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ICHIBAN STARTING TO CLOSE DOWN. We are starting to close down our business, a process that will take us a couple of years - age and health issues tell us it is time.. We still have over 1,500 items either currently listed on our website catalog or still to be posted onto it. So, starting now, Oct.1, 2008, ALL ITEMS IN THE CATALOG MAY BE PURCHASED AT 40 % OFF THE LISTED PRICE. At these low prices, we do ask that you pay shipping and insurance charges for all items purchased. With thanks for your years of patronage, we look forward to serving you until the last items are sold. Cheers ~ Ichiban Antiques.

Haku Maki Print – “Hanto-64” Raku Chawan Fine Art: Prints: Woodcuts: Pre 2000   item# 722748  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD  A great print from 1994-1995 with a fine composition of a raku pottery tea bowl (chawan under a calligraphic Zen circle – all done on a faint silver circle which has been cut out and pasted to the backing mat. The print measures 1- ¾” by 9 ½” and is edition 38/211 – and is pencil signed, numbered and titled by the artist – it bears his red seal in the lower left corner. The print is in excellent condition and does not appear to have ever been framed. ...click for details

Shin Hanga Print - GOYO – "Woman Applying Makeup" Fine Art: Prints: Woodcuts: Pre 1990   item# 596150 (stock#ICHI 3542)  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 PLEASE INQUIRE  Hashiguchi Goyo (1881-1921) was one to the foremost Japanese print makers of the early 20th century. The print depicts a bijen-ga applying wearing a light summer kimono known as a yukata. The background is a very light whitish ping with ground mica that gives it a lustrous sheen. On the shawl the white flowers and the green background of the shawl are marked with fine gauffrage – best described as embossing that gives those sections a three dimensional aspect. The black lacquer back mirror held b ...click for details

A Woodblock Print by KOJIMA - 1980 Fine Art: Prints: Woodcuts: Pre 1990   item# 482205 (stock#Ichi 364)  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $295.00  A lovely print titled "Kimiko" by modern Japanese print maker, Kojima. The print depicts a beautiful lady (Bijin-ga) standing in front of a flowering bush - with a highly stylized branch framing her image. The print dates from 1980 and is an Artist's Proof. It measures 9 7/8" by 9" - the image is 4 3/4" by 3 1/2". Mint condition - never framed or matted.

A Superb Print by Haku Maki – "Camellia 1B" Fine Art: Prints: Woodcuts: Pre 2000   item# 471431  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD  This is one of our very favorite prints by Haku Maki – particularly because of the mixed media he employed in its execution. It would appear that Maki first made one of his innovative prints using his unique method of getting texture into a print by working the design in wet cement. The cement on which the designs are inscribed was then worked deeply and precisely, creating prints that look very different from those embossed through other processes. The print is that of a white camellia about to ...click for details

A Woodblock Print by Haku Maki - “Poem 71-40” Fine Art: Prints: Woodcuts: Pre 1980   item# 460519 (stock#Ichi 4220)  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $695.00  A pencil signed and pencil titled woodblock print with embossing by the noted listed contemporary artist Haku Maki (born 1924). The piece has an image size of 16" by 22 1/2" and is matted and housed in a 23" by 30" mat. Signature lower right. Titled in center (Poem 71-40) and numbered 137/156 lower left. The print is not laid down and it is hinged at the top with what appears to be proper print hinging material. There is only the faintest outline of the mat. The picture of th ...click for details

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