Kawase Hasui
Spring Evening, Ueno Toshogu Shrine (aka. Spring Dusk at the Tosho Shrine, Ueno)
Date 1948.
Size: Oban 15.5 x 10.375 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe (no pub. seal). This edition likely 1960s-70s.
Reference: Hotei No. 509.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Very slight fading as seen at bottom outer image edges.

Meiji (1868-1912) Japanese Shofu Katei Eiraku Studio Silver Overlay Plate with Relief Peony Marked "永楽松風"

It is 1.5 inches (3.9 cm) tall by 8.4 inches (21.4 cm) wide. It is 0.9 Lb.

It is tarnished and has hairline cracks, dark spots, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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Large 19th C netsuke depicting a flounder. Very complex technique: body of netsuke is made of wood covered with a ray skin; fins covered with gold lacquer, eye double inlayed with amber and dark horn; himatoshi inlayed with mother of pearl. Unsigned. 3 ½ ” x 1 ¾ ” 90 x 45 mm.

Large sashi wood netsuke depicting a catfish. Double inlayed eyes. Unsigned. 5 ¼ ” x 1 ” 132 x 25 mm.

Large sashi stag horn netsuke depicting a flying fish with an open mouth and long, wing-like pectoral fins. Inlayed eyes. Unsigned. 7 ” x about 1 ” 180 x 20 mm.

Large sashi stag horn netsuke depicting an eel or a similar fish. Inlayed eyes. Unsigned. 7 ” x 1 ” 18 x 2 sm.

The size of Flower vase: 6 3/4" L x 3" W x 11" High, 17 cm x 7.5 cm x 28 cm H. This flower vase was made by world renown artisan, 10th Ohi Chozaemon. It is made of Stone Ware. It has attractive relief works of Hato (pigeon) design on the vase. His works are very well known for Tea Ceremony articles using name by Ohi Chozaemon. He also used the name Ohi Toshiro when he created other form of article such case for this Kaki (flower vase) before he succeeded the 10th Chozaemon...

Additional Photos for Japanese Flower Vase by Ohi Chozaemon w/Tomobako.

An early signature, ceramic piece by renowned ceramic artist Kenji Gumi (b. 1978 in Chino, Nagano Pref.). As is common for his works, the piece has been made in two sections to form a whole sculpture. The surface is covered in a dull, mottled bluish, lighter and darker greyish colour with a velvety touch to it (saido utsuwa, coloured clay vessel ). This decorating technique comes from letting the clay, rice husks and ashes react with the firing process...

A powerfully sculpted vase with a large, diamond shape opening on an ovoid body, decorated with geometric pattern in deep green and transparent glaze. Enclosed in original inscribed and signed box. H 19 cm. From the middle of the Showa period. Good condition. ****** Kawai Hirotsugu (1919-1993), in 1946 he married Ryo Kawai, Kawai Kanjiro’s only daughert, and was than adopted by Kanjiro as his son and heir.

TOKYO 1867

Hanging scroll mounted with an old woodblock-printed map of Edo (present-day Tokyo), meticulously depicting the city layout centered around Edo Castle at that time. Originally published by Suharaya Mohei, one of Edo’s most established publishing houses, in 1867 (Keiō 3, late Edo period). Approx. 96 × 104.5 cm (37.8 × 41.1 in), including the hanging cord and wooden roller ends...

A pair of rare Six Panel Screens opposing calligraphic verse with a bamboo stand in white on red by Fukuda Kodojin Published p. 230-231 No. 70 The Art and Life of Fukuda Kodojin (Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2023). Not only is a pair of screens by this artist rare, but this, depicted in white on paper dyed with Kakishibu Persimmon oil in a deep, burnt red color with a red frame, is unprecedented...

This monumental hanging scroll by Fukuda Kodōjin dated early winter 1915 presents a lofty mountain landscape enveloped in drifting mists, a consummate expression of his mature literati ideal. Combining the monumental grandeur of Chinese Song and Yuan prototypes with the delicacy and introspection of Japanese Bunjin taste, it reveals Kodōjin’s unique capacity to merge spiritual vision with expressive abstraction...

A rare bamboo tea scoop carved with a brief verse hailing Riku-u (Lu Yu) by Fukuda Kodojin enclosed in the original wooden box titled Sago.　It is 4.5 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm (1-3/4 x 5-1/2 x 3/4 inch) and is in excellent condition.
Lu Yu (Japanese: Riku-u）was an 8th-century Chinese tea master and writer, best known as the author of the The Classic of Tea, the world’s earliest and most influential monograph on tea...

A window glows pink with warmth in the hermitage lost in the pair of vast winter landscapes by Fukuda Kodojin enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Sekkei Sansui So-Fuku. In the first composition, jagged, snow-covered peaks rise into an empty sky, their stark forms rendered with Kodōjin’s distinctive textured ink wash—alternating dry brush and delicate rubbing to create both monumentality and ethereality. At the foot of the mountains, a modest thatched hut nestles into the snow...

Mount Fuji rises majestically beyond a blossoming plum, and a scholars studio displays a fine assortment of natural objects in this complimentary pair of paintings by Fukuda Kodojin and female artist/Poet Miura Eiran with calligraphy by Kokufu Seito. The poems read:
1: The mountains connect, draped in eternal snow; From the land of the sages, one branch brings forth spring.
2: From whence comes the crane, seeking rest? Moss spreads thick upon the earth, ever deepening...

The burgeoning moon filters through the needles of an ancient pine on this powerful image by Fukuda Kodojin enclosed in in the original signed wooden box titled Gekka Oimatsu Zu date the sumer of 1923. Ink on silk in a green satin border patterned with soaring geese with bone rollers, it is 53 x 202 cm (20-3/4 x 79-1/2 inches). There are a few scattered marks typical of handling and age...

A lightly brushed ink image of a boatman under a poem signed Haritsu (poetry name of Fukuda Kodojin) reading: Natsu yanagi Tsuri dogu uru koya ari (Beneath the summer willows, there is a hut selling fishing gear supplies). Ink on handmade mulberry paper with green silk border, dark wood rollers. It is 12-1/2 x 63 inches (32 x 160 cm)...