Japanese Doll Head Hina Matsuri Japanese Doll Festival Woman Head

Here is a very cute doll head meant for Hina Matsuri. She is made from clay.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/189917200/japanese-doll-head-hina-matsuri-japanese

About Hina Matsuri
Platforms with a red hi-mōsen are used to display a set of ornamental dolls (雛人形, hina-ningyō) representing the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the Heian period. The custom of displaying dolls began during the Heian period. Formerly, people believed the dolls possessed the power to contain bad spirits.

She measures about 27 cm long (including hair), 9.5 cm long to the end of the stick and about 17 cm around.

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Ukiyo-e Bijinga Geisha Woman Print By Kitagawa Utamaro

This is a vintage Japanese print of Ukiyoe, Bijinga painted woman geisha by Kitagawa Utamaro.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/189779848/vintage-japanese-print-woman-by-kitagawa

In this print Geisha woman in beautiful kimono dress is holding a hand fan with seashore picture . Beautiful print!!

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753 – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded practitioners of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock prints, especially for his portraits of female beauties, or bijin-ga. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.

It is in excellent condition but it is vintage so there are some imperfections.

This would be beautiful framed and displayed but it could also be used in mixed media art.

It measures 24cm x 21.5 cm.

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Japanese stencils bamboo chrysanthemum pine katagami set 9 almost A4 size flowers

Katagami Stencils

This stencil is called "型紙" or "katagami". This stencil is a thin sheet of paper with flower designs cut from it, used to produce the design on an underlying surface by applying pigment through the cut-out holes in the material. This is a stencil that was used to make "kashigata" (for more information on "kashigata please see below). This was an amazing find. Vintage Japanese stencil chrysanthemum. They are from the "昭和" "showa period" . The "showa" period is from 1926-1989 but these are at about 25-30 years old . 

http://www.etsy.com/listing/189220058/4-japanese-stencils-bamboo-chrysanthemum

4 stencils as a set. Size - 20cm x 25cm almost A4 size (normal printing paper size) each.

This is really gorgeous! The shape is that of a "kamon" which means a family crest (which crest we don't know). There are no set rules in the design of a kamon. It most commonly consists of a roundel encircling a figure of plant, animal, man-made, natural or celestial objects, all abstracted to various degrees. Religious symbols, geometric shapes and kanji were commonly used as well. These symbols are often found in logos of stores (which help to identify what they sell), sushi restaurants, and on packages of food to lend an air of elegance. Senbei (Japanese crackers) and other traditional Japanese sweets may also use one.


More information on "kashigata" (the sweets made from the molds that were made using the stencils).

In the past, when a person died, it was expensive to give flowers or fresh food so, people made sweets (these are made from soy flour, rice flour and sugar) in the form of flowers, fish etc. These items were then placed on the "butsudan" (family shrine found in the house) for the dead person.

The sweets was also used for holiday celebrations, tea ceremony etc. These are for decoration only-they are never eaten.


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Branding Iron

This is a vintage branding iron called a "yakiin". These were/are used on wood, leather...food...anything you want to brand. Please see the last picture to see an example of how it can be used.

I think they would look fabulous if used in pottery as a stamp. Also...I think they could be used with ink but as it is metal, the image wouldn't be as smooth and clear as a rubber stamp -please keep that in mind if that is how you want to use it.

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ABC Food Cutters

This is a cute set of ABC food cutters! The set contains the alphabet so you can put a message made from ham or cheese in your child's lunch!

I would wash by hand. - See more at: http://www.from-japan-with-love.com/abc-food-cutters-for-bento-lunch-circle.html