A really beautiful Nashiji little box.
Small and lovely size installed on one hand.
The gold and silver lacquer is magnificent and a detailed technique to be surprised is wonderful.
It has extraordinary work of gold Takamakie(rise makie) of aster and bellflower with gold finish,and a half-moon with silver finish.

The condition of box is excellent, no chip, no crack and no hairline...

Beautiful lacquered tray decorated gold makie with peony design.
The tray made 100 years or more before now.

It has very lovely atmosphere.
Tray is done by Nashiji finish.
The gold color with Nashiji interior is very brightly.

The condition is great for this kind old age. No crack and no chip.
There is some very minor wear on the edge by age...

Dating from Meiji.
The 4th generation Kiyomizu Rokubei(1848-1920)work.

The kyo-yaki earthenware bowl is called "mukouzuke" which is a side dish(not rice or soup) at a Japanese style banquet.

Kiyomizu Rokubei is one of the head families of Kyoto ceramic ware.
The first generation Kiyomizu Rokubei is started to Kyoto Gojo-zaka in the second half of Edo.
A style is left to each family heads' creativity...

Japanese Bizen ware Chaire or tea caddy with a ivory lid by "Mori Touraku-an" .

Date: Meiji era, early 20th century.

"Katatsuki" has pronounced shoulders near the neck.
"Chaire" is a tea caddy, usually ceramic, used to hold strong tea at a tea ceremony.

Mori Touraku-an is one of the most famous pottery producer in Bizen(Okayama prefecture), and one of the "Kamamoto Roku Sei".
There are six great major pottery producer at Bizen ware.
Signed "Touraku-an" on the ...

Yutou is the wooden tool which attached the mouth and the handle for pouring the hot water and sake.
There are many lacquered things.

Both of patterns of the Tokugawa family hollyhock crest which is a shogun family of the Edo period and the Imperial Household's mark of the chrysanthemum are ornamented on the surface of this jug...

Date : Meiji era(1868-1912).

Japanese incense case is made from 100% ivory.
It has fine patina due to the old age.
The condition is in very good.No chip and no cracks.
Some discoloration is just an ivory taste and just the merit of a curio.
It become portable if you let a braid pass in the middle of a case.

It comes with wooden kiri-box,Tomobako.Unsigned.

Measurements about : 5.7cm(2.24")Body Diameter, 2.8cm(1.10")Tall, 81g Total Weight of the Ivory...

100% natural ivory tea caddy with fine condition.
It is not a crack that seems to have discolored thinly with the photograph.
It is tone peculiar to ivory.

It has beautiful gold leaf on the back of the lid.
It is a skillfulness of workmanship.

It comes with wooden kiri-box,Tomobako.
Date : Showa era, the 1960~70s.

Measurements about : 3.1cm(1.22")Mouth Diameter, 4.4cm(1.73")Body Diameter, 7.3cm(2.87")Tall, Total Weight of the Ivory 44g...

This item is the tools of Kodo, to activities such the incense-comparing games "Kumiko".

10 kind of the small wooden card "Kofuda", the chrysanthemum shaped white shell "Ginyo-ban" and the original wooden box for keep.

The condition is in excellent.
Black wood is a real ebony.
It comes with original wooden kiri-box, Tomobako.

Measurements about : The box of the Ginyo-ban, 16.3cm(6.41") X 7.2cm(2.83") X 2.5cm(0.98").
Wooden card, 2.6cm(1.02") X 1.3cm(0.51") X 0.2...

Suwa Sozan(1851-1922)works.
A celadon incense burner with neat form and simple design and carved in silver made globe with phoenix design.
The scene in which a scent is emitted from the phoenix danced on a globe is imagined.

Suwa Sozan came from a military family.
He worked in porcelain, first in Tokyo in 1875; from 1879 to 1900 he worked in Ishikawa-ken, then moved to Kyoto, where he worked with Kinkozan until 1906, when he set up his own workshop in Gojozaka.
He seems to...

Very charming shaped incense case with brilliant makie.
In inside, it is decorated with Japanese residence of in old Heian style beside a songbird perches on a gnarled plum blossom tree and pine tree.
In the other one inside, it is decorated with a elegant ox-drawn court carriage beside a wild aster flower and fleecy cloud in spring.
There are decorated in rise makie with skillful technique in Edo era, 19st century...