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Early Japanese Buddhist Scroll Painting, Tower

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1700   item# 967469 (stock# ALR2765)

Early Japanese Buddhist Scroll Painting, Tower
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


3,200.00 

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


Momoyama Period Gold Fan Painting, Scroll

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1700   item# 967314 (stock# ALR2764)

Momoyama Period Gold Fan Painting, Scroll
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


3,100.00 

Momyama period imagery decorates these fanslayed over autumn grass on heavily veined gold. Edo period cloth mounting of red brocade is extended with beige and it features solid ivory rollers. It has been fully restored. The scroll measures 17-1/2 x 66 inches (44.5 x 167 cm) and is in fine condition.


Muromachi Japanese Buddhist Scroll Painting, Kannon

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1700   item# 966838 (stock# ALR2762)

Muromachi Japanese Buddhist Scroll Painting, Kannon
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


2,800.00 

Muromachi-Momoyama period painting in great detail of a multi-armed Kanon holding various Buddhist icons. Pigment and applied gold on silk, it is bordered in kinran silks patterned with couched gold thread and features brass rollers. Fully restored in the distant past, the scroll is 22 x 75 inches (56.5 x 190 cm).


Antique Japanese Erotic Screen Painting, Shunga

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1920   item# 965688 (stock# ANR2760)

Antique Japanese Erotic Screen Painting, Shunga
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


Sold, Thank you  

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


Erotic Meiji Japanese Porcelain Sake Service Set

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1920   item# 965669 (stock# TCR2759)

Erotic Meiji Japanese Porcelain Sake Service Set
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


325.00 

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.


Vintage Japanese Bronze Vase, Shoko

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1980   item# 965387 (stock# MBR2758)

Vintage Japanese Bronze Vase, Shoko
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


450.00 

Bronze vase titled fish by Kyoto artist Shoko enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is covered in an unusual purple and red patina mixed with tarnished silver. The vase is 10 inches (25 cm) tall and in perfect condition.


Antique Japanese Erotic Toys, Phallus w/ Box

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Folk Art: Pre 1920   item# 965386 (stock# MOR2757)

Antique Japanese Erotic Toys, Phallus w/ Box
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


775.00 

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


Two Nara-Heian period Temple Roof Tile fragments

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Earthenware: Pre AD 1000   item# 964995 (stock# MOR2755)

Two Nara-Heian period Temple Roof Tile fragments
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


450.00 

Two fragmented roof tiles excavated from Nara-Heian era sites decorated with floral motifs. Each was originally roughly 6 inches (15 cm) diameter. 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.


Antique Japanese Rootwood Scholar Carvings, Geese

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Wood: Pre 1920   item# 964991 (stock# MOR2754)

Antique Japanese Rootwood Scholar Carvings, Geese
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


850.00 

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


Edo p. Gold Japanese Floral Screen Set

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1920   item# 964657 (stock# ANR2752A)

Edo p. Gold Japanese Floral Screen Set
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


2,650.00 for set 

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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