Goldfish with Green Maples. Painted on silk with ink and pigments. Signed Sokyu and sealed.

This elegant hanging scroll depicts three goldfish gliding quietly through clear water, their soft orange-and-white bodies gently illuminated against a pale, tranquil ground...

A pair of six-panel folding screens painted on silk with a gold ground, featuring a composition of bamboo leaves extending across the entire surface. Both screens bear the artist’s signature and seal Shunpo on one of the side panels. The pair can be displayed in various configurations, arranging the panels according to aesthetic preferences or spatial requirements, allowing for flexible and customizable presentation. Period: Meiji period, early 20th century Dimensions: 50 × 378.5 cm...

Landscape. Painted on paper with ink and pigments. Signed Chikuden and sealed. Edo period. It is attributed to Tanomura Chikuden.

Tanomura Chikuden (1777–1835) was a Japanese painter of the Edo period, best known for his refined literati (bunjin-ga) landscapes imbued with a quiet, often melancholic sensibility. Initially trained in Confucian scholarship, Chikuden developed a strong interest in painting during his youth and later studied under the prominent bunjin-ga artist Tani Bunchō...

Dragon Emerging from the Clouds. Painted with ink on silk. Signed Ganku and sealed. Kishi School dragon, attributed to Ganku. Edo period, 19th century.

This powerful hanging scroll depicts a dragon emerging from swirling clouds, rendered with expressive ink brushwork on silk...

Phoenix at Sunrise – Six-Panel Japanese Folding Screen

A bold six-panel folding screen depicting a phoenix in flight before a glowing red sun.
Executed in mineral pigments with refined verdigris-green tones on a radiant gold-leaf ground, the composition symbolizes rebirth, prosperity, and auspicious power. Striking, elegant, and unmistakably Japanese.

Size: H.173 × W.351 cm
(68.1 × 138.2 inches)

Price Range (A) $1000-3000

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A fisherman reaches out with a long net while egrets take flight under the risign moon from the sheltering branches of willow trees on this beautiful Taisho period painting by Yano Kyoson enclosed in the original signed wooden box dated 1922 and titled Ryuin Hogyo (Catching Fish Under Willows). It is performed with Ink and pigment on silk wrapped in a pale green Kinran border shot with gold thread patterns terminating in solid ivory rollers. The rollers will be changed for export...

WEST GATE AREA

Oil on canvas, artist unknown, Japan, 1980. Approx. 27.5 × 22 × 2 cm (10.8 × 8.7 × 0.8 in). A colorful depiction of the area around Namdaemun in Korea (despite the title referencing the West Gate)...

Bold black lines form the structure filled with Mi-fu Dots form a tree sheltered village along the water’s edge, in the distance deftly brushed dry strokes in soft shades of gray form monolithic crags towering over the placid scene, a poem scratched like sunrise along the vertical columns...

Feverish brushstrokes fill the canvas of this exceptional landscape by Shirakura Niho Ink on paper, ivory rollers, The ivory rollers will be changed for export. It is large at 84.3 x 167.5 cm (33 x 66 inches and is in excellent condition, enclosed in a modern kiri-wood storage box.
Shirakura Kinichiro (Niho or Jiho, Kanyu, 1896-1974) was born in Niigata, and initially was inducted into Nanga under Hatta Goro. Moving to Tokyo he began studies of Western oil painting following Ishii Hakutei...

A sparse landscape of country retreats peaking up through the mist of forested valleys by Shirakura Niho in light color and ink on silk dating from the late Taisho to early Showa eras. It is bordered in pale patterned silk and features wood rollers. It is 56.5 x 130 cm (22 x 51 inches) and is in overall fine condition, with some dirtiness along the roller bar and comes in a period wooden box...

A delicate depiction of 4 small landscapes depicting the seasons by Kano Shosenin Tadanobu enclosed in a wooden box titled Shiki Sanzui no Zu decorated with seasonal flowers and annotated by Sakai Hoetsu. Pigment on silk in a fine silk border with red lacquered wooden rollers. The scroll is 65 x 215 cm (26 x 84-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition completely restored in fine silk mounting...

A calligraphic verse by Fukuda Kodojin written in his flowing hand dated the Plum Flower Time of the 14th year of Taisho (early Spring, 1925). Ink on paper in a fine silk border with solid ivory rollers (these will be changed for export) enclosed in a period wooden box. It is 46.5 x 196 cm (18-1/2 x 77 inches) and is in fine condition with minor marks typical of age.
Composing verses at Hanshan Temple:
No monk is even boiling tea...

An elongated sparse landscape in ink on paper by Fukuda Kodojin a humble abode held gently between steep walls in a valley studded with bamboo and shaded by ancient boughs. The lone scholar is visible through the window, quietly passing time in his retreat, swayed only by the coming and going of the leaves. The paper canvas is mounted in pale green cloth and the scroll features black lacquered wooden rollers. It is 30.5 x 203 cm (12 x 80 inches) and is in overall fine, original condition, with s...

This powerful hanging scroll by Fukuda Kodojin depicts an ancient pine tree, rendered with an intensity and abstraction that typify the painter’s most expressive ink work. Kodojin dissolves the foliage into a dense, radiating mesh of pine needles, built from sharply angled, intersecting strokes. These needle clusters—at moments appearing like bursts of energy or ink “constellations”—convey both the vitality of the living tree and the spontaneous inner movement of the artist’s hand. T...

An expansive bucolic scene by Fukuda Kodojin making unusual use of color enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Ink and light color on paper in a fine mounting of patterned green silk with bone rollers. It is 31-1/2 x 56 inches (79.2 x 142 cm) and in excellent condition.
Fukuda Kodojin (1865-1944) was an eccentric self-taught artist, his status as a poet, calligrapher and literati artist has reached legendary status. Born at a time of great change (4 years before the final fall of t...

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. This second scroll, while depicting the same setting as the previous. bamboo by a thatched hut beneath towering peaks, abandons the ea...

Large Japanese Six-Panel Screen with Pine and Bamboo on Gold Ground

A large six-panel Japanese folding screen depicting a majestic pine tree with sweeping branches and standing bamboo on a rich gold-leaf ground.
The composition highlights the elegant contrast between the dark pine needles, textured trunk, and cool green bamboo.
Age-related wear and small losses to the surface are present, but the painting remains impressive in scale and atmosphere.

Period:late Edo...

The ethereal fox appears in the mist dressed in the robes of a wandering Buddhist, the wispy characters of a poem by Otagaki Rengetsu draped around like rain. The poem reads:
Hito hakaru Tricking people
Sagano no hara no as is his nature
Yuumagure at twilight in these fields of Sagano...
ono ga obana ya is he displaying his tail
hana to misu ran. as if it were a plume of silver grass?
Ink on paper in a silk border the color of autumn grass terminating in bl;...