Featured Ojime beads, I believe

Kyoto1975, your piece is GLORIOUS!
I love shibayama!

 

Oh, thank you! I shall show these to my friend.

 

Which is why your friend only sent photos & not the actual beads.

 

Hello @Kyoto1975 & welcome to the forum!!

That is a truly gorgeous piece of art!!!

I have never heard of these types of beads.

I think I can speak for the majority of the members of this forum when I say that we love to see eye candy of any kind & please feel free to show us other pieces that are in your collection.

 

Japanese artistry,sublime-both their more sophisticated pieces and their folk art 'Mingei'. From the smallest to largest design and execution,an extraordinary artistic culture.

 

Those beads need restringing from the looks of them. I'd volunteer but might have a hard time giving them back!

 

Welcome to Antiquers.

 

This link mentions that some were signed. You might check closely for signatures.https://www.allthedecor.com/ojime-beads-guide/

 

I get the feeling @Kyoto1975 knows his 'stuff', and has access to Japanese sources.

 

Yes, I know it, I have some pieces of this website

 

Good! We need a few people who read Japanese!

 

Sublime.

 

With Most Humble Sincerity Honored Jewelry Aficionados- I am not a Jewelry Hunter,but I revere Japanese Arts & Crafts ( I even love the Japanese 'Critter Cafes'-Cat,Bird,Monkey Cafes,see YouTube or Dodo Planet). But as with most things Japanese-from gumball prizes to novelty erasers (yes,like you'd use to erase a pencil mark,but not !),I'm not surprised by the otherworldly beauty & craft of their beads.
PS-Good Read,'The Otori Series'-great,but not a historical chronicle-a novel.

 

I'm a lover of Ginbari - Japanese enamel, as often as not on jewelry. The mini works of art might make a convert of you. Anything sufficiently goofy comes home with me.

 

Ojime and Ginbari could definitely make me a jewelry lover,some of those ladies can be Samurai intense re gems.Be nice if I could find a cheap way to dip my toes in and make many rookie mistakes-cheap mistakes good/expensive ones bad.
...therefore I must become an Iron Chef jewelry picker !

 

Thanks Bronwen-those tiny things are like some object fashioned in myth !
P.S.-My Lady and I both read Margaret Atwood,she is a living prescient treasure-'The Blind Assassin','Oryx & Crake Series' and of course 'The Handmaid...'. Just wished we lived in Canada and could read these 'fantasies' a bit more leisurely.