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Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware (10)

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Black Raku Japanese Chawan Tea Bowl, Soraku

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1960   item# 979895 (stock# TCR2800)

Black Raku Japanese Chawan Tea Bowl, Soraku
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400.00 

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


Chawan Tea Bowl by important Zen Priest Kutsu Deiryu

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1950   item# 975526 (stock# TCR2786)

Chawan Tea Bowl by important Zen Priest Kutsu Deiryu
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A red Raku Chawan inscribed with the Ichigyosho Tea phrase Seifu hakki yoku ni shozu by Zen Priest Kutsu Deiryu enclosed in a wooden box. The bowl is 4-1/2 inches (11.5 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 wa ...click for details


Chawan Tea Bowl by Zen Priest Kutsu Deiryu

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1950   item# 975523 (stock# TCR2785)

Chawan Tea Bowl by Zen Priest Kutsu Deiryu
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945.00 

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


Chawan Tea Bowl by Important Zen Priest Yamada Mumon

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980   item# 975522 (stock# TCR2784)

Chawan Tea Bowl by Important Zen Priest Yamada Mumon
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A Shino glazed bowl inscribed with the characters Jutoku by Zen Buddhist Priest Yamada Mumon enclosed in the original cedar box signed by the potter and made in 1974 for the 500th anniversary of the completion of Tokuju-Ji Temple. The bowl is roughly 5 inches (12 cm) diameter, 3-1/2 inches (8.5 cm) tall and in fine condition. Yamada Mumon (1900-1988) studied law in his youth, but was converted to the life of Buddhism by a statement of Confucian theory which says, rather than become a lawyer, c ...click for details


Antique Japanese Ryukyu Yaki Dragon Vase

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1940   item# 957908 (stock# TCR2736)

Antique Japanese Ryukyu Yaki Dragon Vase
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700.00 

Early 20th century Kaki otoshi and carved pottery vase with a dragon soaring through clouds, reaching for the elusive pearl of Buddhist wisdom, signed on the base with a kiln mark from the southern Island Kingdom of Ryukyu (Okinawa). It is 8-1/2 inches (22 cm) tall, 8 inches (20 cm) diameter and in fine condition. This is from a collection of scholar items we are currently offering from the estate of a Kyoto family involved in literati and art movements from the later Edo period on.


Chawan Tea Bowl by Zen Priest Seki Bokuo

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980   item# 944592 (stock# TCR2695)

Chawan Tea Bowl by Zen Priest Seki Bokuo
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A Gohon Ido-Chawan by Hara Kiyokazu (Seiwa) with two character inscription ZenMi (A Taste of Zen) by Seki Bokuo (1903-1991), longtime head of Tenryuji Temple, enclosed in the original wooden box signed by both the artist and the Monk. The fawn speckled bowl is an exemplary Gohon bowl, with the pale spots each ringed in thin red giving way to the overall gray. The bowl is 5 inches (12.5 cm) diameter, 3 inches (8 cm) tall and in perfect condition. Seki Bokuo was born in Gunma prefecture and stu ...click for details


Modern Japanese Kakehana Vase by Kondo Seiko

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980   item# 917991 (stock# TCR2642)

Modern Japanese Kakehana Vase by Kondo Seiko
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250.00 

An ash glazed cylinder by Gifu artist Kondo Suiko enclosed in the original signed wooden box. From the ragged edges cling Shizen-yu pine ash glaze, which runs down the sides, forming large drips about the exposed terracotta clay at the base. The vase is 5 inches (13 cm) tall, 4 inches (10 cm) diameter and in fine condition. Born in 1945 in Nigata prefecture, a cold industrial city on the West coast of Northern Japan, Seiko would have been surrounded with utilitarian pottery as a child. The a ...click for details


Chawan Tea Bowl by Japanese Zen Priest Inaba Shinden

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980   item# 915273 (stock# TCR2623)

Chawan Tea Bowl by Japanese Zen Priest Inaba Shinden
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Summer tea bowl by Kato Eizan inscribed by Inaba Shinden (1906-1986), Former Chief Abbot of Kokutai-ji Temple. The bowl is 5-3/4 inches diameter, 2 inches tall and comes enclosed in the original signed box. It reads Juutai. The inscription is an unusual combination of characters. The first character is of course, fortune or long life. Together they intimate ancient pine, or could be something festive celebrating fortune and strength (the pine never drops its leaves and lives for eons). ...click for details


Ito Tozan Japanese Pottery Horse Okimono

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1930   item# 898933 (stock# TCR2594)

Ito Tozan Japanese Pottery Horse Okimono
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A large Okimono of a horse by Ito Tozan enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The crackled white body is decorated with rust mane and saddle, gold bells suspended from green buttons. The horse is roughly 7-1/2 inches (19 cm) tall, 7 inches (18 cm) long and in perfect condition, stamped on the belly Tozan. The Ito family, spanned three generations. Ito Tozan I (1846-1920) began his artistic career studying painting in the Shijo manner under Koizumi Togaku before moving to the plastic ar ...click for details


Japanese Zen Buddhist Priest, Chawan by Yamada Mumon

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980   item# 886659 (stock# MOR2565)

Japanese Zen Buddhist Priest, Chawan by Yamada Mumon
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A Chawan tea bowl by Goho with calligraphy work by Yamada Mumon enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The calligraphy reads Mi-Do, The Way of Taste, followed by Mumons artistic signature (Ka-o). The bowl is 4-1/2 inches (11 cm) diameter, 3 inches (8 cm) tall and in perfect condition. Mumon (1900-1988) studied law in his youth, but was converted to the life of Buddhism by a statement of Confucian theory which says, rather than become a lawyer, create a world where there is no need for co ...click for details

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