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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
May/June 2009 Newsletter
23rd January, 2009
As predicted, 2009 has, so far, been very interesting and fruitful for us having found some out-of-the-ordinary items whih our clients always appreciate.
Examples include a JUYO level o-yoroi, a 'kura & abumi' set having begonged to a lord from Kyoto, an Unkai mask, an Edo period gunsen, and a sword with a whopping nagasa of 90m!
Added note (5/25):
The Unkai mask, I've decided to keep. ..more