Brian Posted November 7, 2017 Report Posted November 7, 2017 Show us pics of your bronze/metalwork okimono.....Love Japanese metalwork, and would love to own more. Here is my recent purchase. Let's see some more out there. 5 Quote
ken kata Posted November 15, 2017 Report Posted November 15, 2017 Hello Guys, Thought I'd post/show a Japanese Mother and Child Statue. I got his a while back. I'm not sure if this "qualifies" as a Japanese Okimono. Painted Pewter? The Mother's smile was so charming, I had to get it. The "Tree/Wood Stock' next to the Mother and Child Statue, was "made" be me.. I found it in a pile of tree trimmings that someone threw out. I aged it and stained it.. Now, it looks kinda authentic "Japanese".. 3 Quote
yamabiru Posted December 27, 2017 Report Posted December 27, 2017 Nice pieces gents, Love bronze also, have some tiny pieces. Possibly Kamakura jidai kakebutsu in rough shape but love it Edo bunchin paperweight Have a few more will post later, thanks for looking 3 Quote
Tanto54 Posted December 27, 2017 Report Posted December 27, 2017 Here's one of my bronze Ookii-Okimono.... 3 Quote
Brian Posted December 28, 2017 Author Report Posted December 28, 2017 Wow George. That is one heck of an okimono!Quite complex. What is the patina/finish on it? Quote
Bugyotsuji Posted December 28, 2017 Report Posted December 28, 2017 Hmmm... this thread could be the start of something for me. The other day visiting the antiques market at Kitano Tenmangu in Kyoto I spotted a small bronze cockerel/rooster. Normally it would have stayed on display there but somehow this one decided to go home with me. This is probably the first time I have ever consciously bought a bronze as a decorative piece, although I do have a small pair of shishi bunchin (if that is what they are), rather like yamabiru above. (In a pair, though, so brush holders, chopstick stands, incense stands?) In the UK I have three duck-shaped weights, S,M,L, which must be bronze. Here I have two gun-metal gunpowder testers and a small bronze(?) Lantaka cannon, but now, I am the proud owner of a strutting male chicken! Fits in the palm of my hand. 2 Quote
yamabiru Posted December 28, 2017 Report Posted December 28, 2017 On 12/28/2017 at 10:46 AM, Bugyotsuji said: Hmmm... this thread could be the start of something for me. The other day visiting the antiques market at Kitano Tenmangu in Kyoto I spotted a small bronze cockerel/rooster. Normally it would have stayed on display there but somehow this one decided to go home with me. This is probably the first time I have ever consciously bought a bronze as a decorative piece, although I do have a small pair of shishi bunchin (if that is what they are), rather like yamabiru above. (In a pair, though, so brush holders, chopstick stands, incense stands?) In the UK I have three duck-shaped weights, S,M,L, which must be bronze. Here I have two gun-metal gunpowder testers and a small bronze(?) Lantaka cannon, but now, I am the proud owner of a strutting male chicken! Fits in the palm of my hand. Nice c*ck, well it is still the year of the rooster so good timing Love tiny bronzes as they are affordable for me Would love to see pics of the cannon And Tanto54-san, imagine the casting of that piece?! Very nice. 2 Quote
Tanto54 Posted December 28, 2017 Report Posted December 28, 2017 Dear Brian, My "ookii-okimono" (Dragons & Urn) is a chozubachi from a temizuya (a water fountain used to perform ablution or to wash your hand/mouth before praying in a Shinto Shrine - for example in a large public shrine or a private shrine in a daimyo's garden). The Dragon on top has a pipe running through its body and into its mouth. In use, water would have run out of it's mouth into the urn below, which was filled with water that then ran out of the spouts around the urn into a pond below. The patina arose from hundreds of years of exposure to water and the elements. This particular chozubachi was already an antique when it was taken from Japan in the late 1800's and installed as a central fountain in an estate in the US. 2 Quote
Bugyotsuji Posted December 29, 2017 Report Posted December 29, 2017 Not all okimono per se, but from top: One Japanese bronze powder tester Two Japanese Shishi One European bronze gun carriage One SE Asian lantaka boat cannon 1 Quote
Brian Posted December 29, 2017 Author Report Posted December 29, 2017 Nice items Piers. That is a very cute little Lantaka.A few months ago I got cannon-fever and ended up with this one. They grow on you and have an interesting history. 4 Quote
Bugyotsuji Posted December 29, 2017 Report Posted December 29, 2017 Wow, now that is one particularly lovely example, Brian. Congratualtions! (Will swap when you get bored!) Quote
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