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Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940
item #1449496
(stock #Hasui540)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Kawase Hasui
Onshi Park, Shiba Date: 1937. First edition with Watanabe E seal (used 1932-1942). In this edition, the rain is overprinted with silver mica. Size: Oban. Approximately 15.75 x 10.75 inches. Reference: Hotei #422. Medum: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Excellent. Hasui's biographer "Narazaki writes: 'An ancient pine tree at the side of a pond; it conveys the brooding mood of a bleak nocturnal downpour...
Haruko Watanabe
$90.00 Hagoita (battledore) with oshie which is the Japanese traditional craft. Motifs are figures, kabuki actors, flowers, birds etc. They are made into raised pictures with silk crepe with lining of cotton and attached on the wood or paper board. Hagoita is used for the game "hane-tsuki" played on the New Year's Day. Two persons hit a shuttle with hagoita. This one has oshie woman in traditional kimono. It has letters that show it was made in Meiji and in Tokyo...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
Sold, Thank you! Large Leafed Vines are silhouetted against age darkened silver on this striking covered basin by Banura Shiro enclosed in the original signed wooden box. A segment of vine serves as a handle on the lid and it appears to float above the table on three ribbon feet. It is 25 cm (10 inches) diameter, 15 cm (6 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Banura Shiro (1941-2001) was born the fourth son of influential Lacquer Artist Banura Shogo...
Zentner Collection
$975.00 An antique Japanese Kotansu (personal storage chest) made of Kirinoki (Paulownia) and Suginoki (Cryptomeria) woods. Original Urushi lacquer finish and hand forged iron hardware with Hirute handles. Four spacious drawers and a safe door that hides three small drawers for valuables. One small drawer has a secret false floor to hide precious smalls...
Zentner Collection
$1,800.00 Antique Japanese small censor carved of wood and decorated with a gold maki-e lacquer design of flowers and grasses behind a bamboo garden fence. The gold lacquer stands out against a black lacquer ground. The gilt bronze lid is in the shape of a lattice work basket. Charming and detailed.
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912) Dimensions: 2 1/2" high x 2 3/4" wide
Zentner Collection
SOLD An antique Japanese Kotansu (personal storage chest) made of Kirinoki (Paulownia) and Suginoki (Cryptomeria) woods. Original bronze hardware with 5 drawers for plentiful storage space. Constructed using straight dovetail joinery and hardened wooden nails.
Age: Meiji/Taisho Period (1910-1920) Dimensions: 23 3/8" Wide by 25 3/8" High by 14" Deep
Zentner Collection
$3,000.00 An antique Japanese Choba Tansu (merchant chest) made of Keyaki (Zelkova) and Suginoki (Cryptomeria) woods. Original hand forged iron hardware including the stylized Mokko handles. Seven drawers for organizing and storage with two sliding doors where store recordsn were kept and a safe door behind which two small drawers held merchant valuables...
Zentner Collection
$750.00 Antique Japanese ikebana basket (for flower arranging). Squat, round body with tall arching handle. Woven of split bamboo. The handle is comprised of sections of bamboo twisted together like a rope. It attaches to the wider, bottom section of the basket made in the same technique. The upper portion of the basket is made of flat sections of bamboo woven in a repeating horizontal chevron pattern...
Zentner Collection
$750.00 Antique Japanese small round hibachi carved of kiri (paulownia) wood and lined with copper. It is decorated with a still-life display of a fishing basket, fisherman's rod and the catch of the day. Beautifully captured in raised gold maki-e lacquer, the fishing basket and fish have a life-like appearance. The large fish that has just been caught glitters with inlaid shell...
Zentner Collection
SOLD Antique Japanese large framed watercolor painting by A. Yoshida. A scene featuring a calm river cut between mountains. A lone figure carrying a large basket on their back approaches a group of huts on one side of a wooden bridge. On the mountain sides, colorful foliage adorns the trees possibly alluding to a late summer or early fall season. In a carved wood frame. Signed by the artist: A. Yoshida. Painted in watercolors on paper...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, with thanks! A blue whirlpool spirals in the bowl of this perfectly formed celadon cup by Yagi Akira enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 2-3/4 inches (7 cm) diameter and in excellent condition...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
Sold, Thank you! A stylish celadon funnel for filling Tokkuri or making cocktails by Yagi Akira enclosed in the original compartmentalized signed wooden box titled Seihakuji Roto (Celadon Funnel). It comes with the original artist made notched wood stand. Functional of course, it also makes for a beautiful object on the stand. It is 19 cm long (7-1/2 inches), 12.7 cm (5 inches) diameter and in excellent condition.
This name is a must have in any collection of modern Japanese Pottery. Akira was born in K...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1950
item #1449148
(stock #Hasui538)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Kawase Hasui
Postal Life Insurance Office Date: ca. 1930s/1940s. Size: 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Hasui seal at lower right. Rare genuine woodblock-printed postcard. Condition: Front is excellent. Verso has residue at top corners. A small Japanese square bronze table screen with a flying crane in openwork, raised and supported on the backs of two kirins, a mythical beast in Chinese mythology. At the top two holders, maybe for a brush. Condition: a small loss (one ear), one leg restored (see photo No. 11), bottom of sreen maybe with lost part?, patina. Dimension: c. 15.5 cm high, 18.5 cm wide, 8.3 cm deep.
The Kura
Sold, Thank you! A rare and stunning set of Kinrande sake cups by the elusive Nakamura Shuto I enclosed in the original compartmentalized signed wooden box dating from the late Meiji to Taisho period. Crisp designs of shishi lions frolicking among peonies in genuine gold are expertly applied to the brilliant red outside, while inside landscapes of plum, pine and bamboo blossom in minute detail in Sometsuke blue on white. The artists seal is deeply impressed inside the foot ring. Each cup is 5.5 cm (2-1/4 inch...
Forestangel Asian Antiques
$1,250.00 Early 19th C. Japanese Wood Netsuke: Wood Gatherer, Signed YOSHINAGA, Miura
This is an Extremely Rare example of a wood netsuke excellently carved by Yoshinaga, as signed on a border, on the bottom of this superb miniature sculpture, depicting a Wood Gatherer who has taken a rest from his daily journey by sitting on top of a rock. He is carrying on his back a wicker basket, and two bundles of wood on top of it. He is also holding a hoe on his right hand.
It is extremely rare t...
Forestangel Asian Antiques
$2,750.00 21.375" blade with a wild midare hamon. Nakago with eight-character signature "Harima Daijō Fujiwara Tadakuni" ( 信濃大掾藤原忠國 ) ; probably 2nd generation (1624). Nagako is possibly ubu (meaning that remains as it is since it was made) with three mekugi-ana. Blade contained in shirasaya attributing blade to Tadakuni. Swordsmith is listed as TA41 from W.M. Hawley, page 368.
SAYAGAKI is the writing on the shirasaya that is done by a sword expert for the purpose of identifi...
Forestangel Asian Antiques
$1,675.00 Century Japanese Ebony Wood Netsuke: Tanuki Badger, Signed Minko with Kakikan
19th Century, finely hand-carved boxwood netsuke depicting a seated Tanuki, or Japanese Badger (raccoon dog) raising his right paw in order to beat his belly, or distended scrotum as it if were a drum. Pupils made in bronze and inlaid with black horn. Wonderful chimney himotoshi that starts on the bottom, and extends to the left side of his body, between his legss. Signed Minko, with kakihan, on the bott...
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