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Early Japanese Buddhist Scroll Painting, Tower
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Pre 1700 item# 967469 (stock# ALR2765)
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The Kura
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3,200.00
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Framed image of a Buddhist Tower, Ancient paper underlies the 7 storied woodblock printed Pagoda with colourful deities visible in its windows, the tower itself made up of hundreds of tiny characters forming a prayer. There are minor losses to the original surface attesting to the great age of the work, which is from the late Muromachi to early Edo era (likely 16th century). It is bordered in brown cloth enclosed in a black lacquered wooden frame. The frame measures 25 x 66 inches (63 x 167 c ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Erotic Screen Painting, Shunga
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Pre 1920 item# 965688 (stock# ANR2760)
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A two panel gold screen featuring two exquisitely detailed silk paintings of erotic imagery. The scenes are incredibly detailed, a scroll hanging in the alcove of one scene signed Hosui (Okamoto Fujitaro, b. 1879). The screen is backed in cloth and features a red lacquered wooden frame. Each panel measures 16 x 21 inches (40 x 53 cm). Paper remains glued on the front framing indicate the screen may have been at one time covered over, thus protecting the paintings from contact with the air an ...click for details
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Erotic Meiji Japanese Porcelain Sake Service Set
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Pre 1920 item# 965669 (stock# TCR2759)
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325.00
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A seven piece sake set consisting of 2 tokkuri and 5 shuhai cups, each uniquely painted depicting lovers in various contortions. The cups are roughly 2 inches (5 cm) across, the tokkuri roughly 5 inches (12.5 cm) tall. Two of the cups have hairline cracks and chips in the rim.
These are from a Meiji period Inn along the old entertainment district of Kamishichiken, one of the most famous pleasure districts in Japan.
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Antique Japanese Erotic Toys, Phallus w/ Box
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Pre 1920 item# 965386 (stock# MOR2757)
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The Kura
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775.00
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A well formed strap-on instrument of water buffalo horn accompanied by a pair of small silvered pleasure balls with bells inside, and a box of dried potato root (used as both rings for binding the circulation as well as for its lubricating qualities) each enclosed in a period Kiri-wood box. Simply called omoccha (toys) in Japanese, the phallus is 4-1/2 inches (11.5 cm) long. There is some insect damage as is visible in the photos. Made for pleasure, there are two holes at the base for securin ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Rootwood Scholar Carvings, Geese
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Pre 1920 item# 964991 (stock# MOR2754)
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850.00
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A pair of natural root carvings of geese in a dark red wood, one looking toward the viewer, the other gazing up at the moon. The bodies are fomed of natural root-wood, with the head carved with eyes and bill, feet inset with some type of pitch mortar. They are in overall fine condition, the taller stands 8-1/2 inches (21.5 cm) high. 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 p ...click for details
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Edo p. Gold Japanese Floral Screen Set
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Pre 1920 item# 964657 (stock# ANR2752A)
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2,650.00 for set
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One of a pair of matching small screens depicting flowers growing about a garden fence, water rushing on one side. Gold clouds hem in the garden view from top and bottom. It is bordered with green silk and a black lacquered wooden frame. The original Edo scene has been completely remounted on the current set of screens. Both screens measure 37 x 45 inches (94 x 115 cm) and are in fine condition.
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