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Japanese Ranma Coastal Scene browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Wood: Pre 1910: item # 634733 Please refer to our stock # 62-27 when inquiring.
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| This Japanese Meiji interior transom (ranma) is the perfect size for use as a decorative headboard. A tranquil seaside scene carved into the nicely grained wood shows cypress trees and a lighthouse in the foreground with small boats riding gentle waves in the distance. The panel is framed with a narrow black lacquered liner set within a dark red lacquered outer frame. Ranma were an integral part of the architecture of the old Japanese frame houses. The roofs of these houses were supported by pillars so that load bearing interior walls were not necessary. Instead, moveable partitions of sliding doors (fusuma) were used to define rooms, allowing flexible use of space. The fusuma were about six feet high, leaving a gap between the tops of these doors and the ceiling. Those gaps were filled with ranma, decorative wood transoms that were generally made with pierced carvings that allowed light to filter through and the designs to be seen on either side of the fusuma. This ranma is in excellent condition. Dimensions: height 12" (30 cm), width 50" (127 cm), depth 1" (2.5 cm). | |||||||||||
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