1930's Japanese Mixed Metal Komai Style Hat Pin with Dragon

It is 8 inches (22 cm) long. The ball is 0.7 inch (2.79 cm) wide.

It has rubbing gold, rust and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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An exquisite ceramic bowl originating from the Chinese Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD), a period celebrated for its refined and elegant ceramic artistry.

The bowl was Salvaged from the Jepara shipwreck in the Java Sea...

Title: Gion Noren, Dated: 1983 , Edition: no 14 -100. Medium: Woodblock Print. Square format, picture size: 25,5 cm x 24,5 cm, with frame: 43 x 43 cm. Noren is the traditional curtain hung at the front door of shops and restaurant. Gion District is the turist’s most popular entertainment quarter in Kyoto, with its restaurants, shops, teahouses, Geisha and charming alleys. Karhu, Clifton (1927-2007) was born in Duluth, Minnesota of Finnish descent...

An example of some of the finest porcelain modern Japan has to offer. According to Wakao Kei, the artist who crafted this piece, it took him years of trial and error to perfect these stunning translucent glazes and associated techniques such as getting the right flowing consistency and pooling effect on the sides and around the base of an artwork...

Very striking Kyoto-yaki shishi fu-dog fired in Kiyomizu Ca. 1930. Excellent expression and detail. Great condition. 25cm tall x 25cm wide x 14cm deep. Ask for shipping quote.

A flaring bamboo basket with looping handle by Yamamoto Chikuryusai enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled simply Hanakago. It is 22.5 cm (9 inches) diameter, 40 cm (16 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Yamamoto Chikuryusai I (1868-1945) was a bamboo artist of the early modern era in Osaka. Born in year one of the Meiji era to the Yanagi clan, his former Samurai family hailed from Yodo, a castle town between Osaka and Kyoto...

A magnificent bowl in dark earth through which run veins of gold with blue glaze draped over the side and accents in red by Ichikawa Toru enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 12 x 13 x 9.5 cm (roughly 5 inches diameter, 4 inches tall) and in excellent condition.
Ichikawa Toru was born in Tokyo in 1973. In 2015 he established his current studio in Bizen after 4 years of apprenticeship under another Bizen Outsider, Kakurezaki Ryuichi...

Vertical sides rise from the slightly elevated flat base of this wide Tea bowl by Murakoshi Takuma enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shunju Chawan. It was fired on its side, allowing the crystalline green ash to run down in rivulets around the outside forming glass beads around the three shell marks on one side. The inside is thick white glaze, against which the whipped green tea would be fabulous...

Japanese Room divider to create privacy in a large room. Carved in detail on both sides. Dragon and tiger are seen together balance together as representing the forces of the universe and the yin to those very forces.
On the flip side, three well carved heavenly flying apsaras are symbolized. Amounts the clouds, each angel is depicted holding there own instrument, sho flute, drum, biwa (four-stringed lute with a short neck) floating above blooming peonies...

Kwannon in Gilded Bronze. Japan Muromachi 16th century. The deity is represented standing, draped in a long robe with angular folds. The statue was built in several parts, cast separately, in bronze, with lost wax, then assembled by riveting and welding. We can see a rivet on a photo. This technique was used during the period of medieval Japan, particularly in the Kamakura period...

A truely rare example of an Kiyomizu Ukibori (浮彫) tea bowl, made around 70 years ago.

The bowl is artfully decorated with a relief based on scenes from the “Great Wave of Kanagawa”, the famous woodblock print by Hokusai. The waves were applied and painted using the old traditional ukibori (浮彫) technique.

Ukibori (浮彫) is a Japanese decorative technique often applied to ceramics, wood, and other materials...

Museum age buddhist bronze altar offing set. Dated Tempo 9 or Ca. 1838. Thick red bronze. Check the detail and craftsmanship of the relief. Condition excellent. The origianl box a little rickety. Vases: 5 1/2 " high x 5" wide; incense burner:4" high x 4" wide. 2 candlestands: 14" high x 3"wide. Ask for shipping quote.

Lovely pair of wood-fired bizen sake pourers 'tokkuri'. natural glaze markings. contemporary. Ask for shipping quote.

A hand-formed Bronze Mizusashi lined with cloisonne and decorated about the rim and hand formed waves with silver by Saito Ifu enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It feaures a mirror black polished lacquer wooden lid which juxtaposes beautifully with the matt finish and texture of the vessel. Signed on the base Ifu Saku, it is 15 cm (6 iches) diameter, the same height, and is in excellent condition.

An exquisite Mishima Pottery bowl with gold repair to a break in the rim dating from the mid-Edo period enclosed in an old wooden box. It is 12 x 13 x 8 cm (roughly 5 inches diameter, 3-1/4 inches tall) and is in overall great condition.
Kintsugi lacquer gold repairs embody the spirit of wabi-sabi, a Japanese aesthetic worldview centered around imperfection, transience, and the beauty of the natural cycle of growth and decay...

Gray frosted in crystalline white supplants the speckeld milky glaze on this Wan-gata Tea Bowl by Koie Ryoji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Nezumi Shino Chawan (Gray Shino Tea Bowl). It is 14 x 14.5 x 7.5 cm (roughly 5-3/4 inches diameter, 3 inches tall) and is in excellent condition.
Koie Ryoji (1938-2020)) was born in Tokoname and graduated the Tokoname industrial school before moving on to work at a tile factory in 1957, where he would lose two fingers in an industr...

An organic form covered in running pale glaze tinged pink and gray over crackled stone green by Kaneta Masanao enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hagi Kurinuki Chawan. This is a masterpiece, exemplifying both the power of nature ever present in Japanese art, and the sense of Wabi degradation which is so much a part of the culture. It is 14.5 x 13 x 10.5 cm (5-3/4 x 5 x 4 inches) and is in excellent condition.
Kaneta Masanao is certainly one of Hagi’s most well-known an...

Japanese shin hanga woodblock print titled "Sacred Bridge, Nikko" (aka Shinkyo Bridge) by Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) dated in the left margin Showa 12 (1937). Post WWII edition. The artist's black ink stamped signature and red seal is at the lower left. The print is block titled and signed in the lower margin. Illustrated in "The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi," Abe Publications, color plate #220. Paper measures 10 3/4" x nearly 15 3/4" (image size: 9 3/42" x 14 3/4"). Very good ...