Hanging Scroll

Hanging ScrollA Japanese hanging scroll (kakejiku), ink on paper with silk mounting. Scrolls like this were rotated through the home's tokonoma alcove with the seasons, hung for a time, then carefully rolled and stored away. Please contact me if you would like additional photographs or details of the painting.

Rope threaded through attached openings allows it to be suspended

Most of them were used as gifts to celebrate children’s birthdays

Bashofu is a traditional

but the atypical shape suggests a regional craft variant

likely madake

Large Shigaraki vessels were typically of high iron content clay resulting in a pleasing red/brown color and with high silica content

A bamboo water container is included for use in floral arrangements

and pacify desires

A particularly fine example

Mounted on a contemporary steel stand for display

the tiny pits in the plate retain the ink when the face of the plate is wiped clean

shaped as much by necessity as by care