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Kagami netsuke with design of two rats carrying Daikoku’s sack and mallet on a pole; bowl in the form of a rice bale

Japanese Edo period–Meiji era mid to late 19th century (before 1889)

Overall: 4.3 x 2.8 x 1.9 cm (1 11/16 x 1 1/8 x ¾ in.)

Main material: gold; ivory; other metals: shakudo, shibuichi and silver; decorative technique: iroe takazogan

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Netsuke Edo Period Gyokusui

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Japanese silk fukusa embroidered with a flight of cranes, Edo Period

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Tsuba with design of snake, Japan, Edo period, mid-19th century, Seki Yoshinori.

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Suit of Armor

1700-1799

Edo Period

Japan

David Owsley Museum of Art

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Two Cloisonné Jars

Edo Period (1603 C.E. - 1868 C.E.)

Hunting on horse back

Bronze with lacquered foot rim

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A Three-footed Cloisonné Censer 

Edo Period (1603 C.E. - 1868 C.E.)

Three-footed, wireless, with silver cap

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Sarasa Jinbaori Outer Garment with Geometric Design.  17th to 18th century , cloth from India, created into garment in Japan.  Matsura Historical Museum

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Female Samurai, name unknown. An onna-bugeisha was a female warrior. Members of the samurai class in feudal Japan, they were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honor in times of war.

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Two Tsuba

Edo Period (1603 C.E. - 1868 C.E.)

Lacquered Iron with Inlays

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Tsuba

Edo Period (1603 C.E. - 1868 C.E.)

Lacquered Iron with Inlays

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Sawaki Suushi. Hyakkai Zukkan. 1737.

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Katsushika Hokusai（葛飾北斎 Japanese, 1760-1849}

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Tsuba

Edo Period (1603 C.E. - 1868 C.E.)

Lacquered Iron with Inlays

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Avici, the lowest level of Buddhist hell 六道 阿鼻地獄幅 1822 Avici is Sanksrit/Pali for “no waves.” Supposedly there isn’t much hope for the souls who make it to this level for rebirth in the higher levels, thus named a “non-returning” realm.

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Three Tsuba

Edo Period (1603 C.E. - 1868 C.E.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork City

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The Wave

Modern (2005)

Ai Weiwei (Beijing, China)

Glazed ceramic

The celadon-glazed body of this piece recalls vessels produced at the Longquan kilns located outside the Southern Song capital of Hangzhou, while its form may have been inspired by a depiction of waves by the Southern Song court painter Ma Yuan (ca. 1160–1225) as well as the famous Japanese woodblock print Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave), by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork City

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