Kakejiku: 'Shichifukujin', or 'Seven Gods of Fortune', Japan, colour on paper, dark brown wooden jiku, not signed, probably first quarter 20th cen...

Hashimoto Dokuzan (1869-1938), kakejiku: calligraphy reading 'Shu [...] Taihei', or Longevity, [...] and Tranquillity', Japan, sumi on paper, dark...

Yazawa Gengetsu (1886-1952), kakejiku: hôshu, or flaming pearl, Japan, sumi on paper, Satsuma jiku, signed, seal 'Gengetsu' -some slight folds-, i...

Okada Beisanjin (1744-1820), kakejiku: landscape with mountains, pine trees and a person sitting in a hut, Japan, signed, seals 'Shigen' and 'Okad...

Tomioka Tessai (1837-1924), kakejiku: resting Fukurokuju accompanied by a grass script calligraphy, Japan, sumi and colour on silk, dark brown woo...

Tanomura Chikuden (1777-1835), kakejiku: Chinese high priests watching a waterfall, Japan, colours on silk, bone jiku, signed, seals 'Bokuhon konj...

Round iron Katchushi tsuba with openwork motif of a parasol, one side engraved with two sakura blossoms, the other side with an gold coloured inla...

Painting on paper: comedic image of a blackened 'girl', titled in hentaigana ' Nuriotome' , or 'Painted maiden', Japan, with three seals, 19th cen...

Rakuzan Tsuchiya (1896-1976), woodblock print: 'Shibagurikare Imotsuru ni Kashidori (Banshû)', or 'Wild Chestnut, Fall-dried Wild Yam Vine, and Ja...

Sumi-e: rooster staring at a crawling caterpillar, Japan, sumi and colour on paper, not signed, second half 20th century59 x 28 ...[more]

Sumi-e: white eagle sitting on a branch, Japan, sumi and colour on paper, not signed, second half 20th century69 x 28 ...[more]

Pair of Sumida ware tankards with high relief: a karako chasing a white rabbit, and a man with a bag, both handles of the tankards are shaped by t...

Ivory cane handle in the shape of a monkey wearing a hat, the eyes can move up and down, and the tongue sticks out by using a lever on the back, J...

Metal ladies compact and cigarette case, the lid with engraved decoration of two lions, the inside with gold coloured text: 'To smoke away your th...

Bronze letter opener, the hilt with inlaid mixed metal motif in the shape of two cranes, the back decorated with two sparrows flying between bambo...

Round red lacquer lidded box, the lid with black motif of a chrysanthemum, Japan, with export seal, first half 20th century -lacquer bulbed on the...

Utaikata doll, part of a hinamatsuri display, this is the singer and one of the five male musicians, or 'Gonin Bayashi', positioned on the third t...

Nukina Kaioku / Sûô (1778-1863), kakejiku: man in a boat, on the foreground several bushes on the shoreline, Japan, sumi on paper, signed, seals '...

Studio Ryûbundô: cast iron tetsubin with low relief of clouds and 'tsuru no maru'-mon, the bronze lid with a red knob, Japan, with seal mark under...