Wonderful Antique Hand-painted, Double Side Fan with Frogs, Moon, Owl, Origami oil on board painting but as it is this

but as it is this gorgeous 1975 book is the next best thing

This Japanese hand-carved cedar (Cryptomeria) horny toad is totally amazing for the manner in which its carved form brilliantly corresponds to the patterns in the grain of the wood

and the board is teak

with a forged metal blade held to the wooden body with two tangs

Wonderful Antique Hand-painted, Double Side Fan with Frogs, Moon, Owl, Origami oil on board painting but as it is thisI found this and two other antique hand fans together, and might guess they were all once part of a Miss Fanny Allen's collection, to whom another of them was inscribed as a gift in 1872. I must say this large one is my favorite Japanese I believe, hand painted with this fabulous watchful, perched owl, silver moon behind it, and these two great frog standing on lily pads. And then on reverse, continuing the motif, flying frogs rendered as origami in