A Small Fukagawa Bud Vase – Royal Blue – Showa
June 2015 Auction by Far East Asian Art

This is a sweet little Japanese Fukagawa bud vase with a design in dark blue of a cherry tree with red and white cherries. It measures 3 ½” high by 2 1/2” diameter at its widest. We date it to the late Showa period, 1950s-1960s. It is signed by the three character Kanji workshop on the base. The piece is in excellent condition.

Over three hundred years ago, Eizaemon Fukagawa began hand crafting porcelain in feudal Japan...