In the collection, two hanging scrolls by Fukuda Kodojin, while composed almost identically, reveal dramatically different expressive intentions through brushwork, ink handling, and spatial rhythm. They offer a rare glimpse into Kodojin’s evolving approach to literati painting, and his subtle negotiation between disciplined restraint and spontaneous expression. In this first scroll, the brushwork is restrained, lyrical, and highly controlled...

Rendered in a few spontaneous strokes of deep, fluid ink, the painting shows a thatched hut beneath a pine, its form distilled to abstraction. Within, a solitary figure—perhaps a recluse or sage—is indicated by a few lines and a faint touch of cinnabar on the nose. The surrounding negative space conveys the vastness of sky and mind alike. Kodōjin’s brush alternates between dry, broken lines and rich, saturated washes, expressing a rhythmic tension between emptiness and form...

In this unusually warm and pared-down landscape, Kodojin renders a solitary hermitage nestled among steep rose-tinted cliffs, their surfaces glowing with a mineral luminosity reminiscent of sunset stone. Instead of the ink-heavy vapor of his more austere mountainscapes, here the terrain is suggested through soft vermilion washes, lightly breathing into the paper as though the cliffs themselves were exhaling warmth. The composition is profoundly vertical: everything ascends...

A waka poem accompanies the image of cockscomb on this painting by Fukuda Kodojin signed with his Japanese poetry name Haritsu. Ink on rough paper in beige silk with wooden rollers enclosed in the original signed wooden box dated 1924. The scroll is 43 x 204 cm (17 x 80-1/2 inches) and is in fine condition.
Fukuda Kodojin (1865-1944) was an eccentric self-taught artist, his status as a poet, calligrapher and literati artist has reached legendary status...

In this unusually spare and vertical composition, Fukuda Kodōjin reduces the landscape to its most essential gesture: a winding mountain path that slips upward into seclusion, terminating in the faint shelter of a thatched pavilion tucked among high crags. The work reads less as geographical description than as state of mind—a visual correlative to poetic reclusion. The road, rendered in a broken sequence of short, pulsing strokes, is less traveled way than rhythm of thought...

Rendered in an exquisitely restrained monochrome palette, this hanging scroll by literati genius Fukuda Kodojin evokes the quiet shimmer of moonlight filtering through a stand of bamboo. Kodōjin situates the viewer at the threshold of a secluded scene, a dwelling, half-hidden among swaying stalks and drifting mist, where the presence of human life recedes into near-emptiness...

The size of Scroll: 19 1/2 Wide with Jiku (scroll) end. Scroll, 17 5/8” Wide without Jiku End x 72” Long., Image area size: 12 1/2” Wide x 51”Long. This scroll has nice autumn scenery with Deer painted beautifully with mountain scenery. It has nice brush works with the combination of sumie (black ink) and colors. Deer with brown color. There maple tree with red color. Some autumn white pampas grass painted in lower area...

This monumental hanging scroll by Fukuda Kodōjin dated early winter 1915 presents a lofty mountain landscape enveloped in drifting mists, a consummate expression of his mature literati ideal. Combining the monumental grandeur of Chinese Song and Yuan prototypes with the delicacy and introspection of Japanese Bunjin taste, it reveals Kodōjin’s unique capacity to merge spiritual vision with expressive abstraction...

A window glows pink with warmth in the hermitage lost in the pair of vast winter landscapes by Fukuda Kodojin enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Sekkei Sansui So-Fuku. In the first composition, jagged, snow-covered peaks rise into an empty sky, their stark forms rendered with Kodōjin’s distinctive textured ink wash—alternating dry brush and delicate rubbing to create both monumentality and ethereality. At the foot of the mountains, a modest thatched hut nestles into the snow...

Mount Fuji rises majestically beyond a blossoming plum, and a scholars studio displays a fine assortment of natural objects in this complimentary pair of paintings by Fukuda Kodojin and female artist/Poet Miura Eiran with calligraphy by Kokufu Seito. The poems read:
1: The mountains connect, draped in eternal snow; From the land of the sages, one branch brings forth spring.
2: From whence comes the crane, seeking rest? Moss spreads thick upon the earth, ever deepening...

The burgeoning moon filters through the needles of an ancient pine on this powerful image by Fukuda Kodojin enclosed in in the original signed wooden box titled Gekka Oimatsu Zu date the sumer of 1923. Ink on silk in a green satin border patterned with soaring geese with bone rollers, it is 53 x 202 cm (20-3/4 x 79-1/2 inches). There are a few scattered marks typical of handling and age...

A lightly brushed ink image of a boatman under a poem signed Haritsu (poetry name of Fukuda Kodojin) reading: Natsu yanagi Tsuri dogu uru koya ari (Beneath the summer willows, there is a hut selling fishing gear supplies). Ink on handmade mulberry paper with green silk border, dark wood rollers. It is 12-1/2 x 63 inches (32 x 160 cm).
Fukuda Kodojin (1865-1944) an eccentric self taught artist, his status as a poet, calligrapher and literati artist has reached legendary status. Born at a t...

In this elegant pair of hanging scrolls, Fukuda Kodojin evokes a world where the grandeur of mountain and mist dwarfs the human realm into near-invisibility. Towering precipices rise in layered washes of ink, their precipitant slopes softened by drifting haze. Rounded dots and broken brush stippling suggest hardy stands of pine clinging to sheer stone, while passages of pale, wet ink dissolve upward into an atmosphere of timeless suspension. Tucked discreetly among these monumental forms, a smal...

In this expansive vertical landscape, Kodojin envisions the recluse wandering freely through the mountains, the world reduced to the rhythm of ink, breath, and inner stillness. Sheer fantastical peaks rise like columns of mist, conveyed through pared-down brushwork that prefers expressive texture over naturalistic detail. Nestled among the heights is a distant hermitage—difficult to reach, and more an ideal than a destination—while at the base of the cliff a lone figure moves along a winding...

A radical landscape by Fukuda Kodojin enclosed in a period wooden box dated 1935. “Stone caverns and layered crags steeply deepening, heaven’s light reaches down to illuminate the hidden earth. This sentiment aligns beautifully with the painting’s mood: a world of recesses and inwardness, where illumination does not come from human presence but from the permeating clarity of nature itself. In this densely brushed landscape, Kodōjin conjures a labyrinth of cliffs and ravines rising through...

A towering mountain gorge enveloped in mist, rendered in a distinctive blend of expressive brushwork and ethereal color by Fukuda Kodojin. The composition presents a narrow, vertiginous valley hemmed in by sheer cliffs, their peaks rising like ancient sentinels into drifting clouds. In the foreground, pines cling tenaciously to craggy ledges, their twisting forms echoed in the jagged brushlines that define the cliffs. A solitary figure—a hermit-scholar wearing a conical hat—wanders a zigzagg...

The size of Scroll: 20 1/4” Wide x 73 1/4” Long. Image area size: 15 1/2” Wide x 46 3/4” Long. This is beautiful Japanese Bijin-Ga Scroll painting. The scroll has Japanese Bjin-Ga, Beautiful Japanese Girl design painted. It is painted on fine silk background. The condition of scroll is very good. Please note girl’s left eye lid area has mole like spot. The colors of girls Kimono is just beautiful with green colors. Please note two Jiku end, Scroll ends are new wooden parts. not origina...

An intense mountainscape depicting one scene from the 10 ox-herding pictures by Shirakura Niho enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled and dated 12th month of 1921. Ink and pigment on silk in a green silk border with solid ivory Rollers (these will be changed if exporting). The scroll is 58.8 x 200.5 cm (23 x 79 inches) and is in overall excellent condition. In Zen’s famed 10 ox-herding pictures, the ox is enlightenment and the herder is you. The idea of the ox-herding pictures, at...