This yosegire silk kimono was worn at the end of the Edo period (circa 1860). It is made from high-quality silk fabrics commonly used for uchikake (traditional Japanese kimono) of the time. The torso is made of yellow silk, the sleeves are made from fragments of an uchikake (traditional Japanese kimono), and the hem is made of hand-dyed Yuzen silk. There is a faint stain on the left side of the back, but no damage...

An elongated precipitous basin in sandy earth colors by Sakiyama Takayuki enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Henko, Nami (Odd shaped vase, Waves). It is 54 x 8 x 14.5 cm (21-1/2 x 3 x 5-3/4 inches) and is in excellent condition.
Sakiyama Takayuki (b. 1958) graduated the Osaka Art University in 1981. In 1984 he exhibited for the first time at the Nitten National Exhibition...

A sake set in raw Iga clay covered in natural ash glaze by Atarashi Manabu enclosed in the original signed wooden boxes titled Iga Shinogi Gokaku Guinomi and Iga Shinogi Tokkuri respectively. The Tokkuri is 7.5 x 8 x 14.5 cm (roughly 3 inches diameter, 5-3/4 inches tall). The Guinomi 6.5 x 7 x 6 cm (2-1/2 inches diameter, roughly the same height) and both are in excellent condition...

Shimura Tatsumi (1907-1980)
Start of the Dance from Five Figures of Modern Beauties
Date: 1952.
Size: Oban 16.125 x 11.5 inches.
Publisher: Nihon Hanga Kenkyujo
This true first edition has the red "Approved by Tatsumi" seal in the left margin and the red "Examined by Gihachi" seal in the right margin.
Tatsumi signature and seal in image. Title at lower center margin.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Paper residue at top corners. Color fading...

Shimura Tatsumi (1907-1980)
Late Summer from Five Figures of Modern Beauties
Date: 1952.
Size: Oban 16.125 x 11.5 inches.
Publisher: Nihon Hanga Kenkyujo
This true first edition has the red "Approved by Tatsumi" seal in the left margin and the red "Examined by Gihachi" seal in the right margin.
Tatsumi signature and seal in image. Title at lower center margin.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Top right margin has excess paper. Color fading...

An extremely rare White Robe Kannon Ishigami, natural rootwood embracing stone, spirit stone. Kannon is the Bodhisattva ( Bosatsu)of Compassion, and Kannon figures of this kind are extremely rare! It is made of a natural rootwood grown around a stone, which forms the face and body of the image. These kind of rare “spirit stones” have always been highly appreciated by the Japanese literati and are still much loved and collected nowadays ...

A beautiful Bamboo Flower Basket, Hanakago Made with lacquered madake bamboo strips and rattan, of oblong form with a loop-style handle, irregular plating technique. The handle of twisted rattan. Incised maker name on the bottom: Ga(?) Original bamboo water container Otoshi. Size:　H. 33cm x W 23 x L 31cm. Showa period, around 1960. Very good condition.

Mid-18th century netsuke depicts shishi (guardian lion) on a seal. Stag horn. Unsigned 2” x 1½ ” x ½ ”.

Japanese 19thC carved netsuke depicting a snake coiling through the skull. Wood Unsigned 2” x 1 ½ ” x 1 ½ ”.

Japanese 19thC boxwood carved netsuke depicting Hannya, a Noh/Kyogen theater character of a jealous female demon or serpent who has been consumed by intense emotions like rage, sadness, and sorrow. Old restoration on the lower jaw. Boxwood. Signed. 1 ½ ” x 1 ¼ ”.

Japanese 19thC carved netsuke depicting a chick hatching from an egg, which is a common motif in art that symbolizes new life, birth, and potential. Dark hardwood, probably rosewood, inlayed eyes. Unsigned. 1 ½ ” x 1 ½”.

An Edo period lacquered wood yosegi-zukuri scale model utsushi (honorific copy) of the original, Kamakura period sculpture of Kūkai (A.D. 774 - 835) enshrined as a manifestation of Maitreya Buddha in the Kongobu-ji shrine in the Okuno-In temple. Kōbō Daishi (so named posthumously), was the founder of esoteric Shingon, Vajrayana Buddhism in Japan. Weathered but fair condition. Ex H. I. Gates collection. Height, 9 1/2 inches

Three Shin Hanga Japanese Woodblock Prints
Hiker in Mountains, Two Figures with Umbrella in Rain, Boat and Willow
Date: 1910s-1930s.
Size: Ko-tanzaku. Each 9.5 x 2 inches.
Medium: Japanese woodblock prints.
Condition: Excellent.One has marks in upper right sky.

Eishosai Choki (1760s-1800s) Hand Mirror
Size: Oban 15.5 x 10.25 inches.
Date: ca 1790. This edition pre-1923 published Watanabe Shozaburo (sealed).
Side light reveals a beautiful pattern in the embossed black fabric. See photo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Such hooks were traditionally used in wealthy farmers houses and were suspended from the ceiling over the traditional iron hearth.
Beautifully carved from Keyaki wood (Japanese Zelkova) , perhaps most desirable hard wood in Japan, known for its strength and beautiful grain...

Pair to Large Japanese Six-Panel Folding Screen with Cranes

A large six-panel folding screen (byōbu) forming a pair with the previously presented crane screen.
This screen features a striking composition of cranes: one with wings majestically spread in flight, accompanied by two cranes resting gracefully on the ground...

A radical red tea bowl, the sides scored by Koie Ryoji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled simply Chawan. It is 13.5 cm (5-1/2 inches), 8 cm (3 inches) tall and 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 industrial accident...

A humorous image of blind men trying to describe an elephant, a scene from popular Zen lore, by Okada Kakyo enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is Ink on paper in a silk border featuring porcelain rollers. The scroll measures 55 x 206.5 cm (21-1/2 x 81 inches) and is in overall fine condition.
A group of blind men once came upon an elephant, each wishing to understand what sort of creature stood before them...