stock# SAR1971)
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A partially restored mid Edo period Go-Mai-Do Gusoku of riveted iron bands bordered with leather on top. A very impressive looking suit, it features a six plate suji kabuto with matching leather on the fukigaeshi underlying a lightning bolt crest. The Shikoro, laced with regal red, is also bound to the helmet bowl with lightning bolt shaped pins and the crest is duplicated on the kanamono on back of the helmet and retains the original liner. The mask is a Resei me-no-shita-Ho lined with gold ...click for details
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Late Edo period Japanese Samurai Yoroi Kabuto Armor
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Pre 1900 item# 604271 (stock# SAR1970)
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A late Edo period Ni-Mai Hotoke-do Gusoku of black textured lacquer laced with regal purple chord. The helmet is an 8 plate kabuto of tataki-nuri textured red/brown lacquer with a five lame Shikoro. The mask is also a tataki-nuri textured red/brown lacquer hanpo with three tier throat defense. The Do is a smooth hotoke-style with a dragon in maki-e on the front and matching kiri-kozane Sode. Under the dragon are laced three rows of silvered kirikozane scales and seven rows of kiri-kozane Gess ...click for details
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ALL MATCHING Edo p. Japanese Samurai Yoroi Armor Kabuto
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Pre 1900 item# 604006 (stock# SAR1969)
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A powerful Kon-odoshi Go-Mai-Do Gusoku embellished throughout with matching crests of bound wheat. The helmet is a tetsuji raw iron 32 plate kabuto with brass piping surrounding the Mabizashi and fukigaeshi. The Bound-wheat mon is figured on the fukigaeshi and it features a five lame wide banded Shikoro. The mask is an unusual Saru-Men (monkey faced hanpo) also of raw iron with matching wide banded throat defense. Tapered Sode hand in five wide layers down the shoulder, the top bordered with ...click for details
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