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  1. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/525883510/Japanese-metalwork-technique-by-ford-hallam/comments
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    Omori Hisanori?

    The kozuka illustrated in Yakozen tweet (cf the link provided by Yas in post #6) reminds me of the kozuka I posted on this forum in 2013:
  3. Meiji teapots can fetch a very high price at auction. One, estimated EUR 3000-4000, sold for EUR 93'750 at Christie's Paris in 2017 ! https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/theiere-en-fer-de-style-komai-tetsubin-6117927-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intObjectID=6117927 Here is mine, a much more modest piece : Bernard D
  4. I made some new photos of my two silver kiseru for this thread. My favourite is the one carved with waves. It is signed Omori saku. Bernard D
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    Is it too easy

    Hello Adam, There was already a discussion about the zogan on this tsuba : Bernard D
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    Is it too easy

    ...and mine Bernard D
  7. Kowari Tetsuya (Oribe). Bernard D
  8. Not exactly a tokkuri, but a katakuchi, made by Kowari Tetsuya (Shino). Bernard D
  9. A small Iga tokkuri, by modern potter Manabu Atarashi. Bernard D
  10. Here are 4 surimonos depicting rats/mice. The first one signed Zeshin, the others by unknown (at least to me ) artists. Bernard D
  11. Here is an old pottery : an oribe chaire, 10 cm. high, 16/17th century. Bernard D
  12. Hello Malcolm, A fine Kunisada triptych ! Thank you for posting. Is my print a triptych with a missing sheet? I don't know... According to the short note in my possession, the print is said to be by Shunki and described as a diptych featuring " feux d'artifice au pont Riogokou , daté 1807 sur la lanterne". Bernard D
  13. Fireworks in Japan... Bernard D
  14. Great ! Thank you, Steve. Bernard D
  15. Thank you for searching ! By the way, did you notice the clock on the wall in this surimono? I have another little print (in a sad state ) featuring such a clock, with more details. As you probaly know, they are called "kake-dokei". Here is a link to a real one : https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/a-Japanese-iron-framed-striking-kake-dokei-late-18thearly-4448865-details.aspx Bernard D
  16. Two surimonos featuring women and a child. The one on the left is by Tesai Hokuba. I was not able to identify the maker of the surimono on the right, nor its subject (any idea of what they are doing ?). Bernard D
  17. Brian, the frames of your prints are around 50/60 years old, as you suspected. Mine are similar (cf. pics). Personnally, in order to avoid bad surprises or unnecessary costs, I would leave the prints as they are and enjoy them as decorative objects on walls not exposed to direct sunlight. Bernard D
  18. Thank you guys, you are great ! Malcolm, your search reminds me that my father posessed the 15 volumes of Hokusai manga, but he sold them (for CHF 4000.-, probably in the 1970s. I don't know if this was a fair price, but to him it was certainly a substantial amount). Bernard D
  19. Hello Malcolm, Thank you for your links, always fascinating. I wish I had more informations about my father’s collection. He left a short information note for many of his objects, but not for all. According to these notes, many pieces came from the Th. Duret and B.H. Chamberlain collections. If Théodore Duret is a well known collector of Japanese art, B.H. Chamberlain is rather famous as a “Japonologist “ and for his controversy with Lafcadio Hearn, although Nathan Chaïkin, in the foreword to his book “The Sino-Japanese War” (1984) evoques “(...)the discovery of this amazing collection on the Sino-Japanese War, gathered by Basil Hall Chamberlain during his tenure as Professor Emeritus at the Tokyo Imperial University (...)”. It seems that Chamberlain, who died unmarried in Geneva in 1935, brought back from Japan quite a lot of cultural artefacts, that passed along to Charles Bolard-Talbère, his secretary and reader during his last years (cf. “Basil Hall Chamberlain, Portrait of a Japonologist” by Yuzo Ota, 1998, p.112 ). Mr. Bolard was still living in Geneva in the 1950s and he sold at home objects from the Chamberlain’s collection. My father purchased many pieces from Mr. Bolard and, as a child, I accompanied him several times (souvenirs, souvenirs...). I post a photo of a surimono bearing Chamberlain’s seal in Japanese. Concerning this particular drawing of a man under the rain, I have no evidence of its origin. I simply remember that my father, who posessed many drawings and surimono by Hokkei, had told me that this one was by Hokusai. This is why I was cautious with its attribution... Bernard D
  20. Great ! Thank you very much, Steve. So, the inscriptions in pencil on the lower edge are likely "Y.Urushibara" (left) and "Frank Brangwyn" (right). Bernard D
  21. Malcolm, I like your Yoshitoshi drawing alot. One can almost feels the characters moving. Sometimes, this spontaneity is lost in the final print, with the intervention of the engraver.I have also observed this phenomenon in oil paintings , where it may happen that the final result, although from the master’s hand himself, does not show the freshness found in the preparatory drawing. Here is another Japanese drawing, without pentimenti (“repentirs” in French), possibly by Hokusai, of a more simple and quiet subject, but definitely by the hand of a great artist. Bernard D
  22. Thank you Piers. Here are more photos. Hope this helps... Bernard D
  23. A "modern" Japanese print ? There are inscriptions written in pencil in the bottom, but I am unable to decipher. Any information about this print ? Bernard D
  24. Malcolm, your contribution to this thread is greatly appreciated. Please, keep posting ! Bernard D
  25. Malcolm, thank you very much. Your expertise in this field is impressive and your enthusiasm contagious, as Piers noticed. This awabi shell surimono, said to be from the Duret collection, comes, as almost all my other Japanese objects, from my father's collection (he died in 1988). Personnally I have no merit at all, except perhaps for not letting them go. However,I had to sell some of his best pieces, like this album lot 225 sold at Christie's in 1992. Bernard D
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