Antique Japanese Sake Bottle Gourd

Japanese: Folk Art: Mingei Pre 1920: item #820232
5718

Finely patinaed Japanese Gourd Sake Bottle. Very good in condition.

Stock Number:5718

Size: 21cm high by 11cm wide(8.3" by 4.3")... Click for details

Japanese Hanakago Hanging Bamboo Basket

Japanese: Folk Art: Mingei Pre 1950: item #820231
5721

Estimaed from early 20th century, exquisitely woven Japanese bamboo hanging basket. Overall condition is fine with beautiful patina.

Stock Number:5721

Size: 20cm high by 14c... Click for details

Japanese Jizai Kagi wooden hook hearth kettle hanger

Japanese: Folk Art: Mingei Pre 1900: item #819936
5762

It dates from 19th century, genuine antique Japanese Jizai Kagi Hanger hook made of Keyaki Zelkova wood. It is true Mingei which have been used in old house. Overal condition is good with beautiful patina. Highly recommended article.

Stock Number:5762
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Vintage Japanese Crawling Gosho Doll: HaiHai Ningyo

Japanese: Folk Art: Dolls and Puppets Pre 1930: item #816919
4A-272

This charming Japanese gosho ningyo (“palace doll”), with chubby arms and legs outstretched, holds a rattle-type toy in his right hand while he crawls on his stomach. Early 20th century. His one-piece clay body is finished in white gofun (crushed oyster shell), and his facial features are well modeled and delicately hand painted in wonderful detail. He is scantily clad with a red and gold silk bib or stomach cloth (“haragake”) glued on and tied around his waist with light pink silk crepe cords. ... Click for details

Antique Erotic Japanese Image, cat on Pillows

Japanese: Folk Art: Dolls and Puppets Pre 1900: item #814451
MOR2429

A white and black speckled cat rests silently on top of a pile of zabuton pillows, innocent enough until overturned to find the pair of lovers amorously intertwined beneath. This is a tsuchi ningyo, an unfired clay image painted with pigments popular throughout Japanese history.  Some of the most famous tsuchi nigyo were from Kyotos Fushimi district.  A typical entranceway greeting, images such as this were popular items in the pleasure districts of old Kyoto.  As depicting genitalia was illegal... Click for details

Large Japanese Wooden Phallic Fertility Symbol

Japanese: Folk Art: Mingei Pre 1900: item #814192
MOR2426

A large votive offering in the shape of a phallus dating from the 19th century carved of light-weight Kiri-wood.  It is 16 inches (41 cm) long.  There is some worm and insect damage about the head and shaft and four shallow holes bored into the center of the shaft for reasons unknown.  Likely a fertility offering to the Shinto gods. 

Japanese Wooden Phallic Fertility Symbol

Japanese: Folk Art: Mingei Pre 1960: item #814180
MOR2425

A well carved bamboo Phallus engraved with a series of Kanji characters about the outside dated 1955.  A fertility offering for a shrine or festival, it is carved with characters which appear to ask to lift the curse of infertility.  It is of light raw bamboo and has a fine soft sheen.   

Japanese Meiji Blue and White Ceramic Benki

Japanese: Folk Art: Utilitarian Accessories Pre 1900: item #805132
18-46

Salvaged from a Japanese ryokan (inn), this late Meiji blue and white ceramic benki moves easily to a second life as a handsome plant holder or fountain. Western expatriates in the Far East, particularly in Japan, have a long history of adapting utilitarian items with appealing Asian design to inventive new uses, and this is one of the most unusual items to be adapted. This benki, with its cobalt blue patterns, is recognizable as Japanese at first glance but its original use as a urinal is not a... Click for details

Very Rare and Fine Edo Period Saga Ningyo

Japanese: Folk Art: Dolls and Puppets Pre 1800: item #798057
R20

18th Century Edo Period Saga Ningyo of a young boy holding a rooster in one hand and a scepter in the other. His head bobs while his tongue goes in and out. Carved entirely of wood, his robes are built up with pigments in a technique called 'moriage'. He has a gorgeous blue outer robe decorated with foliate scroll slightly raised in relief. His inner robes are brown with shaped roundels of geometric patterns and cloud shapes. This rarest of all Ningyo forms almost never comes up for sale and... Click for details

Japanese Mingei Hanaire Hanakago Bamboo Basket

Japanese: Folk Art: Handicrafts Pre 1980: item #794029
5395

Exquisitely wooven hanakago bamboo basket with bamboo insert. It has sign by an artist and comes with his signed and sealed original wooden box. Very good in condition.

Stock Number:5395
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