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Lacquer Tray
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Pre 1970 item# 938106 (stock# 771)
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Jim Knopf, Yokohama
$200, free shipping
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Tray
Japan, 20th century (c. 1960/70)
Lacquer (Wakasanuri)
H: 2.6 cm (1 inch), L: 35.5 cm (14 inch), D: 32.5 cm (12 4/5 inch)
This stunning Japanese tea tray displays the typical mottled orange, gold and black lacquer technique known as Wakasa-nuri.
The top and sides of the tray are beautifully decorated with wakasa-nuri lacquer. The base is finished with rich black roiro-nuri lacquer, a technique wherein the highest quality black urushi lacquer is applied and polished in several layers.
Wakasa was a provincial lacquer center which developed its own technique. In Wakasa-nuri, layers of different colored lacquers (predominantly brown, yellow-gold and orange) were applied to a ground deliberately rendered uneven by applying a paste, such as egg white or chalk, or by the addition of small pieces of egg shell, rice chaff, etc. Very thin gold or silver foil was then pressed so firmly into this “relief” that it fit the uneven surface like a skin. Then a coating of transparent lacquer was applied and, after it had hardened, everything was polished down to form a smooth surface. As a result, a mottled effect was created as the layers of colored lacquer under the gold foil reappeared in places to produce rather unusual patterns. The underlying gold leaf is responsible for the overall brown-gold nashiji-like effect.
Condition is perfect, minor wear.
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Two panel screen, by Yamauchi Issei, born 1929
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Pre 1980 item# 892904 (stock# 1510)
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Jim Knopf, Yokohama
$790, free shipping
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Yamauchi Issei, born 1929
Japan, Showa period, 20th century
Folding screen, two panels, Furosaki Byobu
Paper on paper
H: 28 1/3 inch, W: 70 4/5 inch (total width)
Yamauchi Issei, Living National Treasure (Obara dyied paper work) born in Aichi. Issei excels in paper art. Was first aprentice with Fujii Tatsukichi (1881-1964) in 1948. From 1953 on he exhibited repeatedly at the Nitten, for which he was also invited to serve as a juror several times.
Among Yamauchi Issei's commissions:
1958 gift to Douglas MacArthur (1957-1997), Ambassador to Japan 1957-1961, commissioned by the government of Aichi prefecture.
1962 gift to Edwin O.Reischauer (1910-1990), US-Ambassador to Japan 1961-1966; commissioned by the government of Aichi prefecture.
1970 gift to Armin H. Meyer (born 1914), US Ambassador to Japan 1969-72; commissioned by Toyota Motor Corporation.
1979 Gift to the Emperor of Japan; commissioned by the government of Aichi prefecture.
Among the prizes awarded to Issei Yamauchi:
the Gold Prize at the 1965 Nitten, the Ministry of Education New Crafts Prize in 1984, and in 1997 the Prime Minister's Prize.
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Black Raku, lid stand, Futaoki, by Ogawa Choraku
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Pre 1980 item# 891212 (stock# 1844)
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Jim Knopf, Yokohama
$390, free shipping
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Ogawa Choraku (1912-1991)
Japan, Showa period, 20th century
Glazed ceramic, black Raku
H: 2 1/4 inch, D: 2 1/3 inch
Original box, Tomobako
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Egoist, by Inui Tai, born 1929
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Pre 1980 item# 890440 (stock# 1442)
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Jim Knopf, Yokohama
$240, free shipping
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Inui Tai, born 1929
Japan, Showa period, 20th century
Wood block print on paper
H: 10 2/3 inch, W: 9 2/3 inch (print size)
H: 12 1/5 inch, W: 12 1/4 inch (paper size)
Sealed "Inui"
The poem by Kino Toyokawa reads:
You are not willing to see me,
and so, say "later" Egoist,
I know, you are. You might as well
flatly refuse my hoped-for tryst.
Manyoshu VIII, 1503
Translation by H.H.Honda
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Fischerman's ship, by Inui Tai, born 1929
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Pre 1980 item# 890438 (stock# 1441)
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Jim Knopf, Yokohama
$240, free shipping
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Inui Tai, born 1929
Japan, Showa period, 20th century
Wood block print on paper
H: 10 2/3 inch, W: 9 2/3 inch (print size)
H: 12 2/3 inch, W: 12 inch (paper size)
Sealed "Inui"
The poem by Yamabe no Akahito reads:
From Nawa Cove we see the distant isle,
and rowing in the foreground is a ship.
Whose ship? Perhaps some fisherman's.
Manyoshu III, 357
Tanslation by H.H.Honda
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Photograph: Bands of dyied textile, by Yamaoka Kaoru
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Pre 1980 item# 890119 (stock# 1154)
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Jim Knopf, Yokohama
$1200
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Yamaoka Kaoru (1921-1986)
Japan, Showa period, 20th century
Photograph, Gelatin-silver
H: 11 1/2 inch, W: 9 3/4 inch
Yamaoka Kaoru (1921-1986) was born the third and youngest daughter into a family of confectionery manufacturers in Aichi Prefecture. In 1946, after graduating with a degree in economics from Tokyo Kasei Gakuin (Tokyo Women’s University), she married a medical doctor and later moved to Shinichi (Hiroshima Prefecture). In March 1952, she co-founded an amateur photographers club for women called Noko-Club, and served as the club’s first president. Over the next few decades Yamaoka Kaoru participated in numerous photographic salons and exhibitions and won several prizes. Her career was cut short in 1972 when she contracted an eye disease. She was nearly blind for the final fourteen years of her life. She died in 1986 at the age of 65.
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Photograph: Dying II, by Yamaoka Kaoru
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Pre 1980 item# 890118 (stock# 1151)
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Jim Knopf, Yokohama
$1200
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Yamaoka Kaoru (1921-1986)
Japan, Showa period, 20th century
Photograph, Gelatin-silver
H: 11 4/5 inch, W: 9 3/4 inch
Yamaoka Kaoru (1921-1986) was born the third and youngest daughter into a family of confectionery manufacturers in Aichi Prefecture. In 1946, after graduating with a degree in economics from Tokyo Kasei Gakuin (Tokyo Women’s University), she married a medical doctor and later moved to Shinichi (Hiroshima Prefecture). In March 1952, she co-founded an amateur photographers club for women called Noko-Club, and served as the club’s first president. Over the next few decades Yamaoka Kaoru participated in numerous photographic salons and exhibitions and won several prizes. Her career was cut short in 1972 when she contracted an eye disease. She was nearly blind for the final fourteen years of her life. She died in 1986 at the age of 65.
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