AFTER OKUMURA MASANOBU (1686-1764) A Courtesan and Her Attendant Edo period (1615-1868), 18th ce...

AFTER OKUMURA MASANOBU (1686-1764) A Courtesan and Her Attendant Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century A hanging scroll painting in ink and colors on paper of a standing courtesan in a multi-layered ki

ANONYMOUS (18TH-19TH CENTURY) Flock of Cranes Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th century A six-panel folding screen in ink, color, and gold on paper depicting a flock of 17 cranes standing on the shore

THIRTEEN KOZUKA (KNIFE HANDLES) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th century All chiselled and inlaid with gold, silver, shakudo, or shibuichi, the first four copper; the first with a flying crane and

KUBO SHUNMAN (1757-1820) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/early 19th century A surimono depicting an ise-ebi (Japanese spiny lobster), two hamayumi (ceremonial miniature bows) with arrows in a stand, and

EIGHT FUCHIGASHIRA (HILT COLLARS AND POMMELS) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th century The first iron, shakudo, and gold, depicting dragons and clouds, signed Katsuryuken gyonen rokujugo Masayoshi

FOUR IRON TSUBA (SWORD GUARDS) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th century The first and second pierced with intricate key-fret patterning; the third and fourth each formed from 32 overlapping rivett

Umetada School A set of two fuchi-gashira for a daisho (set of long and short sword) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century Each fuchi of copper and shakudo, the shakudo chiseled with parallel grooves a

THREE FUCHI (HILT COLLARS) AND SIX FUCHI-GASHIRA (HILT COLLARS AND POMMELS) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th century The first fuchi shakudo nanako and gold, with tigers and a cub crossing a river

THREE TSUBA (HAND GUARDS) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to mid-19th century All shakudo, the first ovoid, finely cut in itozukashi ('thread-piercing') technique with sayagata (key-fret) patterns, the r

ANONYMOUS Suigetsu Kannon (Water-Moon Avalokiteshvara) Edo period (1615-1868), 17th/18th century A hanging scroll brushed in ink on paper, depicting one of the thirty-three forms of the compassionate

ARTIST UNKNOWN, TOSA SCHOOL Four Paintings of Scenes from Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) Edo period (1615-1868), 17th/18th Century Painted in ink, colours, and gold on paper within bands of gold

A SET OF MENUKI (MATCHED HILT GRIPS) Edo period (1615-1868), late 18th/early 19th century Each of gold, modelled and chiselled as a running hare, the fur minutely worked, one signed with a kao (cursiv

A SET OF MENUKI (MATCHED HILT GRIPS) Edo period (1615-1868), late 18th/early 19th century Each of gold, modelled and chiselled as a bunch of ayame (irises) wrapped in a silk cloth for a summer iris fe

A LACQUER KOGO (INCENSE BOX) AND COVER WITH FANS DEPICTING THE SHOCHIKUBAI Japan, 18th-19th century, Edo period (1615-1868)Of square form with rounded corners, the mura-nashiji ground finely decorated

A GOLD-LACQUER WRITING BOX Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century A suzuribako with rounded corners, the inrōbuta (flush-fitting) lid with rounded chiri-i edges, the interior fitted with a tray to

Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) Edo period (1615-1868), 1829 An aiban yoko-e uchiwa-e (fan print) of a courtesan holding a shamisen from the series Bijin geizukushi (Assortments of Beauties' Accomplishme

A SOTEN SCHOOL IRON TSUBA WITH IMMORTALS Signed Soheishi Nyudo Soten seiJapan, late 18th to early 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868)The iron tsuba of marugata shaped and decorated in sukashi-bori wi

AN UMOREGI NETSUKE OF A RAT Edo period (1615-1868), late 18th/early 19th century The rat twisting left, grasping the base of its tail; unsigned. 3.7cm x 2.1cm (1 7/16in x 13/16in). Footnotes: Provenan

RAKU RYŌNYŪ (KICHIZAEMON IX, 1756-1834) A Red Raku Ware Tea Bowl Edo period (1615-1868), after 1811 The earthenware chawan featuring a variegated glaze of shades of red, orange, gray, black,

A LACQUERED AND GILT-WOOD FIGURE OF AMIDA NYORAI Probably Edo period (1615–1868) The Buddha seating on a lotus throne with the right hand in vitarka mudra, the left hand resting on his thigh, tw

ANONYMOUS Cranes with Prunus Blossoms Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century A two-panel folding screen, ink, colors, gofun (calcified crushed oyster-shell gesso), and gold on paper within a double silk

A GOLD-LACQUER SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX) Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century Rectangular with an inrōbuta (flush-fitting) lid decorated in gold and silver hiramaki-e with kirigane and hirame embe

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1832 An oban yoko-e print of Izumizaki yagetsu (Night Moon at Izumizaki) from the series Ryukyu hakkei (Eight Views of the Ryukyu Islands),

UTAGAWA KUNISADA (1786-1864) Edo period (1615-1868), 1853 A set of 55 chūban tate-e prints from the series Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi (53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Road)