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Contemporary Origami by Hojyo Takahashi
(click on picture for more images) Simply astonishing. Other works
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B.W. Robinson Dead at 93
photograph courtesy of Yahya Abdelsamad The Telegraph yesterday, 1/3, reported the sad news of the death of Basil William Robinson, author and Orientalist, on December 29th at the age of 93. Born in...
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An Ukiyoe by Koson
Bird and Begonias, Koson Ohara (1877-1945) c.1910 Subject: A silhouetted bird flying through the driving rain, beneath it sprays of flowering Begonia. ——————————————– The same essential image was...
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Aotsu Yasutoshi Collection Exhibition
Aotsu Yasutoshi (1893-1984) Mr Richard Turner, one of Australia’s leading Nihonto collectors and authorities, has started a blog (Tosogu.com) devoted to the discussion of Japanese sword furniture...
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There is write-up on a tsuba (Japanese sword guard) for which we are temporary custodian on Rich Turner’s Tosogu.com. This one has a nautical motif. Tosogu means Japanese furniture in general.
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Sunrise at New Year
Eishosai Choki (active c. 1786-1808), Sunrise at New Year (ca. 1800) Perhaps the artist’s best-known design. It shows a woman, presumably a courtesan living near the waterfront at Fukagawa in Edo, who...
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Patterned Feathers, Piercing Eyes
November 10, 2007–April 13, 2008 Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Currently underway at Washington’s Smithsonian-affiliated Sackler Gallery is an exhibition of the Etsuko and Joe...
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Choki: Sunrise at New Year
Eishosai Choki (fl. 1780s-1800s), Sunrise at New Year A bijin (beautiful woman), presumably a courtesan, has risen early to greet the rising sun of the New Year at the waterfront at Fukagawa in Edo....
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A Rather Expensive Utamaro
Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806), Mono omou koi (Reflective Love), from the series of five prints entitled Kasen koi no bu (Anthology of Poems: The Love Section), c. 1793-94 Estimated to sell for...
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Kusho: Writing in the Sky
Shodo, the art of Japanese calligraphy, reaches its fullest artistic development in Sosho (“grass script”) ideograms produced in free and hasty movements with the intention of deliberately embodying a...
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Some Zen
Ido Tea Bowl “Okugourai — undecorated piece” [井戸茶碗 銘 大高麗], Tokugawa Art Museum, Tokyo From Collections & Recollections, Ido ware was a cheap earthenware with a natural ash glaze made in Korea in...
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17th Century Japanese Chest, Once Owned by Cardinal Mazarin, Sells For £6.3...
Daily Mail: Company, had been sought after by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum since 1941 The story begins in 1640 when the head of the Dutch East India Company’s Japanese office commissioned an...
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East Meets West
Miyata Nobukiyo: Dragon Teapot, c.1876, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. A well-modeled oriental dragon and Hokusai-style waves ornamenting a teapot with chaste, classical Adam lines. When the Imperial...
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Bamboo Root Snake Okimono
Period: Meiji Taisho Okimono for Sencha Tea Ceremony in the form of a snake, of bamboo root. Early Meiji era, circa 1870 – 1880. With a collector’s wood storage box, inscribed on the exterior of the...
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Choki: Sunrise at New Year
Eishosai Choki (fl. 1780s-1800s), Sunrise at New Year A bijin (beautiful woman), presumably a courtesan, has risen early to greet the rising sun of the New Year at the waterfront at Fukagawa in Edo....
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Japanese Elephant
— Elephant. Place of origin: Japan Period: Kamakura period, 1185-1333 Date: ca. 1250 Medium: Wood, metal, crystal, and pigments. Via Belacqui.
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Choki: Sunrise at New Year
Eishosai Choki (fl. 1780s-1800s), Sunrise at New Year A bijin (beautiful woman), presumably a courtesan, has risen early to greet the rising sun of the New Year at the waterfront at Fukagawa in Edo....
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Lampshade, Japan, circa 1905.
Lampshade. Japan, circa 1905. Plique à jour enamel, silver. height 20.5 cm. A plique à jour enamel lampshade with a rounded hexagonal bell-shaped body and petalled rim worked in white enamel with...
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