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Welcome to Artes Japonica
Japanese Antiques
As the name indicates — the art of Japan — we sell a number of antiques which reflect Japan's rich heritage of craftsmanship.
Though we essentially specialize in small chests and boxes, we also offer a small but selective array of what we call "samurai art", that is, antiques which include armour (occasionally armour parts), swords, and the occasional rare and unusual item (battle flags, war fans, jutte).
The boxes we sell include tobacco boxes, funadansu, or sea captains' chests, suzuribako, fudebako and chokinbako. These had a specific purpose and were amazingly designed, especially the funadansu.
Artes Japonica News
March 2012
29th February, 2012
Summer 2011
19th August, 2011
The summer months have been interesting with the emergence of items coming from the Tohoku districts with provate individuals selling their family treasures to pay for damages sustained during the March earthquake.
Despite the stock market ups and downs we have also taken note of the fact that our clients are asking for rarer and more unusual antiques, "things out of the ordinary" they ask us.
We look forward to the autumn season and the continued hunt for the "art of the samurai".
March 11th Earthquake disaster
25th April, 2011
March 11th of this year (2011) was a date which shall long be remembered when at 14:46 the Great East Japan Earthquake (as it is officially called) struck, with a magnitude of 9.0. ..more
New Year 2011/ the year of the rabbit
13th January, 2011
Happy New year to all!
It is the year of the rabbit according the Asian calendar.
Let us hope for interesting and new items for our collections.
Autumn 2010
13th September, 2010
This autumn will see the arrival af several fine yoroi, in particular a splendid Juyo-level armor entirely in hon-kozane with a 32-ken in natural russet iron signed Myochin Munesuke. ..more
BUYER BEWARE! eBay scams
3rd May, 2010
Spring 2010
26th April, 2010
As usual, we keep continuing to find interesting and ou-of-the-ordinary items, and we look forward to being more active in the months to come. ..more