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Japanese Silver Fan-Form Box
Located in Chicago, IL
This lovely silver box exemplifies Japanese refinement in all crafts. Precious in the hand, the
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20th Century Japanese Metalwork

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Silver

Japanese Bamboo and Paper Fan Printed 1980s
Located in Paris, FR
This is a fan which was made in Japan around 1980s in Showa era. This is made with a paper and
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Vintage 1980s Japanese Showa Antiquities

Materials

Bamboo, Paper

Japanese Bamboo and Paper Fan Leaves Design 1980s
Located in Paris, FR
This is a fan which was made in Japan around 1980s in Showa era. This is made with a paper and
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Vintage 1980s Japanese Showa Antiquities

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Paper

Fine quality unusual antique Japanese imari fan shaped plate
Located in Ipswich, GB
Fine quality unusual antique Japanese imari fan shaped plate, having a fine quality unusual fan
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Early 20th Century Japanese Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

Antique 19th Century Framed Japanese Silk Fans
Located in Norton, MA
Antique 19th century Framed Japanese Silk Fans comprising two attractively framed Japanese silk
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Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Prints

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Silk, Wood

“Fanning the Fire” Japanese Tetsubin Kettle, c. 1924
Located in Chicago, IL
Decorated with a raised fan motif, this aptly named teapot was used to boil water for traditional
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Metalwork

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Iron

Antique Japanese Stencil-Dyed Han-Juban With Fan Motif
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese Stencil-Dyed Han-Juban With Fan Motif Han-juban are short, waist length garments
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Tribal Art

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Cotton

Vintage Japanese Bamboo and Paper ''Uchiwa'' Fan, 20th Century
Located in Edogawa-ku Tokyo, JP
A rare example of a traditional Japanese uchiwa fan, featuring a bold green and cream graphic
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Early 20th Century Japanese Antiquities

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Bamboo, Paper

A Japanese bronze sculpture depicting a dancer with fan
Located in Milano, IT
A Japanese okimono bronze (sculpture) depicting a dancer holding a fan, inspired by the Nihon Buyō
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Metalwork

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Bronze

Japanese Paper Fan Akabeko and Kanzashi printed 1980s Showa
Located in Paris, FR
This is a fan which was made in Japan around 1980s in Showa era. This material is Paper and wood
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Vintage 1980s Japanese Showa Antiquities

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Cotton, Wood, Paper

Japanese Red Bamboo and Paper Fan with Gold Reversible 1990s
Located in Paris, FR
This is a Japanese fan with gold and red and made with a paper and bamboos. Both side has same
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1990s Japanese Showa Decorative Art

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Bamboo, Paper

Japanese Paper Fan with Bamboo and Family Crest Odamokko 1990s
Located in Paris, FR
This is a paper fan with bamboo which was made in Japan around 1990s. In the middle, there is a
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1990s Japanese Showa Decorative Art

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Bamboo, Paper

Fan. Portrait of a girl, impressionism, vertical, beauty, Japan
Located in Oslo, NO
status. The fan was also considered an amulet in Japan, bringing good luck and prosperity. The artist
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2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Antique 18 inch Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Charger with Fans
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese, late Meiji era, enamel over gilt copper plate. The interior of the plate is
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork

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Enamel, Copper

Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Fan Butterfly Geometric Pattern Plate
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese plate adorned with a polychrome cloisonne enamel design. The front side is
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Metalwork

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Enamel

Japan – Geisha Girl with Fan – Hand-colored albumen print
By Baron Raimund von Stillfried
Located in Middletown, NY
Yokohama, Japan: c 1885. Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/2 x 8 inches (268 x 204 mm), hand-numbered
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Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Photography

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Watercolor, Photographic Paper

Kaoru Kawano Japanese Woodblock Print Dancer Figure with Fan 'Mai Ogi'
By Kaoru Kawano
Located in Studio City, CA
. Would make for a great addition to any Japanese art and print collection or stand-out accent work in
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Vintage 1950s Japanese Showa Prints

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Paper

Japanese Two-Panel Screen, Deco Landscape with River Fans
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese two-panel screen, deco landscape with river fans. Modern scene of a 12th century festival
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

19th century Japanese Lacquer Zataku (low table) with Scattered fan Motif
Located in New York, NY
This Japanese antique low table features a scattered fan motif and is a type of zataku (low table
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Lacquer

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Painted Fans on Gold Leaf
Located in Hudson, NY
Mineral pigments on gold leaf with brocade border. Calligraphy and sketching on back paper.
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Gold Leaf

Fine Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Fan Design Plate with Tokugawa Mon by Goto
Located in Long Island City, NY
A refined Japanese cloisonne enamel plate by Goto Seizaburo, one of the most distinctive enamel
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork

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Enamel

19th Century Japanese Woodblock Print Depicting a Ceremonial Tassel and Fan
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Japanese woodblock print from the 19th century depicting a ceremonial tassel. Created in
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Prints

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Glass, Wood, Paint, Paper

Double-Sided Japanese Fan — Edo Period, Hand-Painted on Silver Leaf Paper
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Japan, Edo period (1603–1868) Size: 49 × 30 cm A magnificent double-sided Japanese folding fan
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Edo Antiquities

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Wood, Paper

Large Meiji Imari Charger with Famille Noir Fan Motifs, Japan, 19th Century
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This magnificent large Japanese charger dates to the Meiji period (1868–1912) and is a striking
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Ceramics

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Enamel

Antique High Quality Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Plate With Owl Cranes Fan
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji era enamel over brass charger plate. The plate is superbly enameled with
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork

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Enamel, Brass

18th Century Japanese Two-Panel Screen Collection of Fans on Gold
Located in Hudson, NY
18th century Japanese Screen of a Collection of Fans. Paintings on fans depict famous Japanese
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Antique 18th Century Japanese Edo Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Authentic Japanese Woodblock Print-Birds and Flowers-Edo-Fan Re-carved 1920s
By Utagawa Sadahide
Located in London, GB
reproductions of the major prints in Japanese art, published in the 1920s by Nippon Gasui-Sha. The collection is
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1920s Landscape Paintings

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Ink, Handmade Paper

Japanese girl with a fan, Impressionism, oil on canvas, ready display, interior
Located in Oslo, NO
young Japanese woman in a traditional kimono, gracefully holding a fan. Painted from life in a Munich
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2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Japanese Fauvist Colorful Oil Painting Chinese Ceramic Jars with Fan and Apple
Located in Surfside, FL
Yoshio Aoyama (Japanese, 1894-1996) "Nature Morte". Oil on canvas. 1981. Signed 'Aoyama' (upper
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1980s Fauvist Interior Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Signed Japanese Fan Shaped Mixed Metals / Silver Box Okimono by Miyamoto Shoko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A very fine signed Japanese mixed metals okimono. In sterling silver with applied copper bands
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20th Century Japanese Boxes and Cases

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Silver, Mixed Metal

Japanese Woman with Fan - Stone lithograph, 1930 (Catalog Akio Uozu #522)
By Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Located in Paris, IDF
Kiyoshi HASEGAWA Japanese Woman with Fan, 1930 Original stone lithograph Printed signature in the
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1930s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Taisho Golden Fan Screen
Located in Fukuoka, JP
exquisite two-panel Taisho screen adorned in gold, depicting fans adorned with various traditional Japanese
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20th Century Japanese Taisho Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Dancing Fans of the Seasons
Located in Fukuoka, JP
In Japanese art, folding fans (ōgi) are symbols of prosperity and the unfolding path of life, as
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20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Paper

Intricate Patterns of Japanese Fan Design, from Audsley’s Decorative Art, 1884
Located in Langweer, NL
Title: Intricate Patterns of Japanese Fan Design – Plate IV from Section VII Description: This
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Antique 1880s Prints

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Paper

Double-Sided Samurai Fan — Edo Period, Hand-Painted on Gold and Silver Leaf Pape
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Japan, Edo period (1603–1868) Size: 49 × 30 cm A magnificent double-sided Japanese folding fan
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Edo Antiquities

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Wood, Paper

Japanese Fans and Floral Heliogravure Print by G. A. Audsley, Paris, c. 1880
Located in Langweer, NL
foreign motifs and its embrace of global artistic traditions. Collectors of Japanese art, fans of
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Antique 1880s Prints

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Paper

Japanese Floral Textile Pattern Print by G. A. Audsley, Paris, c. 1882
Located in Langweer, NL
century. Collectors of textile design, fans of Japanese art, or anyone with an appreciation for
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Antique 1880s Prints

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Paper

Japanese Fans
Located in Staten Island, NY
“Japanese Fans” from the delicately detailed Works on Paper Series by American artist Barbara Clark
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

18th Century Japanese Fan
Located in New York, NY
18th century Japanese Fan shaped fabric fragment
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Japanese Textiles

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Silk

Japanese Silk Fan, Meiji Era Japan
Located in Saverne, Grand Est
Precious silk fan painted with ink and embroidered, decorated with cranes in a lake landscape. The
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens

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Bone, Silk

Japanese Two-Panel Screen with Fans
Located in New York, NY
A late 18th-early 19th century two panel screen with scattered fans. This screen has an interesting
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Pair of Large Japanese Lacquer Fan Trays
Located in New York, NY
A pair of lacquer trays, with stands. Scattered design on black lacquer background. Gold at edges. Stands included.
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Vintage 1950s Japanese Lacquer

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Wood

Japanese Dark Green Ceramic Oribe Ware Fan Plate, 1950s
Located in Paris, FR
This beautiful Oribe confectionary plate belonged to an antique collector in Owari, Japan (1904
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics

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Ceramic

Japanese Fan Design Woodcut Prints, circa 1930, Set of Nine
By Yamaoka Chinpei
Located in New York, NY
, possibly by Yamaoka Chinpei. Printed in Japan, circa 1930. Each fan size is 9 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches.
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Vintage 1930s Japanese Prints

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Paper

Pair of Japanese Imari Plates Adorned with Fans and Dragons
Located in Antwerp, BE
A pair of circa 1890 Japanese plates painted with brown fans with dragons and cherry trees in
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Ceramics

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Ceramic

Late 17th Century Genroku Period Japanese Imari Porcelain Fan-Shaped Dish
Located in Paris, FR
The Imari porcelain fan-shaped porcelain dish decorated with underglaze blue and overglaze red
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Antique Late 17th Century Japanese Edo Antiquities

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Porcelain

Six-Panel Screen, Scattered Fans
Located in New York, NY
Small six-panel screen; mineral colors, gold wash, and gold flakes on silk Scattered fans
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Art Deco Japanese Style Fan Diamond Gem Set Brooch
Located in New York, NY
American Platinum, Black Enamel, Onyx, Sapphire, Ruby, Diamond, Emerald & Yellow Spinel Fan Brooch
Writing Box with Fans and Flowering Plants
Located in New York, NY
takamaki-e embellished with gold hirame and nashiji depicting open, half-open, and closed fans and a
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Lacquer

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Lacquer

Gold Lacquer Tebako Box with Fan and Chrysanthemum
Located in New York, NY
Tebako box with takamakie décor of a fan on dense nashiji ground, the fan with chrysanthemum, wave
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Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Lacquer

Materials

Lacquer

Antique Otafuku Ikat Textile of Masks and Fans
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Antique Otafuku IKAT Textile of Masks and Fans Antique IKAT 4 Panel Futon Cover of Otafuku Masks
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Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Textiles

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Cotton

Two-Panel Screen, Scattered Fan with Seasonal Flowers
By Tosa School
Located in New York, NY
. Design of scattered fans, decorated with flowers associated to the different seasons.
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Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Japanese Lacquered Fan-Shaped Kobako 'Box'
Located in PARIS, FR
Fan-shaped kobako, decorated with clouds and wisterias in gold lacquer and kirigane on a silver
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Antique 1860s Japanese Lacquer

Materials

Lacquer

Japanese Fine Hand Cast Fan Art Tea Pot Chagama Immediately Usable
Located in South Burlington, VT
From our recent Japanese Acquisitions Travels. Here's a finely cast Japanese traditional iron
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Furniture

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Copper, Iron

A Japanese lacquer box with fans
Located in Milano, IT
Lacquer box decorated with gold and silver details using the traditional Japanese technique of
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Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Lacquer

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Lacquer

Japanese Paper Fan Sheep Heisei HOUSEN 1990s
Located in Paris, FR
This is a fan which was made in Japan around 1990s in Heisei era. This is made with a paper and
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1990s Japanese Antiquities

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Bamboo, Paper

Japanese Paper Fan Bamboo Hand Painted 1980s Showa
Located in Paris, FR
This is a fan which was made in Japan around 1980s in Showa era. This fan is made with bamboo and
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Vintage 1980s Japanese Showa Antiquities

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Bamboo, Paper

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Japanese Fan Art For Sale on 1stDibs

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more in our collection of Japanese fan art on 1stDibs. Frequently made of paper, wood and metal, every piece of Japanese fan art was constructed with great care. If you’re shopping for an item from our selection of Japanese fan art, we have 41 options in-stock, while there are 2 modern editions to choose from as well. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect choice in our collection of Japanese fan art — we have versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century are available. When you’re browsing for the right object in our assortment of Japanese fan art, those designed in Modern, Mid-Century Modern and Victorian styles are of considerable interest. Kiyoshi Hasegawa and Ito Shinsui each produced at least one beautiful option in this array of Japanese fan art that is worth considering.

How Much is a Japanese Fan Art?

A piece of Japanese fan art can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $1,052, while the lowest priced sells for $120 and the highest can go for as much as $42,000.
Questions About Japanese Fan Art
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    A folding fan from Japan is called a “sensu” or “o-gi” while a non-folding fan is called an “uchiwa.” Both styles of hand fans were used as a material to write and communicate through as well as showcase social status. Browse a selection of authentic Japanese fans on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    There are three types of Japanese fans. The uchiwa is a fixed fan that is used practically to create a breeze and stay cool. The sensu or ogi fan is a folding fan that is a fashion accessory as well as cooling the user. The gunsen fan is a war fan that was used during war times for signaling and also occasionally as a weapon. Shop an array of authentic Japanese fans on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    There are a variety of different types of Japanese art. One of the oldest and most admired forms of Japanese art is the art of calligraphy, which originated in the sixth or seventh century. Another type of art, ukiyo-e, is the art of the woodblock print, which depicts scenes of female beauties; kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers and more. You’ll find a variety of Japanese artwork from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    The writing on Japanese art is calligraphy art called shodo. It uses Japanese kanji and kana characters. There are a variety of different shodo styles of art, including Kaisho, which is the basic, foundational form of the art. On 1stDibs, find a range of Japanese calligraphy art from top sellers..
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 16, 2024
    The focus of Japanese art varies. Many traditional Japanese artists sought to capture the beauty of nature in their works. However, other Japanese artists have produced work with Buddhist themes, and contemporary artists working in the country have been inspired by a range of subjects, from socioeconomic and political issues to pop culture. On 1stDibs, explore a large selection of Japanese art.
  • 1stDibs ExpertSeptember 23, 2024
    What the Japanese sea art is called depends on its type. Many examples of sea art from Japan are called ukiyo-e. This term refers to woodblock prints made during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai is arguably the most famous ukiyo-e print depicting the sea. On 1stDibs, find a wide variety of Japanese woodblock prints.
  • 1stDibs ExpertOctober 15, 2024
    To tell if art is Japanese or Chinese, study the piece's characteristics. With paintings, Chinese artists often use more color and tend to fill their entire canvases, while Japanese artists often include more negative space and choose subtler colors. There are also differences between the brushstrokes typical of traditional Chinese and Japanese art. In Japanese paintings, brushstrokes are often short and sharp. On the other hand, Chinese paintings often display longer, more fluid brushstrokes. Learning about the defining features of various art forms and periods and looking at examples of pieces made by Japanese and Chinese artists can help you learn to spot subtle differences. Explore a diverse assortment of Japanese and Chinese art on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Many art styles originated in Japan and grew in popularity over the years. Some of the most popular styles include shodo (calligraphy), ikebana, kanou and yamato-e. You’ll find a wide variety of authentic Japanese art from some of the world’s top dealers on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    What Japanese wall art is called depends on its type. There are numerous kinds of Japanese paintings and prints, including nihonga and ukiyo-e. A Japanese wall scroll is known as a kakejiku or kakemono. On 1stDibs, find a variety of Japanese wall art.