About a piece on this site
Ask anything the wall label does not answer — dimensions, condition, what the base is signed, how it came here. If we do not know, we will tell you that instead of guessing.
Write to the house. A real person in Fukuoka reads it, usually within a day or two.
info@akayamaholdings.comAsk anything the wall label does not answer — dimensions, condition, what the base is signed, how it came here. If we do not know, we will tell you that instead of guessing.
A separate room holds the larger and more serious pieces. It opens with a code, issued to collectors the house has dealt with. Ask, and tell us what you collect.
The room →Tell us what you are after. We live in the country where these things are, and we will go and look for it.
Ask us to look →One note when the room changes. Nothing else, and no list is ever sold or shared.
A small museum of Japanese objects in Fukuoka. We find out where a piece was made, by what method, roughly when and what it was for, and we write that down — including the parts we could not establish. The rooms are arranged by material: paper, clay, wood, metal.
Fukuoka, on the north coast of Kyūshū in western Japan. The house is not a shop with opening hours; correspondence is the way in.
Where we give a period, it is the period we can support. Where the age of a specific object cannot be established — which is often, for folk craft that was never signed or dated — the label says the form is traditional and does not claim an age for the object. We do not use "antique" loosely.
Yes, worldwide. Ceramics and bronze go double-boxed with a rigid inner shell. We do not pack with straw, sawdust or untreated wood shavings, because several countries — Australia and New Zealand in particular — will hold or destroy a parcel packed that way at the border.
Write and say what you collect. Codes are issued by hand, not on request from a form, and they are tied to a person rather than to a purchase.
Where an object is shown to explain a craft rather than to present a specific piece in our hands, the object shown is representative of that craft and its region. Any piece offered to a collector is photographed as it is, including damage.