Japanese Ranma Panel Island Scene
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Pre 1920 item# 648590 (stock#62-31)
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This long carved panel from Japan's late Meiji Period shows two sailboats passing behind an island in the center foreground. Distant mountains are seen in the background to one side; the sea with small boats to the other side. Pierced carving allowed the scene to be viewed from either side of the panel, which was used as a transom, called a ranma, in a traditional Japanese house. Hung above wide sliding doors, the ranma provided soft light and air circulation to living areas on both sides of ...click for details
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Japanese Ranma Curved Bridge Scene
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Pre 1910 item# 635842 (stock#62-30)
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This Japanese ranma (interior transom) from the late Meiji Period shows a graceful curved bridge (taiko-bashi) leading across calm water to a grove of trees. The quiet scene, created with pierced carving on a nicely grained wood panel, is framed with a narrow black lacquered liner and an outer red lacquered frame. Used in a traditional Japanese wood house as a transom over sliding doors (fusuma), the panel's pierced carving was viewable from either side of the doors and also allowed filtered ...click for details
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Headboard Size Japanese Ranma Tree Design
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Pre 1910 item# 635464 (stock#62-28)
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From the late Meiji Period, this Japanese interior transom (ranma) is a suitable size for a decorative headboard, to hang over a wide fireplace or to use in place of a painting to add depth and texture to a light wall. The design is a simple one of six trees, a few tufts of grass and the suggestion of low hills, which gives the piece a contemporary look. This type of carving suggests a brush painting with its spare use of a few fine lines to depict nature. The nicely grained wood panel is framed ...click for details
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Japanese Ranma Mount Fuji Scene
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Pre 1910 item# 635048 (stock#62-29)
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This Japanese interior transom (ranma) from the late Meiji period shows Mount Fuji as it is seen from the Izu Peninsula looking inland across Suruga Bay. Rescued from old wood houses, ranma are perfectly sized for use as decorative headboards or to hang over a wide fireplace. The original use of the ranma was integral to the architecture of traditional Japanese frame houses, which were built with pillars supporting the roofs so that load bearing interior walls were not necessary. Instead, moveab ...click for details
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Japanese Ranma Coastal Scene
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Pre 1910 item# 634733 (stock#62-27)
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This Japanese Meiji interior transom (ranma) is the perfect size for use as a decorative headboard. A tranquil seaside scene carved into the nicely grained wood shows cypress trees and a lighthouse in the foreground with small boats riding gentle waves in the distance. The panel is framed with a narrow black lacquered liner set within a dark red lacquered outer frame. Ranma were an integral part of the architecture of the old Japanese frame houses. The roofs of these houses were supported by pil ...click for details
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