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As many may know we at The Kura have been heavily involved in the relief effort in Tohoku following the 2011, March 11 Earthquake and Tsunami which killed at least 26,000 people, and left hundreds of thousands homeless. During this last year we have neglected the website, and inconvenienced many with delays in service. Please know it was not without good reason, and your patience and understanding through this difficult time for Japan has been very much appreciated. For more on our efforts please see http://www.idrojapan.org After this first year anniversary we are now looking forward to getting back to the business of collection building, and look forward to working with you again in 2012 Sincerely: Robert Mangold Owner, The Kura Director, International Disaster Relief Organization

Robert Mangold has been working with Japanese antiques since 1995 with an emphasis on ceramics, Paintings, Armour and Buddhist furniture.

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Set 10 Sencha Tea Cups by Seifu Yohei III Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1920   item# 1109958 (stock# TCR3044)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 Sold, Thank you!  An original set of ten wide porcelain tea cups decorated with pines by Seifu Yohei III enclosed in the original signed wooden box bearing the Teishitsu Gigei-in Stamp. Each cup is 3 inches (8 cm) diameter and are in excellent condition but for one small gold repair on one cup. Also included are the 10 original stamped wrapping cloths. Seifu, unlike many potters of the time, was low production and tenacious in appr ...click for details Ryoro and Stand for Sencha Tea by Heian (Inoue) Shunpo Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1940   item# 1109784 (stock# TCR3050)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 650.00  A raw earthen brazier used in the preparation of Sencha tea in the shape of a demons head, mouth open with seihakuji porcelain base by Inoue Shunpo I (1896-1965). It must look fearsome to have the coals glowing inside, with the teapot on top, smoke coming out of his red glowing mouth. Both pieces are signed on the underside. The base is 5-1/2 inches (14 cm) square, the Ryoro the same diameter at the top, just over 5 inches (13.5 cm) tall and both are in fine condition. ...click for details Large Porcelain Vase by Kitamura Wazen Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1940   item# 1109736 (stock# TCR3049)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 Sold, Thank you!  Another venture into the roots of modern ceramics with this large Tsubo by Kitamura Wazen featuring a roosting cock in relief between art deco style windows enclosed in the original signed wooden box dating circa 1933. It is 15 inches (38 cm) tall, roughly 10 inches (26 cm) diameter and in perfect condition. The Wazen kiln has spanned three generations specializing in porcelains with an emphasis on sencha tea ware ...click for details Sencha Porcelain Ryoro Brazier by Kitamura Wazen Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1940   item# 1109733 (stock# TCR3048)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 Sold, Thank you!  A Ryoro by Kitamura Wazen enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The piece is 17 cm diameter, 22 cm tall and enclosed in the original signed wooden box. There is a small nick in the edge of the raw earth insert, otherwise is in excellent condition. Please note the Porcelain stand (Dai) by Shunpo shown under the brazier in photo 1 is being offered seperately. The Wazen kiln has spanned three generations spec ...click for details Sencha Kiji Porcelain Ryoro Dai by Seifu Yohei III Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1920   item# 1109732 (stock# TCR3047)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 800.00  A yellow porcelain stand for a sencha green tea brazier by Seifu Yohei III enclosed in a signed wooden box. The piece is 12.5 cm square, signed underneath and includes the original stamped wrapping cloth. Seifu, unlike many potters of the time, was low production and tenacious in approach. The third generation head of the family (d. 1914) was honored as the first ceramic artist to become a member of the Imperial Art Academy (Teishitsu Gigei-In). ...click for details Set 5 Antique Porcelain Sencha Tea Cups, Seifu, Dohachi Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1920   item# 1109729 (stock# TCR3046)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 1,500.00  A set of unique porcelain cups for Sencha green tea by five top names in Kyoto, Seifu Yohei, Takahashi Dohachi, Kiyomizu Rokubei, Mashimizu Zoroku and Miura Chikusen, all carried inside a six sided bamboo carrying case signed and stamped by each artist with each cup described, the case in turn enclosed in a wooden box. The box is titled Kosometsuke (?) Chawan, and signed within (illegible) likely by the collector for whom the set was made followed by one small and one large stamp. The cups are ...click for details Antique Japanese Fusuma, Sencha Items by Murata Kokoku Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1920   item# 1109109 (stock# ANR3045)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 4,400.00  Four ink on paper paintings of scholarly green tea items by Murata Kokoku mounted on age darkened silver opposite sheer white paper clouded with gold flake. Antique Handles on both sides, the sliver side of dark orbs containing a crescent moon in gold. Each door is 28-1/2 x 68-1/2 inches (73 x 174 cm) made for an opening roughly 68 x 112 inches (172.5 x 284.5 cm). Murata Kokoku (1831-1912) a staunch supporter of the Literati movement and well known artist/poet who taught at the Kyoto Prefectu ...click for details Antique Japanese Sencha Teapot by Makuzu Kozan Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1930   item# 1109105 (stock# TCR3043)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 Sold, thank you  A sometsuke landscape circles this small Annan tea pot by Miyagawa (Makuzu) Kozan enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The scholar rests in solitude in his thatched hut, a woodsman setting out for the bamboo forest with long shovel to uproot bamboo shoots. Roughly 6 inches (15 cm) tall, 5-1/2 inches (14 cm) diameter and in excellent condition. The name Kozan was granted by Prince Yasui-no-Miya in 1851 in h ...click for details Antique Japanese Zen Scroll, Shoun (Sohan Gempo) Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1920   item# 1108959 (stock# ALR3042)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 Sold  In honor of the opening of the Riva Lee Asbel Collection at the Morikami, a sack containing the two calligraphy characters Kan-Nin with epitaph above by Zen Priest Shoun (Sohan Gempo) the former head of Daitokukji. The work is performed with ink on silk in a silk border enclosed in a kiri-wood box. Kannin is a combination of Patience and forbearance. This sack is loaded full, and the strings of the Kannin-bukuro are thick and firm, (the Japanese use the expression the strings of the Kannin Bu ...click for details Tenmoku Chawan Named Seiho by Zen Priest Kasumi Bunsho Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980   item# 1108161 (stock# TCR3037)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 Sold, thank you  A Tenmoku Chawan named Seiho (The Right Law) made by by Dobuchi Yoshihide and inscribed with the phrase Myoshin by Kasumi Bunsho, former head priest of Myoshinji Temple in Kyoto. It is likely that one bowl was inscribed by the priest, then a pattern made and a series fired in commemoration for some event, this being one of them. The bowl is 5 inches (12.5 cm) diameter, 3 inches (7.5 cm) tall and in excellent condition. ...click for details Return To Top View Next 10 Items PAGE: 1  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  14