INCOMPLETE LION HEAD

'Shishigashira' (Lion Head) used for 'Shishimai' (Japanese Lion Dance) just carved roughly from a single piece of log in such unfinished condition as is with no lower jaw part. Taisho-Showa period, early 20th century. H 17.5 x W 24 x D 30.5 cm (6.88 x 9.44 x 12.00in).


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The great master in Japan pottery art scene Sadamitsu Sugimoto has been challenging and made up new works celadon pieces at 88 years old. He has boosted 4 types of celadon works, this piece is one of them, named "Ice crack celadon". It has very beautiful patterns just like as ice crack. YouTube movie/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFUK2DLgIc Size:9.8cm(D)/13.3cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist

The great master in Japan pottery art scene Sadamitsu Sugimoto has been challenging and made up new works celadon pieces at 88 years old. He has boosted 4 types of celadon works, this piece is one of them, white porcelain named "Tusk white" . It has very beautiful white color just like tusk of elephant YouTube movie/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEcqCVPQY4g Size: 8.8cm(D)/4.5cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist

The great master in Japan pottery art scene Sadamitsu Sugimoto has been challenging and made up new works celadon pieces at 88 years old. He has boosted 4 types of celadon works, this piece is one of them, celadon named "Sky blue after rain". It has very beautiful blue color just like blue sky after rain. YouTube movie/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfu7E4oyfck Size: 8.6cm(D)/4.5cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist

A Poem card box of straight grained paulownia wood signed Tetsuro decorated with a rabbit in worked lead applied among long lacquered grasses dating from the mid 20th century enclosed in the original signed wooden box accompanied by a label from the Yamagata Museum dated Showa 34 (1959). It is 26.5 × 29.5 × 4.5 cm (10-1/2 x 12 x 2 inches) and is in excellent condition. The storage box is of cross-cut Jindai-sugi cedar, a highly prized grain. The box contains a shikishi poem card by the artis...

Rectangular suzuribako (writing box) decorated in black and gold takamaki-e with a wide pewter band, representing a bridge pontoon above boats in the waves. Waka poem in chirashi-gaki (scattered writing).

The inside of the lid is decorated with reeds and fireflies near a waterhole in takamaki-e on a black background. The inside of the writing case is made of black lacquer, with an ink stone and a copper water bucket on the left side.

The waka poem was written by Minam...

(After) Toshikata Mizuno (1866-1908)
Geisha and Cherry
Dated Sunday 8th, May 1938.
Size: 7.875 x 5 inches (20 x 12.6 cm).
A cover of a menu of the N.Y.K. Line passenger ship, Katori Maru.
Publisher: Likely Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo), who produced another of our ship menu woodblock prints.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print. The traditional means of woodblock print creation was employed for all steps through inking of the carved blocks. Then, ...

An exquisite work by great artist Nakajima Yasushi enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The clear white Kyo glaze certainly is like moonlight and the inside of the tea bowl offers a view of a glaze that looks like the enchanted surface of a mountain lake.

Nakajima Yasushi 中嶋 靖 (1938-2017) was born in Hyogo prefecture and graduated from the Kyoto Municipal University of Art in 1962.

While still at university he was accepted into the Mainichi Kogyo Design ex...

Pilgrim’s Jacket (Ohenro-gi) with Text of the Heart Sutra and Pilgrimage Stamps

This beige linen jacket, known as an Ohenro-gi, served as both garment and spiritual record for a Buddhist pilgrim journeying through one of Japan’s many sacred circuits—often comprising thirty-three or eighty-eight temples, numbers imbued with spiritual meaning in Buddhist cosmology. The jacket was worn over simple clothing and accompanied the wearer across weeks of travel, traversing mountains, fo...

Full set of 24 prints- published in 1972. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. Folio. Mc-Graw Hill Book Comapny, New York. 1972. 56 pgs, followed by 24 plates. Parts adapted from the author's previous books of 1940, 1943, and 1947. Plates printed in Switzerland. The box is broken and the leaves are coming off the spine. The prints are in good condition and suitable for framing. A treatise on calligraphy and painting of the Ten Bamboo Studio, including discussion of Chinese writing and i...

A Chinese White Glazed Dish with a Painted Crane Decoration and Overglaze Splashes. Circa, 1368-1644, Cizhou Ware, Ming Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Dish covered in a white glaze, painted in black and tannish overglaze splashes. It is decorated with a scenery of a spontaneously drawn centralized crane with vegetation and clouds, bordered by scrolls. These types of dishes with a spontaneously drawn motif in iron-brown or underglaze black and sometimes come in yellow-orange or tann...

Cast in two pieces, figure of the deity Khandoba on horseback, carrying his wife Mhalsa in his left arm. Khandoba is a deity of Southern and Western India who is still widely worshipped in Maharashtra and regarded as the guardian deity of the Deccan. The Hindu god is mounted on horseback, his sword in one hand. On his left knee is balanced his beautiful wife. Their horse is standing on a raised pedestal. Behind the couple is an ornate flaming archway centered with a five-headed snake. The a...

A Chinese Qingbai Glazed Vase with Floral Decoration and Petalled Rim. Circa, 13th-14th Century, Jingdezhen Kilns, Southern Song-Yuan Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Featuring a baluster shaped body that is raised on a flaring foot. Its long straight neck flares to an undulating rim with down turned petal-tips. Its body is carved in shallow relief of a floral decoration. Its neck is decorated with a band of incised upright petals. The vase is covered with a translucent light-green glaze...

(After) Ito Shinsui (1898-1972)
Woman in Kimono
Dated Thursday, 6th January, 1938.
Size: 7.5 x 5.375 inches (19 x 13.6 cm).
A cover of a menu of the N.Y.K. Line passenger ship, Katori Maru.
Publisher: Likely Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo), who produced another of our ship menu woodblock prints.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print. The traditional means of woodblock print creation was employed for all steps through inking of the carved blocks. Then...

A delicately cast Chinese bronze censer, gui, after a Zhou dynasty original. Song to early Ming dynasty, 12th-14th century. 15 cms. wide. From a private Dutch collection.

Boxwood netsuke depicting a character sitting on the shell of a giant hamaguri (Meretrix lusoria – oriental clam). The representation alludes to a man involved in an erotic relationship from which he desperately tries to get out, as his shell symbolizes the vulva. Period: Edo 19th century Dimensions: 4.6 x 3.7 x 3.2 cm. Conservation status: Excellent condition.

One of a kind! A beautiful example of a Meiji Period (1868 - 1912) Shigaraki Mizusashi (fresh water container for the tea ceremony) displaying classic Shigaraki markings of red ochre and shades of green, pale and natural ash glaze.

Based on Momoyama and early Edo Shigaraki archetypes, sports a rugged purpose with a reliance on tradition while not being a slave to it. In a tea room or on a shelf this piece of ceramic art has a commanding aesthetic presence.

Shigaraki is ...

CANDLE STAND

Brass. 1990s - 2000s, Korea. D 15 x H 35.5 cm (5.90 x 13.97in). Scratches due to age as is.


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