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Buddha Head

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Gilt, Greenish clay-made Buddha head in the style of Ayutthaya,
from a certain private collection. ---> DESCRIPTION


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Old Matsushiro Kneading Bowl

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A scarce Early Matsushiro Kneading Bowl (konebachi) as representative modest MINGEI pottery ware of Edo period,
dates back to early 19th century (or a little earlier).  D 25 x H 13 cm  (9.84 x 5.11 in), ---> DESCRIPTION


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Sabie Raku, Chawan

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Sabi-e (=Tetsu-e) Iron-picture, Sansui landscaped Raku tea bowl in the style of Kenzan (Ogata Kenzan),
considered to be back to late 19th - early 20th century.   D 12 x H 7 cm (4.72 x 2.75 in), ---> DESCRIPTION


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Sharkskin chawan

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A very scarce Satsuma chawan from late Edo - Meiji period, quality sharkskin-glazed (samehada-yu) shallow tea bowl with the three glazing symbolic pattern of traditional icchin raised work, ---> DESCRIPTION


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Yakushi Nyorai

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A gilt, wooden Buddhist statue as Yakushi Nyorai, (Yakushi Tathagata) Buddha of Medicine & Healing,
enshrined in zushi tabernacle, approx. 18th century, ---> DESCRIPTION


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EN no GYOUJA - Mountain worship

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As a scarce and an important wooden portrait sculpture of Mikkyo, -The merger of Mountain Worship, Shamanism, Shintoism, Taoism, & Buddhism, En no Gyouja (also, En no Ozunu / http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/e/ennogyouja.htm) with a married couple of demons as Sekigan (=Red eyes / also, "Zenki" as Front Demon) and Koukou (=Yellow eyes / also, "Goki" as Behind Demon) ---> DESCRIPTION


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Bronze Basin

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As attributed to the 2nd or the 3rd successor of the bronzecaster, Murata Seimin (1761-1837),
a mature signed bronze suiban basin with bilateral handles and four feet, decorated with raised relief design of dragon and phoenix in repeated geometrical pattern, ---> DESCRIPTION


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Tenmoku bowl

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As also very recommendable to be tasted as sake cup for the wild style, Chinese Tianmu small tea bowl (Tenmoku kofuku-jawan) of hare's fur type from Jianyao, called Nogime Tenmoku ---> DESCRIPTION


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Karatsu hakeme earthenware jar

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A heavy and large earthenware vessel of Karatsu pottery as Futagawa/Yumino type,
designed with wild and speedy wavy hakeme glazing work of white slip, ---> DESCRIPTION


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Enma

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A very unique and mysterious wooden Buddhist sedentary statue of Enma (Great King Yama)
in joined-block structure (yosegi-zukuri), ---> DESCRIPTION


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Umanome

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As well-known and representative Japanese Mingei folk art ware from late Edo period,
Seto stoneware pottery plate designed with the drawing pattern of iron-glazed six horse's eyes called umanome,
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Korean black-glazed jar

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An abacus bead shape, thinly black-glazed jar in the particular color of deep green brown, originally used for salt container in the middle of Joseon dynasty approximately 17th century, ---> DESCRIPTION


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Korean wooden figure

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Old Korean wooden standing doll carved in plain single-stroke technique,
painted colorfully once for its traditional Joseon costume though maturely deteriorated for the age,
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Shiromon tokkuri

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Much more like Mingei style than the orthodox White-Satsuma (Shiromon) type for the use of feudal lord as high class, in wabi glaze condition with aesthetic stain in the scenic crackle, ---> DESCRIPTION


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Shiromakai

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White-glazed Tsuboya-yaki pottery bowl called Shiro-makai from Ryukyu (Okinawa),
as a rare folk ware from the kiln of Tsuboya in the tropics, as hidden quality Mingei art piece.
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Happi Benzaiten

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A scarce, quality wooden Buddhist (or Shinto) sedentary statue of Happi Benzaiten in joined-block structure
(yosegi-zukuri), that had once possessed 8-arm (happi) as the early type (as Not the later type with 2-arm
and biwa four-stringed lute). ---> DESCRIPTION


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Map of Hwanghae

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Old handwritten map of Hwanghae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwanghae) as the one of the Eight Provinces (Hanja) of Korea during Choson (Joseon) dynasty, considered to be from approximately 17th - early 18th century in the middle era of Choson dynasty according to its chartaceous and its style,  ---> DESCRIPTION


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Seto iron-glazed tea bowl

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A stately cylindrical molded with gentle single knot, iron-glazed tea bowl attributed to a Seto potter,
Kato Kagetsugu  ---> DESCRIPTION


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Mingei Andonzara

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As an unusually more like Shino ware based work comparing with standard Seto piece for this type, an aged feldspar-glazed Mingei folk pottery oil plate (Abura-zara) or lantern plate (Andon-zara) with mature landscape drawing 
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Folk pottery oil plate, Mingei

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A richly crackled, feldspar-glazed Mingei folk pottery stoneware oil plate (Abura-zara) or lantern plate (Andon-zara) with the design of iron-glazed plain chrysanthemum crest surrounded with rough wheel pattern of orange-glazed lines, 
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