Antique Japanese Window Screen Pair

Japanese: Furniture: Dividers Pre 1920: item #1087745
STSA11

Slatted cedar wood screens with finely carved images of mountains, boats and trees. Very good condition. Japanese, Taisho period. Each panel: 41 1/2” high x 17” wide x 1” deep.

Japanese Tsuitate Room Divider

Japanese: Furniture: Dividers Pre 1940: item #920718
T-8

This mid-1900’s Japanese tsuitate is beautifully designed with a traditional bamboo motif. The frame is a richly grained shitan wood and the movable insert is crafted from paulownia wood. Very good condition with a couple minor repairs. Height: 41 ½” Width: 36”

Japanese Ranma Carved Wood Panel Headboard Size

Japanese: Furniture: Dividers Pre 1910: item #914262
62-26

This Meiji era ranma, an interior transom, was an integral part of the architecture of an old Japanese frame house. Within those houses, moveable partitions of wide sliding doors (fusuma) were used to define rooms, allowing the flexible use of space. The ranma was suspended above the fusuma to fill a gap between the tops of the doors and the ceiling. Pierced carvings on these wood transoms facilitated circulation of air and light throughout the house as well as adding a decorative element. Carve... Click for details

Japanese Ranma Panel Island Scene

Japanese: Furniture: Dividers Pre 1920: item #648590
62-31

This long carved panel from Japan's late Meiji Period shows two sailboats passing behind an island in the center foreground. Distant mountains are seen in the background to one side; the sea with small boats to the other side. Pierced carving allowed the scene to be viewed from either side of the panel, which was used as a transom, called a ranma, in a traditional Japanese house. Hung above wide sliding doors, the ranma provided soft light and air circulation to living areas on both sides of the... Click for details

Japanese Ranma Seaside Cottage Scene

Japanese: Furniture: Dividers Pre 1920: item #647539
62-32

Used as an interior transom over wide sliding doors, this early 20th century Japanese ranma was designed to allow light and air to pass through the open top section. The carved wood panel is gently curved along the top providing a nice effect within the rectangular frame. Black lacquer edging emphasizes the curve and reflects a bit of light. The carved scene is a charming Japanese house set within a grove of trees overlooking the sea, boats and snow-capped mountains in the distance. The ranma is... Click for details

Japanese Ranma Curved Bridge Scene

Japanese: Furniture: Dividers Pre 1910: item #635842
62-30

This Japanese ranma (interior transom) from the late Meiji Period shows a graceful curved bridge (taiko-bashi) leading across calm water to a grove of trees. The quiet scene, created with pierced carving on a nicely grained wood panel, is framed with a narrow black lacquered liner and an outer red lacquered frame. Used in a traditional Japanese wood house as a transom over sliding doors (fusuma), the panel's pierced carving was viewable from either side of the doors and also allowed filtered lig... Click for details

Headboard Size Japanese Ranma Tree Design

Japanese: Furniture: Dividers Pre 1910: item #635464
62-28

From the late Meiji Period, this Japanese interior transom (ranma) is a suitable size for a decorative headboard, to hang over a wide fireplace or to use in place of a painting to add depth and texture to a light wall. The design is a simple one of six trees, a few tufts of grass and the suggestion of low hills, which gives the piece a contemporary look. This type of carving suggests a brush painting with its spare use of a few fine lines to depict nature. The nicely grained wood panel is framed... Click for details

Japanese Ranma Mount Fuji Scene

Japanese: Furniture: Dividers Pre 1910: item #635048
62-29

This Japanese interior transom (ranma) from the late Meiji period shows Mount Fuji as it is seen from the Izu Peninsula looking inland across Suruga Bay. Rescued from old wood houses, ranma are perfectly sized for use as decorative headboards or to hang over a wide fireplace. The original use of the ranma was integral to the architecture of traditional Japanese frame houses, which were built with pillars supporting the roofs so that load bearing interior walls were not necessary. Instead, moveab... Click for details

Japanese Ranma Coastal Scene

Japanese: Furniture: Dividers Pre 1910: item #634733
62-27

This Japanese Meiji interior transom (ranma) is the perfect size for use as a decorative headboard. A tranquil seaside scene carved into the nicely grained wood shows cypress trees and a lighthouse in the foreground with small boats riding gentle waves in the distance. The panel is framed with a narrow black lacquered liner set within a dark red lacquered outer frame. Ranma were an integral part of the architecture of the old Japanese frame houses. The roofs of these houses were supported by pil... Click for details

Japanese Painted Tsuitate (standing screen panel).

Japanese: Furniture: Dividers Pre 1920: item #573463

Japanese two sided tsuitate, standing floor screen space divider, black lacquer frame, central panel painted on paper with scene of white hawk in pine tree on one side, peony flowers painted on the other side, signed Sayrin, good condition, Taisho Period. Size: 51 1/2" high x 46" wide x 19 1/2" deep.