Tsuchiya Koitsu
Lake Shoji
Date: 1934.
Size: Oban. 15.75 x 10.5 inches.
Publisher: Doi Hangaten.
Carver: Harada. Printer: Yokoi.
This seal combination indicates a 1950-62 edition.
Koitsu catalog no. TK-DH-14.
Condition: Small indentation mark above left cloud. Slight creasing and toning.
Note: Another of the spectacular Fuji views for which Koitsu is known. Please also see our Koitsu766 and Koitsu767.

Kitagawa Utamaro (1750s-1806)
Picking Mulberry Leaves
Scene No. 2 from Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-kusa)
Date: c. 1799. This edition has no text in the clouds so may a be later printing.
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon.
Size: 14.325 x 9.5 inches (36.5 x 24 cm).
Condition: Many issues. Wear holes and foxing. Horizontal creases. Hinge tape at top.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Kyoto Kitano
Size: 5.625 x 3.625 inches.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Takemura seal at lower left.
Date: 1930s.
Koitsu's Shinsei seal at lower right.
Koitsu catalog no.: TK-TM-120.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Back bottom edge is toned.
Note: Unlike the catalog example, this one is titled in the image.

Yoshimoto Gesso
Bird and Snowy Camellia
Date: 1930s.
Print size: Approximately 9.75 x 5 inches.
Publisher: Nishinomiya Yosaku.
Catalog #1448.
Gesso signature lower left.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Back top edge has paper residue. Note: The blue bird shakes loose gofun applied snow in this wonderful shin hanga image.

Yoshimoto Gesso
Flowering Branch (likely azaleas)
Date: 1930s.
Print size: Approximately 9.75 x 5 inches.
Publisher: Nishinomiya Yosaku (Stamp on verso).
Catalog #1492.
Artist's signature lower right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

(After) Kawase Hasui
Pine Beach at Miho
Date: January 1936.
Size: 7.875 x 5 inches (20.1 x 12.8 cm).
Note: This rare print was the cover of a dinner menu for an N.Y.K. Line cruise ship. There is no menu inside.
Publisher: Likely Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo), who produced another of our ship menu woodblock prints.
Medium: Shin-hanga woodblock print...

Takahashi Shotei
Drawing up seawater under moonlight.
The figures are engaged in saltmaking, likely at Suma Beach
Date: pre-1936.
Size: Approximately 7.125 x 4.875 inches.
Shotei's Rakutei seal at left.
Reference: S-50 in Shotei catalog.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Lightly foxed. Paper residue on back.

Shoda Koho
Country Scene (sepia version) from the Hasegawa Night Scenes series. Also known as "Canal by Moonlight"
Size: Chuban. Approximately 10.25 x 7.5 inches.
Date: 1910s-60.
Publisher: Nishinomiya. stamp on verso.
Sealed by artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
This example bears the unusual "Nishinomiya Art" stamp on the back. The print was issued, adhered in this case, to a thick card like some very early Hasegawa Night scene editions...

Eagle Perched on a Cliff
Artist: Not Known. Variously attributed to Koson or Koho.
Date: ca 1930s.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Size: Approximately 8.5 x 3.75 inches
Provenance: The Robert O. Muller Estate.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Original white kento mark at the lower right corner.

Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995)
Morinji in Spring
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.75 x 10.75 inches.
Date: 1951. This edition later.
Impressed block signature.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition. Back has one piece of tape and one spot where the paper is slightly thinner.

Joichi Hoshi (1911-1979)
High Treetop (Red) (Takai Kozue - Aka)
Date: 1976.
Sheet size: 8.875 x 6.625 inches (22.5 x 16.2 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Faint matte toning visible outside the image.
Notes: We've added both photos and scans, one of which shows the lovely metallics.

Hiroshi Yoshida
The Acropolis at Night (Moon Light in Acropolis).
Date: 1928. First and only edition.
Image size: 5 x 3.25 inches (12.8 x 8.2 cm).
Paper size: 10.125 x 7.125 inches (25.8 x 18.3 cm). Pencil signed in margin. Signed "Yoshida" in the image along with red "Hiroshi". This design was never issued with a jizuri seal.
Reference: Abe catalog #116.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Paper is faintly foxed.

Title: Mountain Temple and Snow
Artist: Not known.
Print size: Approximately 5.75 x 3.5 inches.
Date: 1950s-60s
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Print is tipped along its top edge to original blank card.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Artist's black signature not read
Lake Biwa
Date: 1930s.
Size: 5.5 x 3.625 inches.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Seal lower right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

(After) Hiroshige Ando
Fireworks at Ryogoku on the Sumida River
Date: Monday, May 9, 1938.
Size: 7.5 x 5.25 inches (19 x 13.5 cm).
Note: Menu for the passenger ship Katori Maru on the N.Y.K. Line.
Publisher: Likey Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print. The traditional means of woodblock print creation was employed for all steps through inking of the carved blocks...

Takahashi Shotei
Shrine by the River
Date: 1930s. This edition early postwar.
Print size: 5.625 x 3.625 inches
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Artist's seal at lower right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print attached along its top edge only to 7 x 4.75 inch original blank card.
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Condition: Excellent.

Japanese limited edition woodblock print by French artist Paul Jacoulet (1902-1960) titled "Old Ainu Lady. Chikabumi. Hokkaido. Japan" (Vielle Aino) published October 28, 1950. A full page color illustration of this print is on page 35 (plate 109) of “The Prints of Paul Jacoulet” by Richard Miles, 1982. It is described on pages 113. The print is pencil-signed and bears the red owl seal to the right of the lady's head...

(After) Ito Shinsui (1898-1972)
Depiction of Lion Dance
Dated Sunday, 27th February, 1938.
Size: 7.875 x 5.25 inches (20 x 13.4 cm).
A cover of a menu of the N.Y.K. Line passenger ship, Katori Maru.
Publisher: Likely Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo), who produced another of our ship menu woodblock prints.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print...