"Mr. Yu, this is the most famous Harajuku open-air market in Tokyo." Yu Fei asked Kong Dashan for help, of course, to find an antique market in Tokyo!

"Harajuku is a must-see place for many visitors to Tokyo." Kogane-san's role as a tour guide is completely in place: "It's Yoyogi Park, and the spectacular building is Meiji Jingu. On the other side is the Champs-style original host neighborhood......"

But the introduction was immediately interrupted by Kong Dashan rudely: "Teacher Yu is here to see antiques, what are you doing with those useless things?" ”

Xiao Jin's face turned red. Yu Fei smiled and relieved him and said: "What Boss Kong said is not right, I am here for the first time in Tokyo, and it is not a bad thing to have a long experience." ”

"In the end, they are cultural people, and the words they say are different." Kong Dashan smiled and said, "Nacheng, Xiaojin, you take Teacher Yu to the flea market at Dongxiang Shrine to have a look." ”

The Togo Shrine Flea Market is an open-air market that only opens on the first weekend of each month. Yu Fei is also in a hurry, the market is opening today, if it is another day, he will have to find another place.

Flea markets sell Japanese antiques and other old or traditional goods, such as second-hand kimonos, vintage cameras from the 60s, old comic books, and of course, wooden dolls. The dolls are used to celebrate Daughter's Day. Daughter's Day is a Japanese girls' festival, also known as the Doll Festival and the Peach Blossom Festival. During the festival, the girl's home will be decorated with delicate dolls with peach blossoms to wish the girl a healthy growth.

In addition to dolls, there are also traditional Japanese items such as wardrobes, teapots, woodblock prints and woodblocks used in the flea market, masks, sake glasses, statues, medals, and so on.

"Boss Yu. I'll take a fancy to something later, but don't rush to do it, I'll bargain for you. Everything here is negotiable. Kim said. He was a few years older than Yu Fei, but Yu Fei didn't feel weird when he screamed at a little gold.

Yu Fei has no interest in these Japanese gadgets, and originally wanted to buy some little dolls to go back to Niuniu to play, but on second thought, many of the Japanese girls who were blessed by the little dolls later became the heroines of love action movies, so forget it. It can be seen that Yu Fei's interest is not good. Xiao Jin took a quick look and took Yu Fei to the antique market.

"The antiques market here is the largest in Tokyo, and the stalls are almost full of the bustling Harajuku shopping streets outside. I heard that Togo Shrine is planning to limit the size of the antique market. ”

See what's being sold in the antique market. Yu Fei couldn't help but be a little disappointed. Most of the so-called antiques were handed down from the Edo period in Japan, and they were only three or four hundred years at most, while there are not many antiques in China! This was a far cry from what he had originally expected. He thought it was full of Chinese antiques!

This is, of course, Yu Fei's previous misunderstanding, in previous wars. Japan has looted millions of Chinese antiques. But some of them have been damaged or lost in the war, and most of the others are concentrated in the hands of some big families, and there are not many in circulation on the market! Moreover, this is still the beginning of the 2000s, and China's collecting craze has not affected Japan, so there are not many Chinese antiques sold.

"Teacher Yu, according to Lao Kong's opinion, if you really want to buy antiques, you might as well go to the auction. There aren't many things to look at here. "Kong Dashan seems to have known the situation here for a long time.

Yu Fei nodded, just as he was about to turn around and leave. But I was attracted by a stall.

"Huh? What is it? ”

Yu Fei was drawn to a stall stacked like a grocery store, filled with all sorts of items, from old wooden cabinets to Japanese-style porcelain sake jugs, torn masks, a few woodblock prints and a few katanas.

Yu Fei took a fancy to a set of tea sets that the boss put on the newspaper.

The teapot is a style of the Meiji period, with white porcelain skin, hand-painted red, painted with gold, layered, and each scene is hand-hooked, which is cumbersome and complicated. The small porcelain pot is not big, but the pattern is rich, the color is painted with color, the drawing is delicate, the composition is clear, and it is a rare top grade! If it's just this teapot, of course it won't attract Yu Fei's attention! What really appealed to him was the cup next to the teapot!

The style of the cup does not match the teapot very well, the mouth of the cup is slightly skimmed, the abdomen is closed, the bottom is flat, and the feet are lying down. The outer wall of the dirty cup can vaguely be seen to be two groups of hens, with lake stones, moon flowers, and orchids.

Yu Fei just felt that such a teapot and cup were a little weird together, no matter the color and style, it was not the same tone, and he didn't know why he had to put them together.

And after using the chaotic qi to investigate, Yu Fei was not calm! These two things are not only different in color and style, but also in the age of TMD, and even different countries!

The teapot is indeed from the Meiji period, and it has a history of one hundred and thirty or forty years, but the concentration of chaotic qi in this cup is an old object from the Ming Dynasty! If you are not mistaken, it should be Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup! It's just that this chicken bowl cup is covered by tea dirt, and it is black and not slippery, and the pictures on the outer wall are not very clear.

Chicken bowl cup, that is, a small cup of wine decorated with a hen picture, ringed with a rooster and hen leading the young to forage. The picture of the son and hen, which flourished in the Song Dynasty, was painted on porcelain from Chenghua. The shape of the chicken bowl cup is created by the Ming Dynasty Chenghua Dynasty Imperial Kiln Factory, because the Chenghua Chicken Bowl Cup is colorful and distinct, the painting rate is really lovely, it is called a divine product, the Ming and Qing dynasties have imitated, and the Qing Dynasty imitates the best of the Kangxi and Yongzheng dynasties imperial kilns. During the Qianlong period, the chicken bowl cup was heightened, and the picture was inscribed with the imperial poem "Chicken Bowl Song" of Emperor Qianlong.

The chicken bowl cup is very precious, according to the Ming "Shenzong Record": Shenzong is still eating, and there is a pair of Chenghua color chicken bowl cups in front of the emperor, which is worth 100,000 yuan. There are not many Chenghua color chicken bowl cups in existence, and even fewer are in private collections, it is said that there are only three. Since the Ming Dynasty, there has been a saying that it is difficult to buy a chicken cup. In 1980 and 1999, the Chicken Bowl Cup sold for HK$5.28 million and HK$29.17 million respectively, setting a new auction record for ancient Chinese porcelain at that time.

Most of the chicken cups that can be seen now are imitated in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In 2000, a Qing Yongzheng Doucai chicken bowl cup was sold for 1.805 million Hong Kong dollars, and in 2001, a pair of Qing Qianlong pastel chicken bowl cups were sold for 620,000 yuan.

What Yu Fei didn't expect was to find a chicken bowl cup from the Ming Chenghua period in this open-air market, and it was in such good condition without any damage! What made Yu Fei feel ridiculous was that the chicken bowl cup was originally a wine utensil, but it was used as a teacup here, and it was put together with the teapot! It's really a pearl covered in dust.

"Teacher Yu, isn't it just a broken teapot? What's there to see? Kong Dashan saw that Yu Fei was "tripped" by a set of tea sets, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"There's something interesting about this teapot." Yu Fei squatted down and carefully inspected the chicken bowl cup again. Although the chaotic qi has clearly shown that it is indeed an old object of the Ming Dynasty, it is really incredible that such a precious divine chicken bowl cup is placed on an open-air old goods stall at random, and it is coincidentally seen by himself. To put it bluntly, in fact, Yu Fei couldn't believe that this was true.

Some people may think that this is too unbelievable, after all, Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup is so famous, how can the stall owner not know it? Even if he doesn't know him, there are so many people visiting the market, isn't there anyone who knows him?

Here is an explanation: just because the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup is too famous, there are too many imitations in later generations, and even Japan has imitations. As mentioned earlier, Toyotomi Hideyoshi caught a group of craftsmen copycat Chinese ceramics through the two Korean Wars, and also imitated the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup, but the artistic value is too low, if such a chicken bowl cup appears here, eighty percent of people will think it is an imitation, which is somewhat similar to Yu Fei's idea, but he feels too unbelievable.

At the same time, at the beginning of the 20000s, although the value of Chinese art gradually appreciated, many collectors' tentacles had not yet reached the foreign market, so some leaks were also possible.

The third point is also a very critical point, the chicken bowl cup is regarded as a teacup, and the original face is covered by layers of tea dirt, and even the six words of the bottom "Ming Chenghua year" are not clear, and it is no wonder that no one recognizes.

Yu Fei estimated that this chicken bowl cup was probably just taken out, otherwise even if there were many reasons, it would inevitably be recognized by people with good eyesight.

How much will such a god chicken bowl cup cost? (To be continued......)