An amusing okimono for use as an incense-burner, in brown patina bronze of an anthropomorphic frog in seated meditation (zazen) or in the lotus yoga position. In the middle of the lotus is a hole for the incense stick.

Representations of this animal in human posture are not uncommon. In the 19th century, the painter Kawanabe Kyôsai (1831-1889) was already depicting frogs in epic battles or everyday scenes. Even earlier, the Chôjû-jinbutsu-giga (lit. "Caricatures of fauna characte...

Eisho Narazaki (1862-1936)
Interior of Asakusa Kannon Temple
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.5 inches.
Date: 1932
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Watanabe C seal at left margin, indicating a first edition printed 1929-42.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Toned paper.
There is so much to look at in this lively, superbly printed image.
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Pair of bronze rabbits running, their legs forming a round shape.

Made by Hiroharu Hiramatsu (1896 Hyôgo prefecture – 1971, Fukushima,平松宏春). Specialized in metal art, he is a councilor of the Japan Fine Arts Exhibition. He studied with Katsura Mitsuharu (1871-1962), one of the great metallurgists of the modern era. Selected for the first time at the Japan Fine Arts Exhibition in 1934, he has been presenting his work every year, and since then he has been presenting as one...

This is a Qing dynasty blue and white plate

DON'T COME

Anonymous vintage Japanese oil painting on canvas, Showa period, 20th century. The border area of coastal landscape between Fukushima and Ibaraki prefecture called 'Nakoso' which means "Do not come." in old Japanese words. Attached with an original frame without glass. Frame: 63 x 55 x 6 cm (24.80 x 21.65 x 2.36in). Slight deterioration at frame due to aging as is. *If you don't want this frame (for reducing its EMS shipping cost or so), please let me kn...

BLUE HEAD

Based on the head part of old Japanese human phantom made of thick paper. Head: 17 x 12 x H 8 cm (6.69 x 4.72 x 3.14in).


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This is a perfect celadon longquan kiln waterpot or jacket from Song Yuan era

This a Ming longquan celadon brushwasher, in good condition except glaze corrosion

Landscape with Mt. Fuji. Painted with ink and light pigments on silk. Signed and sealed.

Kano Isen（1775-1828）was a painter of the late Edo period and the master of the early modern Kano school. He was a son and pupil of Kano Yosen'in Korenobu, whom he succeeded as seventh-generation head of the Kobikicho branch of the Edo Kano school that had been founded by Kano Naonobu (1607-50) His name was Eishin and his artist name was Genshosai. Isen mastered Yamato-e (Traditional Japanese pai...

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Moon at Magome
Date: 1930.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.5 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Watanabe C (sausage) seal at right margin, making this a first edition produced between 1929-1942.
Reference: Hotei #165.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Point-sized repair in upper left corner of sky. Original drying pinhole at left margin covered with paper.
"The scene conveys the rustic 'poetic' charm of Ma...

A rare pair of Chinese cloisonne enamel 'holy water' bottles, Qianlong/Jiaqing, c. 1800. Height 23 cms. Iron-red decorated porcelain bottles of this shape were made in the Qianlong reign as gifts to Tibetan monks. In cloisonne, however, they are much rarer. The only pair to have come on the market in recent times were sold at Christie's New York, 18.9.2014, for USD 23,750. A single example was sold in Christie's Paris, 8.6.2010, lot 242.

OCTOPUS

Object made to be based on octopus. Used Japanese washi paper. Contemporary, Japan. H 18 x 16 x 17 cm (7.08 x 6.29 x 6.69in)


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Boro small rug or a part of it which is made of almost countless fragments of vegetable indigo dye cotton. In cold districts, such as Tohoku and along the Japan Sea area, cultivation of cotton was difficult and cotton cloth was precious in old days, so that people bought fragments of cotton and made them to noragi, futonji, rugs and so on. This one has 7 to 8 layers of cloth. The late 19th to early 20th century. 91cm x 96cm. 1550gm

A Song Qingbai vase with tall cover, in fairly good condition except some minute chips on the cover

This mini Ming era Yuhuchun blue and white vase is with the lotus flower design. In good condition

This Ming tea bowl is with the calligraphy word Fu, meaning happiness. In good condition

Attributed to Kawase Hasui (We're not certain)
Mt. Fuji From Hara (Hara no Fuji)
Date: 1930s.This edition early postwar.
Size: 5.75 x 3.75 inches.
A woodblock print tipped along its top edge to an original card.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Late Qing hand carved turquoise snuff bottle with bok choy and radish along with an ant, cicada, grasshopper and cricket. The workmanship and details is superbly done including the insects, having very fine details to the legs, antennae and bodies. Presented on a rosewood stand, this snuff bottle has a wonderful color and patina and is one of the coolest bug type carved snuff bottles that we have encountered in some time. In excellent condition, a later spoon and cork was applied. Measures: H...