KAMAKURA p Japanese ENSO ZEN SCROLL, RENSHABO
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Pre 1700 item# 169072 (stock# ALR883)
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An Kamakura period Enso-ga in cream-colored patterned brocade with maple brown extensions and featuring rosewood rollers signed Renshabo. Renshabo was a high ranking samurai named Jiro Naozane and confidant of 13th century General Minamoto no Yoritomo. After losing a son at the battle of Ichinotani, and killing the great Heike warrior Atsumori, he became saddened by Bushido (the way of the warrior) and became a disciple of the priest Honen Jonin in Kurodani, Kyoto, whereupon he was given the n ...click for details
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ANTIQUE Japanese NANGA SUMI-E SCREEN, KEISEN
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Pre 1920 item# 168097 (stock# ANR878)
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A fine early 20th century literati landscape by prominent artist Ikeda Keisen (1863-1932) in which a scholar and luggage bearer drawn with delicate precision walk toward a thatch roofed hut perched on the shores of a large lake, the scene hemmed in by clouds of fine gold flake. Massive rock formations and gnarly plum scratched in dark ink pull the eye hither and thither across the painted surface, constantly drawing attention to new aspects and details. The scene is bordered with a thin band o ...click for details
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WILD BIZEN OKIMONO by TAKAHASHI SATOSHI
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Pre 1980 item# 164697 (stock# TCR869)
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A superb Bizen Yaki Okimono of an Okoze (stonefish) by ceramic artist Takahashi Satoshi (b. 1934) enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The features of the beastly creature are very well defined, with each spine accentuated by the natural color of the flame, giving the stonefish a realistic appearance. It is 12-1/2 inches (32 cm) long. Satoshi apprenticed to Kanashige Toshiuemon, has been the recipient of numerous awards and currently resides in Okayama prefecture. This piece dates fro ...click for details
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Japanese TAISHO p KUTANI SCREEN STAND SET
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Pre 1920 item# 163773 (stock# TCR862)
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Taisho period (1911-1925) Kutani ceramic Byobu-hasami screen feet in the form of a pair of mandarin ducks, made to be slipped onto the outside edges of a folding screen to keep it from moving. Traditionally Japanese houses were very open, divided by screens and paper doors. During the summer, in an effort to thwart the summer heat shutters along the outer halls would be left open to allow a breeze to flow through. Sometimes this breeze could push screens around and so these heavy bronze or ce ...click for details
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IMPORTANT Japanese ZENGA SCROLL, DEIRYU
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Pre 1940 item# 163764 (stock# ALR860)
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An early 20th century sumi-e ink painting by Kutsu Deiryu (Kanshu Sojun, 1895-1954, Daruma heir to Nantenbo), featuring the scene for which he is most famous, a procession of monks coming down out of the hills of Kyoto on begging rounds. The fine scene is bordered in crushed black paper and features bamboo rollers. The scroll measures 17 x 78 inches (43 x 198 cm) and aside from some very minor spotting, is in excellent condition. Deiryu was born into a military family, however due to poor hea ...click for details
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FINE Japanese NANGA SCROLL, 1932, CHIKUHO
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Pre 1940 item# 162651 (stock# ALR859)
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Earthtones mix with dashes of ink in this spacious Nanga scene by acclaimed Nanga artist Mizuta Chikuho (1883-1958) an Osaka artist and student of Chikugai, enclosed in the original signed wooden box dated 1932. The landscape is depicted with watercolors and ink on silk, bordered in patterned royal-blue brocade and features solid ivory rollers. Time seems to stand still for the lone fisherman trailing a line off the stern of his covered boat on a warm autumn day. A spit of land populated by a ...click for details
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OLD Japanese CERAMIC VASE w/box, ITO SUIKO I
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Pre 1950 item# 162016 (stock# TCR854)
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Blue striped fish swim across the bubbly blue-gray sides of this early 20th century handled vase by artist Ito Suiko I (1894-1980) which comes enclosed in the original signed kiri-wood box. The sides of the round squat vase have been flattened, and looping flat handles attached at the neck and shoulder. The vase is quite sturdy. Inside the dark red clay circle of the foot is the artists stamp and the original brokerage stamp from before the Second World War. The vase measures 6-1/2 inches (1 ...click for details
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EDO p. Japanese KO-IRAHO CHAWAN TEA BOWL
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Pre 1800 item# 161213 (stock# TCR847)
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An Edo period Ko-Iraho chawan tea bowl enclosed in on old cedar box and wrapped in an antique cloth bag. The rough clay has been brought up from the base in a smooth arc, the lip then pinched outward and dipped in glaze which seems to switch between yellow orange and pale green depending on the light. There are a number of bursts on the outside of the bowl caused by inclusions in the clay expanding during firing. Iraho are a chawan style brought by Korean potters to Japan during Hideyoshi Toy ...click for details
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19th C. Japanese 8 panel KAN-GA SCREEN
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Pre 1900 item# 160489 (stock# ANR841)
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A brilliant 19th century 8 panel Kanga screen depicting a vast scene of scholars at leisure. Pageboys enter from the left bearing books and a sword. A seated elder looks on as another puts brush to paper, while a party of four hold lively conversation at an adjacent table. Beyond them a young scholar and page attempt to lift a burly fellow who has exceeded his limit. A very busy group populates panels five and six, studying paintings and books while sharing tea and baskets of fruit. On the ...click for details
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EDO p. Japanese ZENGA HYOTAN SCROLL, SOMON
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Pre 1900 item# 160316 (stock# ALR840)
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An Edo period Sumi-e image of an elongated gourd signed Somon (Hidaka Somon, 1792-1872) within which is playfully scrawled the phrase Tanoshimi wa Kono Naka ni Ari, or Joy is Found Within. Traditionally the gourd is a symbol of the world or universe, and in some legends the world is said to have emerged from inside a gourd. It also has many attachments to Zen parables, where it is considered hollow like our minds. This being the case we must not look to external stimuli for happiness, but wil ...click for details
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