Japanese Silk Fan, Meiji Era Japan

Katagami in washi paper, very finely worked. Japan, early 20th century. The sheets of paper making up Japanese stencils are made from mulberry bark. They are stuck together with fer...

Large Satsuma earthenware dish decorated with "one hundred boys". Signed on the reverse. Japan around 1900

Rare okimono carved in the thickness of an elephant tusk depicting a life-size pigeon. It stands on a hollow trunk, inside which hides an owl. A small 4mm...

Precious cabinet in carved cinnabar red lacquer with two leaves and a drawer, revealing six small drawers. The doors are adorned with a porcelain plaque decorated with tits flying am...

Extraordinary bronze okimono with dark brown patina representing a Japanese Chin playing with a ball. High-quality work executed by a master craftsman, e...

Mixed metal dish decorated with a samurai and two dragons among peonies on a background of stylized clouds. The chiselling is simply amazing, every subject rendered in the finest det...

Flowers & Birds of Spring and Autumn Unknown artist. Japan. Meiji period, circa 1900. A pair of six-fold screens. Ink, color, gofun and gold leaf on paper. Signed: Gaga S...

A Meiji era Japanese two-panel wood screen, with illustrated images from The Tale of Genji that are exquisitely painted directly on wood with fine detail and precision, accented with scattered 24k gold leaf specks in cloud forms, rendered in the manner of Heian period...

This is a wonderful example of a Meiji Period screen painting of Japanese Tanuki or racoon dogs in a landscape. The Tanuki is considered to be a mythical creature Japanese culture. T...

A large antique 19th century Japanese framed gouache painting on silk. Depicting a literatus teaching boys under a pine tree in a garden, surrounded by chrysanthemums and rocks. ...

Antique Japanese Meiji period silk embroidered screen /room divider Byobu C.1900 Kyoto, Japan. Silk embroidered satin lacquer framed panels....

Fuko Matsumoto, order of the rising sun, Size: Axis, vertical 212.5 cm next to 84.7 cm Painting, vertical 140.8 cm horizontal 66.7cm ? Differs slightly in size. Condition: The state is good, but, wrinkle-thin stain Biography Fuko Matsumoto 1840-1923 Japan painter. Ibaraki prefecture production. Imperial Art Academy member. Fuko was born as the 3rd son of Matsumoto Soan in Kawachi County of Hitachi Province (Now Inashiki City of Ibaraki Prefecture) on September 14 of the 11th year of the Tenpo era. His real given name was Toshiro. In 1853, when Fuko was 14 years old, he went to Edo and studied painting under Oki Ichiga, who was an official painter of Tottori Domain. Ichiga was a painter who studied the Kano, the Rinpa and the Nanpin styles, and was good at expressing flowers & birds in deep colors. Later, Fuko studied painting under Satake Eikai, who was best pupil of Tani Buncho...