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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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Japanese Vintage Hand-Carved Wooden Owl on Natural Root Base

Hand-Carved Natural Wood Owl | Three-Dimensional Ornament on a Tree-Root Wood Base

Japanese folk craft (mingei) values natural materials and the plain beauty revealed by handwork. Wood carvings pay attention not only to form but also to the grain, color, and sense of life in the wood itself. This carved owl perfectly displays such characteristics. The owl sits upright on a base shaped from a natural tree root, its body round and full, its eyes wide open, its expression carrying a measure of calm along with a touch of charm. Using knife cuts of varying depth, the carver renders the ring of feathers around the head, the fine feather patterns on the breast, and the layered, overlapping structure of the wings, giving the otherwise static wood a rich three-dimensional quality. The base retains the undulations, knots, holes, and irregular contours of the natural tree root, forming a visual contrast with the delicate carving of the owl.

Price NT$ 4,500≈ US$ 135
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Kyoto Shoraku Kiln – Black Raku Tea Bowl with White Crane Motif

Shoraku Kiln, Kyoto, Japan | Kuro-raku Matcha Tea Bowl with Crane Motif, Black-Glazed Tea Utensil

Raku ware is one of the most representative forms of pottery in Japanese tea culture, with deep ties to the wabi-cha spirit championed by Sen no Rikyu. Compared with ceramics that pursue regularity, symmetry and lavish decoration, Raku ware places greater emphasis on the feel of the object in the hand, its natural form, and the intimate relationship between the tea bowl and its user. This bowl in the kuro-raku style is covered with a thick black glaze; the color is not a perfectly even pure black, but shifts between deep black, ink-brown and subtle luster according to the angle of the light. The rim has a natural undulation rather than a strictly perfect circle, expressing the irregular beauty prized in traditional hand-formed tea bowls.

Price NT$ 2,800≈ US$ 85
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Japanese Kutani Ware Tea Bowl – Gilded Floral & Peacock Motif with Wooden Box

Kutani Gold-Decorated Bird-and-Flower Tea Bowl・Aka-e Peony and Peacock Design・With Original Wooden Tomobako

Kutani ware is one of Japan's most representative traditional ceramic crafts, known for its vivid colors, rich pictorial subjects and decorative quality. This tea bowl takes a rounded, full form, with a smoothly flaring rim and a belly that draws naturally inward, set on a small foot ring, giving the whole a steady yet gentle proportion. Most striking is the finely painted bird-and-flower decoration on the body, dominated by russet brown and vermilion tones, depicting blossoming flowers, layered overlapping leaves, and birds with delicately rendered feather texture. Touches of gold appear in places, making the bird-and-flower motifs all the more sumptuous against the soft glaze.

Price NT$ 3,000≈ US$ 91
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Japanese Chōjū-giga Inspired Tea Bowl

Kozan-ji Choju Giga Aka-e Rabbit and Frog Matcha Bowl

A vintage Japanese matcha bowl, decorated with inspiration from the Choju Giga (Frolicking Animals scrolls), one of the most representative works of traditional Japanese art, bringing the lively anthropomorphized poses of rabbits, frogs and other animals onto a warm, understated ceramic vessel. The Choju Giga is a celebrated classical Japanese picture scroll, and the surviving work has deep ties to Kozan-ji temple in Toganoo, Kyoto. In the painting, rabbits, frogs, monkeys and other animals imitate human activities, and the spirited brushwork presents scenes full of humor and vitality. Particularly worth noting is the side of the bowl, which bears the characters "Kozan-ji" within a rectangular frame, echoing the Choju Giga theme and giving the whole piece a distinctly classical Japanese artistic character.

Price NT$ 850≈ US$ 26
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apanese Kyo-yaki Style Tea Bowl with Heian Court Figures & Wooden Box

Kyo-yaki Signed Tea Bowl, Heian Court Figures, Gold-Decorated Cherry Blossom Motif, with Original Wooden Storage Box

Kyoto has a long history of ceramic culture, and Kyo-yaki (Kyoto ware) is renowned for its rich decorative expression, diverse painted subjects and refined tea ceremony wares. Unlike pottery that emphasizes clay texture and natural kiln effects, many Kyo-yaki pieces place particular importance on the painting art of the vessel's surface, frequently incorporating figures, landscapes, birds and flowers, seasonal scenery and classical literary themes into ceramic work. This tea bowl conveys a strong sense of Kyoto's decorative ceramic art. The bowl has an overall form that flares slightly outward, with a wide mouth rim, a rounded body, and a base drawn in to a footring. The proportions are natural, combining the practical structure of a tea bowl with visual appeal.

Price NT$ 2,500≈ US$ 76
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Japanese Wajima Lacquer Lidded Bowls – Set of Five

Japanese Wajima-nuri｜Black-Lacquered Lidded Bowls with Gold Maki-e Autumn Grasses and Maple Leaf Design, Set of Five, with Original Wooden Box

This is a set of Wajima-nuri wood-core lacquer lidded bowls with a strong sense of traditional Japanese banquet aesthetics, a set of five. The whole group is keyed to a calm black lacquer, with plant motifs painted in gold, vermilion, orange and other warm tones across the bodies and lids. The deep black lacquer ground sets off the gold and the autumn-leaf colors, making the patterns striking while preserving the dignified character particular to Wajima lacquerware. The most beautiful aspect is the sense of completeness created when the five lidded bowls are arranged together. The center of each lid uses a deeper black as a background, encircled by gold and orange-vermilion plant motifs; the waist of each body retains a broad, more restrained band of golden brown, joined to the black lower half by a wave-like contour. The overall effect is not full-surface gold, but rather deliberately leaves ample black and plain space. So even though the decoration is quite strong, it never appears excessively ornate. The leaf forms clearly draw on maple-leaf and autumn-grass motifs, and the palette, dominated by golden yellow and vermilion-orange, naturally calls to mind the Japanese autumn landscape. Combined with the high-footed bowl form, they carry all the more the air of vessels for traditional Japanese cuisine, kaiseki and festive banquets.

Price NT$ 3,800≈ US$ 115
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Vintage Italian Hand-Painted Floral Pottery Bowl

Italian Hand-Painted Majolica | Small Bowl with Floral Vine Pattern and Mottled Glaze · Italian Folk Art Antique Pottery

A small, charming Italian hand-painted ceramic bowl with a distinctly Southern European feel. The piece uses a mottled milky white to off-white glaze as its ground, with the interior freely hand-painted with vines, leaves and flowers in dark green, olive green, brick red, yellow and blue. The decoration is not strictly symmetrical, nor does it strive for dense, elaborate detail; instead it preserves the appealing handmade quality and rustic character of Italian folk pottery. The outer edge of the rim carries a ring of short dark green strokes, encircling the entire mouth like stitching; the outer body is then bound by two dark green ring lines. The interior and exterior decoration echo one another — seemingly simple, yet the overall color scheme is remarkably complete. Particularly worth noting is the ground color of the pottery itself: it is not the perfectly even pure white of modern mass-produced tableware, but a glaze with a slightly grayish-beige tone, fine speckling and irregular variation, which, combined with the hand-painted flowers and foliage, gives a very natural sense of age. Turned over, the base clearly shows a hand-written "ITALY" mark, providing direct information on the Italian origin of this small ceramic piece.

Price NT$ 450≈ US$ 14
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Castagna Artisan-Made Owl Figure, Italy

This Italian Castagna owl figure is a classic work from a famous Italian sculpture workshop of the 1980s. A Western vintage piece of very high craftsmanship, its realistic style and warm texture resonate beautifully with the “view of nature” and “wood tones” of Japanese-style interiors. Across world cultures the owl symbolizes “wisdom” and “protection,” and in Japan its name, fukurō, also carries the auspicious pun “no hardship” (不苦労); it is a fine piece combining collectability and meaning.

Price NT$ 2,000≈ US$ 61
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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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