Edo Furniture
EDO STYLE
Edo furniture was created during a flourishing time for the decorative arts owing to the stability of the Tokugawa shogunate rule in Japan. Spanning from 1603 to 1867, this era of peace and economic growth supported artistic advancements in lacquer, woodblock printing, porcelain and other artisanal trades. Because the country was largely isolated, there was little outside influence, leading to centuries of exceptional attention to the design of its furnishings and the quality of its traditional arts.
Unlike during the Meiji period that followed, with an increase in domestic and international markets, furniture during the Edo period was predominately commissioned by the ruling class, although people from across social groups benefited from the burgeoning metropolitan hubs for artisanal trades. For instance, Kyoto became a major center for lacquer art. Most furniture pieces were made from wood such as cedar or ash, including the era’s sashimono cabinets, which involved fine joinery and were rooted in the Heian period.
Sashimono cabinets, which were built by master craftsmen in a range of different wood types owing to the various trees that populate Japan, occasionally featured a stack of slender drawers as well as sliding doors. They were popular with everyone from samurai to kabuki actors. Tansu storage chests crafted from wood with metal fittings were also common in Edo-period homes. Some were designed to be easily portable while others were made to double as staircases.
Painted folding screens, called byōbu, were also fashionable, with Japanese artists inspired by nature, literature and scenes of history and daily life to create vivid works. In Buddhist temples and the palatial homes of the aristocratic class, fusuma, or large sliding panels, would sometimes be adorned with gold or silver leaf. These dividers allowed interiors to change throughout the day, closing in small spaces for personal use or reflecting candlelight to illuminate communal spaces after dark.
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Style: Edo
Antique early 19th century Japanes Kaidan Dansu Step Chest in warm brown pine
Located in Casteren, NL
This piece is a traditional Japanese kaidan-dansu, also known as a step chest. Developed during the Edo period (1603–1868), it ingeniously combines functionality with refined aesthe...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Pine
$4,774 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Antique Wabi-Sabi Low Table Edo period 1800s-1860s / Side Table
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old Japanese low table, crafted during the Edo period (1800s–1860s). It is a rare piece of furniture that has survived through the centuries to the present day. Made of su...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Cedar
Japan Tall Antique Classic Edo Period Kasuga Stone Lantern
Located in South Burlington, VT
An early antique beauty with all original pieces.
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Japan, a tall and stone lantern with fence like engraved designs on its firebox , carefully crafted in six ...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Stone
Japanese Antique "BORO" 1800s-1860s / Rag Tapestry Patchwork Textile Wabisabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old Japanese BORO, dating back to the late Edo period (1800s–1860s). It is an extremely valuable textile that has been carefully preserved and passed down to the present d...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Fabric
Japanese Antique Rag "BORO" 1800s-1860s / Abstract Art Wabi Sabi
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is an exceptional example of a Japanese *BORO* textile, dating from the late Edo period (1800s–1860s). Carefully preserved over generations, it embodies both the resourcefulness...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Fabric
Japanese Antique Shigaraki Ware 18th Century / Pottery Vase Wabi Sabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old, large Shigaraki ware pot made in Japan.
It is estimated to have been produced in the late Edo period, around the 18th century. Among traditional Japanese ceramics, Sh...
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Late 18th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Japanese Antique "Lying Bizen ware" 18th Century / Pottery Vase Wabi Sabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is a Japanese Bizen ware. It is called Ko-Bizen.
It is estimated to have been made in the Edo period (18th century), and has a very powerful presence.
Ko-Bizen refers to Bizen ...
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18th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Japanese Boxwood Netsuke – Monk In Ecstasy, Edo Period
Located in Bilzen, BE
"Japanese Boxwood Netsuke – Monk In Ecstasy, Edo Period"
Japanese Boxwood Netsuke – Chanting Monk Figure, Late Edo to Early Meiji Period (ca. 1800–1880)
Unsigned (mumei), finely carv...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Wood
1780s-1850s Edo Japanese antique medicine chest of drawers, cabinet wabi sabi
Located in 常陸大宮市, JP
Mid size apothecary chest, medicine chest of drawers - "Kusuri dansu" in Japanese - product of late Edo era (1780s-1868), estimate from the style & conditions. Pieces of old paper la...
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Late 18th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Wood
Japanese Antique Bent-wooden Craft / Side Table / 1716-1736s / Wabi-sabi Mingei
Located in Iwate-gun Shizukuishi-cho, Iwate Prefecture
This is an old piece of Japanese bentwood craft.
A bentwood container is made by bending very thin boards of cypress or cedar into a circular or oval shape and attaching a base. The...
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Early 18th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Cypress
Japanese Antique Bamboo Door / Wall Decoration / 1868-1912s / Wabi-Sabi
Located in Iwate-gun Shizukuishi-cho, Iwate Prefecture
This is a wall decoration using an old Japanese door.
It is thought to date from the Edo to Meiji period.
Originally it was a very heavy door with earth and plaster on the surface,...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Iron
18th Century Japanese Rinpa Screen. White Chrysanthemums. School of Korin.
Located in Kyoto, JP
School of Ogata Korin
White Chrysanthemums
18th Century, Edo period.
A two-panel Japanese screen. Ink, color, gofun and gold leaf on paper.
Dimensions: H. 171 cm x W. 188 cm (67.5” x 74”)
On this two-panel Japanese screen we see blooming chrysanthemums, a flower which embodies the essence of autumn in Japan. Here the traditional floral theme has been simplified and stylized. The bright colors and asymmetrical composition against the delicate gold leaf create a luxurious and ornate work of art. Its background, a strikingly patinated grid of gold leaf, denies any sense of place or time and imbues everything with an ethereal glow. The leaves and stems of the plants are nothing more than pools of mottled color and ink without any outline whatsoever. These are typical Rinpa adaptations of traditional ink painting methods; tarashikomi, or diluted washes of color blended while very wet, and mokkotsu, or “bonelessness,” which creates forms without exterior outlines. The relief work of the rounded flower petals has been obtained by the moriage process (a mixture based on ground shells modeled on the surface of the paper).
On the lower right of the screen, the siganture “Hokyo Korin Jakumyo” and the “Hoshuku” seal can be read. Korin is Ogata Korin, famed for the Irises (Nezu Museum) and Red and White Plum Blossom (MOA Museum of Art) folding screens, both National Treasures. Korin worked in both Kyoto and Edo in the mid-Edo period. Korin was using the art name “Jakumyo” just after he received the Hokyo level, which was in 1701.
This particular screen was published in May of 1961 in the Japanese Sansai Fine Art Magazine*. An in depth article accompanies the photograph of the screen and and a photograph of the signature and seal. This article devotes much of its body to discussing the moriage technique, how it enlivens the chrysanthemum flowers and Korin’s specific skill in using the technique. The article goes on to discuss the most famous works of Korin, utilizing this technique, which were known at the time. Specifically a two-panel screen held in the Honolulu Museum which was discovered in the store-house of Takahashi Soan. A two-panel screen pair which the Nakano family own. A two-panel screen pair with chrysanthemums in moriage in fan designs owned by the Nomura family. Also a small folding screen featuring chrysanthemums held in the Yamato Bunkakan. The article goes on to say that this particular two-fold screen came from the Nijo family. Korin is known to have had a strong connection with the aristocratic Nijo family. The article explains that Korin received a lot of favors from the Nijo family and that this screen would have been gifted to them.
Since that time the Honolulu screen has been amended to ‘attributed to Ogata Korin’ and I do not know further details of the other 3 screens. Other Chrysanthemum screens...
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18th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Antique Large Kuruma Tansu 1800s-1860s / Cabinet Sideboard Wabi Sabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old, large, Japanese-made Kuruma-Tansu.
Made in the Edo period (1800s-1860s), it is a powerful and dignified piece, the culmination of the skills and aesthetic sense of th...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Iron
Japanese Tansu Storage Chest (19th Century - Edo Period) Wabi Sabi
Located in London, GB
Japanese Tansu Storage Chest (Edo Period - 19th Century). Tansu are traditional portable wooden storage chests from Japan. In Japanese traditional houses...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Wood
Edo Period Horagai – Ritual Conch Shell Trumpet
Located in Fukuoka, JP
A rare and authentic Edo period (1603–1868) horagai—a conch shell trumpet traditionally used in Japanese Buddhist rituals, Shugendō mountain ascetic practices, and by yamabushi (moun...
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18th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Shell
Japanese Antique Wood Carving Large Penis 1800s-1860s / Sculpture Wabi Sabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old carved large wooden penis statue made in Japan.
It was made during the Edo period (1800s-1860s) and is made of cedar.
In the Tōhoku region of Japan, there has long be...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Cedar
1840s-1860s Edo Japanese antique wabi sabi desk organizer Tansu chest of drawers
Located in 常陸大宮市, JP
Japanese antique shallow Tansu chest of drawers with 4 shelves - made of quality red pine & chestnut.
The product of 1840s - 1860s (late Edo period) estimate from the style &...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Wood, Chestnut, Pine
1800s - 1860s Edo Japanese antique chestnut low coffee table wabi sabi primitive
Located in 常陸大宮市, JP
New finds from Kura (traditional style warehouse) in Yamagata pref., Tohoku area, Japan.
This antique low writing desk is a product of 1800s - 1860s (late Edo era), estimate from the style and conditions.
Made of thick, sturdy single solid chestnut wood boards. Can be used as coffee table, display table etc.
Yamagata pref. is known to rich woodcraft cultures. The most known products are bold but elaborate, premium Tansu furnitures...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Wood, Chestnut
Japanese Antique Stone Carving Penis 1800s-1860s / Sculpture Wabi Sabi Mingei
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old Japanese stone carving of a phallus, believed to have been made in the late Edo period (1800s–1860s). It is a rare and valuable a...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Stone
Japanese Edo Period Kannon Stone Buddha/1700-1850/Garden Ornament
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
We are pleased to present a simple stone Buddha of Kannon Bosatsu, made in Japan during the Edo period (circa 1700-1850).
Kannon Bosatsu is known in Buddhism as a merciful savior wh...
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18th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Stone, Granite
Japanese Antique Black Tansu / Cabinet Sideboard / 1800-1868s Wabi-sabi
Located in Iwate-gun Shizukuishi-cho, Iwate Prefecture
This is a traditional black chest of drawers in Japan.
It is believed to have been made around the Meiji period, and is made of chestnut wood.
Its distinctive feature is that the h...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Iron
SADANOBU HASAGAWA III - 'Geisha Girl in Winter' - Woodblock Print - 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
SADANOBU HASAGAWA III (1881-1963) - 'Geisha Girl in Winter' - Vintage woodblock print - single print (not part of a series) - signed in the pr...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Edo Furniture
Materials
Paper
$626 Sale Price
30% Off
Japanese antique Kannon stone statue/Edo period/Buddhist ornament
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a stone statue of Kannon Bosatsu (the Bodhisattva of Compassion), believed to have been made in Japan during the mid to late Edo period (late 18th century onward). The materi...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Stone
Pair of 18th Century Japanese Edo Screens of Chinese Immortals
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Mesmerizing pair of late 18th/early 19th century Japanese Edo period byobu screens by Shibata Gito (Japanese 1780-1819). The paintings depict Chinese immortals in a dreamy landscape....
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18th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
Antique Edo Period Decorative Planter, Japanese, Bronze, Jardiniere, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique Edo period decorative planter. A Japanese, bronze jardiniere bowl, dating to the Victorian era, circa 1850.
Graced with dashing relief and great tonality
Displays...
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1850s Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Antique Wood Carving Rabbit 1800s-1860s / Figurine Sculpture Wabi Sabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old Japanese wooden carving of a rabbit, a precious artifact crafted in the late Edo period (early 1800s–1860s). It was discovered at a Buddhist temple. Made from pine, th...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Pine
Japanese Antique Pottery Jar 15th-16th Century/ Wabi-Sabi Vase/Shigaraki
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
I would like to introduce an attractive pot that gives you a sense of wabi-sabi.
It is "Shigaraki ware".
Shigaraki is a historical kiln located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
It is sa...
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15th Century and Earlier Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Mid 19th Century Framed Japanese Painting. Mice & Millet
Located in Kyoto, JP
Obata Tosho (1812-1886)
Mice & Millet
Late Edo period, mid 19th Century
Framed Japanese Painting. Ink and color on paper.
Individually framed 19th century bird and flower paintin...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Paper
Early 19th Century Japanese Screen. Cherry Blossom & Pheasants by Mori Tetsuzan
Located in Kyoto, JP
Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841)
Pheasants and Cherry Blossoms
Two-fold Japanese screen. Ink, color, gofun, gold and silver on paper.
A two-fold Japanese bir...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pair of Red and White Plum Blossom Screens After Ogata Korin
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Amazing pair of 18th century Edo period style paintings of red and white plum blossoms after Ogata Korin (Japanese 1658-1716). Reproduction of one of the most famous paintings in Jap...
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20th Century Japanese Edo Furniture
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Hand Painted Wood Japanese Traditional Kokeshi Doll
Located in Barcelona, ES
Japanese doll called Kokeshi of the early 20th century. Provenance from the northern Japan. Dolls shapes and patterns are particular to a certain area and are classified under elev...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Edo Furniture
Materials
Wood
$429 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Japanese wooden Buddha statue/Edo period/seated Tathagata statue
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a wooden Buddha statue made around the Edo period (1603-1868).
It is likely to be Amida Nyorai, the highest-ranking Buddha statue, which is an enlightened being.
This Buddha ...
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18th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Cypress
Rare Japanese Negoro Lacquer Table with Curved Legs (Late 17th–18th Century)
Located in Fukuoka, JP
are Japanese Negoro Lacquer Table with Curved Legs (Late 17th–18th Century)
Japan, Edo period
Dimensions: H 26.5 cm × W 43.1 cm × D 27 cm
(Top surface: W 42.7 cm × D 25.7 cm)
This e...
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Late 17th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Japanese antique wabi-sabi black coffee low table / 1850-1912 / small table
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This wooden low table, known as a "fuzukue" (writing desk), was made in Japan between the late Edo and Meiji periods (19th century). Crafted from cedar, its light and soft grain full...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Cedar
Japanese Pair Antique Lantern Garden Woodblock Prints 19c, immediately Framable
Located in South Burlington, VT
Two (2) Fine Old Woodblock Lanterns Garden Prints : Stone Pagoda, Gardens, Stepping Stones & Lush Landscapes
Japan two (2) antique Old Kyoto Garden Woodblock prints from an original...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Paper
$180 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Wooden Buddha statues from the Edo period in Japan/1800-1868/Late Edo period
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This wooden Buddhist statue was made in the late to late Edo period.
It is thought to be a statue of Kannon Bodhisattva.
It was originally placed in a shrine and was painted, but the...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Cypress
17th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Tiger & Dragon by Kaiho Yusetsu
Located in Kyoto, JP
Kaiho Yusetsu (1598-1677)
Tiger and Dragon
Early Edo Period, Circa 1650
A Pair of Six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink and slight color on paper.
Dimensions:
Each screen: H. 171 cm x W. 380 cm (67.5’’ x 149.5’’)
In this pair of early Edo period Japanese screens a group of tigers prowl in a bamboo grove whipped with fierce wind, while a dragon claws through clouds and mist. The dragon embodies elemental qualities - looming out of the mist, the coils of its body disappearing in the clouds. The dragon is calling for rain, symbolizing spring which is considered the fountain of life. On the other side, the tigers calls for the wind, symbolizing autumn which is considered the end of life. Tigers were familiar motifs within Japanese art from ancient times though the animals were imaginary to the people in the 17th century. While dragons and tigers are usually associated as sacred and ferocious, in this painting, both animals have rather amusing expressions. The tigers appear to glare at the dragon with cat-like eyes, and the look on the swirling dragon’s face appears almost affectionate - lending a playful flair to an otherwise magnificent theme.
The tiger and dragon are cosmological symbols of the balancing forces in the world. Screens such as this were originally meant to express the fluctuating nature of the world. For Japanese in the early Edo period, they likely suggested the powers of the cosmos. In Japan the tiger and dragon motif was originally absorbed into the circles of Zen monasteries before spreading into the secular world. The theme especially appealed to the military classes with the Kano school, the official painters to the Shogun and the samurai, being the leading contributors. The painter of this pair of screens, Kaiho Yusetsu (1598-1677), was closely patronized by the third Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu. In his later years he worked with Kano school artists...
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Mid-17th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
Edo-Style Six-Panel Japanese Byobu Screen with Gold Paint Landscape
Located in Hamburg, PA
This Asian screen print is a stunning six-panel byobu (folding screen) featuring a traditional Japanese landscape. The artwork showcases a serene scene with a lakeside pavilion set a...
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19th Century Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
Extraordinary Japanese Hand Thrown Blue And White Wabi-Sabi Vase, Early 19thc.
Located in South Burlington, VT
A recent find: an old Japanese SHOKI-IMARI blue-and-white porcelain ware bottle
with unique hand painted designs called Kusabana-Chou-Monyou (Grass, flower, and butterfly patterns)...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Pottery
$312 Sale Price
53% Off
Japanese Old Garden Stone "Tsukubai/Toukeisi" Stone Water Basin
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
We Japanese introduce unique items with unique aesthetics, purchasing routes, and ways that no one can imitate.
This is a traditional Japanese item from ancient times.
There is a c...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Stone
Mid 19th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Flowers & Birds of the Four Seasons.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Shioka Sorin (1781-1850)
Flowers & Birds of the Four Seasons
Pair of six-panel Japanese Screens. Ink, gofun and pigments on silk.
Dimensions (each screen): H. 91.5cm x W. 285cm (3...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Silk
Japanese Antique Sacred Horse "Shinme" 1800s-1860s / Primitive Wabisabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old Japanese carved wooden horse, a highly valuable piece created in the late Edo period (early 1800s–1860s). In Japan, it is known as a "Shinme" (sacred horse), a term re...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Cedar, Lacquer
Antique Japanese Karuma Tansu
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th c. Kuruma tansu - cabinet on wheels. These were used to store belongings and the wheels made them easy to move outside during house fires, which were...
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18th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Wood
$7,800 Sale Price
56% Off
Late Edo Period Sannin-kanjyo Figures or Three Court Ladies w. Wood Box Japan
Located in Miami, FL
Late Edo Period Dolls representing Sannin-kanjyo which means the three court ladies. They support and care for the emperor (Odairi-sama) and the empre...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Fabric, Wood
A frame with an old Japanese Buddhist woodblock print / amulet / 1800-1912
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a woodblock print made between the late Edo and Meiji periods (1800-1912).
It was originally a talisman given to visitors to temples as a good luck charm.
It is unclear which...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Paper
Kiku to Hagi Byobu, Rinpa School Style, Edo Period.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Chrysanthemum and Bush Clover painting on gold leaf six-panel folding screen, painted with clusters of leafy green chrysanthemum plants with white blossoms having moriage relief petals of gofun growing amidst pink blossoming bush clover within a bunched bush clover garden fence rendered in lighter gold relief, all on a background entirely of rich gold leaf. These two flowers are symbolic of Japan and the autumn season. The classic patterned paper verso with a Naga Antiques...
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Early 1800s Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Antique Shigaraki ware 17th Century / Pottery Vase Wabisabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old pottery pot made in Japan.
It is a very old pot believed to have been made in the 17th century, early Edo period, and is called Koshigaraki in Japan.
Koshigaraki refe...
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17th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Mid-18th Century Japanese Screen Pair, One Hundred Flowers, Chrysanthemums
Located in Kyoto, JP
Omori Soun (b. 1704)
Chrysanthemums - One Hundred Flowers
A Pair of Six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink, color, gofun and gold leaf on paper.
Dating ...
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Mid-18th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Antique Small Chest of Drawers, Keio Era (Edo Period, 1867), Wabi Sabi
Located in Hitachiomiya-shi, 08
This antique small chest of drawers was crafted in the Keio Era (1867).
Made from Japanese cedar and finished with traditional Japanese lacquer (urushi), the surface has developed a...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Cedar
Japanese Asian Large Edo Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screen Landscape Monkeys Trees
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous, wonderfully composed six-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen/room divider depicting a family of playful monkeys among the blooming trees and mountainous lands...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese antique wood carving "Kirin's legs" /1800s/Shrines and temples carvings
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
Do you know Kirin?
It is a type of legendary animal that appears in Chinese mythology, and is a spiritual animal that has been passed down in Japan since ancient times.
At first glan...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Wood
Antique Japanese wooden prayer beads / wall hanging object / 1800s
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a "Hyakumanben Nenbutsu Juzu" (Hyakumanben Nembutsu Prayer Beads), crafted between the late Edo and Meiji periods (19th century). Hyakumanben Nembutsu Juzu refers to the gian...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Wood
19th Century Japanese Cinnabar / Lacquer Cabinet
Located in Fulton, CA
Incredible example of Asian lacquer carving. Standing over seven feet tall, this monumental display shelf was produced in Japan at the end of the Ed...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
$21,500 Sale Price
49% Off
17th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Flock of Cranes. Ink and color on gold leaf.
Located in Kyoto, JP
A pair of six-fold Japanese screens from the 17th century depicting a flock of cranes arriving at their wintering grounds. The expansive scene is heavily atmospheric. The cranes are...
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17th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Mid 19th Century Framed Japanese Painting. Snail, Wasp & Hollyhock.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Obata Tosho (1812-1886)
Snail, Wasp & Hollyhock
Late Edo period, mid 19th Century
Framed Japanese Painting. Ink and color on paper.
Individually framed 19th century bird and flow...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Paper
Circa 1700 Japanese Screen Pair, Cranes & Pines, Kyoto Kano School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Pines and Cranes
Anonymous. Kyoto Kano School.
Late 17th/early 18th centuries, circa 1700.
Pair of six-panel Japanese folding screens.
Ink, gofun, pigment and gold leaf on paper.
This bold composition presents two pine trees extending to the left and right across a gold leaf background. One tree is silhouetted against a green ground, golden clouds obscuring its true size, the other stretches across a stylized waterway. The pines are paired with Manchurian cranes with red crests and snow white plumage. Both have been highly auspicious motifs in East Asia since Chinese antiquity. Here the artist utilized fluid and instinctive ink brushstrokes to define the trunk, branches and tail feathers, in strong contrast to the precision and sharp angularity of the crane’s legs and beaks. The adoption of this vast metallic painting support required an unerring sense of design and composition, so that the negative space surrounding motifs could imply context for the otherwise floating pictorial elements. The brushwork detailing the trunks of the pines, the exaggerated dimensions of the pine trees and the strength and dynamism of the composition are all reminiscent of Kano Eitoku...
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Late 17th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
1860s-80s Japanese antique mid size Urushi Tansu chest of drawers, wabi sabi
Located in 常陸大宮市, JP
Mid-size, Dark reddish brown Urushi lacquered Tansu chest of drawers made of Sugi cedar - a product of late Edo to early Meiji era (circa 1860s-1880s) , estimate from the style & con...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Wood, Cedar
19th Japanese antique Tsubo, washi paper covered pottery vase, wabi sabi jar pot
Located in 常陸大宮市, JP
From Tohoku area, Japan.
This Tsubo, pottery Jar is a product of late Edo to Meiji era (estimate 1860s-1910) estimate from the style & condition.
The surface is reinforced & coated...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Paper
Japanese Folding Screen Gold Leaf
Located in Brescia, IT
Byobu painted with mineral pigments on gold leaf, the quality of the painting is still excellent, with no color loss or restorations.
A classic four-panel screen depicting Mount Fuji...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Utagawa Kunisada Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Miami, FL
A fine, professionally framed original Japanese woodblock print attributed to the master Utagawa Kunisada (1786 – 1865), also known as Utagaw...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Edo Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paper
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
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