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Place of Origin: Japanese
Enamel Brass Vases Flowers and Butterflies Cloisonné́, Pair
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful pair of predominantly black, 'Emerald' green and orange, Asian cloisonné´ and brass vases, circa early to mid-20th century, Japan....
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20th Century Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Brass

Japanese Old Wooden Object / Wooden Lump Figurine / Wabi-Sabi
Located in Iwate-gun Shizukuishi-cho, Iwate Prefecture
This is an old wooden object. The details of the tree are unknown, but it seems to be hardwood. It changes its shape and color over time, and it has become an artistic appearance. ...
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Early 20th Century Primitive Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Wood, Hardwood

Rosanjin Kitaoji Signed Shino Ware Chawan Tea Bowl Original Sealed Signed Box
By Rosanjin Kitaoji
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous Shino ware pottery Chawan tea bowl by Japanese master potter Kitaoji Rosanjin (1883-1959) who was arguably one of if not the gr...
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Mid-20th Century Showa Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Ceramic

Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Purple Trinket Box Signed Inaba With Silver Plaque
Located in Long Island City, NY
A vintage brass trinket box of rectangular shape. The piece is set with cloisonne enamel. Purple ground color, green meander motif along the rims. The lid is decorated with the inscription Never Worry, It Never Happens, Never Complain...
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19th Century Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Enamel, Silver

Japanese Tosa School Framed Six Panel Screen Gold Leaf
By Japanese Studio
Located in Brescia, IT
Japanese six-panel screen of the famous "Tosa school" made by an anonymous artist of the mid-18th century, work painted in the classic way with colored pigments and inks on vegetable...
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Mid-18th Century Edo Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Gold Leaf

Natori Shunsen Signed Japanese Woodblock Print Onoe Kikugoro VI Adachi Motoemom
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful and quite rare woodblock print by famed Japanese artist/ master printmaker Natori Shunsen of well-known Japanese actor Onoe Kikugoro VI in the drama "Tengajaya-mura (or T...
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1920s Taisho Vintage Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Paper

Japanese Antique Stool Chair Chestnut wood Primitive Wabi-Sabi Japandi
Located in Chiba, Chiba
This is an old Japanese stool. All made from solid chestnut wood. This item was found in the Tohoku region and appears to have been made by an individual in the past. The seat of the...
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Early 20th Century Primitive Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Wood

Japanese Woodblock Print " The Geisha" by Kikukawa Eizan (菊川英山) RicJ002
Located in Norton, MA
Original woodblock work by " The Geisha" by Kikukawa Eizan 1787-1867, publisher Ezakiya Kichibe. Dimension: Image 8.75" x 13.5": with frame 15.5" x 20....
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19th Century Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Paper

Antique Japanese Meiji Bronze Tray with Dragon Motif and Bamboo-Style Edges
Located in Kastrup, DK
Bronze Tray from the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Japan. A high-quality bronze tray featuring a finely detailed relief dragon motif in the center, expertly patinated in silvery and lig...
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Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Bronze

Mother-of-Pearl Black Lacquer Japanese Export Table with Feet Shaped as Bats
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese export lacquer tripod table with feet shaped as bats Nagasaki, 1850-1860 H. 73 x diam. 108 cm The six-lobbed top is decorated with reverse-painted mother-of-pearl in a sprawling motif of plum blossom, bamboo, and peonies, surrounded by fluttering sparrows enhanced by details in maki-e. The table, made to appeal to a foreign audience, incorporates a curious mixture of seasonal references. In addition to the decoration of foliage from late winter and spring, the column is decorated with grapes and a rabbit pounding rice, both Japanese motifs for autumn and the month of September. The feet, shaped like bats that almost appear to wake up from hibernation, symbolise luck and happiness in Japan. The present flamboyant Nagasaki-style table is depicted in the Asada workshop drawings of 1856. These drawings, titled Aogai makie hiinagata hikae (memorandum of designs for lacquer with inlaid pearl...
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19th Century Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Lacquer

Japanese Three Garden Rabbits Family, Usagi
Located in South Burlington, VT
From our recent Japanese acquisitions and coming from a Japanese collector of rabbit usagi sculptures Rabbit family trio (3) seated rabbit sculptures hand cast and hand painted This is an unusual Japanese one-of-a-kind group in both large and small scale Quality: Hand cast with carved ears...
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Mid-20th Century Showa Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Bronze, Iron

Japanese Wood Bugaku Mask of Korobase Edo Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A striking Japanese carved wood mask with polychrome paint and lacquer surface. This rare mask is dated to the Edo period (first half of 19th century and possibly earlier). The mask ...
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19th Century Japonisme Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Wood, Lacquer, Paint

Japanese Hannya (般若) Noh Mask. Attributed to Takada Fuki (高田 冨季, 1935–2008)
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Hannya (般若) Noh Mask attributed to Takada Fuki (高田 冨季, 1935–2008) Mask: Hannya (般若) SKU: TBA19 Size: W: 15cm, H: 22 cm (W/horns 25cm) The Hannya mask represents a female demon who...
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20th Century Showa Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Wood

Japanese Four Panel Paper Screen
Located in Essex, MA
Pair of two panel screens with a rooster and a hen in amongst bamboo. Signed by the artist Ema Saiko 1787-1861. A Japanese painter, poet and calligrapher celebrated for her Chinese...
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1850s Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Paper

Japanese Iron Bird Incense Burner
Located in San Diego, CA
Antique iron bird sculpture with a nice patina. Removable vented piece, for burning incense, 1960s.
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Iron

Japan Large Antique Stone Four Buddhas Water Purification Basin Chozu’bachi
Located in South Burlington, VT
Just discovered from an old southern Japanese area garden and now in our Vermont warehouse. Please view our video. Call or message us to reserve- now en route in our container fr...
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19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Granite

Kiyoshi Saito Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Coral (B), 1958
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...
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1950s Showa Vintage Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Paper

JAPAN 1890-1900 Meiji Period Decorative Six-sided Vase In Cloisonné Enamel
Located in Miami, FL
Japanese vase from the Meiji Period (1868-1912). This is a beautiful antique decorative vase created in the imperial Japan during the Meiji period (1868-1912), circa 1890s. It was c...
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1890s Meiji Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Gold, Bronze, Enamel

Japan 1870 Meiji Period Round Five Drawer Inro Lacquered Wood With Flying Cranes
Located in Miami, FL
Japanese Inro from the Meiji Period (1868-1912). Beautiful Inro, created in Japan during the Meiji imperial period, circa 1870. It was carefully crafted in carved precious wood with applications of lacquer and decorated with orientalism patterns. All dan trays are attached together with a himo cord. The detailed craftsmanship was a true pleasure to behold. Period: Meiji 1868-1912, Period of Emperor Mutsuhito. Approximate Date: 1870. Motif: Organic design with cascade landscape scene and five flying cranes. Drawers: Five. Shape: Cylinder. Very unusual and rare shape. Technique: Carved wood, Lacquer, hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, Gilding. Ojime: 17mm, round with Ebony wood. Netsuke: Carved dressed...
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1870s Meiji Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Wood, Ebony, Giltwood, Lacquer

Set of Two Japanese Cloissoné Vases Meiji Era Dragon and Pheonix
Located in Knivsta, SE
A pair of Japanese cloisonné enamel vases. Meiji era Japan (1867-1912), a period marked by rapid transformation of Japanese traditional society into a global power. The period of gro...
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Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Enamel

Japanese Kyoto Embroidered Screen
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a finely stitched Kyoto embroidery screen that dates to the Meiji Era (1868 - 1912). Kyoto has been celebrated for its skilled artistic embro...
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Late 19th Century Japonisme Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Brass

Decoys with old Japanese paper attached/Bird ornaments/20th century
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
I would like to introduce an old Japanese figurine covered with paper. This is probably a duck figurine that was originally made as a decoy. Decoys are not only found in Northern Eur...
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Early 20th Century Taisho Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Wood, Paper

19th Century, Meiji, Antique Japanese Wooden Noh Mask
Located in Sampantawong, TH
Antique Japanese wooden Noh mask. Age: Japan, Meiji Period, 19th Century Size: Length 20.9 C.M. / Width 14 C.M. / Thickness 8.8 C.M. Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected...
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19th Century Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Wood

18th -19th century Japanese Negoro style Lacquered stand
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Very rare early period negoro lacquer buddhist temple worship article stand . Wood with Negoro style lacquer and gilded copper fittings. Good condition considering significant age...
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18th Century Edo Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Wood, Lacquer

Japanese Momoyama Period Black Lacquer and Mother of Pearl Box, 16th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A fine and unusual Japanese black lacquer and mother of pearl inlaid box, Momoyama Period, 16th century, Japan. The large box and cover featu...
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16th Century Edo Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Lacquer, Abalone

Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Charger Plate with a Phoenix Bird Attributed t
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique, late Meiji era, Japanese enamel over copper plate or charger. The interior of the plate is adorned with a polychrome enamel medallion with a Phoenix bird on the black gro...
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Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Copper, Enamel

Japanese Four Panel Taisho Period Screen Bamboo & Blossom, circa 1920
Located in London, GB
Japanese four panel Taisho Period (1912-1926) screen. Depicting bamboo, blossom and birds in flight. Signed. Mineral pigment on mulberry paper with silk brocade border, within a lac...
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1920s Taisho Vintage Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Silk, Paper

Antique Pair of Japanese Temple Hanging Bronze Lantern
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Spectacular pair of Japanese Temple hanging bronze lantern. Definitely wonderful Japan bronze craft and hand manufacture made from interlocking hammered bronze plaques. This beautifu...
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Early 19th Century Anglo-Japanese Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Bronze

Fine quality pair of antique Japanese imari plates
Located in Ipswich, GB
Fine quality pair of antique Japanese imari plates having a quality pair of antique Japanese imari plates decorated with flowers and scrolls hand painted in red, white, blue, green a...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Ceramic

Japanese Cloisonné Vase Ando Jubei with Storage Box
By Ando Jubei
Located in Atlanta, GA
A beautifully decorated cloisonné vase with silver rims by Ando Jubei (1876-1956), the celebrated Japanese Shippo studio. The piece is dated to late Meiji to early Showa period circa...
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Early 20th Century Japonisme Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Metal, Silver, Enamel

Japanese Wooden Dagger, Late 19th C
Located in Stockholm, SE
A Japanese high quality wooden dagger. The carving is made of the highest quality as often Japanese items are. There is a signature and a poem engraved on side. Comes from an old Swedish collection...
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Late 19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Boxwood

Japanese Antique Cupboard Storage shelf Display shelf Japandi
Located in Chiba, Chiba
This is an old Japanese cupboard. It was made in the early Showa period. It is made of lauan wood. The double doors can be opened partially or comple...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Wood

Japanese Antiques Primitive Art BORO Indigo-dyed Sashiko Old Cloth
Located in Niiza, JP
1700(W)× 1550(D) [mm] Cotton This is a highly sensitive old folk craft called "BORO" overseas. It was a very poor time, and throwing things away was outrageous. Old cloth that was c...
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Early 19th Century Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Cotton

Japanese Asian Antique Shino Yaki Ware Studio Pottery Wabi-Sabi Chawan Tea Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful Japanese Mingei Nezumi Shino Ware (志野焼, Shino-Yaki) pottery Chawan tea bowl for tea ceremony that features a sumptuous glaze with wonderful subtle shifts in color, patter...
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Mid-20th Century Showa Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Pottery, Stoneware

Antique Japanese Cloisonne Ginbari Vase on Silver Stand
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Canterbury, GB
Antique Japanese Cloisonne vase. Produced in the Ginbari technique, depicting a sprig of fruits. On custom made English silver stand with hallmarks. The mark JG&S refers to John G...
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Late 19th Century Japonisme Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Silver

Foo-Dog 'Shi-Shi' Incense Burner 'Koro' with Removable Lid
Located in Hudson, NY
This unique piece of ceramic has beautiful color. It also has a collector's box.
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19th Century Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Ceramic

Meiji period Japanese bronze Monkeys.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
These exquisite Japanese Meiji period sculptures depict two patinated bronze monkeys, showcasing the artistry and craftsmanship of the era. The larger monkey, seated with a contempla...
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Late 19th Century Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Bronze

Lovely Fusetsu NakamuraScroll Painting Japan Artist Flowers Painted
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Fusetsu Nakamura 1866-1943 of the Showa-life painter and calligrapher Tokyo students real name: Taro issue: Fusetsu, Kanzan, Anakatatei, Goinoshishi teacher, long life, Reitsubotoki ...
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Mid-20th Century Showa Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Silk

Large Kutani Charger
By Kutani Studio
Located in Swadlincote, GB
A very good Mutant charger, signed to the back, in overall super condition. Kutani porcelain, a distinct style of Japanese porcelain, originates from the Kutani village, which is now...
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19th Century Japonisme Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Porcelain

A Fine pair of Japanese Satsuma Vases. Signed Yozan .Meiji Period
Located in London, GB
A Fine Pair of Japanese Satsuma Vases. Signed to the bottom Yozan. Meiji Period. Decorated in satsuma gilt and enamel with a continuous dancing scene of women dancing in tradi...
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Late 19th Century Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Ceramic, Porcelain

Antique Very Large Pair of Japanese Bronze Vases Meiji Period
Located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Antique very large pair of fine quality Japanese bronze vases C1910 Meiji Period. Would look amazing in the right location. Rare large size and design. Overall maximum dimensi...
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1910s Meiji Vintage Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Bronze

Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase W Bronze Dragons
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese decorative cloisonne enamel vase with a gilt bronze base and handles. It has a rounded, bowl like shape of a blue color with floral and swirl patterns, adorned wi...
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Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Enamel, Bronze

Gojunoto Japanese Metal Pagoda
Located in Vienna, AT
Five-story Japanese pagoda "Gojūnotō" made of painted patinated metal.
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Mid-20th Century Japonisme Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Copper, Iron

Japanese Kamakura-bori 鎌倉彫 solid wooden étagère table with lotus design
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Alluring, well-made Kamakura-bori (lit. Kamakura carved) solid wooden étagère table with elaborate carvings depicting a bed of lotus leaves and buds. The top surface with natural flo...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Wood

4 Japanese Woodblock Prints 'Double-Side', Toyohara Kunichika & Shosai Ikkei #2
Located in Norton, MA
4 Japanese Woodblock Prints (Double-Side) by Toyohara Kunichika (Diptych), and Shosai Ikkei - from Thirty-Six Comics of the Famous Places of Tokyo. Note: These are only two pieces o...
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Mid-19th Century Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Paper

Japanese Antique Cupboard Storage shelf Display shelf Japandi
Located in Chiba, Chiba
This is an old Japanese cupboard. It is made from camphor wood. The history of Mizume wood is long, and it was even mentioned in books from the 8th c...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Wood

Japanese Six Panel Screen Battle of Uji Bridge
Located in Hudson, NY
The first battle at Uji was in 1180 and was the beginning of the Heike Wars. This screen depicts a famous scene from the Heike Wars. Two Heike generals, Sasaki Takatsuna and Kajiwa...
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Early 19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Gold Leaf

Antique Pair of Japanese Pink Porcelain Lamps with White Linen Shades
Located in Toronto, ON
This pair of antique Japanese porcelain lamps are extremely rare and valuable not only for their artistry but for their beautiful uncommon pink color. Pottery and porcelain are one o...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Metal

Antique Japanese Wood Miniature Mask Netsuke
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese Wood Miniature Mask Netsuke, an unsigned work depicting Hannya, the female horned demon popular in Noh performance plays, a solid hardwood piece carved in high relie...
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19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Wood

Junichiro Sekino Signed Japanese Woodblock Print Boy and His Dog
By Junichiro Sekino
Located in Studio City, CA
A relatively large, very appealing and enduring image of youth and friendship exemplified by a boy and his dog by master Japanese artist or printer Junichiro Sekino. The print is stamped with the artist's seal and signed in pencil by the artist and may also be numbered and dated as well, as most of his works are, but if so, it is hidden under the mat. Junichiro Sekino was largely considered, along with Kiyoshi Saito, to be one of Japan's paramount 20th-century master print artists. Both were prominent leaders of the Sosaku Hanga movement. Sekino's works can be found in many museums including: The Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., the Art Institute Chicago...
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20th Century Showa Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Paper

Japanese Taisho Two Panel Screen Rooster and Hen by Kocho
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Amazing Japanese Taisho period two-panel byobu screen depicting a colorful rooster and hen in a bamboo landscape. The large painting features vibrant ink and color natural pigments o...
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20th Century Taisho Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Silver Leaf

Japanese Two Panel Screen, Lotus and Heron
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese two panel screen, lotus and heron Colored mineral pigments on silver leaf on handmade mulberry paper.
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Late 19th Century Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

Edo Period (19th) Japanese antique painting of flowers
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Japanese antique painting of flowers 19 C Weight 3kg ( 6.6lb)
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Mid-19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Silk, Paper

Japanese Meiji Zebra Wood Tansu Chest in Isho-Dansu Style with Five Drawers
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese Meiji period single section tansu clothing chest from the late 19th century in Isho-dansu style, with zebra wood, five drawers and carrying handles. Created in Japan during the Meiji period in the later years of the 19th century, this wooden Isho-dansu clothing chest features a linear silhouette perfectly complimented by a dark zebra wood grain. The organized façade showcases five drawers (three large ones followed by two smaller ones at the bottom), each fitted with iron hardware made of C-scroll handles and a central lock. Tansus were portable chests...
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Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Iron

Small Japanese Oni Hagi Chawan (Tea Bowl) by Seigan Yamane, circa 2010, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A small but powerful Japanese white oni hagi yaki chawan (teabowl) by renowned contemporary master potter Seigan Yamane (b. 1952), circa 2010, Japan. The small tea bowl of typical t...
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2010s Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Pottery

Japanese lacquer suzuri’bako 硯箱 (writing box) with ‘Rinpa School’-style design
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Superb rectangular ‘Rinpa School’-style black lacquer suzuri’bako (writing box) with a slightly arched well-fitted overhanging cover with rounded corners. The lid with a design of a gosho’guruma (ox-drawn carriage for Heian-era nobles) featuring golden hiramaki-e (low-relief lacquer design) and takamaki-e (high-relief lacquer design), inlays of lead and shiny mother-of-pearl (raden). The design continues along the sides. The reverse of the lid decorated with two large curving pine trees (matsu) executed in the same way, but also with intricate dots of tiny pieces of inlaid blue mother-of-pearl along the golden trunk. The interior shaped to hold various scholar’s accessories, including a partially gold lacquered inkstone (suzuri) and a bronze waterdropper (suiteki) shaped like a mythical minogame. The interior inscribed ‘Hokkyô Kôrin zô’ (Made by Hokkyô Kôrin). Referring to the design being in style of the master Ogata Kôrin, but the actual lacquer artist is unknown. It is a homage to Kôrin by an artist that followed the school of Rinpa. Including black lacquer wooden tomobako (tomobako). The Rinpa School was a key part of the Edo period revival of indigenous Japanese artistic interests described by the term yamato-e. Paintings, textiles, ceramics, and lacquerwares were decorated by Rinpa artists with vibrant colours applied in a highly decorative and patterned manner. Favoured themes, which often contained evocative references to nature and the seasons, were drawn from Japanese literature, notably The Tale of Genji, The Tales of Ise...
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19th Century Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Brass, Lead

Quality antique Japanese imari charger
Located in Ipswich, GB
Quality antique Japanese imari charger, having a quality antique Japanese imari charger decorated with bamboo shoots, birds, trees, flowers and leaves, hand painted in red, blue, gre...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Ceramic

Japanese Tansu, chest-on-chest (isho kasane-dansu), Yonezawa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese chest-on-chest for clothing storage (isho kasane-dansu) from Yonezawa, constructed of hinoki (Chaemaecyparis obtusa) and keyaki (Zelkova serrata) drawer fronts, traditional ...
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Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Wood

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川廣重 Woodblock from"The 53 Stations of the Tokaido" 1832
Located in Norton, MA
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川廣重 Woodblock from"The 53 Stations of the Tokaido" 1832 Artist: Hiroshige Utagawa was born in Edo as Tokutaro Ando and grew up in a minor samurai family. His father belonged to the firefighting force assigned to Edo Castle. It is here that Hiroshige was given his first exposure to art: legend has it that a fellow fireman tutored him in the Kano School of Painting, though Hiroshige’s first official teacher was Rinsai. Though Hiroshige tried to join Toyokuni Utagawa's studio, he was turned away. In 1811, young Hiroshige entered an apprenticeship with the celebrated Toyohiro Utagawa. After only a year, he was bestowed with the artist name Hiroshige. He soon gave up his role in the fire department to focus entirely on painting and print design. During this time he studied painting, intrigued by the Shijo school. Hiroshige’s artistic genius went largely unnoticed until 1832. In Hiroshige's groundbreaking series of woodblock prints, The 53 Stations of the Tokaido (1832-1833), he captured the journey along the Tokaido road, the highway connecting Edo to Kyoto, the imperial capital. With the Tokugawa Shogunate relaxing centuries of age-old restrictions on travel, urban populations embraced travel art and Hiroshige Utagawa became one of the most prominent and successful ukiyo-e artists. He also produced kacho-e (bird-and-flower pictures) to enormous success. In 1858, at the age of 61, he passed away as a result of the Edo cholera epidemic. Utagawa Hiroshige’s woodblock prints...
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Early 19th Century Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

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Paper

Japanese antique wooden Buddha statue / Edo period / 1600 to 1800
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This wooden statue is a relic from Japan's Edo period, and within it lies a deep history that transcends time. Originally, it was part of a more intricate statue, likely adorned with...
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17th Century Edo Antique Japanese Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Cypress

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