Antique Japanese 19th Century Textile - Katazome Indigo 37"x72" #79 Tea Accessories This is a vintage Japanese

This is a vintage Japanese ceramic bowl known as a chawan (tea bowl) used in Japanese chado (tea ceremony)

1596-1868) tsuba (handguard) for a samurai’s Katana or Wakazashi

Shochikubai has the literal meaning of pine (Sho 松)

75" giclée reproduction print of a Japanese Showa era ukiyo-e (woodblock print) titled Bamboo Wood c

but easily cleaned and two of what look like stylized tree sprigs

Antique Japanese 19th Century Textile - Katazome Indigo 37"x72" #79 Tea Accessories This is a vintage JapaneseThis exquisite piece of 100+ year old antique Japanese hand woven cotton fabric features a stencil dyed cotton 3 panel fabric created using the traditional katazome dyeing technique. Katazome is a Japanese method of dyeing fabrics using a rice flour resist paste applied through a stencil carved from mulberry paper. The fabric, which was probably once used as a kakebuton (a kind of bed spread) showcases geometric and floral patterns rendered in an