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 : Lacquer : Pre 1940
item #1174101
(stock #MOR4149)
The Kura
3,800.00
3,800.00
The powerful image of a leaping carp surmounts this sumptuous lacquer box dating from the first half of the 20th century. Outside, the fish, in various hira-maki-e shades of precious metal powders, launches from the sculpted waves. Inside the box is a serene nashiji gold powder, with intimated mist inside the lid. The base is simple ro-iro black. Signed in red lacquer inside the box lid, it is 23 x 25.5 x 5.5 cm (9 x 10 x 2 inches) and in excellent condition,
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940
item #1146669
(stock #ANR4057)
The Kura
3,800.00
3,800.00
A study of various sea life in a soft Taisho style of simple ink and muted colors on silk signed Ryusaburo. Each of the creatures is depicted in intimate and lifelike detail down to the tiny hairs on the crabs. The study is bordered in an elegant red lacquer wooden frame. It measures 63 x 67 inches (160 x 170.5 cm) and is in overall fine condition. Very possibly the work of Ikeuchi Ryusaburo
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1940
item #1162104
(stock #MOR4094)
The Kura
3,500.00
3,500.00
A pair of stylized Bronze Inari Shrine guardians dating circa 1930 giving a distinct Art Deco feel. They are 15 inches (38 cm) tall, 10-1/2 x 6 inches (27 x 15.5 cm) at the base and in superb condition. A hole in the base attests to where they were once attached to a further pedestal.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940
item #1183996
(stock #ANR4187)
The Kura
3,000.00
3,000.00
Puppies roll around the silk panels of this fully restored two panel screen by Sakaguchi Isso. Judging by the style of the mounting it was originally a framed exhibition work transferred to a screen. We have had the screen re-mounted reflecting the original style without re-painting. The playful creatures huddle together in the sun for a morning nap on a ground of fallen leaves simulated with ura-haku, a technique of applying metal gilding to the back of the silk before mounting...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940
item #1168948
(stock #ANR4131)
The Kura
2,600.00
2,600.00
A large screen from the late 1920s or 30s handpainted by a number of artists and potters including Ito Tozan, Kondo Yuzo, Ida Senshu and possibly Ishiguro Munemaru. The title reads Muchu Choshun (Deep in the dream of a long Spring) and is followed by a signature I cannot yet read. To the right of the last character (shun) is the signature of the lacquer artist Ida Senshu. On the right side of the Tsubo within its borders we see Ito Tozan II and Living National Treasure Kondo Yuzo...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Folk Art : Pre 1940
item #1152557
(stock #MOR4080)
The Kura
2,500.00
2,500.00
These guys have attitude! A massive wooden carving of two frogs taken from a dark burl of hardwood, likely chestnut, showing beautiful grain in the smooth sections, almost appearing wet, with the rough natural texture of the wood elsewhere giving a true sense of the Ibo-gaeru toad. They are expertly rendered with stoic expressions. Both are quite muscular, the top character poised as if he is about to leap. The carving is 40 x 63 x 47 cm (16 x 24 x 19-1/2 inches) and weighs 22 kg (48 pounds)...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Okimono : Pre 1940
item #1182965
(stock #MBR4186)
The Kura
1,800.00
1,800.00
Standing at the ready with sword drawn, one foot on a defeated ghoul, Shoki the demon-queller glares into the darkness, ever vigilant. A superb Japanese bronze image dating from the opening years of the 20th century standing 18-1/2 inches (47 cm) tall and is in fine condition. Weighing in at 14 kg (31 lbs) shipping is a considerable part of the posted price.
Shoki is a Taoist deity based on the Tang Dynasty Chinese character Chung Kuei...
Shoki is a Taoist deity based on the Tang Dynasty Chinese character Chung Kuei...
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 : Paintings : Pre 1940
item #1161214
(stock #ALR4083)
The Kura
1,650.00
1,650.00
Fish swim in the shallow waters of this fine silk scroll by Ohno Bakufu (Ono 1888-1976) enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Mochu-Ginrin (Silver scales among water plants). Pigment and light color on silk, it is mounted in patterned green brocade extended with beige and features bone rollers. The scroll measures 22 by 80 inches (55.5 x 203 cm). There is light foxing throughout the image...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940
item #1147733
(stock #ALR4061)
The Kura
1,595.00
1,595.00
A beauty stops to open the reed blinds, perhaps lured by the call of a twilight cricket; a fine scroll by Yoshimura Hoka enclosed in the original signed wooden box.
Performed with pigment on silk, in patterned brocade border with ivory rollers. The scroll measures 26-1/2 x 86 inches (67 x 219 cm). There is light scattered foxing, concentrated mostly in the upper border.
Yoshimura Hoka (b. 1906) was a pioneering Osaka female artist...
Yoshimura Hoka (b. 1906) was a pioneering Osaka female artist...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940
item #1174288
(stock #ALR4153)
The Kura
1,375.00
1,375.00
A ni-gyo-sho 2 line calligraphy, ink on paper by Fukuda Kodojin dating from the 1920s or 30s. The poem reads Sha-sha Kanzanji saranashi ittoso, Shofu akaru sei-sei suigetsu Terasu Jo-Jo There are many allusions in the poem, and taking them into account can change the meaning somewhat. But poetry is interpretive: Reflectons-Reflections… Not a Single bonze in Cold Mountain Temple...