The Process of Wood-Block Color Printing
A woodblock-printed accordion book demonstrating the process of creating Kanbara by Hiroshige Ando from key-block to finished woodblock print.
Each of the 21 pages is woodblock print or color block. There's also an explanatory text page.
Date: 1963 or earlier.
Likely to have been offered by M. Nakazawa at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.
Size: 6.25 x 4.125 inches.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Old Japanese Tsuchiya Koitsu 土屋光逸 Woodblock Print "Benkei Bridge"

The overall measurement is 22.4 inches (57 cm) long by 15.98 inches (40.6 cm) wide. The print is 14.3 inches (36.3 cm) long by 9.45 inches (24 cm) wide.

The prints' borders have been trimmed. It is also glued to the mat board at the upper edge. The print also has a small white dot at the tree, fading, discoloration, and wear (as seen in the photos)...

Old Japanese Tsuchiya Koitsu 土屋光逸 Woodblock Print "Nagoya Castle" 名古屋城

The print is 15.4 inches (39.1 cm) long by 10.2 inches (26 cm) wide.

The prints' borders have been trimmed. It also has 2 large spots of stains at the front caused by the 2 tapes at the back. It has a crease at the right hand side. The print has wears, discoloration and fading (as seen in the photos).

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Tokuriki Tomikichiro
Shimabara Gate
Series: November from Twelve Months of Kyoto
Date: 1950s.
Size: 11.5 x 10.25 inches.
Signed, sealed, and titled at upper right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Back of print has toning.

Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995)
Heirinji Temple Bell
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.75 x 10.5 inches.
Date: 1951. Provenance: Purchased in Kyoto 1983 by a Canadian collector.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Two pieces of archival hinge tape at top back margin. Margins have slight creasing.

1st edition Japanese shin hanga woodblock print by Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) titled "Yasaka Shrine" dated Showa 10 (1935). The jizure (self-printed) seal is at the upper left margin above the date. The artist's black ink signature and red seal is at the lower right. The print is titled in the lower left margin and pencil-signed in the lower right margin. Paper: 15 3/4" x 10 7/8" (image: 14 5/8" x 9 1/2"). Very good overall condition with full margins and clean back...

1st edition Japanese shin hanga woodblock print by Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) titled "Azalea Garden" dated Showa 10 (1935). The jizure (self-printed) seal is at the upper left margin above the date. The artist's black ink signature and red seal is at the lower right. The print is titled in the lower left margin and pencil-signed in the lower right margin. Paper: 15 1/4" x 10 1/4" (image: 14 5/8" x 9 5/8"). Good, clean overall condition...

Ueno Shinobazu Pond
Artist not known. (View is similar to a larger one by Kasamatsu).
Date: 1930s.
Size: 5.5 x 3.625 inches
Publisher: Takemura Hideo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Fukutaro Terauchi (Tanouchi)
Bridge and Lantern in Evening Snow
Publisher: Takemura Hideo.
Size: 5.5 x 3.625 inches.
Date: 1930s.
Signed by the artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.
Note: There is a known prepatory painting of this design.

Woman on Bridge in Snow
Date: 1950s-60s
Size: 5.625 x 3.625 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print attached along its top edge only to original blank card.
Note: This rarely seen design is sometimes attributed to Kawase Hasui but may have been from another of Watanabe's artists.

Kawase Hasui
Kinkakuji
Date: 1930s. This edition 1950s-60s.
Print size: Approximately 5.625 x 3.625 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Not sealed by the artist. Sealed versions exist.
This example may have been re-carved by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print tipped along its top edge to original blank card.
Condition: Excellent.

Tomoe
Snow at Ozawa
Date: 1950s-60s
Size: 5.75 x 3.5 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Tomoe seal at lower left. Prints with this seal are considered to be by either a Watanabe house artist or one of his well-known artists. This print is after a design by Takahashi Shotei, who worked for Watanabe.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print attached along its top edge only to original blank card.
Condition: Excellent.

City in the Rain (after Hasui)
(A rare alternative perspective on "City in the Rain" by Kawase Hasui).
Artist: Not known.
Date: 1930s.
Size: 5.5 x 3.625 inches
Publisher: Takemura Hideo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Faint foxing.

Japanese Edo period woodblock print Keisai Eisen (1790-1848) depicting a beauty walking along a riverbank under a pine tree viewing a bustling scene of boats on the waterway below. This print is the left panel of a triptych titled "Enjoying the Evening Cool of the Two Seasons" from the series "The Four Seasons" published by Sanoya Kihei circa 1830s. The artist's signature, "kiwame" censor's seal, and seal of the publisher all appear at the lower right. Paper: 15" x 10"...

Japanese Edo period woodblock print by Kikugawa Eizan (1787-1867) featuring a young salt-water gatherer from the series "Seiro Niwaka" depicting the Niwaka Festival among the Green Houses (brothels) of the Yoshiwara published by Yamaguchiya Tobei circa 1810s to 1820s. The "kiwame" censor seal and the seal of the publisher Yamaguchiya Tobei are at the lower right. The artist's signature is at the lower left. Paper: 13 5/8" x 9 1/8"...

Japanese Edo period woodblock print by Kitagawa Shikimaro (active ca. 1804-1820) featuring a high ranking courtesan (oiran) of the licensed quarter seated and reading a letter from the series "Female Poetic Immortals in the Modern Style, a Set of Thirty-Six" published by Nishimuraya Yohachi circa 1813. Each print from the series features a poem, shown at the upper right of this image...

Japanese Edo period woodblock print by Kikugawa Eizan (1787-1867) featuring a high ranking courtesan (oiran) in the licensed quarter squatting down to read a letter by the light of a lamp from the series "Eight Views of Events in the Yoshiwara" published by Kawaguchiya Uhei circa 1814-1817. Two barely visible rubbed seals are at the lower left. Signed "Kikugawa Eizan ga" at the lower right. Tipped at the top to a backing bearing the authentication seal of S. M. Shiba of Miyanoshita...

1st edition Japanese shin hanga woodblock print by Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) titled "Yoshikawa" dated Showa 10 (1935). The jizure (self-printed) seal is faintly visible at the upper left margin and can be seen clearly in the enlargement. The artist's black ink signature and red seal is at the lower right. The print is titled in the lower left margin and pencil-signed in the lower right margin. Paper: 10 3/4" x 16" (image: 9 1/2" x 14 5/8"). Very good overall condition with full margins. Th...