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Snowball Pushed by Hotei and a Child
Inscribing the Cherry Bark - netsuke by Kojima no Takamori - Japan, late 19th century. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Ivory okimono of a cherrful old man with child. The man carries a bunch of large daikon radishes. red incised seal mark on base. Height 9.2" / 23.4 cm. (Sold October 24 - 29, 2020 - Lot 22 - Waddingtons.ca)

Okimono (Tabletop sculptures)

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Chidori motif

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Gyosui Kawanabe 1868-1935 Bee and Red Fruit
Heihachiro Fukuda, 1934.
Japanese woodblock prints of Kimono designs from the 1900's www.winterworksonpaper.com

Prints & Paintings - Flowers and Plants

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市中繁栄七夕祭 by Hiroshige. This day is a special day all over Japan where people observe Tanabata, the Star Festival. Tanabata celebrates the romantic story of two lovers represented by the stars Vega and Altair who are only allowed to meet each other once a year as long as the skies are clear.
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Prints & Paintings - Landscapes and Views

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Bakufu Ohno - Familiar Fishes of Nippon - Squid
Carp and Waterfall ca. 1785. Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795).

Prints & Paintings - The Sea and Sealife

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Urashima Leaving the Palace Under the Sea - by Ogata Gekko
Silk on paper kakemono (hanging scroll) painted with a toad and calligraphy - by Kazan (seals: Gyōun Ryūsui, Illegible, Kazan-jin, Yūhō muhō shin’nen (a Buddhist saying - “The belief in the Emptiness of Non-Existence and Existence”). Inscription: in Chinese - refers to the autumn of 1851 when he was alone and ill in bed feeling like this toad. 1852. Kazan (1786-1872) was a Buddhist monk and literati painter, born in Tosa province, & studied bunjinga painting under Shunkin (1779-1846).
Katten voor de 53 stations van de Tokaido, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Murata Heiemon, Mera Taichiro, 1847 - 1850

Prints & Paintings - Animals, real and mythical

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Painting by Ito Jakuchu
Nippon-Graph
Hokusaï, Leçons de dessin par la décomposition géométrique

Prints & Paintings -- Birds

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Matagamas (Japanese and Korean)

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Flower arranging basket (hanakago) by Higashi Takesonosai (Japanese) | Bamboo and rattan
Japanese Taisho Period Large Branch Handled Basket.

Basketry

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Japanese scroll. The Kakemono, or hanging scroll, more commonly referred to as a kakejiku, hung scroll, consists of a painting or a piece of calligraphy executed on paper or silk mounted on a paper backing (hyosou) strong enough to support the weight of the artwork (honshi) yet flexible enough to be rolled for storage.
Japanese calligraphy: the Kanji for ‘fuyu’: winter.
For Sale on 1stdibs - 17th century Japanese calligraphy scroll, the two large characters translate to 'Accept This'. Signed and sealed by Seigan Soi (1588-1661), the text says

Calligraphy

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Ceramics

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A cloisonné enamel vase | Signed Tomiko | Meiji period, late 19th century | Masters of Enamel: The Collection of John and Muriel Okladek | Including Further Japanese Works of Art from the Meiji Period, 1868-1912 | 2021 | Sotheby's
A large cloisonné-enamel humidor By Kawade Shibataro (1856-1921), for the Ando Cloisonné Company, Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1905 The cylindrical vessel slightly waisted, set on a splayed foot and fitted with a flat cover surmounted by a silver knop and decorated with an overall design of grapes and insect-eaten leaves on a vine, peaches, a gourd, string beans and a large grasshopper perched on eggplants, all worked in silver wire and polychrome enamels raised in moriage.

Cloisonné

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Chidori (plover) over waves - maki-e lacquer brooch by DAIKAI
里芋菊蒔絵重箱 Stacked Food Box (Jūbako) with Taro Plants and Chrysanthemums. Shibata Zeshin. late Edo (1615–1868)–early Meiji (1868–1912) period. mid-19th century. Japan. Lacquered wood, gold and silver hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, and colored togidashimaki-e. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Lacquer

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A pair of important cloisonne enamel vases (30,5 cm) Meiji period (late 19th century), each signed Kyoto Namikawa (workshop of Namikawa Yasuyuki 1845-1927)
Ёкоя Соё - цуба с шиши и его детенышем, XVIII век.
Hand guard (tsuba) for a sword, shakudo with gold and shibuichi relief depicting peony sprays, signed Hitotsuyanagi Tomoyoshi, Japan, ca. 1800.

Metalwork

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Japanese, Edo period, late 18th–early 19th century By Bairyuken Kiyotatsu, Japanese School Kenjô School, Japanese. Collection:  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Fuchi and kashira
Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira) | Japanese | The Met

Metalwork -- Sword ornaments

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800 year old Heian era bugaku mask. Japan The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Masks

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Man trying to push over a daruma. The traditional Daruma is a balanced figure that will not stay down if knocked over, but will right itself automatically. This represents the Buddhist saying "Seven times down, eight times up".
A beautiful okimono of Ebisu in the role of a shopkeeper, seated with his left leg cossed, gazing up from a soroban, two account books placed before him, flanked by a suzuribako on his left and a basket of fish at his right, signed Toshimune.

Okimono

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BOX AND COVER (JAPAN), 19TH CENTURY
だるま供養 burning last year's daruma
Jizo statue at Sanzen-in temple, Kyoto, Japan 三千院

Other

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Navy Blue White and Gold Landscape Japanese Yuzen Chiyogami Washi Paper Sheet 23 x 15 cm (9 x 6 inches) mosaicmouse

Paper

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Amaterasu, Japanese Goddess of the Sun
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Andon Lamplight by Toyokuni III/Kunisada (1786 - 1864) - from the series Secret Meetings by Moonlight

Prints & Paintings

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Dragon. By Katsushika Hokusai.

Prints & paintings - Hokusai

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Japanese Art | Ohara Koson - Swallows with Cherry Blossom, 1910
Torii and Crow in the Snow by OHARA Koson (1877~1945), Japan
Flight of Ducks, by Ohara Koson (Japanese)

Prints & Paintings - Koson

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Ptint by Toyokunu III (Kunisada) from series, "The 53 Stations of the Tokaido" (poss. half of a diptych). Station: #53, Torii kawa/gawa. Signed: Toyokuni ga. Actor: Nakayama Bungoro II, holding a shakujo staff.  role: posdibly Karabôhiki. Play: ?. Censor seal: Hama, Magome date: rat 9. Publisher: Izutsuya Shokichi. Carver: ?. Ref in Diet Library.: N2, ritsu-500-2755  http://www.kunisada.de/Kunisada-Tokaido-1852/Tokaido3.htm
Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786–1864) Edo period (1615–1868), Japan. Polychrome woodblock print.
Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786–1864), Edo period (1615–1868), Japan. Polychrome woodblock print.

Prints & Paintings - Kunisada

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print by Yoshimune Arai 1873-1945

Prints & paintings - Shin hanga

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Kuniyoshi--Tokiwa-gozen fleeing with her children through the snow
By Kuniyoshi. 浮世絵に描かれた猫たち

Prints & Paintings - Kuniyoshi

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