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Bronze sculpture, Daiitoku Myoo on buffalo, Japan, Edo
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Pre 1800 item# 1060677 (stock# 10647)
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Very rare bronze sculpture of Daiitoku, one of the five Myoo. He is represented with six heads (three large, three small), six legs and six arms that are holding the different attributes, while he is sitting on the back of a reclining buffalo. Here, Daiitoku holds two of his hands clasped together. In the others he holds a staff, chakra, sword and trident. Mandorla with flames stuck into the back of the buffalo. Brown bronze with green corrosion. Japan, Edo period, 18th century.
Measurements: ca. H 12.25 x L 9 x W 7 inches (ca. 31.75 x 22.8 x 17.75 cm).
Tips of the top flames on the mandorla missing and a bit bent, otherwise excellent condition.
Daiitoku (Sanskrit Yamantaka) is an emanation of Amida Buddha; he is positioned in the West; the white buffalo is a symbol of enlightenment; he has the power to eliminate evil and to establish goodness and to defeat poisonous snakes and dragons.
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Wooden kanban, eye glass store, Japan, Meiji period
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Pre 1920 item# 1060479 (stock# 10646)
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Original wooden sign board for an optician (Nakatani). The central image is a pince-nez with real convex lenses set in the wood. The sign is advertising all kinds of eye glasses, concave, convex and flat lenses. Japan, Meiji period. Original piece, from the period, no reproduction.
Measurements of wood: H 13 x W 18 x T 1 inches (ca. 33 x 45.75 x 2.5 cm); height with hanging loops: 14 3/8 inches (36.5 cm).
Weathering, paint losses, usual chips and dents, some warping, all in all very good condition.
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Pair of komainu, bronze, Japan, Meiji period
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Pre 1900 item# 1060337 (stock# 10644)
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Very unusual pair of komainu or guardian dogs to a Shinto or Buddhist shrine. The left one with the mouth open and drooping ears, the right one with its mouth closed and with the ears perked up. Very fine and smooth bronze cast with rich brown patination. Makers mark engraved into the bottoms. The name consists of a single character that can be read in a variety of ways: Yasushi, but also Hiroshi, Yutaka, Toru or Akira; followed by “saku” or “made by”. Japan, late 19th century.
Height: left 9 inches, right 9.1 inches (22.8 and 23.2 cm).
Excellent condition.
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Zushi with figure of the Dragon King of the Sea, Japan,
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Pre 1900 item# 1060247 (stock# 10643)
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Small Buddhist shrine, containing a wooden sculpture of Ryujin, the Dragon King of the Sea, standing in waves, while holding a bowl of tide ruling jewels in his hands. On his back, its head resting on Ryujin’s head, sits a dragon. With its claws holding on to Ryujin’s shoulders and waist. Soft wood with decoration in black, colors and gold. On the back signed: Komatsugawamachi Inose saku. Bottom of zushi inscribed with a number (). Japan, Meiji period or very late Edo.
Case: height 8.25, width 4, depth 3.75 inches (21 x 10.3 x 9.5 cm).
Sculpture: few small chips and repairs. Zushi: Traces of usage, conform the age and use of such shrines - lacquer chips, cracks, dents and abrasions. Both shrine and sculpture in very good shape over all.
Very rare subject matter.
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Papier-mache container, Fukusuke, Japan, Meiji era
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Pre 1910 item# 1049793 (stock# 10641)
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Canister of sorts, perhaps for tea, perhaps for candy, made of molded and lacquered papier-mache, in the shape of the lucky dwarf Fukusuke, wrapped in a black overcoat, over red pants, decorated with snow covered pine branches. His large head above his knees. He wears an oddly shaped hat that functions as the cover of the container. Glass eyes inlaid in his face, a metal edge inserted on the top. The material used indicates that the container was made for export. Japan, Meiji period.
Height: 5 ½ inches.
Material around metal edge retracting, some restoration, very good condition.
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Pair of lacquer panels, craftsmen, Japan, Meiji period
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Pre 1920 item# 1049657 (stock# 10639)
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A pair of most unusual black lacquer panels of rectangular shape, with mother-of pearl and bone inlay. In the middle in an oval outline a craftsman has been portrayed at work. The left panel shows the maker of Buddhist sculpture, in the process of applying the decoration on the garment of a standing Kannon figure. The left panel portrays sculptor who is chiseling a guardian fox for an Inari shrine. Each of them signed on a inlaid piece of bone. Japan, Meiji period.
Each ca. 22 5/8 x 15 3/8 inches.
Some dents, cracks and losses, one repaired spot, basically in very good condition.
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Figure group of Shomen Kongo and attendants, Japan, Edo
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Pre 1837 VR item# 1045502 (stock# 10637)
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Wooden group of Shomen Kongo, the green faced diamond deity in 8-armed configuration, standing before a flaming mandorla, accompanied by two children. Shomen Kongo tramples on two demon figures, the whole group standing on rocks, placed on a rectangular base. In his eight hands he holds a trident, sword, bow, arrows, something unidentifiable that should have been a rope (lower left hand) and an object that replaces the cakra (upper left hand). Shomen’s features: Third eye; in his crown the head of a monkey, the monkey being his messenger; skull necklace on his chest; snakes around his waist, wrists and ankles and a tiger skin bound around his waist. The boys are carrying a cup and flask(?). Polychromed wood, eyes of Shomen inlaid, crown gilded copper. Bronze fittings around corners of base, engraved with flowers. Japan, Edo period, 18/19th century.
Approximate measurements height: 29 inches; width: 15 ½ inches; depth: 11 inches.
Restaurations, few breaks, few missing tips, few lacquer chips.
Shomen Kongo originally was a plague spreading demon, but after converting to Buddhism, he became a guardian against wild animals, sickness and love spreading demons and wild weather deities. In the Edo period, he was venerated as a guardian against tuberculosis.
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Two ceramic kogo, Daruma, Raku-ware, Japan, Meiji era
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Pre 1910 item# 1041557 (stock# 10635/10212)
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1) Stoneware incense box or kogo in the shape of an onna daruma (female daruma). She sits in the typical way, all rolled up in her garment, indicating that arms and legs may have fallen off. Her face shows striking similarity to Okame. Cream colored and reddish brown glaze over whitish soft clay, the face left partially free, fine crackle in the glaze. Japan, Meiji period.
2) Stoneware incense box or kogo in the shape of Daruma, wrapped in his reddish garment, his face peeing out of the garment, looking up. Cream colored and red glaze with some black accents over a whitish soft clay, the face left partially free, strong, but very fine crackle in the glaze. Raku stamp on the inside. Japan, Meiji period.
Height: ca. 1 ½ inches each.
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1) Outer edge of lower part with tiny frittings and chips, two tiny glaze chips along the lines of the crackle (hardly visible). Generally very good condition.
2) On the back tiny pieces of glaze missing between the crackle lines, otherwise excellent condition.
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