Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese (419)

This is Japanese meiji zanshi weave noragi hanten textile. It does not have a stain and damage and is in a very good state.Zanshi, or kuzuito, is cloth that is woven from threads either leftover from home production of yarn making, or from broken threads that were purchased from local commercial weavers. size:92cm x 123cm (36.2" x 48.4")

It is gosyo-katsugi(imperial palace katsugi) in the Edo age of this.This katsugi is a museum class. Please add to your collection. It is katsugi of Kyoto. This is a rare very valuable excellent article. Daimon in surroundings of the neck is tsutsugaki(frieehand paste-resist decoration). It is a dye of the indigo dye and the Indian ink. Katazome(paste-resist stencil decoration) of komon is made from dangawari. The katazome part near the chest uses the dye of thin yellow on...

This is Asamai-sibori of the Akita area of the Edo era. It is dyed with an indigo plant of nature. This is good-quality thick cotton spun by hand. This is woven with a good-quality cotton thread spun in the country. The feel is good, and it is comfortable to eyes. A technique of good Shibori was introduced into the Asamai district from the Narumi district late in the Edo era. This is an expression method of early Asamai-Shibori. It is the simplest expression method of good-quality Shibori...

This is long Coat which Kagokaki wore for Edo period. This is dyed repeatedly many times by a beautiful natural indigo plant. It is an original act in this respect. Therefore an indigo plant is left densely. As for this which this is Katazome of most Tsutsugaki and some parts, and is produced, cotton spun by hand is thick. This cotton is typical cotton used in country side. For Edo period, much local cotton can watch the taste that is great Folky...

This is tsutsugaki & handwriting fireman's cotton coat sashiko hanten coat of a splendid firefighter of the late Tokugawa period of the Edo era(1800-1867). A fight of kawanakajima is a design. It is a very high technique. A samurai (takeda shingen and uesugi kenshin) and a horse are drawn and are also the uplifting feeling and the excitement which seem to begin to move shortly. And there is sashiko stitch on the entire surface by hand. As for it, length is longish with 92cm...

This is Japanese EDo Indigo dye asamai-shibori dangawari-dye kimono. All asamai-shibori was made from the hand. The indigo dye is indigo of nature. It is a technology that dangawari is high. It is very charming. This was washed in water. There is a little stain. There is no damage. The state is very good. The techniques of several kinds of shibori are expressed in this one kimono. It is very beautiful, and wonderful. It is thick cotton. The part of the sleeve is fabric at the Showa era...

This is a child kimono of the Tohoku district of Edo period. This is Tsutsugaki where a face is very sharp...

This Noshime hira-ori silk -kasuri samurai kimono is Edo period(1800-1850). HIra-ori is wonderful beautiful lustrous silk. This kimono is samurai's clothes. When entering the castle, it put it on. It puts on the hakama and the old ceremonial dress on this kimono. It is the one at the end of shogunate of Edo period.This family coat of arms was able to use high samurai of the rank who assumed a person of court noble and Imperial a representative.It has slight damage around a thin stain and colla...

This is tsutsugaki Fireman shirushi hanten coat in Edo period(1603-1867). It is very impressive hanten of the design of the dragon. The material is seems to be hand spun in thick indigo dye cotton. It is very beautiful.It is made of hand-spun and hand-woven and natural indigo dyed cotton. There is a stain. There is no damage. It is very good. size:88cm x 127cm (34.6" x 49,8")

This is one of the best Shounai-Noren used in Shonai, Yamagata area for Edo period. As for the hemp of this item, a delicate thread spun by hand is used. The pattern is full of Chadougu which was popular in Shikoku. Chadougu is an instrument used at tea ceremony. The Chadougu design reached shounai by a goods-carrying merchant ship. The artist Fujita displayed cloth full of Chadougu in the atelier of Japan. There was the picture near a great painter without sense of incongruity. As fo...

This is Folk art boro Leather haori of the indigo dye rare of the Edo era. The change of the color and a leather wrinkle are very charming. It has the change of a stain and the color and a small hole. However, It is a good state. I recommend this to collection of you. size:102cm x 135cm (40.2" x 53.1")

Japanese antique shiko & benibana-dye itajime(katazome) silk child kimono yosegire(patched) edo era(1800-1867).It is shiko & benibana-dyeing of natural.It has a few thin stains. However, The stain does not stand out.It is no damage.They are not disturbing, and as a whole it is in very good condition. size:Length 104cm (24.9inch) sleeve to sleeve 96cm (37.7inch)

It is considered that the sacredness which symbolizes the crop of a rich grape tree is a tree.The tree of the grape has a feeling of a lively motion very much. This is a "yogi", a kind of futon in the shape of kimono made of hand-spun cotton of Edo era (1800-1867). It is stuffed with cotton and has hand-spun cotton lining dyed with vegetable color. It is damage few very good condition.The motif of the tree of this grape is very rare and precious tsutsugaki textile. I recommend this tsutsugaki...

This is boro Tattered noragi textile of the excellent Edo era(1800-1867)rare.This is an original of the rare Edo era(1800-1867). It is unusual boro noragi farm wear of Niigata region.It is any variMous patterned fragments ( stencil or tie-dyeing, stripe..etc) was stitched with hemp thread. It is made of hand-spun cotton dyed with natural indigo. The stitches are hemp threads.The stitch is all hemp thread of the Edo era and does a stitch by hand.It can enjoy both sides. I recommend this to collec...

This is Tsutsugaki Yogi of the indigo dyeing tea service set of the Edo era. The cotton is spun by hand and is very thick. A color of the cloth is deep green. The green dyeing needs a technique higher than the dyeing only for indigo plants. Therefore it is a color required to the item of the upper class. And this was drawn in a good balance in very powerful Tsutsubiki. As for this, an instrument is expressed three-dimensionally. This bold picture and design were able to be produced only by Tsu...

This is a rare museum item. This is kimono for a child with design of blossoming cherries, fans, and hemp shibori tie-dyeing. It is the one at the Meiji era. It is kimono explained in this book. (Kyouto shoin's art library of japanese textile No.11 Japanese Tie-dyeingIt page 16) dyes it with a very valuable safflower. Moreover, it is very unusual and valuable that there is a motif of the rising-sun flag in the design. There are a thin stain and a small hole. However, the state is very ...

This is personal ornaments of a horse used in the Tohoku district for Edo period. The item giving glory to a horse is called Umakake. This is dyed with a natural indigo plant and other dye. As for this, a thread spun by hand by cotton cloth is used. The influential person of the village had this type of item. In this district, the upper Tsutsugaki technology was used for the personal ornaments of the horse. And the personal ornaments of the horse were rented to people for the celebration of othe...

This is the clothes which a fire fighter of Edo period wore inside of Sashiko Hanten. This is the very rare item which the person of waterfall ascetic practices was drawn on to a back in Tsutsugaki. This picture does one of the famous programs of Kabuki in a motif. The cotton is spun by hand. And it is slightly thick. This has several places of fading and tears. This has small damage on a collar and a shoulder. However, I do not feel the state. Size 67cm x 90cm (26.3 "x 35.4")

This is very a silk Fukusa cloth of the highest class in Edo period(1800-1850). There is neither stain nor damage, too. There is a part where the color changes into the lining. It is a great condition. Everything is embroidered by the hand with silk. It recommends it for your collection. It is a design of the five festival days in Japan. Culture and manners on turning point of season (Refer it) at the festival of five ([sekku]) that holds a traditional annual event and the day when it beco...

This is Indigo dye cotton shibori & katazome yogi textile of the last part of Edo era(1800-1868).It is made of hand-spun and hand-woven and natural indigo dyed cotton. It has a stain to a little damage and lining. However, it does not stand out.It has one repair trace. It is very good condition. size:150cm x 140cm (59.0" x 55.1")

This is indigo dye sashiko noragi naga-hanten of Aomori Prefecture of the Meiji era(1868-1912). cotton seems to be hand spun and woven. All sashiko was stitched by the hand. It is very beautiful. There is neither stain nor damage. I recommend it for your collection. size:108cm x 118cm (42.5" x 46.5")

This is Edo yosegire Patchwork itajime katazome chirimen-silk kimono in Edo period(1603-1868). This is very beautiful yosegire kimono. In the skirt part of the lining, it is cotton and there is damage. There is a little, thin stain. However, it is not remarkable. I recommend this for your collection. size:134cm x 125cm(52.8" x 49.2")

This is Swan 's wing Weave haori coat very rare at the end of bakumatsu of Edo period(1852-1867). This was made in the Tohoku region. There are a water-repellent effect and an effect of heat insulation of swan's shuttlecock. Textile seems to be hand spun and woven.It is little, is thin, and it sees. There is no damage. The lining is silk. There is a little repair mark in the lining. The cloth is strong and the state is very good. It is wonderful textile.It is also possible to enjoy putting it on...