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 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...

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.

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")...

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Title: Matsushima
Date: 1930s
Size: 5.625 x 3.75 inches.
Publisher: Doi Hangaten (seal lower right).
Koitsu seal and title at lower left.
Reference: Koitsu catalogue TK-DH-105.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

A very attractive and fine cast iron incense container (kogo) for tea ceremony decorated with a motif from the Ten Ox-herding Pictures of Zen Buddhism. Inside covered in gold. Signed by Suzuki Morihisa (1920–1981), a 14th generation of cast iron-makers from Morioka who later taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tokyo. A frequent exhibitor at the Nitten. With original signed kiri-tomobako. H 3 cm, D 7,2. Condition: Perfect.

A small Chinese "Famille verte" porcelain vase decorated with bird, butterfly and prunus, dating to the Kangxi period (1662-1722). The mouth shortened and with later, unmarked silver mount. Base with underglaze blue double ring. Condition: the colors are very fresh, the mouth shortened and chipped, the shoulder with firing cracks. Dimension: c. 15.1 cm height.

DIRTY PHALLUS

Wood carving with the signs like paint-peeling and such split, Showa period, 20th century, Japan. 68 x 11 x 9.5 cm (26.77 x 4.33 x 3.74in).


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Takahashi Shotei
Sacred Bridge in Rain, Nikko
Date: 1930s.
Print size: 4 x 3 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Reference: S-17 in Shotei catalog.
Condition: Excellent.

ARM

Paulownia wood carving, L 35 cm (13.77in), early 20th century, Japan. Aged deterioration as is, with peelings of white pigment.


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A beautiful example of an antique Shigaraki Tsubo (storage jar) Vase displaying sophisticated Shigaraki markings of dark emerald green, shades of yellow and natural ash glaze.

The eye-catching dark green glaze flows from the mouth over the massive body of this jar from the late Edo Period (1603-1868).

Standing in front of this wonderful tsubo with its aesthetic form, jewel-like natural glazes, and sparkling tsuchi-aji (clay flavor), one cannot help but feel in awe of th...