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Japanese Ranma Mount Fuji Scene browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese: Pre 1910: item # 635048 Please refer to our stock # 62-29 when inquiring.
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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, moveable partitions of sliding doors (fusuma) were used to define rooms, allowing flexible use of space. Fusuma were about six feet high, leaving a gap between the top of the door and the ceiling. Those gaps were filled with ranma, decorative wood transoms that were made with pierced carvings that allowed light to filter through and the designs to be seen from either side of the fusuma. On this ranma, the carved wood panel is framed with both a lacquered liner and outer frame. The piece is in good condition. Dimensions: height 12" (30 cm), width 50" (127 cm), depth 1" (2.5 cm). | |||||||||
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