Chapter 806: To Japan
Unlike private collections, if someone doesn't want to take them out, you may never know what kind of precious collection they have. www.biquge.info As a museum, the Fujita Museum of Art's collection of Chinese cultural relics is public, and at least a large part or more precious ones should be public.
So Mo Jinxuan easily found a few favorite collections,
"The bronze statue of the late Shang Dynasty, the Buddha statue of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Zhang Daqian's "Self-Portrait of Yellow Mountain" ...... Curator, I'm actually more inclined to trade with them, because the Fujita Museum of Art is also a private museum, so it's relatively easier to exchange artifacts. ”
Mo Jinxuan knew Li Yi's intentions, and a large part of the reason why he established this museum was to communicate with some foreign museums. However, if the target is the collection of the National Museum, not to mention whether it can be traded, even if it can be traded, the procedure is quite troublesome, and it may be interfered with by certain forces at any time.
Therefore, a private museum such as the Fujita Museum of Art is very worthy of attention, and it is also necessary for her to remind Li Yi, "Curator, one thing you should pay attention to is that there are really not many things that we can trade now, so I think you should go out and take a walk......
After Mo Jinxuan learned about the origin of Li Yi's collections, she admired the level of this guy's leakage. So, now that the mine is on the right track, and most of the work in the museum has been shared by her and Tan Moxuan, shouldn't this guy also go and do something serious?
Li Yi shook his head speechlessly, he had just been born not long ago! However, Mo Jinxuan is indeed not wrong, even if it is not for exchange, his Western Museum needs a large number of foreign cultural relics to fill it, and this matter, except for him himself, there is really no one who can replace it.
"Sister Mo, don't worry, I've already arranged it, and I'll go to Japan in a few days."
Because of historical reasons, the number of Chinese cultural relics in Japan is definitely among the best in the world. However, because the Japanese side attaches much more importance to Chinese cultural relics than European countries, therefore, more does not mean that it is easy to pick up leaks, which is also the reason why Li Yi has not been in a hurry to pass.
Moreover, after tasting the sweetness of the exchange, the goal of his going abroad to pick up the leaks has long been transferred to the other party's own cultural relics. It's very simple, two cultural relics of almost the same value, if it is a Chinese one, he can only be one if he receives one, but if he is lucky enough to receive one from the other party, it means that he can at least exchange for two or more Chinese cultural relics of the same level or even a higher level!
In the past few days, Li Yi has been studying some basic knowledge about Japanese cultural relics by surprise, and if he doesn't go, he must be prepared, and he must aim his main goal at the precious cultural relics of the Japanese themselves.
Next, he met with Fujita Hiroki again, and after briefly expressing his intention to trade, he handed over the later negotiations to Mo Jinxuan and Tan Moxuan, and he himself took Gu Feng and Fat Elephant and flew directly to Tokyo.
The antique market in Japan is similar to that in China, and it is basically self-employed, and most of them are small shops with small faces. The difference is that it is not like Huaxia, where most of the antique shops are concentrated in a street or a building, and their antique shops are scattered, like Tokyo, where there is almost no place where antique shops are concentrated, and some of the doors are so small that the location is almost unimaginable in China.
The scope of antiques business in Japan is also similar to that of China, and it is also roughly divided into porcelain, ancient calligraphy and painting, furniture, clocks and watches, and miscellaneous items. And the antiques it operates, its year is also roughly similar to that of China, among the Chinese antiques, the fine products of the three dynasties of the Qing Dynasty have been rare, and the Ming Dynasty and its previous things are almost extinct in the market; The situation is similar for antiques in Japan, where the Edo period is almost extinct and the prices are extremely high.
Compared with China, the sales of Japanese antiques are more abundant, in addition to the normal antique shops, antique bazaars, antique fairs, they also have several quite special forms of sales.
One is to sell together, just like the jade on the Burmese public market, they will mix several or even a dozen kinds of antiques into one copy, and then quote by copy, but this method is mainly for some antique dealers who buy goods.
The second is to face all the public, and this method also has some origins with the jade market.
Just like the hidden mark on the jade market, all the antiques participating in the fair have only one reserve price, and then a bidding box will be placed next to it, and the person who likes it can put their bid price into the box, and indicate the name, address and contact information. After the exhibition, the box was opened and it was verified that the antique belonged to the one with the highest price.
There is another one, which is even more different, that is, the customers participating in the exhibition must be friends of the antique dealers participating in the exhibition or introduced by them! Moreover, counter-offers are not allowed here, nor can they be purchased directly by customers, but if there is a favorite thing, the owner must be approached by an acquaintance antique dealer, and the payment must be paid to the owner by the acquaintance antique dealer, who in turn receives a prescribed percentage of the proceeds.
"How can you still sell like this?"
This time, Li Yi was in charge of receiving Li Yi and a Japanese antique dealer who had contacted Luo Guofu in advance, and after this dealer introduced some unique Japanese distribution models, Li Yi finally understood the meaning of Luo Guofu's arrangement. Dare to love, in this place, there is no antique dealer as an introducer, and sometimes, you can't buy anything with money!
The antique dealer introduced by Rogov is named Kiyotake Hiroji, who is almost 40 years old, and is of mixed Japanese and Russian descent, not only taller than ordinary Japanese, but also has a high nose and deep eyes, and the characteristics of Russians are very obvious.
After seeing the reaction of Li Yi and the others, Qingwu Hongji smiled, and then said:
"It's nothing, we also have a distribution method here that China doesn't have, which is to temporarily set up a site in some large department stores to form an antique market for a few days, the purchasing experience of this market is different from all antique markets, but I don't recommend you to go to this kind of place to buy."
"Why?"
"Because rents in this kind of market are generally higher, the price of things will be more expensive. But it is not absolute, sometimes you will encounter some antique dealers who are in urgent need of funds, and then there is a bargain to take advantage of. ”
Li Yi nodded silently, he had learned before that the Japanese antique collection team is very large, and the market is relatively mature, so it is not too easy to pick up leaks. Now it seems that the difficulties should be more than he imagined, more difficult!
It's just that for him, a guy who can't be measured by normal people's standards at all, whether it is difficult or not, how difficult it is, everything, you have to wait for a specific trial to know.
"Mr. Qingwu, since this is the case, then, are there any relatively large fairs or flea markets that you can participate in recently?"
"Yes. Two days later, it's the country's largest antiques fair of the year. This time, the venue was held at Tokyo Big Sight, and more than 1,000 antique dealers participated in the exhibition. In addition, immediately after the end of this fair, there will be an event organized by several powerful antique dealers in Tokyo, called the Tomi Shozakai Festival, and the sales model is what I introduced earlier, and you need to be introduced by antique dealers to participate. ”
"Oh? So, I'm really here to go. Well, Mr. Kiyotake, I wonder if you can provide me with an antique map of Tokyo? In the next two days, I'm going to visit these small shops first. ”
"Of course this is no problem, I know you are coming, I have already prepared these."
After saying that, Kiyotake Hirotsugu picked up the phone and said a few quick words, and a minute later, a young woman wearing a well-fitting OL costume walked in.
"Mr. Li Yi, this is Miss Misa Aida, my assistant, she knows the addresses of those antique shops on the streets of Tokyo very well, I think she will be the guide for you in the next two days. I'm sorry, but I was supposed to be in charge of this myself, but because of these two large-scale exhibitions, I had to do it this way. ”
"Hehe, Mr. Qingwu, you are so polite, you only need to ask Miss Aitian to tell us the addresses of those antique shops, and she can stay and help you prepare for the exhibition."
"No, it's okay to have me here at the fair, Meisha, Mr. Li's itinerary this time is quite tight, so please try to pick some relatively large stores, and try to arrange the route as much as possible to reduce the time wasted on the road."
"Hey, you can rest assured, President, I will definitely do my best to receive your guests."
Seeing that they insisted, Li Yi didn't say much, originally, in such a strange place, there is a person who is familiar with the local road conditions to lead, it is definitely more trouble-free than them holding a map and bumping around.
After a few simple words of communication, Li Yi saw that Qingwu Hongji was indeed busy, so he took Aida Misa to leave.
"Mr. Li, may I ask, shall we leave to visit those antique shops?"
"Well, do you have any good recommendations?"
"Mr. Li, according to what the president told me, I think you should first go to Madame Rinai's cottage, she has hundreds of precious collections from China, and the quality is quite guaranteed."
"Really? Let's go check it out first. Li Yi's original intention was to try to go to the shops that distributed Japanese cultural relics, even if he wanted to see more Chinese cultural relics, he also tried to find those that were more unreliable, but this request was really a bit unspeakable, so he could only listen to Aida Misa's arrangement first, and then see if there was any chance. (To be continued.) )