Japanese Inami Chokoku Sugi Wood Ranma Transom Carved Pine Tree Signed Kohō Taisho Showa 72"L Bowls Weight = 2lb 1oz

Weight = 2lb 1oz

1936–2015)

The black lacquer finish was waxed with beeswax and polished

with match box and two ash trays

Finished in traditional auspicious red

Japanese Inami Chokoku Sugi Wood Ranma Transom Carved Pine Tree Signed Kohō Taisho Showa 72"L Bowls Weight = 2lb 1ozJapanese Inami Chokoku Sugi Wood Ranma Transom Carved Pine Tree Signed Koho Taisho Showa 72"L Japan, Inami, Toyama Prefecture Taisho to early Showa Period, c. 1920s1930s A magnificent openwork ranma () architectural transom panel from the Inami woodcarving tradition of Toyama Prefecture Japan's most celebrated center of decorative woodcarving, where skilled artisans use over two hundred different chisels and knives to execute the sukashi fukabori