All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1900 item #605696 (stock #0004)
Shini-e (memorial portrait) of three individuals, including their names and dates of death, issued ca. 1860.

Very good impression and color, light soiling and wear, small loss to upper-right corner, upper corners reinforced, two very small holes in right side, not backed.

Oban tate-e: 9 ½ x 13 ½ in.

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1338737 (stock #EW 2966)
A covered bowl or tureen probably made for the European market, but of conventional Japanese form, decorated with a pattern of Peony branches to the exterior in iron red and underglaze blue with green and black enamels and gilding. The interior painted with an enamelled green and black peony petal mon covering a round area of unglazed biscuit porcelain, that suggests that further bowls may have been stacked within the bowl during the original firing...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1900 item #606039 (stock #0021)
Portrait of a Kabuki actor, no. 6 from the series “Juni ka getsu hana awase” issued 1880

Signed Toyohara Kunichika and titled in cartouche in upper left, dated Meiji (1880), very good impression and color, very light soiling near bottom, upper corners lightly creased, very minor wear, not backed.

Oban tate-e: 10 x 14 ½ in.

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1920 item #1294510
Antique Japanese Bronze Charming mouse running off with Daikoku's money bag. Two small mouses are sitting atop the money bag for the ride looking for loose grains of rice. Very well crafted and molded with lovely bronze lacquered finish. Signed by the artist: "Nobumitsu." circa Taisho Period Japanese Keyaki hardwood stand from Meiji Period. Dimensions: 10" Long X 5 1/2" High X 5" Deep
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #887492 (stock #265)
A large, very decorative blue and white Imari vase from the 19th. century with a underglaze blue mark to the base. H. : 78 Condition : No damage . There is a fiering crack from the time when this vase was produced ( which can be seen on the last enlargement ) so that it is legitim to say that this piece is in it´s perfect original condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1900 item #1253228
Antique ukiyo-e style woodblock print by artist Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (1786-1865), of a samurai warrior blocking the strike of another warrior's sword with his own. He has very detailed undergarments in mesh-patterned blue with light pink flowers, a black and white robe with jagged designs and red trim with a blue obi, and a red headband, with his hair styled in a traditional chonmage...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #1205461 (stock #2593)
A fine square form dish kakuzara decorated with a scene of a large Pavillion or Temple Complex set upon a lakeside shore with Peony scroll motifs to two corners and a high foot ring with traditional comb foot. The design is one of those originally selected by the Shogun Ieharu (1737-1786) in 1773, and continued to be tendered and reserved for presentation to the Shogun during the Edo period...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1910 item #1186559
Rare large pair of beautiful original Japanese bronze temple lanterns with gilt highlights. A Sasarindo crest on the section where the light would be placed; the Sasarindo is the bamboo leaves and gentian flowers crest of the Minamoto clan.
The doors are fully functional. Each lantern is made of 6 individual cast bronze sections. A pearl in a flame sits on top of each lantern. Two very intricate dragons wrap around the lanterns. There are abundant motifs of dragons, flames and clouds...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1254533 (stock #2718)
A fine quality early Eighteenth century export saucer dish decorated with a central kikkumon and sprays of Chrysanthemums and Prunus branches in a five colour palette sans aubergine enamel. The reverse decorated with three prunus sprays. The dish has elements of slightly raised moulded decoration in the form of three plum flowers and three chrysanthemum blooms...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #1491421
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A small Japanese Arita kilns blue and white porcelain sauce dish, or mamezara, of mokko-gata form. Namban (or Nanban, Southern barbarian) decoration of a foreign figure, with dog, falconing in picturesque landscape. Painterly shironuki decoration in the cavetto of cranes flying among clouds. Edo period, Circa 1800. Good condition for its age, with two small chips inside the foot rim and a small glaze abrasion just above the foot rim. About 3 15/16 inches (10 cm) square.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1920 item #1346479
Antique Japanese bronze temple bell, or "bonsho", with a handle of dragon heads called a ryuzu, protrusions called "chi chi" or "nyu" to improve resonance of sound, the "tsuki-za" striking panels, and the "mei-bun" inscription of the bell's history...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1900 item #1220201 (stock #0057)

Japanese late Edo Period (ca. 1860 / 150 years ago) buddhist bronze bell from S¨­fuku-ji ( ³ç¸£Ë ) Temple in Gifu.

Measurements diameter 21 cm H 23 cm. Materials: bronze, wood, silk. Made entirely by hand. The base is in lacquered wood. On the side of the bell trademarks with the name of the place of provenance and craftsman. Beautiful patina with natural signs of wear and some scratches due to the age and use...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1700 item #1253381
Antique Japanese print depicting the founder of the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism, Kūkai (774-835). He was a famous calligrapher and engineer who invented the kana, syllabic Japanese scripts used in the Japanese writing system. In his hands he holds a vajra, a ritualistic weapon representing firmness of spirit and spiritual power, and prayer beads...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1215856 (stock #2628)
A sometsuke o-zara decorated with an intricate Tako-karakusa, Octopus scroll, ground inset with three hexalobed shaped reserves each containing a Shishi, Buddhist lion, flanked by Peonies, botan ni shishi zu...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1309492 (stock #2890)
A circular dish with slightly everted rim decorated with a landscape freize to the cavetto. The pattern is split into equal halves, by a zigzagging screen wall on one side, and an S shaped motif with ruyi cloud shaped motifs. The first portion of the design shows a pair of scholar’s playing Go sitting beneath a Bodri Tree set in a landscape with a scholar’s refuge cum tea house and oddly oversized autumn flowers, kikyo, bell flowers, and suisen, Japanese narcissus...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1900 item #605682 (stock #0002)
From the Birds and Flowers series: “Sho-utsushi shiju-hattaka” issued 1858.

Signed Sugakudo, with two seals beneath the signature, censor’s seal and publisher’s seal, left margin; good impression, evenly toned, thin corners, light staining, two upper corners with glue remains from attachment, not backed.

Oban tate-e: 10 x 14 ¼ in.

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1920 item #606100 (stock #0031)
Design of a kite with a takara bune (treasureship) design with a poem, probably designed as a New Year’s greeting, issued ca. early 1900s

Printer’s information on lower left (no. 41), good condition

Shikishiban: 9 ¼ x 9 ¼ in.

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1215853 (stock #2627)
A sometsuke o-zara decorated with an elaborate Tako-karakusa, so called Octopus scroll, ground inset with three hexalobed shaped reserves each containing a Shishi, Buddhist lion, flanked by Peonies, botan ni shishi zu...