Japanese Shop Sign
Kanban, Japanese Shop Sign, Meiji Period, 1868-1912
Located in Camden, ME
This 19th century Japanese Pharmacy sign advertises a popular stomach medicine, Aifu from the Juwa
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Antique Japanese Medicine "Kanban"
Shop Sign
, Late Meiji Period
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese Medicine "Kanban" (Shop Sign) with mirror, Meiji Period.
The Medicine being
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
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Japanese Shop Sign For A Brush Maker
Located in Seattle, WA
A Japanese shop sign, kanban, for a brush store. The keyaki (zelkova) wood sign with a shallow
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Japanese Paper Shop Sign
Located in New York, NY
Kanban for Ozawa Paper Shop, Kyoto, Advertizing a pink scented paper famous in the Meiji Era called
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Early 20th Century Japanese Signs
Japanese Tool Shop Sign
Located in New York, NY
Tool Shop Kanban - Trade Mark Satomi Kembi - Carpenters Tools - Sharpening - Banshu Hyogo - Fujita
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Early 20th Century Japanese Signs
KANBAN Shop Sign
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Profiled wood kanban - sign, in the shape of traditional Japanese candle, two sided. Okame, woman's
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Signs
Kanban - Pharmacy Shop Sign
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Vintage pharmacy two sided shop kanban - sign, with company logo
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Japanese Signs
Materials
Wood
Japanese Lacquered Wood Candle Store Kanban (Shop Signs)
Located in Seattle, WA
A pair of lacquered wood Japanese kanban (shop sign) for a candle store. Each kanban of an
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20th Century Japanese Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Antique Japanese Tea Shop Sign, Edo Period
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Rare antique Japanese shop sign, kanban, in the shape of a tea pot. Edo period, 18th century
Category
Antique 18th Century Japanese Edo Signs
Materials
Iron
Japanese Fine Antique Ladies
"Calligraphy Brush" Shop Sign, Carved
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a beautifully handmade, hand-carved, and hand lacquered antique shop sign -kanban- for a
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Japanese Fine Antique Sake Shop Sign, Hand-Carved and Painted
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a large and beautifully handmade, hand-carved, and hand painted antique shop sign -kanban
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
Japanese Fine Antique “Ladies” "Tea" Shop Sign, Hand-Carved, 19th Century
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a superb handmade, hand-carved, and hand lacquered antique shop sign -kanban- for a ladies
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
Late Meiji Sake Shop Sign "Kanban", Kankou Brand Relief Keg Image, Japan
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Late Meiji Sake shop sign "Kanban", Kankou Brand Relief Keg Image, Japan
Sake is considered
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20th Century Japanese Meiji Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Japanese Fine Antique Ladies
"Tea" Shop Sign, Hand-Carved Handles, 19th Century
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a superb handmade, hand-carved, and hand lacquered antique shop sign -kanban- for a ladies
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Scholar s Objects
Materials
Wood
H 27 in W 24 in D 1.5 in
19th Century Japanese Meiji Trade Sign for Sake Shop, Hand Carved and Painted
Located in Kingston, NY
Offered is a 19th century Japanese Meiji hand carved gilt and painted trade sign for sake shop. The
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antiquities
Materials
Wood
Japanese Fine Antique Hand-Carved "Children
s Medicine" Fish Sign, 19th Century
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a superb handmade. Hand-carved, and hand gilded antique red painted and lacquered shop sign
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
H 14 in W 23 in D 2 in
Japanese Shop Sign
Kanban
Located in Hudson, NY
Large sculpture of prayer beads used as a shop sign. Can be displayed flat or hung on a wall.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
Japanese Shop Sign "Kanban" for Footwear, Double-Sided, Keyaki Wood, Late Meiji
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese shop sign "Kanban" for Footwear, double-sided, Keyaki wood, Late Meiji.
This wooden
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20th Century Japanese Meiji Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Wood
H 68.5 in W 13.63 in D 1.25 in
Japanese 19th Century Vertical Shop Sign with Painted Portrait and Calligraphy
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese antique shop sign from the 19th century, with hand-painted décor presenting a woman's
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Architectural Elements
Materials
Wood
H 60.5 in W 12.25 in D 1 in
Japanese Fine Antique Currency Exchange Shop Sign, Hand Carved
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a beautifully handmade and hand carved black lacquer colored antique shop sign -kanban- for
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Taisho Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
Japanese Rare Antique Good Luck Cat Maneki-neko Sign, Hand Carved Hand Painted
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a rare Cat "Maneki Neko" antique shop sign kanban -a beautifully handmade, hand carved, and
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Taisho Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
H 24 in W 16.75 in D 2 in
19th Century Japanese Wood Shop Sign
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A hand-carved and painted double-sided Japanese wood trade sign. Solid wood panel with carved and
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Antique 1880s Japanese More Asian Art, Objects and Furniture
Materials
Wood
Japanese Fine Antique "Ladies
Kimono Dress" Shop Sign, Hand-Carved
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a superb handmade. Hand-carved, and hand gilded antique painted and lacquered shop sign
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Ceramics
Materials
Wood
Japanese Fine Antique “Ladies” “Hair Jewelry" Shop Sign, 19th Century
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a superb handmade, hand-carved, and hand lacquered antique shop sign -kanban- for a ladies
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Figurative Sculptures
Japanese Fine Antique "Ladies” “Umbrella” Shop Sign, Hand-Carved, 19th Century
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a superb handmade, hand-carved, and hand lacquered antique shop sign -kanban- for a ladies
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
H 29.5 in W 5 in D 2.5 in
Japanese Fine Antique Men
s "Pipe" Kiseru Shop Sign, Carved, 19th Century
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a beautifully handmade, hand-carved, and hand lacquered antique shop sign -kanban- for a
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
Japanese Fine Antique Tall Samurai Shop Sign, Carved- Best In Class
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a large and beautifully handmade, hand-carved, and hand lacquered antique shop sign -kanban
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Kiyoshi Saito Signed Japanese Print Shop Girl Cardin Paris
Green Ring
1960
By Kiyoshi Saitō
Located in Studio City, CA
, contemporary Japanese printmakers of the 20th century. This print is titled "Shop Girl Cardin Paris" (It is
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Vintage 1960s Japanese Showa Prints
Materials
Wood, Paper
Vintage Japanese Shop Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large handmade shop sign probably for a Soy Sauce and vinegar store. Nice matt wood has great
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Signs
Materials
Wood, Paint
Large Japanese Shop Sign for a Soy Sauce Brewery
Located in Seattle, WA
A large Japanese shop sign, kanban, for a soy sauce (shoyu) brewery. The large shop sign is crafted
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Huge Japanese Shop Sign Red Lacquer Brush
Located in San Francisco, CA
This is a rare and wonderful Japanese calligraphy brush about 5 feet tall. Oversized items like
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Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Lacquer
Materials
Metal
Extremely Large Japanese Kanban (Shop Sign)
Located in Seattle, WA
An important and extremely large Japanese kanban or shop sign, of carved wood with a design in
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Signs
Materials
Wire
Japanese Kimono Shop Sign, Turn of the Century
Located in New York, NY
Wooden Sign for a Turn of the Century Kimino Shop, Gilt Metal High Relief Lettering
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Signs
Materials
Metal
Japanese Soba Noodle Shop Sign, Turn of the Century
Located in New York, NY
Wooden Soba Noodle Shop sign, Gilt Metal Portrait and script, original fastenings
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Signs
Materials
Metal
Kanban, Shop Sign
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Kanban, shop sign. Carved wood, wholesaler. Advertising paper products in gold kanji, with red
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Early 20th Century Japanese Folk Art Signs
Materials
Wood, Paint
Japanese Tea Shop Sign
Located in San Francisco, CA
1950 Japanese cedar wood tea shop kanban (shop sign) in hte shape of a tea jar. From Kyoto.
Category
Vintage 1950s Japanese Decorative Objects
Materials
Cedar
Large Japanese Kanban (Shop Sign)
Located in New York, NY
A large Japanese Meiji Period (1868-1912) kanban. A carved wooden ship sign for a pharmacy
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
Japanese Pharmacy Shop Sign (Kanban)
Located in Seattle, WA
Japanese shokei kanban (shop sign) of keyaki (zelkova) wood, finely carved and decorated with black
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Massive Japanese Bronze Candlestick Kanban (Shop Sign)
Located in Seattle, WA
Unusually large Japanese bronze pricket candle stand (shokudai). Probably created as a kanban (shop
Category
20th Century Japanese Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Carved Wood Sake Kanban (Shop Sign)
Located in Seattle, WA
Japanese carved and gilt wood kanban, or shop sign, advertising a brand of sake. The kanban in the
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Sculptures
Japanese Inro Pipe Case Kanban (Shop Sign)
Located in Seattle, WA
An unusual Japanese kanban (shop sign) from a tobacco accessory shop or inro maker. The sign in the
Category
20th Century Japanese Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Rope
Double Sided Japenese Mon Shop Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Antique wooden shop sign for business making family seals ( "mons"). Dimensions: 13.5"W x 47.25"L x
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Early 20th Century Japanese Decorative Art
Japanese Kanban
Located in San Francisco, CA
Japanese kanban (shop sign) from a sweet/confection shop. Taisho period - 1920s.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Decorative Art
LARGE ANTIQUE JAPANESE KANBAN
Located in New York, NY
A large scale antique Japanese Kanban (shop sign) with the face of Daruma, who signifies good luck
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Decorative Objects
Vintage Japanese Shop, Sign Kanban
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese shop sign, advertising for a pharmacy.
With a black lacquer frame and gold
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Signs
Materials
Wood
Japanese Eyeglass Kanban
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Japanese kanban (shop sign) from an optometrist's office in Kyoto. The shop sign was used
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Signs
Materials
Wood
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Japanese Antique Chests Of Drawers, Meiji Era
1868-1912
Wabi Sabi
Located in Hitachiomiya-shi, 08
This antique chests of drawers was crafted in the Late Meiji Era(1868-1912).
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Wood
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Champagne Bucket alpaca silvered around, 1920s
Located in Wien, AT
Champagne Bucket alpaca silvered around, 1920s
Only Polished
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Vintage 1920s Austrian Art Deco Barware
Materials
Alpaca
Japanese Antique BK Small Drawer 1860s-1900s / Tansu Storage Wabisabi
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
Very old Japanese small drawer.
This furniture is from the Meiji period (1860s-1900s).
It is made of cedar wood.
The drawer is tasteful, rustic, simple and beautiful.
There is no wa...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Cedar
$550
H 17.33 in W 16.34 in D 12.8 in
3 Damascus Mother of Pearl Inlaid Wall Shelves
Located in Dallas, TX
Group of three Damascus mother of pearl inlaid wooden wall shelves. The intricately carved wood of each is inlaid with designs in mother of pearl with the intarsia method.
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20th Century Shelves and Wall Cabinets
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Chinese Qing Twelve Panel Lacquered Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Early 20th century Chinese late Qing dynasty twelve panel lacquered coromandel screen. The grand screen features a royal pavilion courtyard with figures. Each panel measures 17.5 inc...
Category
20th Century Chinese Qing Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
$21,000 Sale Price
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H 96 in W 212 in D 0.75 in
Sendai Tansu, Meiji Period
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a very good example of a Meiji Period Sendai Tansu in Keyaki wood. This one-part tansu dates to circa 1880 and is in very good overall condition as it retains all of its orig...
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Antique 1880s Japanese Anglo-Japanese Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Wrought Iron
Chinese Export Eight-Panel Lacquered Coromandel Screen
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Beautifully hand painted and decorated grand scale Chinese export Eight-panel Coromandel screen featuring different hand painted Chinese scene on each side. One side depicting an han...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
19th Century Japanese Paintings. Zenga Tiger and Dragon by Inoue Kanshu.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Inoue Kanshu (1807-1880)
Zenga Tiger and Dragon
19th century
Pair of framed Japanese paintings. Ink on silk.
Dimensions (each): W. 114 cm x H. 115 cm (45” x 45”)
Presented here ...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
$17,500 / set
H 45.28 in W 44.89 in D 0.4 in
Japanese Tansu, chest-on-chest (isho kasane-dansu), Yonezawa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese chest-on-chest for clothing storage (isho kasane-dansu) from Yonezawa, constructed of hinoki (Chaemaecyparis obtusa) and keyaki (Zelkova serrata) drawer fronts, traditional ...
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
$5,200 / set
H 38.13 in W 47.75 in D 18.25 in
20th Century Japanese Tokyo Tansu Chest in Two Parts
Located in Torino, IT
This 20th-century Japanese Tokyo Tansu chest for clothing produced at the beginning of the Taisho period it’s an example of furniture characteristic of this period in Japan and in vo...
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20th Century Japanese Taisho Furniture
Materials
Iron
Japanese Late Edo Period Kiri and Cypress Tansu
Merchant
s Chest
Located in San Francisco, CA
A fine Japanese late Edo period kiri wood (chestnut) and cypress wood tansu (merchant's chest) with multiple drawers of various sizes including a sliding section. Having original red...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Furniture
Materials
Iron
Japanese ink on paper painting of Plum Blossoms, Tani Buncho
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese ink on paper painting of Plum Blossoms and Poem, scroll mounting, signature & single seal: Tani Buncho (1763 - 1840). A famous and prolific literati (bunjin) painter and po...
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Buddhist Teaching Painting
Located in Greenwich, CT
Japanese Buddhist teaching painting, set of four paintings with 24 Buddhist stories with Japanese written characters in each story on one screen. Provenance: Purchased from Christie'...
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Antique 1820s Japanese Edo Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Chinese Asian Large Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screen Mythical Landscape
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, strangely beautiful, unusually engaging, and alluring hand-painted large six-panel Japanese/Asian Byobu folding screen depicting an almost magical/ mythical nature scene ...
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Antique 18th Century Japanese Edo Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
$9,500
H 67 in W 138 in D 0.75 in
Late 19th Century Large Two Section Antique Japanese Kitchen Tansu
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Late 19th Century Large Two Swection Antique Japanese Kitchen Tansu
A Kyoto Mizuya Tansu also known as a Gifu Mizuya Tansu from the Meiji Period (1868-1912) with its approximate age...
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1990s Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Iron
Large Wabi Sabi Two Section Late Edo Period Japanese Tansu Cabinet
Located in London, GB
A tall two section Japanese tansu from the mid 19th century.
Nicely patinated cedar with multiple drawers, sliding doors & iron hardware.
Strong utilitarian design.
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Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Cabinets
Materials
Iron
$8,051
H 67.72 in W 38.59 in D 17.72 in
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Japanese Shop Sign For Sale on 1stDibs
Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the Japanese shop sign you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Each Japanese shop sign for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, cedar and iron. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer Japanese shop sign, there are earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. Each Japanese shop sign bearing hallmarks is very popular.
How Much is a Japanese Shop Sign?
The average selling price for a Japanese shop sign at 1stDibs is $1,200, while they’re typically $395 on the low end and $6,000 for the highest priced.