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Headboard Size Japanese Ranma Tree Design browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese: Pre 1910: item # 635464 Please refer to our stock # 62-28 when inquiring.
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| From the late Meiji Period, this Japanese interior transom (ranma) is a suitable size for a decorative headboard, to hang over a wide fireplace or to use in place of a painting to add depth and texture to a light wall. The design is a simple one of six trees, a few tufts of grass and the suggestion of low hills, which gives the piece a contemporary look. This type of carving suggests a brush painting with its spare use of a few fine lines to depict nature. The nicely grained wood panel is framed with a black lacquered liner and a dark red lacquered outer frame. Ranma were an integral part of the architecture of 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 the doors and the ceiling. Those gaps were filled with ranma, decorative wood transoms that generally were 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 very good condition. Dimensions: height 12" (30 cm), width 50" (127 cm), depth 1" (2.5 cm). | |||||||||
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