All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1950
item #1202453
(stock #MOR4271)
The Kura
$1025.00
$1025.00
A black lacquered vase covered in waves and rocks by the Zohiko studio enclosed in the original signed wooden box dated Showa 17 (1942). Golden plovers fly over a stone outcrop in takamaki-e, golden characters glistening on the surface, rising above the silver-fringed waves. The vase is 8-1/2 inches (22 cm) tall, 7-1/2 inches (19 cm) diameter and is in fine condition. It contains a sliver liner...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1960
item #1202120
(stock #MOR4269)
The Kura
$6,500.00
$6,500.00
Incredible attention to detail defines this large Pagoda entirely gilded in gold. It is 32 inches (81.5 cm) tall, 16 inches (41.5 cm) square at the base and in excellent condition. This would have been displayed in a Butsuma as a reliquary container. Both upper and lower doors open to reveal gold lined chambers in which the Buddhist objects could be stored. A couple of the small bells dangling from the eaves have been replaced or re-hung with wire.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1980
item #1202001
(stock #MOR4267)
The Kura
$440.00
$440.00
A lifelike crab surmounts this anonymous 20th century bronze vase patinated in a dark red-brown. It is 10-1/2 inches (27 cm) tall and in fine condition.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Stoneware : Pre 1930
item #1200800
(stock #TCR4264)
The Kura
Sale Pending
Sale Pending
A very unusual Black glazed Chawan decorated with a gold landscape by Miyagawa Kozan II enclosed in the original signed wooden box. A sparse scholarly landscape of a ragged tree, bridge and wandering sage is scratched out in gold on the pebble-textured black glaze. The box is titled Kuro-yu Kin-Sansui Ga and signed Makuzu Kozan. It measures 5 inches (12.5 cm) diameter, 3 inches (8 cm) tall and is in fine condition...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1930
item #1200781
(stock #TCR4265)
The Kura
1,750.00
1,750.00
A fine scholarly landscape surrounds this porcelain bowl by Makuzu Kozan enclosed in the original wooden box dated 1924. Inside a button like a manju netsuke is decorated with a miniscule and highly detailed image of a sage crossing a bridge in the wilderness. Outside his companions gather on their way to a hermitage on the lakeshore. The box is titled Seika Sansui no Ga and dated Autumn 1924 and is be dedicated by Kozan’s hand to someone named Harunosuke...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Stoneware : Pre 1940
item #1200668
(stock #TCR4262)
The Kura
Sale Pending
Sale Pending
A peacock lies sedate, a fine pottery work by Miyanaga Tozan enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 12 inches (30 cm) long and in fine condition, stamped on the base by the artist and bearing a pre-war label from the Nippon Tojiki Kogei Kumi-ai (Japanese Ceramic Craft Association). The box is darkened with age.
Miyanaga Tozan I (1868-1941) is one of the most important names in Kyoto ceramics...
Miyanaga Tozan I (1868-1941) is one of the most important names in Kyoto ceramics...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1960
item #1197732
(stock #MOR4250)
The Kura
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A modernist cast iron image of a bull dating from the 1950s by Miyasawa Kanae enclosed in the . It is 25 x 14 cm (10 x 5-1/2 inches) and in fine condition, engraved with the name Miyasawa Kanae.
Miyasawa graduated the Tokyo prefectural School of Arts and apprenticed in Niigata under 2nd generation Bronze worker Honma Takusai.
Miyasawa graduated the Tokyo prefectural School of Arts and apprenticed in Niigata under 2nd generation Bronze worker Honma Takusai.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1950
item #1197729
(stock #MOR4249)
The Kura
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From the Mizuguchi collection; a large bronze figure of Noh performer Nomura Tokuan (Tokushichi II) performing the part of Antaku. The bronze was made for the Kyoto Shijo Branch of Daimaru Department Store, and is dated 1941. The figure is 13-1/2 x 7 x 8 inches (35 x 18 x 21 cm) and is in fine condition, enclosed in the original wooden box...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1940
item #1196469
(stock #TCR4243)
The Kura
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A rare Furidashi sweets container by Seifu Yohei IV enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The lid is a wooden bung wrapped with dried leaf. It is 2-1/2 inches (6 cm) tall and in excellent condition.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1940
item #1196093
(stock #TCR4240)
The Kura
$450.00
$450.00
An early 20th century tea set by Takahashi Dohachi comprising five cups and saucers, a tea pot (Kyusu) and cooling pot (yu-zamashi)The cups are 4.6 cm diameter, the saucers 8.3 cm, the tea pot 7 cm diameter and 5 cm tall. This is likely by the sixth generation head of the family, who took the reins in 1914...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1950
item #1195273
(stock #MOR4234)
The Kura
$150.00
$150.00
A set of sencha tea coasters of lacquered wood hand-painted with calligraphy and signed Keigetsu. Each is 14 cm (5-1/2 inches) diameter and in fine condition.
The importance of Sencha in the late Edo and Meiji periods cannot be overlooked, and has been studied in depth in the book Tea of the Sages, the Art of Sencha by Patricia Jane Graham.
The importance of Sencha in the late Edo and Meiji periods cannot be overlooked, and has been studied in depth in the book Tea of the Sages, the Art of Sencha by Patricia Jane Graham.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Stoneware : Pre 1930
item #1194731
(stock #TCR4230)
The Kura
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Autumn delights promise satisfaction on this Karatsu O-zara decorated by Kawabata Kohaku. On the right is titled Flavors of the Mountain Village. It is 45.7 cm (18 inches) diameter and in overall fine condition.
Kawabata Kohaku (b. 1902) studied painting under founding member of the Nihon Nanga-in Mitsui Hanzan, a student of Tochi Oyo in Oita, and later Tanomura Chokunyu in Kyoto.
Kawabata Kohaku (b. 1902) studied painting under founding member of the Nihon Nanga-in Mitsui Hanzan, a student of Tochi Oyo in Oita, and later Tanomura Chokunyu in Kyoto.