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The Kura
sold, thank you A complex landscape wraps around and climbs up this exquisite porcelain vase by Daimaru Hokuho dating from the early to mid 20th century. It is 13 inches (33 cm) tall and in excellent condition. There is no box.
Hokuho would have been rated in the top 10 porcelain artist of Kyoto, along with Suwa Sozan, Ito Suiko, Ito Tozan, Miyanaga Tozan, Takahashi Dohachi, Seifu Yohei, Kiyomizu Rokubei, Miura Chikusen and Kiyomizu Zoroku, all artists active from the Meiji through the early Showa eras...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1930
item #1380051
(stock #Hasui379)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
In the Snow, Hida, Nakayama-Shichiri Road Series: Souvenir of Travels, Third Series Date: 1924. Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.5 inches. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Edition: First. Tabi no Miyage Dai Sanshu seal Left margin...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, with thanks! A very rare early sculpture by Imaizumi Masato (now Living National Treasure Imaizumi Imaemon XIV) enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shizen to no Kakawari Kata (In Relation to Nature) Plate III. Paper thin shards are embedded in the un-glazed disc of raw white Kaolin clay, a powerful expression indeed on our relationship with the natural world. It is 11 inches diameter and in excellent condition...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1930
item #1379988
(stock #Ohara164)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Ohara Koson
Sparrows ad Wisteria Size: 16.75 x 10.5 inches. Early 20th century. Reference: K33.10 and page 142 in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland). Publisher: Nishinomiya Yosaku Koson signature and seal "Made in Japan" stamped on verso. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Excellent front. A couple of areas of thinner paper where once adhered to backing. One pinpoint-sized hole in lower sky.
Momoyama Gallery
sold Another historical masterpiece in the development of Japanese culture: grey Shino Chawan, distorted cylindrical shape - hanzutsu, covered with a whitish Shino glaze over an iron oxide engobe, resulting in a beautiful grey shino glaze, which partly turns to red shino (aka shino). A decoration of a branch with a leaf and berries on the front and a criss cross grass pattern on the back has been incised into the engobe resulting in white shino colored lines...
Haruko Watanabe
$500.00 Miyako-jofu woman's kimono with fine kasuri which is hand-woven of choma (ramie) and dyed with Ryukyu-ai. Wefts and warps are hand plied. Miyako-jofu has been woven in Miyako Island in Okinawa since 14th century. It was called "Satsuma-jofu" in Edo period as the island belonged to Satsuma feudal domain. It was imposed as tax. It is time-consuming process of thread making, thread plying, weaving as matching wefts and warps kasuri pattern...
Zentner Collection
SOLD A massive Japanese solid Keyaki (elm) hardwood Kannon Biraki merchant's chest. Decorated with hand-forged iron plating, the motifs seen throughout the piece's hardware include the image of Ebisu, one of the Seven Lucky Gods of Fortune, proudly holding up a freshly caught fish, a large Mokko (melon) shaped lock on the front pair of doors, with flowers and pine trees adorning the drawer below in the form of its lock and handle plates...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960
item #1379646
(stock #Tomoyo001)
Era Woodblock Prints
$800 Jinbo Tomoyo (1902-1994)
Given title: Woman in Lavender Kimono Date: 1957. Size: 18.25 x 11.75 inches. Edition: First. Signed and sealed by the artist. Carver: Sato Jurokichi. Printer: Inomura Shonosuke. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Excellent. Note: One of just a few prints made by this artist. Tomoyo Jinbo (Teisaburo) studied under Hirazaki Eiho and Ito Shinsui.
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1980
item #1379619
(stock #YoshidaT021)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995)
Hope Bay (Antarctica). Date: ca. 1977. Edition: 74/600. Size: 25.25 x 12.25 inches. Published by the artist. Pencil signed and numbered. Blue jikoku seal. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Excellent.
Welcome To Another Century
$450.00 Tea bowl of irregular shape. Deep dark brown clay covered in a greenish-gray glaze that leaves the bottom part of the bowl uncovered. The inside in the same tone with a brown patch. The rim covered with a brownish-green glaze. One looped line decoration in brownish green on the outside. A small patch at the inside of the bowl left uncovered...
Zentner Collection
$650.00 Antique Japanese pair of bronze candle sticks, with archaic Chinese style motifs, cartouche mark on bottom.
Taisho Period (circa 1920's). Dimensions: 10 3/4" high
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940
item #1379292
(stock #Kasamatsu028)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD (L) Kasamatsu Shiro (1898-1991)
Shower of Cherry Blossoms at Kanbayashi Hotspring, Shinshu Date: 1939. Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.25 inches. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. First edition. Watanabe sausage seal (in use 1929-42). Signed and sealed by the artist. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Excellent. Never displayed.
The Kura
Sold, thank you Autumn colors by Goto Shiro in thick pigment on silk in a superb patterned-silk frame with solid ivory rollers. It comes in the original signed wooden box with a Futo-maki rolling bar titled Yudonoyama Banshu (Late Autumn at Mt. Yudono). This is representational of Nihonga in the 1950s, a time when artists were seeking a new direction, breaking with the past and expanding the limits of the medium...
The Kura
sold, thank you Ame-yu graces the rough textured clay of this large Mingei platter from Aizu in the Northern reaches of Japan on the border between Fukushima and Yamagata. Often mistakenly identified as Tamba due to the similarity in the coloring of this particular glaze, the underlying granular white clay gives it away. About the rim is a ring of fire-colored tendrils trapped in a groove, an interesting added feature. It is 31.5 cm (12-1/2 inches) diameter and dates from the later 19th century...
Momoyama Gallery
sold Kuro-Raku Chawan by the 14th generation Kakunyu Kichizaemon (1918-1980) enclosed in its originally signed and sealed wooden box. The inside of the lid bears an appraisal of the the 13th Iemoto (tea master) of Omotesenke, Sokuchusai (1901-1979)...
Momoyama Gallery
sold We continue to offer you the most important chawans and present you this wonderful Tsutsui-Iga Chawan, dating back to the Momoyama period or even the Muromachi Era. Cylindrical shape - hanzutsu - built up from clay coils and squeezen into shape, the foot roughly cut on a hand wheel. This technique is usually affiliated with the Muromachi period, but was used in Iga well into the Momoyama period...
EastWest Gallery
Sold An interesting dish of barbed, lotus petal, form with a bulls eye base, janome, decorated in Nanga style, monochrome (sumi-e) landscape paintings in the Chinese Literati tradition of Southern China, a school particularly associated with the Nagasaki area and the work of the Kameyama kiln, where it is believed artists of this school provided designs for use on their wares.
The dish is in the style of the Kameyama kiln, but is marked with a simple two character mark in seal form reading “tama-y...
Zentner Collection
SOLD Japanese two section isho tansu (clothing chest) from the Sado Island area. Original dark reddish lacquer finish. With hand-forged iron hardware, decorative plating incised with motifs of cranes and turtles with many tails, both symbols of longevity. The lower unit holds a corner safe box with two small drawers concealed inside.
Meiji Period (1868-1912) Dimensions: 41" L x 16" D x 41" H |
