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Seto ware mizusashi (water jar)
This fresh water container has spiralling fronds painted und…
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Shino ware cake dish
During the Tea Ceremony a small very elegant cake is eaten b…
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Spouted vessel
The structure of this vessel is technically advanced for a h…
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Sue funerary jar
This elaborate ritual tomb jar has an unusually high pierced…
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Tamba ware mizusashi (water jar)
According to tradition there were six major centres in the K…
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Tsuba (sword guard)
This tsuba is made of shakudō with gold and silver in…
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Two dotaku (ritual bells)
The larger bell on the left is mentioned in the publication …
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Utagawa Toyoharu (attributed to), Courtesans of the Tamaya House, a screen painting
This rare six-fold screen can be firmly attributed to Utagaw…
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Counterstamped gold koban
In the seventeenth century, most of Indonesia was controlled…
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10 dollar note for Malaya
There were many unusual issues of paper money during the Sec…
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Arita ware porcelain dish
This dish was commissioned by the United Dutch East India Co…
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Gan Rei, Panorama of Higashiyama, a handscroll painting
This informally sketched panorama shows Higashiyama, a sceni…
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Incense box
In Japan, the appreciation of incense was an art in itself, …
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Large neo-Jomon pot
This beautifully balanced pot has a wide mouth and comparati…
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Mori Shuho and others, Turtles, a hanging scroll painting
This is a collaborative work by ten artists, all based in Os…
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Portable set for outdoor Tea Ceremony
Tea Ceremonies were often held outside, especially when comb…
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Sanage ware ceremonial jar
Sanage was one of the main centres for high-quality ceramic …
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The river festival at Tsushima shrine, a pair of 8-fold screen paintings
This large impressive pair of eight-fold screens shows the b…
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Two lidded jars and two trumpet vases
Wares in this style were made in the kilns around Arita in n…
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Utagawa Hiroshige, 'The Sea at Satta, Suruga Province' (Suruga Satta kaijo), a colour woodblock print
This print is one of the series 'Thirty-six views of Mount F…
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Aiseki, Hermitage by the Shaxi River, a hanging scroll painting
Aiseki (worked late eighteenth century) probably studied pai…
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Arita ware tankard
This tankard, with its sophisticated design of butterlfy and…
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Dohoko (ritual spear blade)
This bronze spear blade is said to have been excavated at Ok…
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Five porcelain bowls in the shape of fish
Japan has always worked on a decimal system and even today, …
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Four Imari ware porcelain figures
Light-hearted figures, almost caricatures, were made largely…
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Haji ware standing bowl (tazza)
Haji ware is a red pottery fired at temperatures below 1000°…
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Hanabusa Itcho, Xiwangmu, Butterflies around Bamboo and Chrysanthemums and Butterfly over Cotton Roses, a triptych of ha
Xiwangmu, the Queen Mother of the West, approaches through t…
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Haniwa
This tall pottery female figure would have stood with others…
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Horse bit
A 'bit' is the metal mouthpiece that is attached to a horse'…
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Kakiemon ware porcelain bowl
This symmetrical hexagonal bowl may have been used for servi…
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Large porcelain dish
This large porcelain dish is decorated in underglaze blue, t…
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Matsumura Keibun, View of Arashiyama, a 6-fold screen painting
This is a view of Arashiyama, in north-western Kyoto, in the…
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Mizusashi (water jar)
The kilns of Bizen had been established in the Middle Ages. …
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Mori Tetsuzan, Xiwangmu, a hanging scroll painting
Xiwangmu (Japanese: Seiōbō), the Queen Mother of t…
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Porcelain coffee pot
The porcelain pot is decorated in underglaze blue and overgl…
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Porcelain figure of a carouser astride a barrel
The first Japanese porcelain was made in the early decades o…
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Porcelain plate with design of auspicious fruits
This porcelain plate is decorated with underglaze blue and c…
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Porcelain plate with design of dragon
A Chinese-looking dragon curls among stylized waves with las…
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Porcelain plate with design of tiger
The tiger and bamboo are often depicted together in Japanese…
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Shigaraki ware tea storage jar
Shigaraki was one of the ancient centres of pottery producin…
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Stemmed Haji ware bowl with handle
Two main types of pottery were made in Japan in the Kofun pe…
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Sword
This sword was excavated together with rich gilt copper hors…
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Bulbous Karatsu ware jar
Several styles of pottery and porcelain were introduced into…
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Kubo Shumman, A party in 'Shikian' Restaurant at Nakazu, a diptych of woodblock prints
The fashionable and exclusive Shikian ('Four Seasons') resta…
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Mandala of the Kasuga Shrine Deity in the form of the bodhisattva Jizo, a hanging scroll painting
The bodhisattva Jizō (Sanskrit: Ksitigarbha) was wide…
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Nishiyama Kan'ei, Scenes of Daily Life in Osaka, a handscroll painting
These scenes are taken from a handscroll illustrating the ac…
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Raku-style teabowl, by Takahashi Dohachi II
This Raku-style teabowl was made by the versatile Kyoto pott…
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Views of Tomogashima, a handscroll painting
This view is taken from a scroll illustrating the group of i…
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Views of Ueno and Asakusa, a pair of handscroll paintings
This painting's fine detail, strong colours and generous use…
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Kano Tan'yu, Miscellaneous Subjects, a handscroll painting
Kanō Tan'yū, was the first official painter to the…
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Hans Sloane's collection of shells
The great collector Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) began acquir…
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Shoes collected by Hans Sloane
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose collection helped to foun…
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String of 800 cash
As each individual coin was worth very little, cash coins of…
