About Japan Art Gallery
The JAPAN ART - GALLERY FRIEDRICH MÜLLER is located across from the Museum of Modern Art in the midst of the gallery district in Frankfurt’s historical city center. In white rooms that are characterised by simple, austere clarity, Christa Müller presents exquisite works of traditional and modern Japanese art, as well as works by contemporary international artists. In the puristic atmosphere of her gallery, Christa Müller enables visitors to encounter sculptures, vessels, calligraphy and painting in alternating exhibitions all selected according to one criterion: They ar...Read More
Japan Art Gallery
Established in 1977
Featured Pieces
Do-Ningyô (clay doll), child with dog (#002169)
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Do-Ningyô (clay doll)
Child with dog
Japan, 19th century
H: 14,2 cm
Do-Ningyô (also known as Doro-ningyô) are traditional Japanese clay dolls that are often regarded as folk art or...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Iroha, 2 calligraphy screens (#004776)
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Iroha
Two six-panel folding screens (byôbu),
featuring the famous Iroha poem by Kûkai
(Kôbô Daishi, 774–835) written in the cursive Sôsho style.
Inscribed/signed: Shôbô fude-ryû ri...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Kôbako, lacquer box for storing incense (#004789)
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Kôbako (lacquer box), for storing incense for Kôdô (“Way of Incense”).
Leaping carp in waves, with seaweed and small fish.
Hiramaki-e and Takamaki-e on Maki-bokashi,
Roiro ground; in...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style More Art
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Fumi-bako, lacquer letter box, (#015551)
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Lacquer letter box (Fumi-bako).
Nashiji. The lid is decorated with a carriage adorned with a basket of flowers, rendered in multicolored gold hira-e and takmakii-e with gold leaf an...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style More Art
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Morning Glory in a flower pot, sumi-e ink, scroll (#000721)
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Nakajima Kaho (1866-1939)
Morning Glory (Asagao) in a flower pot with haiku.
“The morning sun is here. The flowers reveal their beauty, just as the sun has created them, day after da...
Category
Early 20th Century Showa Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Landscape with moon, pine trees on mountain, sumi-e ink, scroll (#001054)
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Nakajima Kaho (1866-1939)
Landscape with moon, pine trees on mountain ridge with haiku by Basho.
“Sometimes clouds drift by / People find peace/ while gazing at the moon”.
Ink drawin...
Category
Early 20th Century Showa Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Kago - bamboo basket (#002609)
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Kago - bamboo basket
Bamboo basket for fruit and flowers, made of hexagonally woven bamboo.
Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912)
35 x 51 x 41,5 cm
Category
Early 20th Century More Art
Materials
Wood
Hanakago - bamboo basket (#002652)
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Hanakago - flower basket
Bamboo basket for flower arrangements during the tea ceremony (chabana)
Bamboo
Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912)
27 x 15 cm
Category
Early 20th Century More Art
Materials
Wood
forget, Shiryu Morita, 1964 (#000881)
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Shiryu Morita (1912-1998)
forget
1964
Ink on paper, mounted on board in frame
32,2 (37) x 45,5 (50) cm
Title, signature and seal on label on plate (bac...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Shinzô, Shinto cult statue, Jogan-style carving (#001209)
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Shinzo
Shinto cult statue
Jogan-style carving
Nara/Heian (645 – 1184)
Wood with strong signs of weathering, metal base
44,5 x 26 x 14 cm
Dimensions with metal stand: 50 x 30 x 18 cm
Category
15th Century and Earlier Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Rabbit bamboo container with silver interior, Andreas Caderas, 2025 (#023133)
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Andreas Caderas *1955
Bamboo container
Japanese bamboo, fine silver interior, bronze lid with hare patinated, underside of the container with silver frog on silver. Cardboard box lam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Art
Materials
Silver, Bronze
Circular movement / free unimpeded movement, Shiryu Morita, 1964 (#000107)
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Shiryu Morita (1912-1998)
Circular movement / free unimpeded movement
1964
Ink on paper, mounted on board
33 x 60 cm
Title, signature and seal on label ...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
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