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DASING Japan Art Warehouse currently has 186 pieces online, including tea ceremony utensils, Ko-Imari porcelain, maki-e lacquer and metalwork from the Edo to Shōwa periods. Each comes with its history and a record of its craftsmanship, awaiting the discerning collector.

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Shōwa-period Arita Ware Iro-e Set of Five Bowls, Japan | With Original Wooden Box

This is a set of five Shōwa-period Arita ware iro-e (polychrome overglaze) bowls from Japan, typical of Japanese household and entertaining ceramics. Deep blue is the main tone, combined with traditional overglaze motifs in red, green and white, giving a strong classical Japanese decorative style. The bowls are round and stable in form with practical proportions, well suited for use as rice bowls, donburi bowls, small bowls or vessels for Japanese cuisine. Arita ware is one of Japan's most representative ceramic crafts, known for delicate painting and high-quality firing, and this set fully displays the combination of practicality and beauty characteristic of Shōwa-period everyday tableware. It is kept in its original wooden box, which still shows an ink inscription and signature, adding to the set's collectable appeal and antique value.

Price NT$ 1,500≈ US$ 46
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Commemorative Celadon Large Dish with Relief Portraits of Successive Yokozuna, Japan

This is a commemorative collector's large dish on the theme of Japanese sumo culture. Fired in mellow, elegant celadon, its surface is worked in three-dimensional relief, vividly depicting several of the most representative yokozuna in the history of Japanese sumo. Around the dish can be seen the names of famous yokozuna, including Akashi Shiganosuke, Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Onogawa Kisaburō, Ōnomatsu Midorinosuke, Inazuma Raigorō, Shiranui Dakuemon and Hidenoyama Raigorō — all legendary figures of great importance in the development of sumo. More than a functional porcelain piece, it is a commemorative artwork combining Japanese sports culture, historical figures and ceramic craft; for collectors who love Japanese culture and the history of sumo, it holds considerable collecting value and conversational interest.

Price NT$ 2,000≈ US$ 61
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Akahada Ware White-Glazed Lamp Holder with Cherry-Blossom Openwork | Candle Lamp Shade | Wooden Tomobako

This Japanese ceramic lamp holder has a mellow, refined white glaze and a round, full form, with extensive cherry-blossom openwork across the body that gives the otherwise solid pottery a light, airy look. Its most appealing feature is that the flowers are not simply painted but cut directly into the body as many openwork cherry-blossom motifs. When a suitable light source is placed inside, light shines naturally through the petal- and leaf-shaped openings, creating soft, layered patterns of light and shadow on the surface. The white glaze and cherry-blossom imagery avoid excessive ornament, instead showing the restraint and beauty of empty space common in Japanese wares. By day it is a ceramic ornament to admire; at night, lit up, it becomes an atmospheric art lamp, one piece with two faces, which is its greatest charm. It also retains its original wooden tomobako (original signed box); for Japanese ceramics, a tomobako not only serves for storage and protection but also adds to the completeness of the piece for collecting and display.

Price NT$ 2,800≈ US$ 85
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Japanese Green-Glazed Ceramic Coffee Cup Set | With Wooden Box

This Japanese green-glazed ceramic coffee set takes a warm, quiet green glaze as its keynote, with dark rims on the cups and saucers, creating a very elegant Japanese retro atmosphere. The cups are simple and solid in form, with steady proportions; instead of showy decoration, the visual focus is the depth of the glaze itself and the texture of the pottery. This design fits the aesthetic common to Japanese wares: understated, enduring and practical, revealing more of its character the more it is used. Five cups and saucers can be seen in the set, neatly matched, and it is kept in a wooden box, adding to its completeness and collectibility. The green glaze shows subtle color differences in different light, with soft natural variations from bluish green and pea green to a greyish jade green; so even within one set, each cup retains slight differences from handwork and firing, one of the most charming aspects of pottery. (The wooden box is damaged and held together with tape.)

Price NT$ 2,300≈ US$ 70
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Kutani Ware | Set of Ten Sometsuke Plates with Landscape and Pavilion Design

This set of Japanese Kutani ware sometsuke landscape plates is preserved as a complete set of ten, with a wooden box. Painted in traditional sometsuke (blue-and-white) on a mellow white porcelain body, the plates depict landscapes, pavilions, trees, distant mountains and figures in boats, in a clear, elegant style with a strong Eastern literati feeling. As the photos show, each plate takes a landscape as its theme, but the compositions are not mechanically identical; natural variations can be seen in the trees, houses, mountains, shorelines and blank space. The blue lines vary in depth, layering distant and near views and conveying the quiet charm unique to traditional sometsuke porcelain. The rims are finely outlined in a dark color, focusing the picture. With a diameter of about 24.2 cm, these are large plates of a very practical size, well suited as serving plates for guests, as vessels for Japanese cuisine, or displayed upright on stands as landscape art plates.

Price NT$ 8,800≈ US$ 270
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Kutani Ceramic Tiger Biting Bamboo on a Rock Base with Waves

This vintage Japanese ceramic ornament takes as its subject a powerful tiger biting bamboo, and its form is full of dramatic tension. The tiger stands on a rock base with wave patterns in front, a length of green bamboo in its mouth; its body is painted in yellow-brown glaze with black stripes, creating a very striking visual effect. The piece brings together several Eastern auspicious and natural images: tiger, bamboo, rock and waves. The tiger symbolizes power, courage and protection; bamboo symbolizes resilience, steady advancement and evergreen vitality; the rock base and waves give the composition more movement, making the piece not merely an animal ornament but more of a complete sculptural folk-art ceramic.

Price NT$ 3,800≈ US$ 115
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Kutani-Style Alluring Beauty Figure | Ceramic Nude Female Figure Ornament

This vintage Japanese ceramic figure takes the beauty of the female body as its subject. The figure kneels, body leaning slightly forward, hands resting naturally beside the legs and on the knees, with a reserved, gentle expression, carrying the elegance and quietude characteristic of modern Japanese ceramic figures. Its most striking feature is the near-pure-white ceramic finish of the body, which contrasts sharply with the black, high-piled hair; a decorative cloth across the waist and legs, with pink, gilt, green and jewel-like motifs, brings the rich colors typical of Kutani-type ceramics into the otherwise understated figure.

Price NT$ 6,800≈ US$ 205
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Erotic-Themed (Shunga) Art Ceramic Figure | Tattoo Artist and Beauty, with Shunga Painting Hidden on the Base

This vintage Japanese ceramic figure group depicts a man and a woman in a scene rich in narrative. The man kneels behind, dressed in a grey-blue kimono, his upper body leaning slightly forward and both hands intent on the woman's back before him. The woman reclines on her side in front, her black hair tied up high, partly draped in painted cloth, her back and body rendered in plain white glaze. The composition carries a strong flavor of Japan's ukiyo world and of the art of the human figure; the figures' movements, gazes and postures are not those of simple static dolls but convey a clear narrative situation. The subject can be read as a tattoo artist tattooing a woman. Floral patterns can be seen on her back, and the distance and gestures between the figures create a subtle, suggestive dramatic tension. What truly sets this piece apart from ordinary Japanese ceramic figures is a shunga-style figure painting hidden on its base. It cannot be seen at all when the piece is displayed normally and is discovered only when the piece is turned over, giving this ceramic sculpture the added collecting appeal of a secret, hidden picture and adult humor in art.

Price NT$ 10,000≈ US$ 305
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Shōwa Metalwork · Selected Silver

1952 Kobe Vintage STERLING SILVER Engraved Jewelry Cabinet

A small jewelry cabinet made in Kobe in 1952, crafted in STERLING SILVER. The double-door body is finely engraved with flowers and foliage, and the doors, hinges and clasps show layers of classical metalwork. Over the years the silver has naturally oxidized into varied tones and signs of use, making the delicate engraving stand out more vividly in light and shadow.

NT$ 88,000 Condition: visually very beautiful
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DASING Japan Art Warehouse antique collection: metal seated figure in the style of Water-Moon Guanyin
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Chinese Antique | Metal Seated Figure in the Water-Moon Guanyin Style

NT$ 30,000

Wearing an ornate jeweled crown, draped in celestial robes and necklaces, the figure sits in the "royal ease" posture, one leg raised and the other hanging naturally, capturing the graceful, relaxed pose of Water-Moon Guanyin. The face is lowered with a calm expression, and the bronze-toned finish is naturally deep and steady — well suited to a tea room, study or quiet space.

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Sourced in Japan · Shipped to Kaohsiung

We keep searching all over Japan for antiques and vintage pieces with character — ceramics, tea ceremony utensils, vases, wood carvings, furniture and Shōwa-era goods — and bring them across the sea to DASING.

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