Antique Japanese C.1890 Blue & White Stenciled Bowl With Playful Rabits 11" Tea Ceremony The Nakago (blade hole) has

The Nakago (blade hole) has front and back bronze or copper "sekigane" (a softer metal applied to the top and bottom of the nakago after forging to get a better fit and for shock absorption) indicating further that the tsuba was affixed to a working sword

Used for storing documents

This piece dates from the early to mid 1800's

This is an antique Japanese Meiji Era c

with the exception of a very few scuffs and dents

Antique Japanese C.1890 Blue & White Stenciled Bowl With Playful Rabits 11" Tea Ceremony The Nakago (blade hole) hasThis is an antique Japanese porcelain bowl. Hand Stenciled in a rich blue with cute rabbits paying in a center square. Rabbits are a zodiac animal! Rabbits tend to be gentle, quiet, elegant, and alert as well as quick, skillful, kind, patient, and very responsible. if you or a loved one are born in a Rabbit year, 1999, 1987, 1975 ect. Than this antique is a perfect fit. This dish dates back to the late Meiji Era (c. 1890) made of a high fire ceramic