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Sudden Enlightenment
Early Cloud Dragon Iron Tetsubin
High relief water kettle featuring prophet viewing a waterfall.
Bamboo motif at ground and at knop. Beautiful solid hirute handle.
# 1333 - Price on request.
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Signed Edo Toad Netsuke
Exquisitely realistic wood carving of a toad
with rich patina and detail.
Signed on underside.
Item #31 ~ Price on request
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Signed Meiji Kojo Noh Theatre Mask
Expressive, finely-carved Noh mask
depicting a wizened old man. Natural beard and hair.
Incised carver's mark.
Item # 439 ~ Price on request
19C Okubi-e Woodblock Print
of Kabuki Actor
by Utagawa KUNIMASA (1773-1810)
Dramatic, big-head
portrait print of period kabuki actor, with signature and publisher mark. Good saturation & commensurate condition. Measures
15" X 9.75".
Item# 233 - Price on request
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Signed Edo Period Red Ko Kutani Dish
Early feldsparic Kutani
features unusual squared-off cartouche with overglaze design of flowering tree tied with paper talismen among flowers and
rockery. Soft gilt accents. Underside shows archaic shippo motif surrounding bottom and signature. Measures approx.
4.25" dia. X 1"H.
Item# 421 ~ Price on request.
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Showa Ko-Omote Noh Mask
Classic Ko-omote Nomen used to represent a young girl, as in the Noh plays
Funa-Benkei and Ko-cho.
Item #441 ~ Price on request
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19C Japanese Cast Bronze Model of
a Tiger
Fine traditional depiction of prowling tiger
with great patinated contrasting cast stripes. With original carved wood stand. Good condition. Signed.
Item # 412 - SOLD
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Large Japanese Signed Ko-Kutani Asobi Charger
Polychrome
enamel /underglaze food plate with gilt accents featuring beautiful brocade and scenic cartouche of landscape, peony,
sparrow, and Ebisu (God of food & prosperity) bringing in yet another fish. Underside with large overglaze leaves.
15"X3", Signed Ku-tani at bottom.
Item #441 - Now Available for sale or lease!
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Rare Kinpaku Fugen Bosatsu
Processional Mask
Serene
gilt visage of bodhisattva Fugen (usually depicted riding an elephant as an attendent of Shaka Nyorai). Worn for traditional Japanese
buddhist shrine ceremonial procession. Original armature. Circa 16C. Interior measures approx. 10.5" H X 8"W.
From Private Collection.
Previously part
of the Buddhist Images exhibition.
Item #733 Now available for lease/purchase. Price on request
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Fine Japanese Edo Footed
Crest Hachi with Gold Repair
A beautiful karatsu style bowl featuring
auspicious underglaze crane mon motif with gold repair of the period. Measures 7.5"H X 3.5"W.
Maker's mark.
Item # 932 - Price on request
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JAPANESE RYU-O BUGAKU DANCE MASK
Commonly also known
as Ryo-o, with incised signature, depicting a Dragon King of Chinese lore. Popularized in Japan in Bugaku dance
during the Kamakura period for a rain prayers. Greatly detailed wooden mask with lacquer remnants Meiji-jidai or earlier.
Classic bulging eyes, horse hair brows, mustache, beard and dangling "tsuriago" or ring-shaped chin, attached by cords which
accents dance's rhythm. This style Ryu-o mask belongs to the same type of Ryu-o exhibited in the Itsukushima
Shrine in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture. Measures 11"H X 7"W X 5"D. Good overall condition with old repair to side. Private
collection.
Item #363 - SOLD
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 Edo Period 風土
Fudo Noh Mask
Expressively carved,
18/19C wood Noh drama mask of Fudo Myo'o, a ferocious Buddhist deity -usually worn to represent a devine guardian,
as in the Noh play Chofuku Soga. With minor paint losses commensurate to age/use. Yamanouchi / Kawasaki Family provenance
as per Christie's Sept. 2004
( Ex-collection: Stephen
E. Marvin, author of Heaven Has a Face; So Does Hell: The Art of the Noh Mask ).
Item#
P221 ~ Now available. Price on request.
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NOH / KAGURA MASK INVENTORY:
Signed Ko-Jo, Jomen, Fine Fugen Bosatsu (Processional), Fine Gilt Shishigashira
(Processional), Shintai SOLD, Fukai, Signed Shakumi, Signed Magojiro, Heita, Signed Kojo, Signed Okina SOLD, Signed
Obeshimi, Signed Yakan, Okina SOLD, Signed Jo / Uba Pair, Signed Akai-Kojo Signed Warai-Jo, Signed Mitsunaga Hannya, Ko-Hime,
Signed Ko-Omote, Signed Hannya SOLD, Signed Shakumi, Karatsu-Tengu(Kagura) SOLD, Shiro-Kitsune, Signed Ikazuchi Shrine
Kazari SOLD.
Ningyo Joruri Men SOLD, Otoko
SOLD, S'd Heita SOLD, S'd Ryo-o SOLD, Jido SOLD, S'd Hannya SOLD, Saru SOLD, S'd WakaOnna SOLD, S'd KokushikiJo SOLD, Signed
KuroHannya SOLD, Buaku SOLD.
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Rare Meiji Shiro Fukai Noh Mask
Yuki-no Fukai style nomen dipicts a
woman of gentle melancholy and is the standard for use in plays such as Sumidagawa and Fujito .
Item# 504 ~ Price on request
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Auspicious Iron Daija Komori Tetsubin
Very RARE old tetsubin (iron
water kettle) dipicting unusual wrap-around
serpent and bat motif in high relief.
Perfect addition to your iron kettle collection.
Item# 236 ~ Price on request
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Fine Golden Shishi-Gashira
Lion-Dog Mask with Inscribed Original Tomobako
Heavenly Taisho-jidai
horned lion-dog ceremonial dance (Shishimai) mask. Important character referred to as Jishi or Oshishi in
Japanese. Features beautiful shippaku gold-leaf & lacquer over wood, white hair, movable ears and jaw with
greatly executed classic details. Accompanying silk embroidered brocade pillow shows arabesque paulownia, chrysanthemum &
clove motifs. Includes original inscribed tomobako/storage box. Fine condition. Measures approx 14". PROVENANCE/ Private Collection
Item#
247 - Price on request
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Large Signed Early JO Mask
- 16C Owari
Exceptional early wood carving
of Jo Mask featuring hair remnants. Black urushi on back with red inscription and inventory remnant.
Measures
approx. 10.5"H X 8"W.
Item# 254 ~ Price on request
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19C YAKAN Noh Kijinmen Mask
Rare
Noh Play Mask of Yakan, a sinister transformational kijin character who changes from fox to human as
the spirit of the Death Rock in the play Sesshouseki 殺生石.
Great dynamic carving with original gilt-metal eye plates and gold lacquered teeth. Signed. Excellent commensurate condition.
Item #831 ~ Price on request.
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Dynamic Meiji Buaku Kyogen Mask
Well-executed
Buaku Kyogen drama mask. Animated and comical, this mask depicts an all-too-human everyman character which entertains
between more serious Noh segments. Nice details with old paint losses & repairs. No cracks or chips in wood. Private collection.
Item#
402 ~ ** SOLD
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