Folding screen with bambooMaio Motoko (1948 - )183 x 513 cmThirteen-panel screen Washi paper, fabric and pigmentsThe screen is composed by thirteen panels of graduating size (57.5 cm to 21.5 cm) decorated on both sides. One side represents a bamboo forest, with parallel applied papier-mâché bamboo plants, while the back is an abstract design with a silver irregular band on a cobalt blue background of antique fabrics and paper. This screen perfectly shows Maio’s ability in mastering materials in order to create tactile surfaces and strong compositions, rough and delicate at the same time...
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Nagaeboshi Kawari KabutoSamurai Helmet designed as a court capMid Edo period Edo (1615 - 1867), 18th centuryThis spectacular helmet is meant to reproduce the cap worn by shinto priests. Of unusual shape, it is built of five iron riveted plates, covered with a textured gold lacquer and embossed with a red “ken” on the back. On the front, a rare triple maedate is supported by three different tsunomoto (supports).The shikoro is a rare kusari-shikoro made in three sections of chain mail under a wide black-lacquered plate molded as a lotus...
Shinto katana KagehiraKashu ju Fujiwara Kagehira賀州住藤原景平Early Edo period, circa 1640Ryō-WazamonoNBTHK Hozon Tōken Nagasa [lenght]: 69.2 cmMotohaba: 3.1 cm, sakihaba: 2.1 cmSori: 1 cmSugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, shallow tori-zori, iori-mune, enlongated chu-kissaki (3.8 cm)Kitae [forging pattern]: itame hada mixed with masame hadaHamon [tempering pattern]: notare midare; tobiyaki, uchinoke, yakidashiBōshi [point]: ko-maruNakago [tang]: ubu, kurijiri; one mekugi-ana; traces of black urushi lacquer; mei: “Kashu ju Fujiwara Kagehira”Koshirae: The sword is accompanied by...
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