Accessible Japanese objects, books and legacy Yamazakura stock offered separately from the principal specialist art and antiques catalogue. A place...

Japanese archery equipment and associated samurai objects, including arrows, yanone, ebira, quivers, sashimono fittings, cases, stands and other material connected...

Japanese armour and armour components, including complete and composite suits, kabuto, menpō, kote, suneate, dō, jingasa and related equipment. A...

Japanese ceramics and decorative arts, including vessels, ikebana-related objects, carved works, screens and distinctive objects for display. Selected with the...

Imperial Japanese military swords, including shin gunto, parade and dress swords and related regulation patterns. Listings will distinguish traditionally forged...

Hakata ningyō and other Japanese figures, ranging from traditional subjects to samurai, bijin and character studies. A dedicated Yamazakura collecting...

Japanese military, naval, police and official material of the Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods, including regulation swords, dirks, gunto, parade...

Here you will find all items relating to the Meiji and Showa periods (1876–1945).

Japanese art and antiques selected by Yamazakura, encompassing works from the samurai tradition through the Edo, Meiji and later periods...

Japanese lacquer spanning practical, ceremonial and decorative forms, including maki-e, boxes, stands, furniture, inrō and related lacquerwork. Particular emphasis is...

Japanese bronze, copper and mixed-metal sculpture and decorative metalwork, including okimono and works of the Meiji and later periods. Selected...

Japanese military, naval and official dirks and daggers of the Imperial period, including regulation and scarce specialist patterns. Entries will...

Japanese swords and complete or partial mountings, including katana, wakizashi, tantō, tachi and associated koshirae. Objects will be catalogued with...

Japanese naginata, nagamaki and related bladed polearms, including blades, complete mounts and associated fittings. A dedicated collecting area within Yamazakura's...

Japanese polearm saya, shafts, mountings and fittings, including lacquered and decorative examples. Yamazakura holds an unusually extensive group in this...

Japanese police, colonial administration and other official swords and edged weapons of the Imperial period, including material associated with Korea...

Specialist reference books, catalogues and research material relating to Japanese swords, armour, polearms, metalwork, lacquer, ceramics and the decorative arts...

Japanese arms, armour and associated samurai material, including armour, kabuto, menpō, swords, sword fittings, archery equipment and related objects. Selected...

An archive of items that have been sold and are no longer available.

Japanese sword fittings and related metalwork, including tsuba, fuchi-kashira, menuki, kozuka and other components of the mounted sword. Selected for...

A research archive of selected objects previously handled by Yamazakura. Sold and unavailable pieces are retained here for scholarship, comparison,...

A curated selection representing the principal collecting fields of Yamazakura: Japanese swords and polearms, samurai armour and equipment, lacquerware, metalwork...

Japanese yari and spearheads in their various forms, including straight, cross-shaped and specialist blade types. Listings will record dimensions, construction,...

A specialist Yamazakura collection devoted to Japanese polearms and their fittings: yari, naginata, polearm koshirae, saya and associated equipment. This...