Deco Japanese Arm Rest

A wooden vessel used from the Meiji era to the Taisho era. Probably a beech tree. It is made by hollowing out. It's very cool, isn't it? It is a lacquered tall foot round tray made ...

A wooden vessel used from the Meiji era to the Taisho era. Probably a beech tree. It is made by hollowing out. It's very cool, isn't it? It is a round bowl made of one piece of wood...

Removable bronze top, with gold drip pattern at top. Cresting ocean waves on bottom with raised silver sea spray.

This is a wooden stand made from the Edo period to the Meiji period. Originally, it was a stand for installing a Buddha statue, but it seems that only this stand remained after the ...

A large Japanese Meiji period lacquered lidded soup or rice bowl. Beautiful hand-painted decoration inside and out.

A fan shape black lacquer tray from Japan circa 1910-30s, late Meiji to early Showa era. Elaborated decorated with a bundle of yomogi blossom in a very fine Maki-e technique using both gold and silver powders. There is a Japanese symbol on the top left, which represents yomogiu, stemming from yomogi (蓬), a wild plant that belongs to the chrysanthemum family and widely grown in Japan. This name yomogui is from a scene in the Tale of Genji...