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Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Saito Hodo (aka Nishimura Hodo)
Two women walking on a spring night Date: 1920s-1930s. Size: Oban. 15.5 x 10.25 inches. Publisher: Takemura Hideo (label on back). Signed "H. Saito" by the artist. Medium: Japanese watercolor. Condition: Excellent. Note: Paintings and woodblock prints variously signed "H. Saito" (Saito Hodo) and "Nishimura Hodo" were published by Takemura Hideo. They are very likely by the same artist...
Era Woodblock Prints
$405 Saito Hodo (aka Nishimura Hodo)
A balcony scene with falling cherry blossoms Date: 1920s. Size: Oban. 15.25 x 10.25 inches. Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Signed "H. Saito" by the artist. Medium: Japanese watercolor. Condition: Faint matte line. Note: Paintings and woodblock prints variously signed as "H. Saito" (Saito Hodo) and "Nishimura Hodo" were published by Takemura Hideo. They are very likely by the same artist...
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Saito Hodo (aka Nishimura Hodo)
Street After Rain (雨後の街) Date: 1920s-30s. Size: Oban. 19.75 x 13 inches. Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Signed "H. Saito" by the artist. Medium: Japanese watercolor. Condition: Excellent. Note: Paintings and woodblock prints variously signed as "H. Saito" (Saito Hodo) and "Nishimura Hodo" were published by Takemura Hideo. They are very likely by the same artist...
Era Woodblock Prints
$990 Saito Hodo (aka Nishimura Hodo)
Street in Front of Restaurant Date: 1920s-30s. Size: Oban. 19.75 x 13 inches. Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Signed "H. Saito" by the artist. Medium: Japanese watercolor. Condition: Excellent. Note: Paintings and woodblock prints variously signed "H. Saito" (Saito Hodo) and "Nishimura Hodo" were published by Takemura Hideo. They are very likely by the same artist...
Zentner Collection
$9,000.00 Antique Japanese 2-panel screen painting of a flowers. Painted in the Rinpa School technique in mineral colors and gofun on gold leafed paper. An exuberant display of sunflower, peony, sweet pea, and morning glory blossoms.
Age: Taisho Period (1912-9126) Dimensions: 48" high x 49 1/2" wide
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$2,300.00 A SET of three hanging scroll painting depicted beautiful cherry blossoms in the mountain waterfall and crane in the cloud. Painted with ink and thick pigments on paper. Signed Kano Tan'en and sealed. It is attributed to Kano Tan'en.
Kano Tan'en(18th C.) was born as the second son of Kano Tanjo(1696-1756)...
Zentner Collection
$7,000.00 Antique Two panel Japanese byobu screen depicting the first frost at waters edge.
Japanese herons and mandarin ducks contently rest and foliage with a light dusting of snow screen depicted on the late white plumb blossom tree. Three ducks rest and warm themselves beneath the near barren tree. A pair of Japanese herons are seem amoungst the water with sprouted bamboo and flowering water lilly. In Japan the white heron is known to be able to move between three elements air, earth and water...
Zentner Collection
$4,000.00 Japanese two panel screen depicting a family of horses. Painted with a simple flowing style of sumi ink on paper. Bordered in original aged gold leaf and black lacquered frame.
The horse has always been considered the sacred mount of the kami, Japanese gods. During the Nara period (710-794), the practice of shinme, consisting in offering a horse as a votive offering to a shrine to serve as a divine mount, spread...
Zentner Collection
$8,000.00 Japanese two panel painted byobu (screen) depicting a winters evening with resting pair of mandarin ducks siting amongst the late blooming roses at waters edge. A pair of song birds sitting within the white hydrangeas...
Zentner Collection
Price on Request Antique Japanese full six panel painted screen depicting a flock of cranes resting a gold leaf backdrop. Bordered with silk and simple black lacquer wood frame. Touches a red pigment adorns each of the cranes crown, black wing tips feathers fade to white. Some are seen resting as are grooming and enjoying the social rest. Across the six panels are 100 Japanese cranes.
In Japan the crane is viewed as a national treasure...
Zentner Collection
Price on Request An antique Japanese two panel screen painting (byobu) of the battle between the two historical figures Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Benkei.
Minamoto no Yoshitsune (born Ushiwakamaru c.1159) was raised in a monastery near in Kyoto. His incredible skill as a warrior emerged when he was very young. In the scene depicted here, he famously defeats the great warrior-monk, Benkei (Saito Musashibo Benkei). The young Ushiwakamaru easily leaps over the larger warrior. According to legend, Benk...
Zentner Collection
$2,500.00 Antique Japanese screen painting (byobu) in two panels with a view over a garden fence. Tall white chrysanthemum flowers blossom near a stand of small blue Matsumoto asters. In the background is a mist of silver leaf. Painted in mineral pigments, raised gofun and silver leaf on paper.
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912) Dimensions: 48 1/2" high x 39" wide
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$1,100.00 Snow covered bamboo. Painted with ink on silk. Signed and sealed.
Suzuki Shonen (1848-1918) was a Japanese painter from the Meiji(1868-1912) to Taisho periods(1912-1926). Born as Suzuki Hyakunen's eldest son, he learned painting from his father from an early age. Shonen became a teacher at the Kyoto Prefectural Painting School in 1898. He was good at portrait painting and received awards at national industrial exhibitions, etc. Some light marks and foxing are present on the paint...
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$450.00 Ichiyo Kannon/guanyin Bodhisattva, the Goddess of Mercy with heart sutra. Painted with ink and pigments on silk. Signed and sealed. It is dated as painted in 1922. It is based on a legend that is said the Kannon Bodhisattva saved Zen Master Dogen(1200-1253) while he was traveling to China for Zen Buddhism. On the way home, he was hit by a terrible storm, so he recited the kannon heart Sutra with all the heart, the Kannon Bodhisattva appeared on the lotus petal, and the wind and rain cal...
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$530.00 Winter peonies. Painted with ink and pigments on paper. Signed Bungyo and sealed. The inscribed calligraphy is from a haiku poem by one of the most famous haiku master from the early Edo period, Matsuo Basho(1644-1694), who was a samurai and established a unique haiku style of ethereal serenity expressed in wabi sabi.
冬牡丹 千鳥よ雪の ほととぎす huyu botan (winter peonies)
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$400.00 Beautiful Autumn Landscape with maple leaves. Painted with ink and pigments on paper. Signed Tetsuzan and sealed.
Some light marks are present on the painting itself, otherwise the painting is in very good antique/vintage condition. Some insignificant light marks are present on the scroll mounting, otherwise the piece is diplayed well and in very good condition. It is accompanied by an original paulownia wood storage box with the artist’s signature and seal. Painting: W11” x H53...
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$550.00 Japanese chestnut. Painted with ink on paper. Signed Tsunenobu and sealed. It is attributed to Kano Tsunenobu.
Kano Tsunenobu (1636-1713) was the eldest son of Kanō Naonobu (1607-50), younger brother of the renowned artist Kanō Tan'yū (1602-74). When his father died, Tsunenobu became a pupil of his uncle, and derived elements from the style of both men. In Hoei era (1704 - 1711) in the Edo period (1603-1868), he worked on a Kenjo no shoji (sliding screens of the 32 Chinese sages), whic...
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$2,300.00 Large rinpa school painting depicted Deer. Painted with ink and pigments on a fan. Sealed. Circa late Edo period, 19th C.
Rinpa was born as a merchant culture in Kyoto, the capital of Japan, by Tawaraya Sotatsu(1570-1643) the early 17th century and Ogata Korin(1658-1716) in the early 18th century.In the early 19th century, Rinpa was developed by Sakai Hoitsu(1761-1829) and Suzuki Kiitsu(1796-1858) as a culture in Edo (present-day Tokyo) and was welcomed by court nobles and upper-class town... |
