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Hannya
Fine Art:
Sculpture:
Ivory:
Contemporary item# 706384
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Yasumi
808.368.5275
$6,000.
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Polychrome ivory mask netsuke by Hodo Sekizawa; 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) high; includes appraisal; cannot be shipped out of the United States due to CITES restrictions.
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Shakumi
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Asian:
Japanese:
Pre 1900 item# 706381
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Yasumi
808.368.5275
$9,000.
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Shakumi is a strong and beautiful older female character in Japanese Nô theatre. Nô masks, of which there are at least 138 types, portray every possible human mood: passion, benevolence, indifference, calmness, fury, fear, kindness, etc. Shakumi is caught in a moment of extreme anxiety and suffering; she is almost crying, as evidenced by her downcast eyes and heavy eyelids. Often this mask is used in Nô drama to portray a woman driven to madness over the loss of a child or a lover. One way to t ...click for details
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Yulan Guanyin
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Pre 1900 item# 706378
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Yasumi
808.368.5275
Sold: Honolulu $20,000.
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A large Chinese Qing dynasty 18th or 19th century boxwood carving of the Yulan (literally, 'fish basket') Guanyin, the figure elegantly posed wearing a long flowing robe, her hair arranged in a short chignon, holding a basket with a large fish, her other hand raised in a variant of the abhaya mudra; China; 22.5 inches (57 cm) high; together with an inscribed Japanese kiri wood tomobako; old cracks on forehead and hem of robe.
The Yulan Guanyin is one of the 33 subsidiary manifestations ...click for details
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John Young
Fine Art:
Paintings:
Watercolor:
Pre 2000 item# 706374
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Yasumi
808.368.5275
Sold: Honolulu $900.
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Black ink and watercolor painting on paper by John Young (1909-1997) untitled, depicting the heads of two young children, signed Xingquan in Chinese characters and illegibly dated, mounted on a foam core board, unframed. 14.25 by 15 inches and in good condition. Until his death in 1997, John Young was undoubtedly one of the dominant individuals in Hawaii's art community. Born in Honolulu on March 26, 1909, the son of Chinese immigrants, he began drawing at the age of eight, stimulated by Ch ...click for details
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