'Sanno Festival at the Chiyoda Palace' Original Woodblock by Toyohara Chikanobu - Ca 1897 Side Tables 75 dia x 3

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This beautiful Indian teak wood mirror started life as a carved window frame in India

Similar examples can be found in many books on Antique Chinese furniture including 'Chinese Furniture' by Mazurkewich

Beneath the main storage compartment are two large drawers

All the pigments used are mineral and earth pigments

'Sanno Festival at the Chiyoda Palace' Original Woodblock by Toyohara Chikanobu - Ca 1897 Side Tables 75 dia x 3This old Japanese woodblock triptych is by Meiji era woodblock print artist Toyohara Chikanobu (1838 1912). This woodblock is entitled "Chiyoda no on omote: Sanno sairei joran' (Chiyoda Outer Palace: Viewing the Sanno Festival) and depicts the Sanno Matsuri festival in 1897, a biennial festival celebrated in June with a procession from Sanno shrine in Tokyo, near Akasaka to the Hie jinja shrine at Edo Castle. You can see the Korean Ambassador's grand