Dragon in the clouds, wooden inlaid panel, Japan
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Wooden panel, presumably keyaki, inlaid and mounted with pieces of wood and stagantler in the shape of a celestial dragon, surrounded by islands of clouds. The pieces are mounted partly with the help of nails. The inlay in the upper left corner is engraved with the name Ichiryu. No craftsman with that name is known to have been working in stagantler. Japan, Taisho or early Showa period. Framed in a faux-bamboo frame from the same period.
Measurements: 20.5 x 23 inches (52 x 58.4 cm); with frame 1.75 inches (4.4 cm) thick.
Excellent condition. Signature plate has been re-fitted.
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Mortuary tablet with painting of Emma-O and hell, Japan
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Pre 1900 item# 955755 (stock# 10595)
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Wooden ihai or mortuary tablet, the top crowned with clouds. This type of object usually holds the posthumous Buddhist name of a deceased and is placed in a butsudan. The ihai can also be used to pay homage to, for instance, a certain sutra. In this case a homage to one of the Kings of Hell. The ihai is decorated with the triple begonia-mon of the Tokogawa family. Lacquer on wood.
The painting, in black ink and color on paper behind glass, shows Emma-O, the judge of hell of the 35th day, surrounded by his attributes, Datsueba and other assistants and the soul of a deceased that he is about to judge. Some of the punishments for sins are being depicted in the background. Japan, 19th century.
Height: 29.8 inches (75.8 cm).
Very good condition, few abrasions.
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Book: The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art
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Pre 1980 item# 949969 (stock# 10596)
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The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art
Consulting editors: Katsuichiro Kamei, Seiichiro Takahashi, Ichimatsu Tanaka,
New York/Tokyo: Weatherhill/Heibonsha 1972-1976.
The complete series:
Vol 1: Major Themes in Japanese Art Itsuji Yoshikawa ; Vol 2: The Beginnings of Japanese Art Namio Egami ; Vol 3: Shinto: Ise and Izumo Shrines Yasutada Watanabe ; Vol 4: Asuka buddhist Art: Horyu-ji Seiichi Mizuno ; Vol 5: Nara Buddhist Art: Todai-ji Tsuyoshi Kobayashi ; Vol 6: The Silk Road and the Shoso-in Ryoichi Hayashi ; Vol 7: Temples of Nara and their Art Minoru Ooka ; Vol 8: Art in Japanese esoteric Buddhism Takaaki Sawa ; Vol 9: Heian Temples: Ryodo-in and Chuson-ji Toshio Fukuyama ; Vol 10: Painting in the Yamato Style Saburo Ienaga ; Vol 11: Sculpture of the Kamakura Period Hisashi Mori ; Vol 12: Japanese Ink Painting: Shubun to Sesshu Ichimatsu Tanaka ; Vol 13: Feudal Architecture of Japan Kiyoshi Hirai ; Vol 14: Momoyama Decorative Painting Tsuguyoshi Doi ; Vol 15: Japanese Art and the Tea Ceremony T. Hayashi, M. Nakamura, S. Hayashiya ; Vol 16: Japanese Costume and Textile Arts Seiroku Noma ; Vol 17: Momoyama Genre Painting Yuzo Yamane ; Vol 18: Edo Painting: Sotatsu and Korin Hiroshi Mizuo ; Vol 19: The Namban Art of Japan Yoshitomo Okamoto ; Vol 20: Edo Architecture: Katsura and Nikko Naomi Okawa ; Vol 21: Traditional Domestic Architecture of Japan Teiji Itoh ; Vol 22: Traditional Woodblock Prints of Japan Seiichiro Takahashi ; Vol 23: Japanese Painting in the Literati Style Yoshiho Yonezawa and Chu Yoshizawa ; Vol 24: Modern Currents in Japanese Art Michiaki Kawakita ; Vol 25: Japanese Art in World Perspective Toru Terada ; Vol 26: Folk Arts and Crafts of Japan Kageo Muraoka and Kichiemon Okamura ; Vol 27: The Art of Japanese Calligraphy Yujiro Nakata ; Vol 28: The Garden Art of Japan Masao Hayakawa ; Vol 29: The Art of Japanese Ceramics Tsugio Mikami ; Vol 30: Japanese Art: A Cultural Appreciation ; Vol 31: General Index.
No dust jackets, some traces of usage, mostly good to very good condition.
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Zushi with figure of a horse, Japan, Meiji period, 19th
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Pre 1900 item# 940618 (stock# 10593)
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Highly unusual shrine with the image of a horse looking back. The horse has a brocade cover over his back and is standing behind a mesh wire fence, the way they would be kept in temple compounds. Polychoromed wood with some gold details. The roof of the shrine is a separate piece. Japan, Meiji period, 19th century.
Height of zushi ca. 7.8 inches (19.5 cm).
Frontal baldachin dislodged but still extant, one door lost its hinge-functions (triangular splinter on right door on last photo), some chipping of the paint on brocade cover of horse. Otherwise very good condition.
This piece needs to be seen as a form of ema, which were offered to temples and shrines as a calling to the deity. The horse is seen to be used by various deities.
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Gorinto, reliquary, rock crystal, Japan, Edo Period
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Pre 1900 item# 940167 (stock# 10592)
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Small reliquary, in the shape of a five-element stupa, gorinto, made of rock crystal. The stupa is built according to the Five Elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether). The base is octagonal in shape (which may be square, as well), as is the bottom part of the cover (which may be triangular, as well). The reliquary is made of two pieces of crystal: earth and water (the water segment can hold the relic); fire, air and ether. Japan, prob. 18/19th century.
Height 6 7/8 inches (17.5 cm)
Some tiny chips at edge of stopper, otherwise excellent condition.
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Zushi with figure of Amida Buddha, Japan, 18th century
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Pre 1800 item# 940163 (stock# 10591)
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Very elaborate double-hinged door shrine with the wooden figure of a sitting Amida Buddha, both hands in mudra before him. Behind his head and back a double mandorla. Amida is sitting on a lotus pedestal on top of a multi-tiered base in flower-shaped profile. His garment decorated in fine gold hand painted flower and geometric patterns. All details of the base accentuated in hand painted gold.
The outside of the zushi in red lacquer with a tiny carving of a phoenix on the top front, richly engraved hardware. The inside of the zushi doors decorated with lotus flowers in gold and mineral colors on gold. The baldachin decorated in mineral colors and gold with Buddhist symbols.
Extremely fine carving of Buddha, mandorla and base.
Japan, Edo period 18/19th century.
Height of zushi ca. 3.9 inches (9.7 cm).
Painting on the inside doors rubbed, fraction of tip of mandorla missing, carving in excellent condition.
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Zushi with figure of Amida Buddha, Japan, 18th century
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Pre 1837 VR item# 939228 (stock# 10590)
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Very small shrine with the wooden figure of a standing Amida Buddha, both hands in mudra. Behind his head a round mandorla. Amida is standing on a lotus pedestal surrounded by whirling clouds. His garment decorated in fine gold hand painted flower and geometric patterns. The inside of the zushi decorated with geometric design in gold on gold. The inside of the roof decorated with a lotus pod in gold on gold.
Extremely fine carving of Buddha. The clouds are deeply cut, gilded and touched with some color, as is the amndorla. The shrine can be hung from a small eyelet on its roof. Japan, Edo period 18/19th century.
Height of zushi ca. 3.9 inches (9.7 cm).
Gilding on doors minimally rubbed. Excellent condition.
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Wooden fumi-e, crucifix, Japan, Edo period
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Wooden step-on image of Christ on the cross on a hillside. To his right another cross. The scene carved in relief, the background in low relief. On the back, carved in low relief, a crane or stork in the hills. Rather dense but light weighted wood that resembles tagayasan wood (so-called iron wood). Japan, Edo period.
10.1 x 6.75 x 0.75 inches (25.3 x 16.9 x 2 cm).
Surface strongly rubbed, cracks, dents, burned spots in lower edge.
Step-on pictures, or fumi-e, or ebumi, were images of the Virgin Mary or of Jesus that Japanese authorities used to make people step upon to test their faith in Christianity. Once a year a whole village or region under the rule of a certain daimyo had to come to a certain place where they were forced to step on the picture. This practice was executed during the Tokugawa regime, in an effort to ban Christianity from the country. By 1629 this practice was generally spread throughout Japan and it was only abandoned completely at the beginning of the Meiji period. All kinds of media were used to make images: wood, stone, prints and bronze. Not many fumi-e survived.
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Wooden figure of standing nude woman, Japan, Showa era
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Pre 1970 item# 935635 (stock# 10586)
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Elegant wooden sculpture of a nude woman, standing in a pensive pose, one knee slightly bent, her chin resting in her right hand. The wood is sculpted in a slightly faceted manner, giving the piece an almost abstract feel. Soft wood with green, yellow and oil based paint. Piece let into a square wooden base. Exhibition label at the base. Titel: Fumiko. Name of participant: Sakaba Yasuo. Address in the Tokyo Arakawa-ward, Nishi-Ogu. The venue: Sokei exhibition, which is the Art Academy in Tokyo. Japan, second half 20th century, prob. 1960s.
Height ca. 18.6 inches (46.5 cm)
Few material cracks that were there right from creation.
Today, in Tokyo in Arakawa ward along the river Sumida, in Higashi-Ogu, there still is a Sakaba family member who carves wooden Buddhist sculptures.
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Bronze reliquary in zushi, Japan, Momoyama period
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Small shrine with inside a reliquary or sharito in the shape of a flaming wish-granting jewel. Crystal jewel holding relics. The reliquary made of gilded bronze with fine engraved and punched decoration. Japan, Momoyama period (ca. 1568-1600).
Height sharito: 4.1 inches (10.4 cm); height zushi: 5.4 inches (13.5 cm).
Gilding of sharito virtually rubbed off, otherwise good condition. Zushi with traces of usage.
A very similar sharito is illustrated in Ultimate Sanctuaries: The Aesthetics of Buddhist Relic Worship, Nara National Museum, 2001, p. 158, dated Muromachi period. The shape of the flames and the decoration on the flames is very similar. The piece in the catalogue has most of its gilding.
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Bronze candlesticks, Ashinaga, Tenaga, Japan, Meiji era
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Pre 1900 item# 935018 (stock# 10583)
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Highly unusual pair of candlesticks in the shape of the eccentric duo Ashinaga and Tenaga. Tenaga is crouching on the ground, his arms stretched high above him, holding a lotus leaf shaped cup that should hold the candle. Ashinaga is standing next to a jar used for fishing, holding a lotus leaf shaped cup stretched above his head. Both their faces show strain in their efforts to hold the cups as high as possible. Beautifully patinated bronze. Japan, Meiji period, 19th century.
Height: Ca. 27.2 inches and 28.1 inches (68 cm and 70.3 cm).
Excellent condition.
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