Incense burner (Koro), Rice bowl (Meshi-Wan) of Ko Kutani Porcelain, about 1730.
Japanese Ko Kutani ceramic. Incense burner, Rice bowl.
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Japanese culture of the 19th and early 20th century. Culture, arts and crafts, customs, mythology, religion and everyday life.
Two Japanese Kutani rice bowls, Japan.
Ko Kutani rice bowls. Period, 1700-1750.
The Fire-Fly’s Lovers. Fairy tale of old Japan
The fairy tale of Princess Hotaru-himé.
The “floating” Torii gate at Miyajima, Japan
The “floating” Torii gate at Miyajima or Itskushima (“Island of Light”)
The Ike-no-Niwa of the Imperial Palace at Kioto.
The Ike-no-Niwa, or “Garden of the Lake,” in the grounds of the Imperial Palace at Kioto
Dishes of late period Arita porcelain. Hizen. Japan.
Square-shaped Dish of late period Arita porcelain, boldly painted with the Japanese lion and foliage in rich blue.
Tatsu. The Dragon. Mythological Japan.
A fitting representation of power, symbolical of sovereignty, mysterious and omnipotent in its influence, is Tatsu
The Great Bell at Chio-In temple, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto.
Chion-in (monastery of Gratitude), in Higashiyama-ku, is the principal Buddhist monastery of the Jōdo sect.
Benten, Goddess of Matrimony, of Music, of the Sea.
Benten, or Benzaiten, is one of the Seven Divinities of Good Fortune. Patron of the family and of the sea.
Stone lanterns and their use in Japanese gardens.
Garden Lanterns may be broadly divided into two classes, namely,—the Standard class, and the Legged class