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Zushi, Amida Buddha, Japan, 18th century
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Pre 1800 item# 979764 (stock# 10603)
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Good tall zushi or Buddhist shrine, housing the wooden figure of the standing Buddha Amida, Buddha of the Western Paradise. Both his hands in mudra. He is standing on a multi-tiered hexagonal base, decorated with flowers. His eyes inset in glass or crystal, due to old layer of re-lacquering and soot hardly visible. The baldachin decorated with double family crest. Double door zushi with family crest in gold lacquer, indicating that the shrine was made on order for a family shrine. Inside of the doors decorated with flowering lotus plants in etching or scratch technique. Buddha wood, gilded over black lacquer. Japan, Edo period, 18th century.
Height of zushi: ca. 18.8 inches (48 cm); height of Amida: ca. 10 inches (25.5 cm).
Traces of usage. Basically good condition.
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Bronze figure of Shoten Kangiten, Japan, Meiji period
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Pre 1910 item# 979728 (stock# 10604)
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Small yellow bronze sculpture of the elephant deity Shoten and the female Kangiten on a lotus base. In this constellation of embrace - in esoteric Buddhism - they signify matrimonial peace and lots of offspring. Shoten is derived from Ganesha and is regarded as a wild one. Kangiten is an incarnation of the 11headed Kannon. She appeases him and converts him to Buddhism. Shoten Kangiten are usually kept in closed shrines, as ‘secret sculptures’ or hibutsu, because of the sexual allusion. Japan, Meiji period, 19th/20th century.
Height: 4.8 inches (12.3 cm).
Very good condition
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Bronze figure of Genjo Sanzo, Japan mid-late Edo period
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Pre 1837 VR item# 976952 (stock# 10602)
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Small bronze sculpture of the Chinese monk Xuanzang (Jap. Genjo Sanzo) with a pile of Buddhist scriptures rolled up and stacked in the pack on his back and a lotus leaf over his head from which dangles an incense burner, as he returns to China from India. In his hands he was holding a scroll and a fly whisk that are today missing. Figure stands on an irregularly shaped base. Japan, mid to late Edo period, 18/19th century.
Height incl. base ca. 5.25 inches (13.3 cm).
Figure slightly at angle, although no stress marks visible in the bronze. Incense burner slightly bent, hands slightly damaged, missing the attributes.
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Moon flask, Satsuma ware, Taizan, Japan Meiji period
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Pre 1900 item# 976700 (stock# 10601)
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Stoneware moon flask, decorated on one side with three pieces of cloth hanging in the wind from a flowering cherry tree (the cherry blossoms in tiny specks of silver, the clouds done in gold); on the other side with peonies that are covered against late spring snow (the snow on the cover and the veins of the leaves in silver, the outlines of the peony petals in gold). On the rounded side an irregular pattern in tea dust glaze, sprinkled with cherry blossoms in silver. The neck and foot are glazed iron red and are decorated with silver karakusa. Bottom with underglaze impressed mark Taizan and with overglaze signature Dainihon Taizan sei. Stoneware with creamy crackled glaze and polychrome enamels, iron red, silver and gold. Japan, mid Meiji era.
Height 7.5 inches (19 cm), width ca. 6 inches (15,2 cm).
Gold somewhat rubbed, silver oxidized but easily restorable. Very good condition.
The Takahashi family started producing for the export market (mainly USA) in 1872. The kiln was closed in 1894 under the 9th generation Taizan. Since both body and decoration of the flask are marked Taizan, it can be safely accepted that this flask stems from before 1894. After the closing of the kiln, the last Taizan occasionally seemed to have decorated blank objects from other manufactures, among whom Kinkozan.
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Scroll painting, mountain scape, Kano Masanobu, Japan
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Pre 1800 item# 976665 (stock# 10600)
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Hanging scroll, black ink on paper and a touch of red. Two men in a pavilion within a magnificent mountain landscape. To the left a small waterfall joins a river that commands much of the lower half of the painting . On the upper right side a two-lined verse, signed and sealed Muraan soken. Japan, probably Edo period.
Painted area: inches (93.5 x 32.2 cm); mounting (181.5 x 45 cm).
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Comes with an in gold lacquer inscribed black lacquer box ‘Sansui no zu, Muraan san. Kano Masanobu hitsu’, in a red lacquered box inscribed with the length of the painting in sun.
Slightly toned, some creases backed with thin strips underneath the backing, basically very good condition.
Kano Masanobu (1434?-1530) was the alleged founder of the Kano school of painting, even though his son Motonobu was more influential. The poem was written by the Monk Muraan, who lived 1403 - 1488.
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Mortuary tablet with painting of Emma-O and hell, Japan
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Pre 1900 item# 955755 (stock# 10595)
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Wooden ihai or mortuary tablet, the top crowned with clouds. This type of object usually holds the posthumous Buddhist name of a deceased and is placed in a butsudan. The ihai can also be used to pay homage to, for instance, a certain sutra. In this case a homage to one of the Kings of Hell. The ihai is decorated with the triple begonia-mon of the Tokogawa family. Lacquer on wood.
The painting, in black ink and color on paper behind glass, shows Emma-O, the judge of hell of the 35th day, surrounded by his attributes, Datsueba and other assistants and the soul of a deceased that he is about to judge. Some of the punishments for sins are being depicted in the background. Japan, 19th century.
Height: 29.8 inches (75.8 cm).
Very good condition, few abrasions.
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