Cloth-Beating Moon -- Yugiri by Tsukioka YoshitoshiDepi

Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Scenic Pre 1900: item #971842
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Depiction of: in the Noh play Kinuta (Cloth Beating) a wife beats cloth to symbolically send a message to her absent husband while her maid Yugiri watches.

Date: 1890

Size: 14 x 9 1/4 inches

Condition: Excellent (Matted print)... Click for details

Cherry-Viewing Parties, Sumida River by Hiroshige

Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Scenic Pre 1900: item #971157
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Depiction of: From the series "Famous Views of the Eastern Capital", a ground-scape of cherry blossom viewing on the Sumida River.

Date: 1833 to 1843

Size: Approximately 9 x 14 inches

Condition: Very good -- faint center crease (Matted print)... Click for details

Hiroshige – “Hara” – Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokai

Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Scenic Pre 1837 VR: item #970103
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This print of Mt. Fuji as seen from the Hara station of the “Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido” is one of the few vertical prints Hiroshige did in his series of Tokaido prints. In several of his Fuji prints he portrayed the monumental size of Mt. Fuji – and its importance to the Japanese as a sacred mountain – he had the top of the volcano extend up through the margin of the print. It is as if he did not feel such a landmark should be contained in a conventional confined frame. ... Click for details

Woodblock Print by Koichi Okada – Fuji Series

Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Scenic Pre 2000: item #969536
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This is a very handsome woodblock print by one of the shin-hanga masters, Koichi Okada (1907-?). This print is titled “Mt. Fuji at Nihondaira at Night". The print was not dated but is known to have been published in 1949 with a later printing the 2004 and 2005. It shows a beautiful view of the snow-capped Mt. Fuji at night in full moonlight. All of the lights come on in the houses surrounding a large lake and foot hills. We believe that it is Lake Kawaguchi - the most famous of the five lakes ... Click for details

Japanese Woodblock Print by Tomikichiro Tokuriki

Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Scenic Pre 1940: item #966110
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The size of print sheet: 16 1/4" Wide x 11 1/2" High. The size of image area: 15" Wide x 10 1/2" High. The artist: Tomikichiro Tokuriki(1902-2000). The subject: Fuji 36 kei-no-uchi, Kawaguchiko no sakasa Fuji (one of Fuji 36 scene, Kawaguchi lake, upside down Fuji). Publisher: Uchida Bijutsu Shoten in Kyoto. Published year 1939-1940, before World War II. There is seal of Tomikichiro on lower left on the image as well as lower right outside image area. The condition of print very good except, lit... Click for details

Japanese Woodblock print Kawase Hasui Haru no Yu

Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Scenic Pre 1950: item #964988
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The size of Print: 10 1/2" W x 15 1/2" H
Image size: 9 1/2" W x 14 1/4" H.
Artist: Kawase Hasui(1883-1957), sealed Hasui and chop seal.
Title left side in Japanese: Haruno Yu(Ueno Toshogu),Ueno Toshogu Shrine, Spring Evening ... Click for details

Japanese Woodblock Print - Hiroshi Yoshida Yoshikawa

Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Scenic Pre 1940: item #964330

Japanese shin hanga woodblock print titled "Yoshikawa" by Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) dated Showa 10 (1935). 1st edition impression with "jizure" (self-printed) seal in the upper left margin. The artist's black ink brush signature and red seal are at the lower right. The print is pencil-signed in the lower right margin. Illustrated in "The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi," Abe Publications, color plate #201. Paper measures 10 7/8"V x 16"H (image size: 9 1/2"V x 14 3/4"H). The print... Click for details

Japanese Woodblock Print - Koitsu Nagoya Castle Spring

Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Scenic Pre 1940: item #964298

Japanese shin hanga woodblock print titled "Nagoya Castle in Spring" by Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870-1949) dated in the right margin "3rd month of Showa 12" (1937). The black ink signature and red seal of the artist are at the lower right. The title and date are printed in the lower right margin. The seals of the publisher Doi Hangaten, printer Yokoi, and carver Harada are in the left margin. Prints with the Doi Hangaten and Harada/Yokoi offset markings were produced somewhere between 1936 and 1965. ... Click for details

Two Small Woodblock Prints – Landscapes – Meiji

Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Scenic Pre 1900: item #964023
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Two very nice early Japanese prints – one of a mountain scene with a boat in the distance – the other of a large rocky overhang on a mountain. One print measures 7” by 4 Ύ” with an image size of 6” by 4”. The second print measures 7” by 4 7/8” – image size is 6” by 3 7/8”. They are in very good condition – minimal toning or wrinkling, we date them to the early Meiji period, circa 1870s-1880s. Both prints are signed - The first print translates as "Kikosuke" and the second, clearly by the same a... Click for details

Pagoda Of Nikko Toshogu Shrine by Kotozuka, Eiichi

Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Scenic Pre 1960: item #962388
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Depiction of: Nikko Toshogu Shrine

Date: 1950's

Size: 17.5 x 11.5 inches

Condition: Pristine, with original backing. (Matted print)

Description: This print is still attached to the b... Click for details