Category Archive 'Japanese Art'
01 Jan 2021

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. The woman is adjusting the top of her kimono to protect against the chill of the early morning. In the lower-left is a blossoming fukujuso plant, emblematic of the New Year.
12 Dec 2020

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Christie’s
Sale 19017
Japanese and Korean Art
New York
22 September 2020
Lot 21
KATO GIZAN (B. 1968)
Jigen (Manifestation)
Signed Gizan and cursive monogram
Carved wood sculpture
43 3/8 in. (110.2 cm.) high without stand
With original metal stand
Estimate
USD 30,000 – USD 40,000
Price realised
USD 312,500
Via: Artemis Dreaming.
20 Jan 2020

Boxwood, 18th or 19th Century.
01 Jan 2020

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. The woman is adjusting the top of her kimono to protect against the chill of the early morning. In the lower-left is a blossoming fukujuso plant, emblematic of the New Year.
25 Feb 2019

Flying Cranes and Poetry.
Attributed to Tawaraya SÅtatsu (act. 1600-1640),
Calligrapher Hon’ami KÅetsu (Japanese, 1558 – 1637)
Edo Period. Japanese Poem sheet (shikishi) mounted as a hanging scroll, ink and gold on paper. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
05 Apr 2018


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 stylized flowers and foliate scrolls on a pale blue-grey ground. Applied with silver rims. Text and image via Khalili Collection.
It is said that it was Ando Jubei who introduced the technique of plique à jour (shotai jippo) to Japan; supposedly he first saw such work, made by Fernand Thesmar (see FR 284), at the Paris Exposition of 1900. But this cannot be true since the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore has a piece (inv. no. 44.156) in the technique labeled Namikawa Sosuke, and there is one in the 1896 Sosuke book (see E 7) said to have been exhibited at Chicago in 1893.
This technique, where the supporting metal is removed after firing to leave the glass and the wire alone, is notoriously difficult. It was an astonishing feat to acquire the skill so quickly and from such a slender source. Large pieces are particularly difficult to make as it is almost impossible to avoid some small cracks during the cooling process.
O. Impey, M. Fairley (eds.), Meiji No Takara: Treasures Of Imperial Japan: Enamel, London 1994, cat. 76.
J. Earle, Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji period from the Khalili Collection, London 2002, cat. 234, p. 327.
01 Jan 2018

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. The woman is adjusting the top of her kimono to protect against the chill of the early morning. In the lower-left is a blossoming fukujuso plant, emblematic of the New Year.
08 May 2017




— Elephant.
Place of origin: Japan
Period: Kamakura period, 1185-1333
Date: ca. 1250
Medium: Wood, metal, crystal, and pigments.
Via Belacqui.
01 Jan 2017

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. The woman is adjusting the top of her kimono to protect against the chill of the early morning. In the lower-left is a blossoming fukujuso plant, emblematic of the New Year.
16 Oct 2016

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 lid: Chikkon Tennen Hebi or Natural Bamboo Root Snake.
3-3/8″ high x 2-3/4″ x 2-5/8″
08 Apr 2016

Daruma Netsuke, Japan, 19th century, boxwood.
27 Feb 2015

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 Government banned the carrying of swords in 1876, makers of tsuba (Japanese sword guards), like Miyata Nobukiyo (Goto School, 1817-1884) found themselves obliged to apply their skills, formerly used to ornament the weapons of aristocratic warriors, to luxury products designed for Western sale.
Via Ratak Monodosico.
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