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Japanese Mingei Textile & Basket Bag
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Pre 1920 item# 15232
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7.25 x 5.5" base dimensions, basket alone 4.5" tall. Good condition with a few tiny holes in cloth (see photo). This type of basket often was used for carrying items for picnic related food and tea, but could also carry other belongings as well. The baskets were made in a variety of sizes, some apparently custom made to fit specific utensils or objects, often relating to both Japanese style tea ceremony (Chanoyu) as well as Chinese style (Sencha). The fabric appears to date from at least the Meiji Era, but the basket itself could date slightly later, approximately from the Meiji to Taisho Eras. Old fabrics are still highly valued today in Japan, where they continue to be used in in a long tradition of making custom fit bags for tea ceremony items such as chaire (tea jars), and in the contemporary art of doll making (ningyo). This is an unusual example of a type seldom seen outside of Japan.
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Japanese Kyushu Tokkuri Takeo Yumino Pottery
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Pre 1837 VR item# 15014
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Approx 10" tall. Old lacquer restoration at top of bottle neck, old chips on base. Dating Edo era, probably 18c. A similar example can be seen in the Nihon Mingei kan, Folk Art Museum in Tokyo. From the Takeo area, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. This marvelous sake bottle originates from the Takeo area near Karatsu and Arita: ceramics produced in this area, settled by Korean potters, were often called Takeo-garatsu, and included the better known Yumino wares. The vibrant and stylized painting well demonstrates the warmth and beauty of Japanese folk ceramics.
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Japanese Pottery Sake Pot Obori Soma
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Pre 1900 item# 15013
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Good condition, a chip at the spout. Dating 19th century. This sake pot appears in an upcoming issue of Daruma Magazine, in an article on Tohoku Ceramics. Obori Soma (or Ohori Soma) was one of a number of Soma kilns in Fukushima Prefecture which developed out of traditions transplanted from Kyoto in the 17th century, when the potter Gengoemon Tashiro was sent by the Soma Feudal Lord to study with the famed potter Ninsei. In 1690 a kiln known as Soma Han was opened by a servant named Sama of Obori, by the introduction of a potter from the Tashiro kiln, which soon after was placed under control of the Soma Daimyo in a special maintenance system of local people working half as farmers, and half as potters and kiln technicians. This pottery became known as Soma Obori ware. Producing utilitarian wares for commoners, the umbrella of “Soma Obori” actually represents a number of varieties of pottery by many families. As a sake pourer this is a very unusual example, and probably would have been made for ceremonial use. Please inquire for more information on Tohoku ceramics.
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Japanese Lacquer Folk Plate Sun Design
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Pre 1900 item# 11488
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8” diameter, excellent condition with normal enamel loss around rim, marked / carved on reverse. Dating likely Late Edo period (1600-1868), before 1860s. This simple and marvelous plate is a folk art type generally only seen in the West in museum folk art collections. The elegant and simple design of the sun is done in either lacquer or an oil paint method known s “mitsuda-e”. This method, popular during the Edo Era for folk lacquers, used oil paints similar to those in the West, but the technique seems to be derived from a similar one common in China during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1844).
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Japanese Tsutsumi Folk Pottery Jar
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Pre 1920 item# 11485
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10” x 5.3”, excellent condition, dating likely to the late 19c. It is popularly believed that pottery at Tsutsumi in Miyagi Prefecture in the Tohoku region of Northern was first made in the Genroku Era (1688-1703) when the Tsunamura Date asked a potter to come to Sendai from Tokyo. While production almost stopped in the Meiji Era, it was revived and survived into the 20th century. Tsutsumi is best known for producing massive utilitarian jars for water storage, one of which is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, and others which are common in other Mingei (folk art) collections. Glazes were blue, black and brown, usually a bluish mottled glaze (namako) poured over a black or brown glazed base, like this example. Interestingly this is a rare small size. Please inquire for other Tohoku region ceramics.
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Japanese Folk Lacquer Sake Pourer
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Pre 1900 item# 10203
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Edo Era, 19th century or slightly earlier. 10” wide, 5.5” tall. Very good condition, a light faint crack near spout, due to humidity shift between Japan and America, and very common on medium to large pieces of lacquer brought out of Japan. A few minor chips visible in photo. This type of choshi, or wine pourers, have been used traditionally at shrines and temples for ceremonial purposes for weddings and other events. The tradition appears to have evolved from rites in the Japanese native Shinto religion, as sake was once produced by each family and offered to the gods on special occasions and festivals. Wine pourers of this form were made in a variety of sizes, and painted and lacquered in variations of black, red, and sometimes gold. These are seen in most museum collections of Japanese folk art.
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Tea Ceremony Chawan Koetsu Black Raku
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Pre 1920 item# 10064
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Dimensions 3.75 x 3”, with a slightly larger box and silk bag. Dating 20th century. Perfect condition with gold accents. Honami Koetsu (1558-1637) was a Momoyama era tea ceremony potter, lacquer artist and calligrapher who concentrated his work almost entirely on tea bowls; he was the creator of the most famous tea bowl in Japan, known as “Fujisan”, done in Raku. His pottery is generally considered a raku type pottery, and his style was distinct in form from other tea ceremony potters working at the time. He was enormously influential in Japanese pottery and continues to inspire potters through to the present day. This 20th century example appears to originate from the Koetsu temple (characters marked inside box), and the piece itself has been titled “Takamine”, or “Hawk on a Mountain”. It is described on the box (Tomobako) as a Koetsu copy. The two gold lines are not repairs but part of the original piece. The bowl is accompanied by a silk shifuku case (see photos).
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Japanese Tea Ceremony Chawan Ohi
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Pre 1990 item# 8528
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Bowl 5” x 4”, box slightly larger. Excellent condition, no damage. The pottery known as “Ohi” originated from a village by that name in Eastern Kanazawa, Japan. The original pottery is said to have been first made by Chozaemon in 1683, who was the brother of the Raku family potter Ichiyu. Edward Morse in his turn of the century book on Japanese pottery claimed the Ohi mark was first used in 1780; it continues to be used today. Ohi pottery bears a strong resemblance to Raku; it is soft, lightweight, and similar in form, however its glaze is a distinctive rich red yellow color earning the name “honey glaze” by the Japanese. This bowl was made by a Kanazawa potter working in the Ohi tradition,who is now in his seventies, named Katagiri Ippei. It is signed and marked with his personal mark, a variation of the Ohi mark. The bowl was probably made within the last twenty five years. The box reads “Okusuayaki chawan, made by Katagiri Ippei”.
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