Momoyama era painting by Sesshin

Japanese: Paintings: Scrolls Pre 1700: item #1122517

The momoyama era was a unique period for Japanese art. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of Japan of the time preferred lavish decorations with gold and at the same time the simple rustic pieces that were used in tea ceremony. For art, many of the lords were competing with each other in owning an antique painting, calligraphy, or tea ceremony implement to show off their wealth and preferences. Sometimes the lords would commission artists trained in the lineages of the past to create similar works to... Click for details

Japanese Painting White Camellia by Yamamoto Sokyu

Japanese: Paintings: Scrolls Pre 1980: item #1122179
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A fine painting of white camellia (shiratsubaki) depicted on silk. Camellia has been respected as a talisman according to Kojiki, the oldest extant chronicle in Japan. In ancient times, the flower and sticks made of its tree were placed in the imperial court for protection. In Japanese history, the flower has popularly been depicted on various artworks including sculptures and lacquer ware as its thick and lustrous leaves reminded people of symbol of life. Signed Sokyu and sealed. This piece acc... Click for details

Japanese Antique Painting Turtles and Carps by Okyo

Japanese: Paintings: Scrolls Pre 1800: item #1121675
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Fine ink wash paintings of swimming turtles and carps. Carps were a favourite fish of Japanese artists and craftsmen. The leaping carp symbolized diligence. There is also a Chinese legendary story, if a carp succeeded in climbing the falls at a point called Dragon Gate on the Yellow River it would be transformed into a dragon. Based on that legend, it became a symbol of worldly aspiration and advancement. Later this concept was introduced into Japan. In present times it has been associated with B... Click for details

Antique Japanese Snowy landscape Scroll by Hata Hakuho

Japanese: Paintings: Scrolls Pre 1930: item #1120795
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A fine silk painting by Hata Hakuho enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Yuki no Ko-minato (Small Port in Snow). Color on silk with frosty silver blue cloth extended in beige and featuring fine sculpted bone rollers. The scroll measures 21 x 50 inches (53 x 127 cm) and is in excellent condition. This could have been painted on the same day as his submission to the 1929 Teiten National Exhibition Which shares teh same title and appears to be the same scene from a very slightly dif... Click for details

Winter's End, Antique Japanese Screen, Takahashi Shiko

Japanese: Paintings: Screens Pre 1940: item #1120769
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A Nihonga Scene mounted on a two panel screen of a thatched house in the winter forest, blossoms just opening on the garden trees by Takahashi Shiko (1897-1970). The scene has been created over a complete wash of white, making the crisp early spring morning real and sharp. The screen measures 74-1/2 x 67-1/2 inches (189 x 172 cm) and is in excellent condition bordered in a red lacquer frame typical of the 1920s and 30s and retains the original backing paper. A superb example of the early Show... Click for details

Yamamoto Sosen (1679-1760) - Kano school tiger

Japanese: Paintings: Scrolls Pre 1800: item #1120299

A fine Kano school tiger from the mid Edo period (1752) painted with ink and touches of color on silk. The image measures 40'' by 17'' (102 by 43 cm). The scroll measures 68'' by 22.5'' (173 by 57 cm). The painting is in good overall condition. There is one re-backed wormhole and a light stain at the top. The tiger is by Yamamoto Sosen (1679-1760). Above his signature he has written 'painted at 73 years of age', so 1752. This is followed by 'Hogen Sosen'. Sosen is the adopted son of Y... Click for details

Handscroll, hyakki yako, Yoshinobu, Kano,Japan 18th c.

Japanese: Paintings: Scrolls Pre 1837 VR: item #1120047
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and dogs, followed by a scene with ghosts and demons feasting at a mansion, from where numerous scenes shows a parade formed of all kinds of ghostly monsters and demons, being stopped by the rising sun over a rocky island in the last scene. The scroll is built up from different scenes that seem to be remnants of a much longer scroll that was deteriorated, the badly damaged sections being cut out. The last scene of the rising sun over an rock island. Signature at the very end “Choshi Unzan Yoshi... Click for details

Chashaku Tea Scoop, Antique Japanese Scroll by Chikage

Japanese: Paintings: Scrolls Pre 1900: item #1119492
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A Bamboo Tea Spoon container below a long verse by Kato (Tachibana) Chikage bordered in chestnut cloth extended in beige with black lacquer rollers. The bamboo case depicted is signed Chikage, above a poem extols the three virtues or pleasures of tea. The scroll measures 13 1/2 x 55 inches (35 x 140 cm) and is in overall fine, original condition. Kato (Tachibana) Chikage (1735-1808) was a prominent Edo scholar trained under Kamo no Mabuchi. A painter, poet and calligrapher, works by him are... Click for details

Daruma Zen Painting by Itten Tokai

Japanese: Paintings: Scrolls Pre 1920: item #1119491
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Magnificent bold brush work. Framed in copper green patterned brocade with dark wood rollers. The scroll measures 20 x 65 inches (51 x 165 cm). Little is known about Itten Tokai other than that he was a Soto Zen priest who lived in distant Hokkaido. His Daruma paintings are wonderfully expressive, however, some of the finest examples of the 19th-20th century. As is often the case with Soto Zen artists, who tended to live quietly in remote areas--beginning with Fugai and Ryokan, and down to the... Click for details

Edo Zen Scroll, Kensu (Xianzi ) catching shrimp, Shundo

Japanese: Paintings: Scrolls Pre 1900: item #1119487
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An Edo period sumi-e painting stamped Shundo-no-in on very rough silk depicting Daruma heir Kensu Osho, an eccentric Chinese beggar-monk who lived on shrimp and clams. The painting is certainly no less eccentric than its subject, unique among paintings I have seen from the Edo era. It retains the original faded border of dragon dials and lucky symbols extended with beige and features bone rollers. The scroll measures 14 1/2 x 56 inches (37 x 142 cm) and is in original condition, with some wea... Click for details