Snail, Tea Room Scroll by Imai Keiju
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Pre 1960 item# 981599 (stock# ALR2800)
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A snail crawls slowly toward the scrawling gold lines of this tea room scroll by Imai Keiju enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is performed with ink and gold on paper in a crushed paper border with bamboo rollers befitting the humble confines of the tea room. The scroll is 18-1/2 by 43-1/2 inches (46.5 x 110 cm) and is in fine condition. Imai Keiju (1891-1967) was born and lived his life in Kansai, cultural heart of Japan. He studied under Imao Keinen, from whom he received his n ...click for details
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Black Raku Japanese Chawan Tea Bowl, Soraku
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Pre 1960 item# 979895 (stock# TCR2800)
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Pitted black drapes over the fine orange-peal texture of this Kuro-Raku Chawan by Higaki Soraku I (d. 1983) enclosed in the original wooden box endorsed within. The bowl is 5 inches (13 cm) diameter, 3-1/2 inches (8 cm) tall and in excellent condition. A beautifully formed bowl. Soraku took over the Katsura Kiln, and built it in its current form in 1955 making the decision at that time to concentrate almost uniquely upon tea ceremony wares along with his wife Sohaku. Upon his death in 1983 So ...click for details
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Modern Japanese Kanon Screen, 1966
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Pre 1970 item# 979687 (stock# ANR2796)
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Perhaps an artist struggling with the realities of his time, Red Shinto architecture lies beyond the Goddess of mercy Kanon, supplanted by a roaring tiger and hard industrial forms, the two panel image is signed Sankian and dated 1966. The Tiger called post war Japan struggled with its own identity, losing much of its traditional heritage as it rose to a status of world economic power from the 1950s-1980s.. The screen measures 5 feet by 64 inches (153 x 163 cm) and is in fine condition.
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Chawan Tea Bowl by Zen Priest Kutsu Deiryu
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Pre 1950 item# 975523 (stock# TCR2785)
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An Oto-yaki Chawan inscribed by Zen priest Kutsu Deiryu with the Tea phrase Jakunen Fudo enclosed in a wooden box. The bowl is 4-1/2 inches (12 cm) diameter and in fine condition. Kutsu Deiryu (1895-1954) was born into a military family, and was raised from an early age in the strict environment until being diagnosed with Tuberculosis. He was sent then to serve at a nearby temple but was refused as Buddhism was still recovering and many temples were quite poor. He was finally accepted into t ...click for details
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Unprecedented Hand Woven Japanese Silk Kimono Obi
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Pre 1980 item# 973923 (stock# MOR2777)
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A fantastic Hand woven Kimono Obi with a non repeating pattern, made in Japan and enclosed in an old kiri-wood box. It is the most amazing work of woven textile we have ever owned, and would certainly have been tens of thousands of dollars new. Not once does the pattern repeat itself. From one end a courtesan seen from behind looks out from her palace shaded with cherry blossoms to a boat in the bay. Above her another dainty figure stairs towards the iris growing along the river bank, her lo ...click for details
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