A large size tsutsu chawan or a tea bowl specifically used during the winter season. The tea bowl is done in a glaze often seen in Hagi ware known as biwa yu or a glaze similar to the color of loquats.

The large size is rather unsual and not often seen in comparison to the standard size tsutsu chawan.

Age: Late 20th century.

Size: Diameter 4.3 in : Height 4.1 in

In Japanese the term used for glass was giyama or giaman. The term is thought to originate from either the Dutch or English (many terms were incorporated from Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, and English during the 18th and 19th centuries).

Cut glass technology first appeared in Satsuma in Kyushu during the late Edo Period around the 1840-1850 period...

Fluted sterling silver bowl. Japanese silver crafts have known internationally for the quality and purity of silver used in its pieces. The bowl can be used in the way of tea as a container for sweets or to be used in the home for a special occasion.

Piece contains a mark reading jungin, the notation used to denote Japanese sterling silver which is close to 96-98 percent purity.

Age: Late Showa Period (1960-1970)

Size:Diameter 7.25". Height 2.25"

This scroll records the visit of the Zen master Arai to the island of Hawaii in the 1930s. Arai, a monk with some distinction, visits Nuuanu Pali, a battlefield. The scroll reads:

All the eight islands of Hawaii thinking like sages, everyone is past and rested is the debate on ethnicity, people were all originally from the surrounding ocean and from the womb.

The exterior of the box is inscribed with the title of the piece, Zen Master Arai's visit to Hawaii...

A Meiji period wood carving of bodhidharma inscribed with the phrase, nana korobi ya oki or "To fall down seven times and to get up eight". No matter what the situation is one always has the power to recover.

Age: 19th-20th century.

Size: 16" H x 28" L x 1 1/2" thick

The term bajouhai has associations with the samurai culture. Uesugi Kenshin, war lord who ruled most of the region known as Echizen was known to use a bajouhai, not for tea, but for sake...

This scroll records the visit of the Zen master Arai to the island of Hawaii in the 1930s. Arai, a monk with some distinction, visits Nuuanu Pali, a battlefield. The scroll reads:

Japanese: Dangai zeppeki atsumete kaku nari. Manmoku kaze to hikari ni kezurare gyokusei kosenjo eikou musai. Hanbun no yama ha kumo ame ni owarete, ato no hanbun wa hare.

English: Gatherting thoughts to portray the high cliffs, the eyes are full of the landscape carved by wind and light...

Copper water pot used during a tea gathering to fill the mizusashi or other utensils used with water. The container contains a whirlpool like motif which originates from the Mediterranean and travelled on the silk road influencing Chinese and Japanese designs.

Diameter: 7.29" Height: 9.25"

Square censer done in Japanese makie decorated with motifs of folding fans with images of pine, plum, and bamboo. The censer contains a silver container and lid decorated with wave, cloud, and floral motifs.

Age: Showa Period.

Size:Length and width 4" height 5.5"

Round in its shape, simple, and clean. This round kobhiki mizusashi was produced by the Kozan kiln. Konahiki is a term often used in Korean wares where a white color glaze is used and enjoyed when water seeps in the kannyu or the pores and slight kiln cracks. The mizusashi was produced by Okumura Kozan (1933~) who was educated in Kyoto's schools that train potters and artists. In 1994, Kozan participated in the Haizan Kogeimura or the artist's village.

Age: 20th century...

Asahina Sogen, Beppo (1891-1979) Abbot of the Engakuji Monastery in Kamakura and is known in the West for his writings on zen as well as training several Western monastics. The calligraphy shown is a zen expression, ichi kenkon man ni ari, or the everything can be found in heaven and earth.

Age: Showa Era (around 1960-1970).

Size: Scroll: 57.75" x 15.5" with ends: 18".

Nabeshima ware vase with a carefully painted motif of a dragon swimming in a body of water. Nabeshima ware, among all the porcelain wares produced on the island of Kyushu was considered to be the highest in class including Hirado ware where the Lord of Saga would offer Nabeshima pieces to the Shogunate in Edo as tributaries.

The work was done during the mid to late Showa era and contains a signature on the bottom with the name of the kiln.

Size: Diameter 7.25" Height 11"