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Hashira-kakushi wooden post cover, Raiden, Ogata Kenzan studios, Japan

Hashira-kakushi wooden post cover, Raiden, Ogata Kenzan studios, Japan


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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Wood: Pre 1900: Item # 1347393

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Cedar wooden ‘post-hide’ or hashira kakushi that is used as a decoration of the vertical post in a room that is not a corner post, or the vertical post of the tokonoma (niche). The post-hide is the same width as the the vertical pillar posts in a Japanese house, hiding it thus almost completely in width.
Dark stained cedar wood, the sides covered in black lacquer, the front inlaid in ceramic with Raiden the thunder god who is angling with an anchor for one of his thunder drums that dropped out of the sky. Signed on inlaid ceramic plaque: Kenzan. From the Ogata Kenzan studios, Japan, Meiji era, 19th century.

H ca. 42 x W 4 ¾ inches

Chip to the drum on the bottom, lacquer chips on the sides, all in all very good condition.

From a private US collection