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Nabeshima ware Seventeenth century, Edo Period Diameter, 31.5 cm. Nabeshima ware, unmatched in Japan for its delicacy, was produced with official support at Okochi in the Nabeshima fief (modern-day Saga Prefecture, Kyushu). This plate has long been famous as one of the larger surviving pieces of Nabeshima ware. A very deep plate with a high […]

Taikan Yokoyama 1948, Japan Height 64.7 cm, width 92.2 cm Taikan Yokoyama (1868 – 1958) was born at the beginning of Japan’s modern period of westernization. He studies under Kakuzo (or Tenshin) Okakura, one of the leaders of Japan’s art world, and worked to create a new style of purely Japanese painting. This painting was […]

Nara period (645 – 794), Japan Dim.: 26.7 X 154.5 cm. The Sutra of Cause and Effect was translated into Chinese in four fascicles by the fifth-century Indian monk Gunabhadra. A biography of Shakyamuni, it describes both his former lives and his existence as the historical Buddha. In the eight-fascicle illustrated version of this sutra, […]