These 6 teacups for sencha of Hagi ware were made by 11th Saka Koraizaemon (1912-1981) about 50 years ago. Each teacup has the stamp of the potter. Hagi ware pottery is one of the most well-known pottery types in Japan since early 17th century...

This beautiful chawan (tea bowl) is a Raku ware made by famous Kyuraku Kimura. It was made about 40-50 years ago. The seal of Raku is stamped on the bottom.

It comes with its originally signed and sealed wooden box and an appraisal of the Daitoku-ji Temple, Kyoto. This temple is very famous for its knowledge about chanoyu (Japanese tea ceremony)...

Kawase Hasui
Arashiyama
Date: 1950s ~ 1960s.
Size: 5.75 x 3.75 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Bears the artist's oval seal.
Reference: Hotei Hp-41.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Tipped at top to original cardstock.

Vintage Japanese Ash Glazed Celedon Vase, from the Iga Ueno area in Japan.The jar has green and brown colors, ringed around vase top to bottom. Beautiful crackle detail in glaze. Pleasant and sturdy. In good condition. Comes with signed Box. Circa 1970's Dimension: 8" Tall, 6" Diameter.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Plum Warbler
Date: 1940.
Size: Oban. Approximately 16.25 x 11.25 inches.
Publisher: Doi Hangaten.
Carver: Harada. Printer: Yokoi.
This seal combination indicates an early post-war edition.
Reference: Koitsu catalog no. TK-DH-60.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Very good. Slight creasing. Soft corner bends. Faint foxing at upper left margin...

Made by Living National Treasure, Fujiwara Yu (1932-2001), this Bizen Hidasuki sake bottle was made about 50 years ago. Yu Fujiwara, one of the most well-known Bizen potters of his time, has become the fourth Bizen Living National Treasure in 1996. There are only five people having such title for Bizen pottery and his father, Kei Fujiwara, became the second Bizen Living National Treasure in 1970. Prior to that, Fujiwara Yu was designated as an Intangible Cultural Property of his native Okayam...

Kawase Hasui
Hiraizumi Konjikido (Hall of the Golden Hue)
Date: 1930s. This edition 1950s-60s.
Approximately 5.75 x 3.75 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Titled at lower left.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Print is attached along its top edge to original blank card.
Condition: Excellent. Note: This design is similar to Hasui's Hp-47 in the catalog...

Kawase Hasui
Rain in Maekawa, Soshu
Series: Selection of Views of the Tokaido
Date: 1932.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.125 x 10.25 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. This design often has in either lower corner a black 6mm Watanabe publisher's seal nearly invisibly on a black background, which would indicate a lifetime edition...

Chinese low rectangular table, made of jumu (elm) wood with beautiful dramatic grain, inset with large rectangular piece of dark gray slate carved with design of scholar objects and archaic motifs, stone is protected by glass which is also inset into the table. Size: 19" high x 46 1/4" wide x 30 3/4" deep. (size of table top: 45 3/4" wide x 30" deep.)

Japanese woodblock print by Okiie Hashimoto (1899-1993). # 2/60 in its series, titled "Quiet A (Nagasaki)", signed in pencil. Red cartouche in upper righthand corner.

Hashimoto was born off the coast of the Tottori Prefecture of Japan in 1899. He graduated from the College of Art in Tokyo in 1923 and continued his studies under Itaru Tanabe and Shod Hirata...

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Summer Moon at Miyajima
Size: Approximately 16.75 x 11.25 inches.
Date: 1936. This edition is postwar (1950-1963).
Koitsu.com catalog no. TK-DH-036.
Publisher: Doi Hangaten. Carver: Harada. Printer: Yokoi.
Condition: Excellent. Full margins on all sides.

A mounted painting of a bird perched on a branch with a signature and seal signed Zhao Shaoang (1905-1998). Zhao Shaoang was known for his contemporary and bold styles specializing in bird and flower images. The strokes used for the plants reminisce strokes seen in calligraphy. Age: 20th century. Size: length" 28.25" height 40.5"

Painted Tibetan Pig Mask. 13d x 11.5h inches, 33 x 29 cm.

This small carved ivory erotic netsuke of two men is 2” long, 1” high and 1’ thick. It is dated 1960’s. There is a red lacquer inlayed signature on the bottom. It is very well carved and in great condition.

A rare carved boxwood figure of a barefoot peasant girl holding a scythe and a sheaf of corn made in China, circa 1968 to 1970, during the Cultural Revolution period. Condition - excellent - no damages and no restoration...

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Benkei Bridge
Date: 1933. This edition early postwar.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.5 inches.
Signed and sealed by the artist.
Publisher: Doi Hangaten. Carver: Harada. Printer: Yokoi. Bears the Doi watermark.
Koitsu catalog no. TK-DH-3.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Tape marks in right margin. Light fading.

Japanese framed woodblock print by Nakayama Tadashi (1927-2014) of a stylized abstract horse with butterfly wings against a deep red ground. Signed in pencil, number 62/85.

Dated 1968.

Dimensions: 20" H x 11 1/4" W (overall) 12 3/4" H x 5" W (image only)

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Ginza in Rain, 1933.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.5 inches.
Publisher: Doi Hangaten. Doi watermark.
Carver: Harada. Printer: Yokoi. This seal combination indicates an early post-war edition.
Reference: Koitsu catalogue no. TK-DH-9.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Fading in yellows and greens.
Note: This print is rare in any edition. Old cars are seldom seen in shin hanga.