Richard Kruml

Richard Kruml

Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

 Click here to view image full size. An original painting by Hokusai showing wild boars, a parent and baby. Another “Wild Boar in the Moonlight” painting is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acc. No. 11.7430, ex William Sturgis…

Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, sumi and light colour on paper, 10 x 17.5 in; 25.5 x 44.5 cm. Shows a right-eye karei fish (a flounder or flatfish) with unfurled fern fronds. Hokusai has very…

Kishi RENZAN (1805-1859)

 Click here to view image full size. An original painting by Renzan, also known as Gantoku. He was adopted by the Kishi family and trained by his father-in-law, Kishi Ganku, who founded the Kishi school. His fellow pupils were Yokoyama…

Teisai HOKUBA (1771-1844)

 Click here to view image full size. A large original painting, full colour on paper, 49 x 22.5 in; 124.5 x 57 cms. Shows a beauty caught in an autumnal breeze, the tree above shedding its leaves. One of Hokusai’s…

Watanabe SEITEI ( 1852-1918 )

 Click here to view image full size. Seitei ( Shotei ) specialised in kachoga; was famous in this area, and regarded as the leading exponent. Technically brilliant. Shows two tancho ( “red crest” ) Japanese cranes flying down to a…

Katsukawa SHUNSHO ( 1726-1792 )

 Click here to view image full size. An extremely important painting by one of the most important artists of his day. One of the great ukiyo-e print designers – especially of actor prints. He lived in Edo and first studied…

Kawamura BUMPO (1779-1821)

Click here to view image full size. A pair of paintings, shosha and gyosha, a wood-chopper and fisherman in a mountainous landscape. Sumi on paper, image size 42.25 x 10.9 in; 108.3 x 27.7 cms. A highly talented Shijo painter…

Kawanabe KYOSAI (GYOSAI) (1831-1889)

Click here to view image full size. A draughtsman of great dexterity with a wild, often bizarre, imagination. Loved sake, sometimes painting under its influence. At an early age studied under Kuniyoshi, then Maemura Towa and later Kano Tohaku Chinshin…

Utagawa KUNISADA (1786-1864)

Click here to view image full size. A fine original fan painting showing a woman of Ohara; a mountain village north of Kyoto. These Oharame collected brushwood and firewood in the fall to sell in Kyoto. They are often depicted…

Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting showing Hotei, the God of happiness and one of the Seven Gods of Good Luck (Shichi-fuku-jin). The corpulent Hotei reclines contentedly smoking a long pipe. Beside him is his huge…

Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, light colour on paper, 13 x 16.5 in; 33 x 42 cms. Shows a sparrow flying over a flowering plum tree. Light soil and creasing, but in generally good condition.…

Shibata GITO (1780-1819)

 Click here to view image full size. A fine Shijo handscroll, sumi and light colour on paper, 11.13 x 423.5 in; 28.26 cm x 10.76 metres. Gito was an early pupil of Goshun who, although he died young, produced enough…

Kubo SHUNMAN (1757-1820)

 Click here to view image full size. An original painting showing a sparrow taunting a horned owl. Shunman, a man of great sophistication, produced few prints (indeed, as Jack Hillier pointed out [The Japanese Print: A New Approach, pp. 102-104]:…

Shibata ZESHIN (1807-1891)

 Click here to view image full size. An original painting of a somewhat benign Raijin, the god of thunder and lightening. His geta are on a shelf and a cat watches him. There appears to be a cloth-covered mirror at…

Kishi GANTAI (1782-1865)

 Click here to view image full size. A superb large gajo (11 x 8 in; 28 x 20.4 cms) of tour de force paintings folding out to comprise: 30 two-sheet designs; 14 four-sheet designs; 2 six-sheet designs; 1 eight-sheet design,…

Numata GESSAI (UTAMASA) (1787-1864)

 Click here to view image full size. An original painting showing a geisha looking back over her shoulder as though surprised. The kimono is beautifully painted with waves and cherry blossom in gofun. Full colour on paper, 50 x 20.25…

Nishiyama HOEN (1804-1867)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting showing the oiran Eguchi on a white elephant. The origins of this story seem to go back to a recorded conversation the poet-monk Saigyo (1118-1190) had with a prostitute named…

Yamaguchi SOKEN (1759-1818)

Click here to view image full size. A fine pair of paintings: One showing women of Ohara; a mountain village north of Kyoto. These Oharame collected brushwood and firewood in the fall to sell in Kyoto. They are often depicted…

Nagasawa ROSETSU (1754-1799)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, 47.25 x 16 in; 120 x 40.5 cms. Sumi and touches of very light colour on paper. Shows cranes flying in a mountainous landscape. Rosetsu is considered one of the…