Japanese Kyo-yaki Stoneware Suzuri (Inkstone) Mid. 19th. century, Edo Period
Diam. 13 ins. (33 cms) This remarkable piece is quite the largest suzuri we have ever seen! It is typical of the Kyoto wares heavily influenced by the 17th. century pottery of Ninsei. The two diametrically opposed panels show two cranes with bamboos on one side an ...click for details
Japanese Woodblock Printed Shunga Erotic Book. Toyokuni 1st. Ca. 1800
8 1/2 x 6 ins. (21.5 x 15.3 cms) Like most shunga books this work is not signed but is reliably attributed to Toyokuni 1st. and printed ca. 1800. There are 5 double sheet + 2 single sheet colour illustrations & 6 pages of monochrome text. The covers appear to be ori ...click for details
14 x 9 3/8 ins. (35.5 x 23.8 cms) This striking design is from Yoshitoshi's most celebrated series, Tsuki hyakushi (A Hundred Views of the Moon), published between 1885 and 1892 by Akiyama Buemon. This design is no.36. Takakura moon (Takakura no tsuki). After having plotted against Taira no Kiyomori in the year 1180, and having been found out, Prince Mochihito - brother of the deposed emperor Takakura - and his companion Munenobu flee from the Takakura mansion disguised in women's travel ...click for details
A Fine Japanese or Ryukyuan Lacquer Panel. 19th. century
6 x 6 x 5/16 ins. (15.2 x 15.2 x 0.7 cms) This beautifully executed panel has a design of a bird perched on fruit tree branch depicted in raised lacquer. This is the same design as one of our other listed panels but executed in a different technique. Areas of the leaves are executed i ...click for details
A Fine Japanese or Ryukyuan Lacquer Panel. 19th. century
6 x 6 x 5/16 ins. (15.2 x 15.2 x 0.7 cms) This beautifully executed panel has a design of a bird perched on a vine with leaves and seed pods depicted in flat and raised lacquer. This is the same design as one of our other listed panels but executed in a different technique of "mi ...click for details
A Fine Japanese or Ryukyuan Lacquer Panel. 19th. century
6 x 6 x 5/16 ins. (15.2 x 15.2 x 0.7 cms) This beautifully executed panel has a design of a bird perched on fruit tree branch depicted in flat and raised lacquer. This is the same design as one of our other listed panels but executed in a different technique of "mitsuda" lac ...click for details
A Fine Japanese or Ryukyuan Lacquer Panel. 19th. century
6 x 6 x 5/16 ins. (15.2 x 15.2 x 0.7 cms) This beautifully executed panel has a design of a bird perched on a vine amid leaves and seed pods depicted in raised lacquer. The style is very much that of the Ryukyu Islands the art of which is, as a consequence of their history, often a mi ...click for details
A Rare & Unusual Japanese Lacquer Box. Style of Ritsuo. Edo period 18th. Century.
10 1/4 x 6 3/4 x 3 1/4 ins. (26 x 17.2 x 8.3 cms) The ground of this box is simulated wood grain which appears to be achieved by applying layers of reddish brown lacquer, carving the wood grain to a remarkable similarity to deeply etched, weathered wood a ...click for details
A Fine Large Japanese Carved Oak Signed Portrait of a Lady. 1920/30s.
Ht. 17 ins. (43.2 cms) This unusual and powerful piece is carved from a solid block of oak. The piece is signed but we have been unable to identify the carver. The "mon" or crest of the kimono is probably that of the Kanamori family, an ancient Daimyo family des ...click for details
A Fine Japanese Lacquer Suzuri-bako in Original Box. 19th.c.
8 1/4 x 9 x 1 7/8 ins. (20.9 x 22.8 x 4.8 cms) This fine suzuri-bako writing box is in the original wood box, but unfortunately unsigned. The decoration of chidori (plovers) and key-fret patterns is finely inlaid in the raden shell technique. The edges are silver lacquer throughou ...click for details
A Large Japanese Stoneware Tokoname-yaki Tokkuri. Edo Period
Ht. 11 ins. (28 cms) This fine, almost monumental, tokkuri (sake bottle) is an excellent example of Tokoname-yaki. Even today Tokoname city is a major traditional pottery making centre in Aichi Province, was one of the classic 6 Medieval kilns of Japan with Seto, Echizen, Shigara ...click for details
A Japanese Woodblock Diptych Sumo Print by Toyokuni 3rd. Edo Period 1847/48
Assembled size 19 3/4 x 14 5/8 ins. (50.2 x 37.2 cms) This powerful design is a triptych which is lacking the left hand sheet. Originally multi sheet prints could also be bought individually, hence the artist, date and publication details on each sheet. There is some surface soiling and minor stains, several small neatly repaired worm holes and strengthening patches on the thinned paper at the bottom left corner of e ...click for details
A Fine Japanese Woodblock Printed Shunga (Erotic) Album 1850s. Edo
7 1/8 x 4 3/4 ins. (18.1 x 12 cms) This beautifully printed book is embellished with metallic pigments, and is an erotic parody of the Genji Monogatari (Tales of Genji), the world's first novel. The devices on the back cover and in the background of the second plate are Genji-mon, geometrical references to each chapter of the book. Following on from the frontispiece, showing a fan, a Go board and lamp, is a double folding ...click for details
A Fine Japanese Drawing attributed to Nakazawa Hiromitsu 1874-1964
9 1/2 x 7 3/16 ins. (24.2 x 18.3 cms) This charming drawing shows two school girls in costumes which are an attractive amalgam of Japanese and Western styles, a women to the right with long plaited hair and to the left a woman with long hair holding a flower with a cloth (towel?) across her arm. On her back is what appears to be a straw hat. The drawing comes from an album of sketches by Hiromitsu, Asai Chu and others. Although ...click for details
A Good Japanese Woodblock Print by Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942) from Momoyogusa 1909/1910
17 1/2 x 11 3/4 ins. (44.5 x 29.9 cms) Sekka created in 1909/10 one of the greatest of Japanese block printed albums in three volumes, Momoyogusa, variously translated as "World of Things" or "Flowers of 100 Worlds". The volumes were in folding format so the surviving prints all have a vertical centrefold. It was published by the great Kyoto publishers, Unsodo, who published a reprint ...click for details
