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THBMonumental Japanese Shirokiya Folding Screen with Mountain Landscape Design
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJan 19, 2025
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Monumental Japanese Shirokiya Folding Screen with Mountain Landscape Design. 4 panel screen made in Japan c. 1970 with original brass trim and paintings on rice paper. Shirokiya label on back top edge.
Size When Open: 36 1/4 x 73 in.
Size When Closed: 36 1/4 x 18 1/2 x 3 in.
#4610 .
In 1662 a merchant named Hikotaro Omura opened a dry goods store at Nihonbashi in Edo, (now Tokyo) Japan. Omura called the store Shirokiya Gofukuten, and over the next few hundred years the store became a prime destination for visitors from around the country. As Japan entered the Meiji era Shirokiya and its main rival at the time, Mitsukoshi, expanded into selling clothing and other goods. In 1903 Shirokiya opened their first western-style department store, which was popular enough to warrant an even larger store being built just down the street eight years later. The original department store was leveled during the Tokyo Earthquake of 1923, and it was completely rebuilt with modern architecture. A major fire in December of 1932 destroyed the larger building and killed 14 people. These tragedies were compounded by World War II, as Tokyo was devastated by bombings and economically crippled during the occupation of Japan. By the mid 1950s Mitsukoshi was attempting to initiate a hostile takeover, as they had fared better by spreading their locations throughout more of the nation, but the management of Shirokiya implemented several innovative Western marketing techniques, including celebrity branding, to boost their sales. As a last-ditch effort to protect themselves, they agreed to be absorbed into the Tokyu Group in 1958. The railway company had been exploring expanding into the retail industry for some time, and Shirokiya gradually helped them develop all their stores and connections into a unified Tokyu Department Store chain, in exchange for the ability to expand overseas under their own name. In 1959 the first Shirokiya store opened in Hawaii’s brand-new Ala Moana Center, with two more appearing in Maui and next to Pearl Harbor in the following decades. The final Japanese store in Nihonbashi was renamed in 1967, but by then the Shirokiya division was flourishing in the western American market. In the 1990s, however, the Japanese economy collapsed, and the Tokyu Group spiraled into debt, shedding its assets rapidly. After the Maui and Pearl Harbor stores were closed, fiercely loyal customers and Senator Daniel Inouye led an effort to save the final Shirokiya location, and Tokyu eventually agreed to sell it to the seven highest-ranking executives at the store for just $1, taking a $23 million loss. The newly formed Shirokiya Holdings streamlined operations and assets and renegotiated the lease on the remaining store. On November 17th, 2002 Shirokiya reopened its doors with then-Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano declaring the day to be “Shirokiya Day.” Within a year Shirokiya Holdings reported net sales of $35 million. The success was short-lived, however, as the 2008 worldwide economic recession began to take its toll. In 2016 Shirokiya closed its Ala Moana Center department store location and created the Shirokiya Japan Village Walk at a new street-level location in the same shopping center. Themed after a traditional Japanese town reminiscent of old Kyoto, the Japan Village Walk consisted of four main themes: Yataimura (food court & beer garden), Zeppin Plaza (shopping alleys), Omatsuri Hiroba (festival and event square) and Guardian Spirits Sanctuary (good luck deities). In March 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic closed their final location down, and a legal battle began over access to equipment and property left in the shuttered store between Ala Moana’s parent company and Shirokiya Holdings Inc. The nearly three hundred sixty year old company was dissolved for good when mediation attempts failed in 2021.
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36 1/4 x 73 in.
