Antique Japanese bronze tsuba with seven baby crows in silver and gold learning to fly over crested waters. Signed By Female Artist: Katsurano Fumiko /. Bunshi

Age: Late 1800's

Dimensions: 2 7/8" wide x 3" high

I could find just two other examples of tsuba by this artist online. According to Bonham's: "It is interesting to note that [the artist] very unusually, was a woman, Fumiko, daughter of the older Sekibun... Click for details

Antique Japanese iron Tsuba with inlay of a three gold clawed dragon amongst the swirling clouds. cast in iron using sand cast technique. Unsigned

Age: early 1900's

Dimensions: 2 3/4" wide 2 7/8" high

Antique Japanese iron tsuba (sword fitting). Depicting three water buffalo resting in the shade of the weeping willow tree. Details of sprouted wild grasses and flowers in gold. Finely detailed, each water buffalo is raised and has gold inlaid eye. Very and well made, smaller size than most tsuba.

Age: Late Edo Period Circa 1800's

2 1/2" wide x 2 3/4" high

Antique Japanese solid bronze tsuba (sword guard). Depicting a small gold fishing boat with cormorant traditional fishing. Long ling leading to a ring place around the trained cormorants neck. Natural bamboo springs up on both sides of gold and silver. Well made with careful attention to details.

Age: Late Edo Period Circa early 1800's

Dimensions2 3/4" wide x 3" high

Antique Japanese iron tsuba depicting a newt, with eyes of gold on natural wood. Silver spider web falling maple leafs.
Signed Tsuchiya Morichika who was active in the Edo period. Morichika worked in Okayama in Bizen province, and later in Osaka. He is the son of Noriyuki (H 05810), and a student of the sixth Tsuchiya Yasuchika (H 11109). There are dated works from 1850, 1858, and 1859.

Signed 守親 Morichika

Age: Edo period 1603 - 1868)

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Antique original Japanese bronze tsuba (sword guard) depicted a pair of gold inlaid snakes. Finely detailed down to each scale.
In Japanese culture, snakes, or hebi, are symbols of protection, rebirth, transformation, and good fortune. They can also represent wisdom, strength, and resilience.

Age: 1900's

Dimensions: 8" high (on base) x 3 1/3" x 3 1/3"

A vintage Japanese Aritaware umbrella stand in a cylindrical hexagon shape. Blue and white porcelain with Sometsuke landscape scenes of six different scenes. Its heavy weight suggests being heavily potted prior to firing.

Age: 1950's

Dimensions: 33" high by 10 1/4" diagonal diameter.

Antique pair of Japanese fusuma doors. Hand painted interior doors with solid hinoki Japanese cypress wood paneling. Painted of white, green, red, and brown natural pigments. Frames are lacquered red. Original metal pulls. Depicting blossoming chrysanthemums along with a sleeping white cat.

Age: Late Edo period Circa early 1800's

Dimensions: 38 1/2" wide x 67 1/2" high

Japanese antique lacquer inro with five reserve scenes of landscapes and implements most likely representing the Seven Lucky Gods. The inro has rounded edges and is almost oval in form. It has five sections (four compartments) and is lacquered entirely in very fine gold nashiji. There are 3 scenes on one side and 2 on the other in raised maki-e lacquer. The implements are displayed as if accidentally left behind. A biwa plectrum, a fan, various hats, an ancient turtle, are all symbols of the... Click for details

An antique Japanese iron garden lantern in a rare teahouse design. Complete with thatched style roof, outdoor walkway and Shishigashira (bamboo style outdoor fence decoration called a Torake Tamasode wall. With stylized Shoji, full moon and open fan windows. Stand alone style lantern with removable roof.

Age: Early 20th C (1900-1920)

Dimensions: 15" Wide by 13" Deep by 14 1/2" High