18c Tokaido map screen pair

Japanese: Paintings: Screens Pre 1800: item #768999

A rare series of twelve paintings from the 18th century depicting stations along the famed Tokaido or Eastern Ocean Road of Japan. The detailed illustrations begin with Tokyo at the far right and end with the lower reaches of Lake Biwa and finally Kyoto. A distinct emphasis has been placed on representing the existing castles of the time and this may well allow further research to more accurately date the work. The work bears two seals although they remain unread. The scenes have been painte... Click for details

18c Tokaido map screen pair

Japanese: Paintings: Screens Pre 1800: item #768997

A rare series of twelve paintings from the 18th century depicting stations along the famed Tokaido or Eastern Ocean Road of Japan. The detailed illustrations begin with Tokyo at the far right and end with the lower reaches of Lake Biwa and finally Kyoto. A distinct emphasis has been placed on representing the existing castles of the time and this may well allow further research to more accurately date the work. The work bears two seals although they remain unread. The scenes have been painte... Click for details

Fine Japanese Koi Screen, Carp & Cherry Blossoms, Choko

Japanese: Paintings: Screens Pre 1970: item #765708
ANR2367

Cherry blossoms shadow a fresh swirling pond fostering colorful koi swishing lazily about in the soft current. An endearing image for anyone who has visited Japan in the Spring. The image is performed with soft pigment on paper. It is bordered in gold on cream brocade with a black lacquered wooden frame and fine brass hardware, retaining the original patterned backing paper. All is in excellent condition. The screen measures 4 feet 6 inches by 9 feet (137 x 272 cm), an excellent size for wa... Click for details

Literati screen

Japanese: Paintings: Screens Pre 1940: item #764607

A six fold literati screen from the late Taisho or early Showa period (circa 1930). Read from right to left a rambling shrine complex is perched along a ridge high in the mountains. Far from being a realistic depiction of nature the nanga artist has focused on expressing nature's rhythm and movement and unusually here also its brilliant colors. Vigorously and distinctively executed with layered and puddled pigments and color on paper, the bright spring and emerald greens are a feast for the sens... Click for details

Japanese fan painting in shibayama style

Japanese: Paintings: Other Pre 1900: item #761022
Fannhat

A fine Japanes fan painting from Meiji period. Shibayama style with mother of pearl inlay on bone frame and bamboo. Color painting on paper of both sides of the fan. Signed and seal. 9" tall and 17.75" wide. Some damages on both sides, near the handles. Some inlays are missing. Good impression.

Very Old Fan Original Painting Tale of Genji

Japanese: Paintings Pre 1700: item #755782
032108

The size of frame: 30 3/4"(78 cm) L x 17 1/4"(44 cm) H, The size of Fan: 18 1/2"(47 cm) L x 6 7/8"(17 cm) H. The fan painting from Genroku Period(around 1700), Edo Chuki(middle Edo). It is actual painted fan removed and mounted in the frame. The subject of one scene from Tale of Genji, not clear which scene. The wooden frame is mulberry tree(Kuwa). There is plexiglass with frame. The background with silk mat. The condition of painting very good except some age wear, some pigment as well as gold ... Click for details

Bumblebees

Japanese: Paintings: Scrolls Pre 1950: item #748586

A mid summer scene of a group of bumblebees hovering around a flowering camelia. Delicate movement, a lovely flowing composition and uncommon subject matter. Dating to the mid 20th century. Painted on silk with ink, pigment and gofun. Very good condition, original mounting. Signed and sealed Seisui, no further information found. The scroll measures 19 by 76 inches. The image measures 14 by 51 inches.

Woman in Red Kimono : signed Marian

Japanese: Paintings: Other Pre 1970: item #747935

This original oil painting on stretched canvas and wooden stretcher bars measures 12 by 16 inches, not including the simple black wooden frame it sits in.

The wooden stretchers are from Grumbacher, a New York Artist's material company.

It most likely dates to t... Click for details

Haunting Japanese Scroll, Important Artist Yano Kyoson

Japanese: Paintings: Scrolls Pre 1930: item #746204
ALR2357

A daunting image by radical Nihon Nanga-In member and founder of the Osaka Art College Yano Kyoson (1890-1965) dating from earlier in this influential artists career. Crisp white walls of a strangely elongated house perch on the edge of a dark forest reaching up to the rain washed sky. A single tree ripe with yellow leaves guards the entrance. The light color on silk image is bordered in lavender silk matching the leaden sky, extended with green cloth and features shimmering silvered-yellow c... Click for details

Water Colour Painting by 10th Chozaemon Ohi Toshio

Japanese: Paintings Pre 1980: item #745934
4781

Beautiful water colour painting dipicting the representative motif of Ohi pottery, often renderend in Ohi ceramics such as Chawan teabowl, charger, Vessels and so on. This is painted by 10th generation of Ohi Chozaemon Toshio and it has his sign and seal. Very good in condition.

Stock Number:4781 ... Click for details