Japanese Shikishi Art Board Painting Vtg Calligraphy Effort Kanji Black A762 Display - Other This is a vintage Japanese

This is a vintage Japanese Takaoka Copperware Bronze metal flower vase

This unique lantern is meant to hang from a lightbulb underneath a lampshade (as shown on the cover of the box)

6 cm wide x  5 tall

Packed weight: 860 grams

Item weight: 26 grams

Japanese Shikishi Art Board Painting Vtg Calligraphy Effort Kanji Black A762 Display - Other This is a vintage JapaneseJapanese Shikishi Art Board Painting This vintage Japanese shikishi art board features calligraphy of two big kanji characters in black. The kanji are (doryoku), meaning "effort". There are three basic types of shikishi papercalligraphy (poem, haiku) only, calligraphy with pictures, and pictures only. Since the Heian period, people have been writing waka and haiku on Shikishi paper (various sizes), but in the Meiji period, they started using paper of