Asian Art Museum:
Sugihara glass: hand-blown vases meant to mimic the smooth, natural qualities of riverstones.
Asian Art Museum:
An antique Japanese roof guardian, delicately crafted in burnished terra cotta.
Asian Art Museum:
Art & Craft of Japan: old sake jars, iron teapots, fans, and screens--both large and made in miniature.
Asian Art Museum:
Antique sake bottles
Asian Art Museum:
Elaborately brocaded vintage silk obi.
Asian Art Museum:
Vintage silk haori.
Asian Art Museum:
Modern screen painting.
Asian Art Museum:
Contemporary bamboo baskets.
Asian Art Museum:
Tied rocks: basket-making meets rock collecting.
Asian Art Museum:
Hand-wound twine rocks: like a dry rock garden consisting of a single stone.
Asian Art Museum:
Tied rocks.
Asian Art Museum:
A detail of the himo, or ties, that keep a haori (short jacket) tied.
Asian Art Museum:
Kimmi Dolls, a modern-style kokeshi, cast rather than carved.
Asian Art Museum:
Kokeshi, hand-carved and painted, a traditional folk craft of rural Japan.
Asian Art Museum:
Mini screens and tea implements imported from Japan.