Handan Biwamai ( Dancer 反弾琵琶舞 ) Kobaien sumi ink stick

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Handan Biwamai inkstick ( Dancer 反弾琵琶舞 )

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$47

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** SIZE W:Width, L:Length, T:Thickness, Wgt:Weight

Size: 1.5 (W:34.2mm L:66.5 mm T:9.2 mm Wgt:37gram)

1.5 (W:34.2mm L:66.5 mm T:9.2 mm Wgt:37gram)

$47.00

3 (W:41.2mm L:80.6mm T:11 mm Wgt:68gram)

$94.00

5 (W:51.3mm L:105.2mm T:12.9 mm Wgt:109gram)

$144.00

20 (W:79.7 mm L:158mm T:18.7 mm Wgt:366gram)

$503.00

Handan Biwamai inkstick ( Dancer 反弾琵琶舞 )

Size: 1.5 (W:34.2mm L:66.5 mm T:9.2 mm Wgt:37gram)

$47

Product information

Handan Biwamai — 反弾琵琶舞, "the dance of the reversed pipa" — belongs to Shitsuboku, the grade considered the finest of all Kobaien inksticks, made from ultra-fine, superb rapeseed-oil soot.

Its surface carries a reproduction of a fragment of a mural from Dunhuang, the ancient Silk Road cave-temple site in China: a dancer caught mid-motion, playing the biwa lute behind her back as she moves.

It is less an ink than a small, held piece of art history — the kind of object you keep as much for what it depicts as for what it grinds into.

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