Thank you very much for visiting our web site.
Whis web site is directed by Shukado.
Our company owns a gallery in Ginza, Tokyo where is known for finest brand-name shops, boutiques and garellies. Our gallery handles mainly antique Japanese fine arts and modern paintings.
At our website, we introduce the finest Japanese fine arts to the visitors. We believe that this web site is the first website to sell Japan's quality art pieces by Japanese experts directly from Japan.
Our gallery owner who purchases our gallery items has 40-year-experience in Japanese fine arts and antiques and he is one of the representative connoisseur of Japanese fine arts and antiques. Please enjoy browsing our excellent collection of art pieces at our website.
Although our Japanese fine art pieces were created long time ago, they still maintains dynamic and radiant beauty. They also shows humors of the creators or sometimes even contain black humors. Though we have a certain amount of experience in this field, we are sometimes surprised by the kaleidoscopic attraction of the Japanese fine arts. We are very proud to present you our finest art pieces to you at our website.
At present, our main line-ups are: Kakejiku (scrolls), Ukiyo-e, Byobu (Screens), Japanese paintings, Japanese antique rare books. The variety of the items will be expanded over a period of times.
We do hope that you will be able to find your favorite art pieces at our website. We are looking forward to your order.
 CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE
I have been dealing with Japanese fine arts for 40 years.
As an art dealer, it was my great pleasure to be able to see many wonderful art pieces.
I introduced and sold art pieces to public and private art museums all over Japan and to individual collectors.
I also have some experience in purchasing and selling important cultural assets.
When I was young, I used to scramble to deliver Japanese antique books to universities in North America and Hawaii. Recently, I sometimes go to auctions held in London and NY to purchase first-class Japanese art objects.
I am currently engaged in art authentication and purchase of the objects brought to our gallery by individual customers and other galleries. I am proud to be a connoisseur who can authenticate and appraise a wide range of Japanese fine arts including Japanese antique books, rare books, hanging scrolls (Kakejiku) and Japanese paintings.
Although it is difficult to get rare and wonderful Japanese fine arts these days, we are proud to be able to introduce some first-class Japanese fine arts to the world.
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Jichiro Tanaka
Chairman of Shukado Co., Ltd.
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DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE
What comes up to you if you think of Japanese fine arts? Many of you may think of ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e printings represented by the art works by Hiroshige and Hokusai are the most prevalent Japanese fine arts in the world and ukiyo-e is the most famous Japanese icon. We sell many genuine ukiyo-e printings.
However, ukiyo-e consists only one category of the Japanese fine arts.
In each period of Japanese history from Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi, Edo, Meiji, Taisyo, Showa to post-war period, Japanese fine arts reflecting the culture of the period bloomed such as native but the exquisite picture scrolls of the Heian period (8th -12th century) and the elegant calligraphy written in the pieces of antique books and scrolls (Kohitsu-gire).
I feel that many things of the wonderful Japanese fine arts with breathtaking beauty and humor, which also is deeply associated with the Zen philosophy, are still unknown to many people.
I am proud to introduce brilliant and vivid Japanese fine arts from each period where artists tried to create something new while they carried on the tradition from Ginza, Tokyo.
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Chiaki Tanaka
Director of "Japanese-finearts.com" and
President of Shukado Co., Ltd. |
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