Autumn 2000
Open Days

We are pleased to invite you to our three open days which we organize on Friday, October 13th, from 12 pm to 9 pm. On Saturday and Sunday, October 14th and 15th from 10 am to 7 pm in our warehouse located in Rue de Chambery, 45 in Etterbeek - Brussels.
Our shop will exceptionally be closed for these three days.

Here are some of the items we found :

Small Items:
A lot of beautiful samurai dolls - A pair of hinaningyo (emperor & empress) - 1 andon (lamp) - Dai (show stand) - 2 goban (go game set) - Many hon (books) - 1 ittomasu (rice mesure) - 1 jizaikagi (trammel) - 4 kadai (bonsai's display table) - Furin (summer bells) - Hyotan (sake flask) - Many kakemono (scroll) - 1 kami-dana (shinto family's altaar) - 1 omen (mask) - 1 ranma (ornament which is placed on top of sliding doors) - 5 soroban (abacus) - 1 haizara & 1 tabakobon (ashtray set) - 1 teaburi (hand-warmer) - 7 tetsubin (kettle) - 1 kattshya (pulley) - 1 tsuridoro (lantern) - 2 usubata (Ikebana vase) - Many statuettes - Obis (kimono sash), kimonos, haori and other traditional Japanese clothes - Owan (lacquered bowls) - Iko (kimono stand) - Sudare (blind) - Some multi-purpose baskets: 1 biku (fish basket), 2 kago (food basket), 2 hanaire (ikebana stand) - Multi-purpose cases and boxes: 1 suzuri-bako (portable writing box-safe), many hari-bako (used for sewing), some kohikidashi (small drawers' chest), 1 zeni-bako (money-box), 1 kyodai (dressing), Ju-bako & bento-bako (lunch lacquered box) - various items for fishing & farming - Kashigata (rice cake pattern) - Obon (tray) - Vases - Some accessories as well as various ornament and little contemporary traditional Japanese style crockery.

Furnitures:
Many mizuya-dansu (kitchen cabinet) of various sizes - Several isho-dansu (kimono and personal garments chest) - Some choba-dansu (merchant chest) - Some cha-dansu (tea chest) - Monoire-dansu (storing chest) - Many ko-dansu (small multi-purpose furniture) - To (old doors) - A very nice yakjang (Korean medecine chest) - many Korean Chests - Some hibachi (brazier table) - Low tables - Low desks - 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.

Hoping to see you again, we remain yours sincerely.

Patrick en Michiko Mailleux-Nishi