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Letter of invitation
for the open days
in March-April 2000
We are pleased to invite you to our three open days which we organize on Friday, March 31st, from 12 pm to 9 pm. On Saturday and Sunday, April 1st and 2nd, from 10 am to 7 pm in our warehouse located in Rue de Chambéry, 45 in Etterbeek - Brussels. Our shop will exceptionally be closed for these three days.
Last February, we came back from Japan after having spent six weeks collecting a wide range of objects and some magnificient pieces of furniture as well. Here are some of the items we found :
Japanese items:
1 yoroi (samurai's
armor) - 1 andon (lamp) -
1 chakobochi (tea accessory)
- 1 dai (show stand) - 1 dora (gong) - 1 ema
(painting on wood) - 1 furo
(tea ceremony brazier) - 1 goban
(go game set) - Some hon
(books) - 2 ittomasu (rice
mesure) - 3 jizaikagi (trammel)
- Some kadai (bonsai's display
table) - 1 kami-dana (shinto
family's altaar) - 2 kouro
(incent burner) - 2 natsume
(tea powder pot) - 1 omen
(mask) - 2 ranma (ornament
which is placed on top of sliding doors) - 1 shiogi-dai
(shogi table), 5 soroban (abacus)
- 2 tabakobon (ashtray set)
- some takazen (dinner-table)
- 3 teaburi (hand-warmer)
- 4 tetsubin (kettle) - 3
ohitsu (rice bucket) - 2 kattshya (pulley) - 2 kotatsu
(heater-table) - 3 tsuridoro
(lantern) - 2 usubata (Ikebana
vase) - Some statuettes of which 4 butsuzo
(Buddha), 1 fukurukuju (one
of the 7 lucky charm gods), 1 fukusuke
(lucky charm for business), 1 hotei
(one of the 7 lucky charm gods), 1 manekineko
(beckoning cat), 1 okimono
(ornament) and a big statue of Kouboudaishi
- Some dolls - 5 obi (kimono
sash), some kimono, haori and other traditional Japanese
clothes - Some owan (lacquered
bowls) - Some iko (kimono
stand) - Some sudare (blind)
- 2 sara (plate) - Some multi-purpose
baskets: 1 biku (fish basket),
3 kago (food basket), 2 hanaire (ikebana stand) - Multi-purpose
cases and boxes: 1 kakesuzuri-bako
(portable writing box-safe), 2 okamochi
(lunch container), many hari-bako
(used for sewing), 4 kohikidashi
(small drawers' chest), 1 kakejiku-dai
(scroll stand), zeni-bako (money-box), kyodai
(dressing), some ju-bako (special
day's lunch lacquered box) - Some accessories as well as various
ornament and little contemporary traditional Japanese style crockery.
Japanese furniture:
11 mizuya-dansu (kitchen cabinet) of various sizes -
12 isho-dansu
(kimono and personal garments chest) - 8 choba-dansu
(merchant chest) - 1 futon-dansu
(chest for storing futons) 2 monoire-dansu
(storing chest) - Many ko-dansu (small multi-purpose furniture) - 1 daifukuchoukake (chest for keeping
account) - Some cha-dansu (tea chest) - Some to
(old traditiona doors) - Some hibachi
(brazier table) - Many low tables - A few low desks - Etc..
From Korea:
Quite a few bandaji (blanket
chest) of which 2 from North Korea - Many yichung-jang
and yichung-nong
(chest on chest) - Many euguri-jang
(wardrobe) - Some low desks - Some low tables - Some
cha-dana (tea chest) - A few splendid chests of
various purposes - A few items - Etc..
Our selection criteria : all the pieces that we bring back must be genuine, have less than 15% of restoration and have been made before WW2. More recent pieces are not excluded if they represent traditional Japan and are very rare as antique.
Patrick and Michiko Mailleux-Nishi
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