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Muramasa Kudo Signed Limited Edition Japanese Serigraph Print Wicker Basket
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and engaging large limited edition serigraph print by Japanese artist/print master Muramasa Kudo (1948-) titled "Wicker Basket".
The work, ...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Kiyoshi Saito Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Okuno-Hosomichi
By Kiyoshi Saitō
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully designed and composed woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, conte...
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Tatsuzo Shimaoka Signed Japanese Mingei Banana Leaf Mashiko Pottery Plate Bowl
By Tatsuzo Shimaoka 2
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully hand-decorated and executed large Mingei pottery plate/charger/low bowl by Japanese National Treasure Mashiko-yaki ceramic master Tatsuzo Shimaoka. This work features a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery
Kiyoshi Saito Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Daitoku-Ji Kyoto D
By Kiyoshi Saitō
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully composed woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, contemporary Japanese printmakers of the 20th century. This print, which is titled "Daitoku-ji Kyoto (D)" is from a series of Kyoto temple images that Saito created. The woodblock print features strong, contrasting colors, beautiful wood grain, and a complex design - the cross-shaped walkway pattern which is highlighted by the small precisely placed stones is repeated on the temple wall. The wood grain in the yard, temple walls and sky add another layer of compositional depth.
The print is signed in black ink and stamped/sealed in red within the image It is likely titled, dated (1960), and numbered (from a limited edition of 150) in pencil by the artist in the lower margin but hidden below the mat. Saito's "self-carved, self printed Kiyoshi Saito" personal label with his red chop seal...
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Paper
Koho Shoda Signed Japanese Meiji Woodblock Print A Watermill Affixed to a Shed
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully and serenely composed image by renowned Japanese artist/printmaker Shoda Koho (1871-1946). This work titled "A Watermill Affixed to a Shed" is from his Nishinomiya Yos...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Prints
Materials
Paper
Japanese Seated Edo Buddha Amida Nyorai Wood Carved & Gilt-Lacquered Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
This truly a magnificent piece. Stunning. Beautiful. Supremely serene.
Meticulously hand carved in such fine and amazing detail (see hands and flowing robes). Gilded throughout. Sea...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Lacquer, Wood
Shoji Hamada Tenmoku Glaze and Kaki Trailing Vase and Original Signed Sealed Box
By Shoji Hamada
Located in Studio City, CA
An exquisite, beautifully crafted Japanese pottery vase by master potter Shoji Hamada featuring Hamada's famous signature tenmoku glaze with kaki trailing. The original Hamada signed and sealed wood storage box is included as well as the written appraised signature of his son Shinsaku Hamada. The vase also comes with a printed artist profile/sales brochure of Hamada (featuring some of his other presumably available work). It appears this piece was offered at the Keio Department store in Shinjuku, Tokyo. At first glance, this may seem odd but in fact, this is quite an honor in Japan. This store is known for selling and exhibiting such high-profile artists and potters as Bernard Leach, Lucie Rie, Gyokudo Kawai, Shiko Munakata, Kawai Kanjiro, and Rosanjin Kitaoji. A major goal of many ceramic artists in Japan is to have a one-man exhibition in a department store. For many Westerners, this is a strange concept. Some of the larger department stores have up to three or four dedicated galleries showing concurrent art exhibitions. A well-known artist's exhibition can bring in hundreds, often thousands, of customers to a store and increase revenue for other sales in the millions-of-yen range. These exhibits are usually longer running and highlight a potter's career, like a Living National...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Ryohei Tanaka Signed Limited Ed. Japanese Etching Cherry Blossoms Thatched Roof
By Tanaka Ryohei
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful image of a rural Japanese landscape scene by famed Japanese artist Ryohei Tanaka featuring two thatched roof houses and freshly blooming cherry blossom trees in Spring. ...
Category
20th Century Japanese Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Tsuchiya Koitsu Japanese Woodblock Print Sunset at Tomonotsu, Inland Sea, 1940
By Tsuchiya Koitsu
Located in Studio City, CA
A very beautiful, serene and relatively rare woodblock print by famed Japanese artist Tsuchiya Koitsu titled "Sunset at Tomonotsu, Inland Sea" was made...
Category
Vintage 1940s Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Paper
Hand Carved Wood Multi Dragon Head Asian Chinese Walking Cane Stick
Located in Studio City, CA
A rather fantastic and unusual walking stick/ cane. Hand carved from wood. Multi dragon heads. We have not seen another quite like it.
Has a great feel and clearly unique look.
...
Category
20th Century Chinese Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
Kiyoshi Saito Signed & Sealed Japanese Woodblock Print Winter in Aizu the Skiers
By Kiyoshi Saitō
Located in Studio City, CA
This beautifully composed woodblock print featuring two skiers on a snowy pathway as a solidary figure passes in the foreground is by famed Japanese master printmaker/artist Kiyoshi ...
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Paper
Tsuruya Kokei Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Nakamura Tokizo V
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful and quite rare woodblock print by unique master Japanese artist/ printmaker Tsuruya Kokei. This work is titled "Nakamura Tokizo V, as the kep...
Category
1990s Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Paper
Sunkoo Sun Koo Yuh Signed Korean American Hand Painted Studio Pottery Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully, hand-painted, one-of-a-kind studio pottery bowl by Korean-American master potter/artist Sunkoo (Sun Koo) Yuh. Yuh's work is often inspired by Buddhist and Confucian be...
Category
20th Century American Modern Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Utagawa Kuniyoshi Signed Japanese Woodblock Print Saigyo-Hoshi (The Monk Saigyo)
By Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful image by renowned Japanese artist/printmaker Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861 ) titled "Saigyo-Hoshi (no. 86) 西行法師 (The Monk Saigyo) (The Monk Saigyo)" from his famous series "Series: Hyakunin isshu no uchi 百人一首之内 (One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets)." This work features the Buddhist monk Saigyo under a radiant blue willow tree on a river bank showing a group of curious children a golden cat...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Prints
Materials
Paper
Kiyoshi Saito Signed Japanese Woodblock Print Persimmons Street, circa 1960
By Kiyoshi Saitō
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully designed and complexly composed woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most importa...
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Wood, Paper
Japanese Asian Meiji Bronze & Gilt Seated Buddha Amida Nyorai Statue Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful serene Japanese Amida Nyorai Buddha statue/sculpture with gilt decoration - likely applied as temple or shrine blessing or offerings. The B...
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bronze
Mayumi Oda Signed Limited Edition Japanese Silkscreen Dyptich Prints Sea Goddess
By Mayumi Oda
Located in Studio City, CA
An exceptionally rare diptych set of silkscreen/woodblock prints by celebrated Japanese American (Hawaiian) artist Mayumi Oda. This set is titled "Sea Goddess" and is from her revered Seasons series (this work is alternatively titled "Summer") and features her highly coveted Sea Goddesses frolicking amidst the gently swirling, hypnotic deep blue ocean waves and floating clouds. The scene evokes a sense of inner tranquility and peaceful spiritual contemplation.
The limited edition prints are hand-pencil signed, titled (in English and Japanese), and numbered (12/35) by the
artist.
Internationally known as the "Matisse of Japan", Mayumi Oda was born in Japan into...
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Bronze Siamese Asian Buddha Antiquity Hand Sculpture Fragment, 15th-16th Century
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful and very special piece.
This bronze buddha hand sculpture, perhaps a fragment of a larger piece at one time, originally came from the prestigious Doris Wiener Gallery ...
Category
Antique 16th Century Asian Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Antique Ancient Sueki Sue Ware Wabi-Sabi Pottery Vase Pot Vessel
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, unique, and handcrafted piece of ancient Japanese Sueki Sue ware pottery dating back to the 500-600s (6th-7th century). Sueki/ Sue pottery was a blue-gray form of stonew...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Japanese Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Thai Siam Khmer Bronze Gilt Singha Imperial Lion Foo Dog Temple Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful Thai or Khmer bronze verdigris and golden parcel-gilt Imperial guardian temple Singha lion/dragon/foo dog. This piece has a wonderful patina and heft to it.
Likely mi...
Category
20th Century Thai Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Antique Thayo Burmese Burma Myanmar Shan Thai Asian Buddha Head Sculpture Statue
Located in Studio City, CA
An exceptionally beautiful, serene, delicately crafted Buddha head/bust - hand-made using the ancient Thayo technique which entails using a lacquer paste made by mixing lacquer with ...
Category
Early 20th Century Burmese Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Lacquer
Japanese Asian Wood Shi Shi Shishi Mai Lion Dance Gashira Noh Mask Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, beautifully crafted Japanese festival Shishi Lion Dance (Shishi Mai) mask (Gashira).
The shishi mask represents a mythical lion that prote...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Masks
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Paint
Japanese Antique Ancient Sueki Sue Ware Wabi-Sabi Art Pottery Vase Storage Jar
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, unique, and handcrafted piece of ancient Japanese Sueki Sue ware pottery dating back to the 500-600s (6th-7th century). Sueki/ Sue pottery was a blue-gray form of stonew...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Japanese Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Shiko Shikou Munakata Rare Signed Japanese Pottery Chawan Tea Bowl Signed Box
By Shiko Munakata
Located in Studio City, CA
An exceptionally rare, wonderfully designed Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese master woodblock printmaker/ artist Shiko Munakata (1903-1975) who is widely considered to be the most important Japanese visual artist of the 20th century and the Pablo Picasso of Japan. This hand-painted work clearly illustrates Munakata's whimsical side as it is of a Koma - a child's spinning top toy. Very few examples of Munakata's work in ceramics exist still today.
The work is signed by Munakata on the base as well as the original wood protective storage box (his seal can also be seen faintly in the lower-left corner).
The bowl has a small kintsugi or "golden joinery" repair - the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold - on the inside. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
Munakata who is often compared to Picasso was primarily associated with and a principal figure in both the Sosaku-Hanga (which stressed the artist as the sole creator ) and the Mingei (folk art) movements. His many accolades and awards include the "Prize of Excellence" at the Second International Print Exhibition in Lugano, Switzerland in 1952, and first prize at the São Paulo Bienal Exhibition in Brazil in 1955, followed by the Grand Prix Award at the Venice Biennale in 1956, and the Order of Cultural Merit, the highest honor in the arts by the Japanese government in 1970. In 1960 after returning from a year abroad exhibiting his work in the United States, the Horinji Temple in Kyoto bestowed upon him the honorary rank of “Hokkyo”. In 1962, he received the rank of “Hogan” from Nisseki Temple in Toyama prefecture. He also received a Medal of Honor in 1963 and the Asahi Shimbun culture prize in 1965.
Munakata's work can be found in numerous international collections and museums including:
The Britsih Museum, UK
The Chicago Art Institute
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), NY
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), Washington DC
Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
And his own museum The Munakata Shiko...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Japanese Asian Framed Meiji Peroid Silk Floral Flower Embroidery Textile Panel
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and wonderfully designed/composed Japanese textile panel with embroidery floral natural landscape/flower decoration. The work is pr...
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Textiles
Materials
Textile, Silk, Wood
Japanese Antique Edo Wabi-Sabi Shigaraki Tamba Tanba Art Pottery Jar Tsubo Vase
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful Tamba (Tanba) ware (or Sigaraki ware) Japanese pottery vase/jar/pot - produced sometime during the Edo Period (1603-1867). Tamba-yaki ware is a type of Japanese pottery a...
Category
Antique 18th Century Japanese Edo Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Kiyoshi Saito Signed Japanese Woodblock Print Buddha
By Kiyoshi Saitō
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully and serenely composed woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, contem...
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Paper
Hiroshi Yoshida Signed Japanese Woodblock Print Hokuryo with Jizuri Seal, 1937
By Hiroshi Yoshida
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful image titled "Hokuryo" by one of Japan's finest 20th century artist and one of, if not the greatest working artist in the Shin-Hanga movement. Yos...
Category
Vintage 1930s Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Paper
Tibetan Indian Nepalese Bronze Amulet Temple Shrine Figures Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
An interesting work. We are not sure of the significance of the standing couple and snake hanging over their heads. Likely Tibetan or Indian/ Nepalese. Has a beautiful patina acquire...
Category
20th Century Indian Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bronze
Tibetan Ceremonial Sash with Thirteen Ornamental Bronze Heads, 18th Century
Located in Studio City, CA
A spectacular and truly unique work made from embroidered fabric with 13 ornamental metal (likely copper) heads representing various Tibetan figures attached (these heads appear to be from the khatvanga ritual staff - the Buddhist ceremonial staff...
Category
Antique 18th Century Tibetan Tibetan Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Metal
Japanese Okame Ko-Omote Wood Carved Noh Theater Mask
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, wonderfully crafted, alluring mask made for Japanese Noh theatre.
This mask is handcrafted and carved from natural wood.
Ko-omote translates as "little mask" or sometimes "small face." This particular delicate featured mask (her red lips really stand out) is used for main and sometimes secondary roles when the character is a young girl or, in some cases, a supernatural being. What is also interesting about this mask is the blackened teeth which centuries ago, was customary for Japanese women to paint their teeth black after they became married.
We believe this mask dates from the mid-to early Showa period, perhaps Mejia. The mask was acquired from an antique mask...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
Shinbei Sakakura X (10th) Japanese Hagi Yaki Ware Pottery Chawan Tea Bowl & Box
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully hand crafted and beautifully glazed Hagi Yaki Ware Chawan tea bowl by the 10th Shinbei Sakakura (X). This piece has quite a special feel to it. The Chawan radiates i...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Ogata Kenzan Signed Japanese Edo Pottery Hand Painted Tea Plate Tray With Box
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully designed and beautifully hand painted tea ceremony tray/plate by esteemed Japanese artist and master potter Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743). Kenzan is widely considered to be...
Category
Antique 18th Century Japanese Edo Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Paint
Japanese Asian Signed Glazed Pottery Ceramic Folk Art Wabi-Sabi Yunomi Teacup
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful Japanese yunomi teacup featuring a subtle blue-green crackle glaze. The work radiates in the light.
This little gem (along with others we will be listing) came from a collector of fine Japanese and Asian ceramics - a collection like no other we have seen before. The yunomi teacup has a somewhat Wabi-Sabi feel and appearance to it.
Appears to be signed by the maker/artist on the base.
Would be a great addition to any Asian or Japanese pottery/ceramics collection...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware
Chinese Double Dragon Wedding Banquet Headdress Crown on Wooden Display Bust
Located in Studio City, CA
This an exquisite and spectacular piece. One of our favorites. Quite rare. We have not seen anything quite like it.
Likely worn at one time by a bride in a Chinese wedding ceremon...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Brass
Large Japanese Chinese Asian Signed Bronze Buddha Hand Sculpture Incense Censer
Located in Studio City, CA
A quite fantastic, rather unique, and unusual bronze Buddha Deiety hand sculpture ( making the mudra hand gesture) that also serves as an incense censer. W...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Antique Muromachi Edo Wabi-Sabi Tokoname Art Pottery Jar Tsubo Pot Vase
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely stunning Tokoname ware stoneware vase/jar/vessel - produced sometime during the late Muromachi period (1336-1573 to early Edo Period (1603-1867). Tokoname-yaki ware is ...
Category
Antique 16th Century Japanese Edo Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Japanese Asian Style Signed Studio Pottery Wabi-Sabi Ceramic Chawan Tea Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
A stunning Japanese Asian-influenced stoneware Studio Pottery Chawan tea bowl that features a beautiful dark rich glaze with wonderful shifts in pattern and texture.
This particula...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Antique Original Thayo Burmese Burma Myanmar Asian Buddha Head Sculpture Statue
Located in Studio City, CA
An exceptionally beautiful, serene, delicately crafted, and extremely rare Burmese Buddha head/bust - hand-made using the ancient Thayo technique w...
Category
Early 20th Century Burmese Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Lacquer
Chinese Asian Giltwood Carved Ancestor Temple Shrine Emperor Figure with Tiger
Located in Studio City, CA
A fantastic wood and gilt decorated hand carved Chinese ancestral temple shrine Emperor figure with a tiger.
From a collection of Chinese and Asian artifacts...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Qing Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Toko Shinoda Signed Large Limited Edition Japanese Lithograph Print Moon, 1965
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Studio City, CA
Exquisite in design and execution. This work, titled "Moon", is by Japanese master printmaker Toko Shinoda (1913-2021) who is universally known for her merging of traditional Japanese calligraphy with modern abstract expressionism and use of Sumi ink.
This print is hand-signed in pencil, titled, dated (1965), and numbered (3 /10) by the artist. It is from a very limited and small edition thus scarce and rare.
Would be a great addition to any collectors of Shinoda's work or Japanese or Asian art or print collection or an eye-catching stand-alone accent artwork in about any setting. Sure to draw attention.
Shinoda's works can be found in numerous private collections and international museums including:
Albright–Knox Art Gallery, NY
Art Institute of Chicago
British Museum, London UK
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido
Harvard Art Museums
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Lehigh University Art Galleries
Luxembourg Royal Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), New York
Museum fuer Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin
Museum of fine Arts, Boston
Museum of fine Arts, Gifu
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
National Gallery of Victoria
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
National Museum of Singapore
Niigata City Art Museum
Singapore Art...
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Paper
Hand Carved Meerschaum Chinese Sitting Buddha on Wood Display Stand
Located in Studio City, CA
A true gem of a work. Wonderfully carved and detailed. We haven't come across another work quite like it.
We are unsure of age so are simply listing it as 20th century but could be older.
Would be a nice addition to any South-East Asian/ Chinese artifacts...
Category
20th Century Asian Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
Pair of Indonesian Balinese Wood Carved Devotional Temple Shrine Sculptures 1950
Located in Studio City, CA
Wonderful, unique hand-carved wood and polychrome pair of Indonesian Balinese devotional figures/ statues from the island of Bali.
This pair, likely from the early to mid-20th cent...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indonesian Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Tsuruya Kokei Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Jitsukawa Enjaku
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful and quite rare woodblock print by unique master Japanese artist/ printmaker Tsuruya Kokei. This work is titled "Jitsukawa Enjaku III as Farme...
Category
Vintage 1980s Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Paper
Clifton Karhu Signed Limited Ed. Japanese Woodblock Print Karasuma Street, Kyoto
By Clifton Karhu
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely stunning, large woodblock print by American master printmaker Clifton Karhu who lived in Japan for over 50 years. Karhu's work gai...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Paper
Chinese Asian Giltwood Carved Ancestor Temple Shrine Emperor Figure on Animal
Located in Studio City, CA
A fantastic wood and gilt decorated hand carved Chinese ancestral temple shrine Emperor figure riding a mythical beast - perhaps a tiger.
From a collection of Chinese and Asian artifacts...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Qing Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Japanese Signed Showa Hand Carved Wood Noh Theater Mask of Buddhist Monk Shunkan
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully carved, wonderfully crafted, highly engaging mask made for Japanese Noh theatre.
The mask is handcrafted and hand carved from natural wood and is signed and sealed b...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Masks
Materials
Wood
Kiyoshi Saito Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Syoren-In Kyoto
By Kiyoshi Saitō
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully designed and composed woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, conte...
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Japanese Asian Signed Studio Pottery Wabi-Sabi Red & Gold Glazed Yunomi Teacup
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous Japanese studio pottery Yunomi teacup or sake cup that features a wonderful sumptuous crimson red glaze with dripping gold gilt glaze and various shifts in color and textu...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware
Clifton Karhu Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Teramachi-Kyoto
By Clifton Karhu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, circular-shaped woodblock print by American master printmaker Clifton Karhu who lived in Japan for over 50 years. Karhu's work gained great esteem not only in Japan but ...
Category
Vintage 1970s Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Paper
Gen Kozuru Signed Japanese Agano Yaki Ware Pottery Vase with Signed & Sealed Box
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully designed (note the intricate hand created repeated pattern detail), quite large and heavy Mingei Agano Yaki ware pottery vase by Japanese artist Gen Kozuru (1938- ).
...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Shoji Hamada Set of Japanese Mingei Pottery Yunomi Tea Cups & Signed Sealed Box
By Shoji Hamada
Located in Studio City, CA
An exquisite set of Mingei Mashiko ware pottery Yunomi tea cups by master potter and Japanese National Human Cultural Treasure Shoji Hamada - a fine example of his hand applied oxide...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Japanese Signed Glazed Edo/Meiji Ceramic Pottery Monkey with Custom Wood Stand
Located in Studio City, CA
A truly fantastic and rather unique piece. The collectors we have shown have gone gaga over this piece.
Beautifully crafted and glazed with amazing detail to facial features.
...
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Large Ornate Japanese Geisha Doll on Wood Display Stand
Located in Studio City, CA
Beautifully crafted, large ornamented Japanese geisha doll in a finely decorative and layered flowing kimono. Very detailed, mid-1900s.
Dimensions on s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood, Fabric, Silk
Kiyoshi Saito Signed Japanese Woodblock Print Ikarugano-Sato Horyu-Ji Nara A
By Kiyoshi Saitō
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully designed and composed woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, contem...
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
8 Piece Japanese Kutani Hand Painted Chawan Tea Bowl & Cover Set in Original Box
By Kutani Studio
Located in Studio City, CA
A lovely set of 8 Kutani tea serving bowls with covers in an original stamped wood box.
All bowls signed/marked on the base.
Likely from the Showa pe...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Muramasa Kudo Signed Limited Edition Japanese Serigraph Print Lilies in Stream
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and engaging large limited edition serigraph print by Japanese artist/print master Muramasa Kudo (1948-) titled "Lilies in Stream".
The wor...
Category
Vintage 1980s Japanese Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Utagawa Toyonobu Shinsen Taikoki Japanese Woodblock Diptych Print, 19th Century
By Toyonobu Utagawa
Located in Studio City, CA
A Classic image by renowned Japanese printmaker Utagawa Toyonobu from his newly selected history of Toyotomi Hideyoshi series.
A very good impres...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Prints
Materials
Paper
Korean Joseon Dynasty White Glazed Pottery Ceramic Chawan Tea Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897) Korean pottery bowl - perhaps a monk's Chawan tea bowl. The work features a beautiful white glaze, wonderful organic shape, engaging design and...
Category
Antique 19th Century Korean Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware, Pottery
Japanese Buddhist Monk Priest 7 Column Silk Brocade Kesa Ceremonial Temple Robe
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, beautifully ornamented and somewhat rare fully intact Japanese Buddhist monk/ priest's Kesa ceremonial silk robe featuring various colorful birds in flight.
Kesa (which came from the Chinese word "kasaya") robes have been handmade/handstitched by monks/priests as an act of devotion as ceremonial robes for centuries in various Asian cultures (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, etc.). The kesa is a rectangular garment designed to be worn over the left shoulder (see example image). The robes are made (often in a patchwork column pattern ranging from five, seven, nine or more pannels) specifically for fully ordained Buddhist monks, priests and nuns and are made from donations of exquisite textiles from wealthy patrons of Japanese Buddhist temples. The robes were used in daily ceremonies, temple gatherings, and private meditation.
Antique Kesa robes...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Textiles
Materials
Textile, Brocade, Silk