Rather unusual 1930s Japanese porcelain covered inkstone with underglaze decoration. The side of the base is inscribed with a very long text, the top of the cover has a short poem and a figure of a man in robe lighting his pipe from ambers in the brazier. Possibly Arita ware, very nice modeling of the central raised area with rougher side surface for grinding ink, remnants if dried ink in the well...

1930s porcelain tokkuri - sake bottle - of classic shape with enameled decoration of 2 different views of Mount Fuji with huts, trees, streams and torii gates. Beautiful brocade pattern decoration around the neck. Excellent quality painting in Kutani palette with subtle color washes. Signed KUTANI SEI (made at Kutani) in red enamel on the bottom, overall in excellent condition. Height 6 inches.

Kawase Hasui
Sacred Bridge, Nikko
Date: 1930s. This edition late twentieth century.
Approximately 6.375 x 4.25 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe.
Reference: Hotei #Hp-40
Hasui seal at lower left.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. The back right margin has paper remnants.

A lovely pair of early Showa Period c. 1930 Inari Shinto Shrine foxes. Hand made with Kyoto clay, they are from the Tofukuji area of Kyoto. Great conditon, no repairs. Standing 14" tall by 10" wide. Ask for shipping quote from CA warehouse.

Kawase Hasui [seal]
Snow at Kashi (Kashi no Yuki)
Date: 1930s. This edition late twentieth century.
Approximately 6.5 x 4.25 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe.
Hasui seal at lower right.
Reference: Hotei Hp-32.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. The back left margin has paper remnants.

Meiji Group lot of Samurai dolls, various folk hero figures like peach boy. Nice pieces with silk costumes and wood lacquer heads , some losses .Hard to find the earlier dolls like these . Samurai boy in black is 6" tall.

Shoda Koho
Black Cat
Date: 1930s.
Size: Tanzaku 13.25 x 3.0 inches.
Publisher: Hasegawa/Nishinomiya Yosaku (stamp on back)
"Made In Japan" stamped on verso.
Artist's seal lower right.
Reference: No. 1602
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Ohara Hoson (Koson)
Carp jumping for insect, wisteria above
Size: Oban. Approximately 14.625 x 10.75 inches.
Date: 1931.
Publisher: Kawaguchi and Sakai. Publisher's seal in right margin...

THE GREATEST GRATER

I have never seen such a radish grater! Anonymous mingei masterpiece for real. Pottery. Meiji-Taisho period, early 20th century, Japan. approx...

Paul Jacoulet
La Gerbe D'Anthurium, Angur, Mer du Sud (The Spray of Anthurium Flowers, Angur, South Seas)
Date: July 15, 1951.
Fewer than 150 impressions made. This example has no edition seal visible. Jacoulet's fancy PJ seal is covering another seal on the back.
Size: 18.625 x 14 inches.
Ivy seal. Carver: Maeda. Printer: Honda.
Reference: No. 118 in The Prints of Paul Jacoulet by Richard Miles.
Condition: Excellent color. Light creasing in margins...

Tadamasa Ueno (Torii Tadamasa)
Kumadori Ju-hachi Ban. Makeup for Asagao Senpei from Sukeroku. Eighteen Famous Kabuki Plays.
Date: 1940. First edition.
Size: 15.75 x 10.75 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Seal E (1932-42) at lower left margin.
Signed and sealled at upper left.
Condition: Fading in the blues. The upper background was tinted blue where formerly matted.

Kawase Hasui
Evening Snow at Terajima Village
Publisher: Watanabe.
Size: Approximately 6 x 4 inches.
Date: 1930s This edition late twentieth century.
Hasui seal at lower right.
Condition: Excellent. Back right margin has paper remnants

Cotton han-juban (short under kimono) with shibori whose techniques are: Maki-age shibori (stitched & bound) and Murakuo-shibori (coral reef). In excellent condition. The first half of the 20th century. 57cm x 50cm

Yamamoto Shoun (1870-1965)
Rain on a Lake
Date: ca. 1910.
Size: Approximately 17.2 cm 11.4 cm. 6.75 x 4.5 inches.
Artist's signature and seal at lower right.
Publisher: Matsumoto (No. 445).
Condition: Excellent. Light wave in paper where the original publisher's tag is applied to the back.

Boxwood netsuke carved as a theatrical mask of HEITA used for the role of a general, a commander in his prime. Superb quality carving on beautiful even material, excellent finish, beautiful patina, in absolutely perfect condition. Signed HOZAN SAKU (Hozan made) on the back bar for Fujita Hozan - this first-rate artist of Hojitsu lineage is listed on p. 218 of Contemporary Netsuke by Miriam Kinsey. Height 1 1/2 inches.

Boxwood netsuke carved as a theatrical mask of Suji-Otoko - a ghost of a warrior suffering various torments emphasized by prominent veins on his forehead. Superb quality carving on beautiful even material, excellent finish, beautiful patina, in absolutely perfect condition. Signed HOZAN SAKU (Hozan made) on the back bar for Fujita Hozan - this first-rate artist of Hojitsu lineage is listed on p. 218 of Contemporary Netsuke by Miriam Kinsey. Height 1 7/16 inches.

Boxwood netsuke carved as a theatrical mask of YASE-OTOKO - an emaciated man representing ghosts and spirits undergoing the torments of hell. Superb quality carving on beautiful even material, excellent finish, beautiful patina, in absolutely perfect condition. Signed HOZAN SAKU KORE (Hozan made this) on the back bar for Fujita Hozan - this first-rate artist of Hojitsu lineage is listed on p. 218 of Contemporary Netsuke by Miriam Kinsey. Height 1 1/2 inches.

Boxwood netsuke carved as a theatrical mask of a young woman MAGOJIRO. Superb quality carving on beautiful even material, wonderful tranquil face with a slight smile, excellent finish, beautiful patina, in absolutely perfect condition. Signed HOZAN SAKU (Hozan made) on the back bar for Fujita Hozan - this first-rate artist of Hojitsu lineage is listed on p. 218 of Contemporary Netsuke by Miriam Kinsey. Height 1 1/2 inches.