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Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940
item #1481912
(stock #Unidentif179)
Title: Tokumochi
Artist's signature not read. The second kanji in the signature is read "haru" or "shun." Print size: Approximately 5.125 x 3.375 inches. Date: ca. 1930s. Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Medium: Japanese woodblock print tipped along its top edge onto a 6.625 x 4.75-inch greeting card containing a signed message. Condition: Print excellent. Card is discolored.
Petrie-Rogers Gallery
$225.00 Japanese sosaku hanga woodblock print by Tokuriki Tomikichiro (1902-2000) titled “Sanjo Ohashi (Bridge)” dating circa 1950. The artist’s black “tomoe” seal is at the lower right. Shikishi size measuring 11 3/8” x 10 3/4” (paper); image: 11” x 9 1/2.” Excellent color and very good overall condition. There are some slight wrinkles in the paper and a faint diagonal crease in the sky below the bridge...
Japanese woodblock print triptych of swimming turtles and fish with actor mons and human faces by Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912) dated 5th month of Meiji 19 (1886). The convention of disguising portraits of actors arose in the Edo period when bust portraits of actors were banned, through the Tempo Reforms of 1841-1843, for being conspicuous and a detriment to public morality. Each panel measures about 14"V x 9 1/8"H. The print is in good overall condition with fading evident...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1900
item #1422643
Japanese woodblock print triptych by Kunisada, also known as Toyokuni III, (1786-1864) titled "Snow" from the series "Copied Pictures of an Edo Purple Eastern Capital" published by Sanoya Kihei between 1849-1850. The print illustrates a scene from Chapter 30 of Ryutei Tanehiko's 19th century novel "An Impostor Murasaki and a Rustic Genji (Inaka Genji)," which is loosely based on the 11th century novel "The Tale of Genji." Depicted is Mitsuuji, Lady Murasaki, and an attendant holding a brazier...
Rare Japanese Meiji period woodblock print triptych of the Tokyo-Ueno/Yamashita Train and Ueno Station from the series “Famous Places in Tokyo” by Utagawa Kunitoshi (flourished 1847-1899) dated 1st month of Meiji 22 (1889). The triptych is bound in the original folder and has not been exposed to sunlight. "Enlightenment" prints of the 1880's - 1890's promoted modernization and illustrated the westernization of Japan. The Japanese built their first railroad in 1872...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940
item #1492013
(stock #Unidentif208)
Era Woodblock Prints
$67.50 Artist: Unsigned
Ueno Lotus Pond in Tokyo Date: ca. 1920s-30s. Size: Approximately 5.25 x 3.25 inches) Medium: Japanese woodblock print attached along its top edge only to an used holiday card with correspondence. Condition: Print is excellent. Tiny dot in sky. Card correspondence has marks.
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1930
item #1329009
(stock #Unknown076)
Unsigned Japanese Woodblock Print
Woman in Purple on Balcony Date: Early 20th century. Size: 11.0 x 8.5 inches. Provenance: From the collection of Canadian missionary Sybil Courtice, who was in Japan from the early 20th century up until WWII. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Excellent.
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940
item #1491540
(stock #Unidentif204)
Woman in Snow with Umbrella and Lantern
Artist: Unsigned. Date: 1930s or earlier. Size: 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Small raised bump at lower left. Japanese Meiji period Yokohama woodblock print depicting Okiyo, the daughter of a gardener in Mukojima, meeting with a foreigner who desired her to be his concubine. This print is illustration no. 661 from the newspaper series “Yubin Hochi Shimbun” (Postal News) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) published by Kinshôdô (Kumagai) the 4th month of 1875. 14 1/2"V x 9 3/4"H. Excellent color and very good overall condition with margins evident...
Zentner Collection
$450.00 Beautiful Japanese woodblock of a large-crested rooster seated beside a hen with dark brown feathers, who appears to be observing insects in the grass. Stamped and signed by artist "Unkyo". Showa period circa 1930s
SIze: (entire frame) 22.75" height, 16.5" width (artwork only) 14.5" height, 9.75" width
June Hastings
$295.00 Original woodblock of a samurai by Japanese master and teacher Toyokuni Utagawa, 1769-1825. Signed in lower left, the print is float mounted.
In very good antique condition, there is some worm hole damage along the right edge.
Measures sight size 13.5 inches high, 9.25 inches high.
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1980
item #1416464
Zentner Collection
SOLD Woodblock print "Face" 1978 signed Tomio Kinoshita, printing 1/50, three oval heads over cylindrical necks with faint rounded shoulders, each inscribed with interior lines over a quite orange/gray, exterior surrounded by a dark somber color.
Tomio Kinoshita has a distinct contemporary stye of abstract heads done in line images of angular, square, and oval shapes. He was born 1923in the Mie Prefecture, Japan...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1980
item #1416471
Zentner Collection
SOLD Japanese Woodblock by Tomio Kinoshita, "Red" 1971, 21/150. Large abstract square head over a square body with hands done in a curved space...
June Hastings
$665.00 Framed Japanese woodblock theater triptych, circa 1860. In good condition, it has not been examined out of frame, but the prints appear to be loosely attached. The 3 prints measure as seen, site size: 27.75 x 13.5 site, Frame measures: 32.5" x 18.25" . Please note this is shot through glass and there are some reflections, the prints do NOT have white spots or white streaks.
Zentner Collection
$2,500.00 Japanese woodblock print entitled "Moon at Umagome" by the artist Kawase Hasui. From the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo". Tall pine trees frame a full moon through the mist. A farm house with thatched roof shines light from a single window. Rows of crops are illuminated blue in the night. With black 6mm seal. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Produced during the lifetime of the artist.
Age: 1944-1957 Dimensions: Paper size: 15 1/4" high x 10 1/8" wide 19th century Japanese Yokohama woodblock print depicting the famous Italian painter and printmaker Titian showing a bust portrait to a patron. This image is from a series of anonymous educational prints published in the early Meiji period that related to important Westerners. The print is unsigned and undated. 13 1/2"V x 9 7/8"H. Very good overall condition with margins evident. The print is not backed and has been stored away from sunlight...
Japanese Meiji period woodblock print depicting William Howard Taft viewing a sumo match during his 1905 diplomatic mission to Japan. With Taft weighing in at over 300 lbs., this print is likely offering a subtle comparison between Taft and the wrestler. This print is unsigned and undated. 14 3/4"V x 10 3/8"H. Very good color and impression quality. Good overall condition with pigment transference at the upper left corner, some minor soiling, and a few small holes and thinned areas...
Historically important Japanese woodblock print triptych depicting the landing of foreigners of the “Five Treaty Nations” in Yokohama by Utagawa Yoshikazu (flourished 1850-1870). The print features soldiers and civilians from America, England, France, Russia, and The Netherlands grouped together with their respective flag and label. Two Chinese compradores, who facilitated trade, are in the foreground and western ships line the harbor in the background...
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