Richard Kruml

Richard Kruml

  • Joined: September 20, 2026
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Watanabe NANGAKU (1767-1813)

Click here to view image full size. A large original painting, full colour on silk, image size 46 x 21.75 in; 116.8 x 55.2 cms. This impressive painting shows two courtesans of the Shimbara (red-light) district of Kyoto and their…

Teisai HOKUBA (1771-1844)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, full colour on silk, image size 37.5 x 12.75in; 95.2 x 32.3 cms. One of Hokusai’s earliest and best pupils. Produced a few surimono, also illustrated books, but is best…

Mori SOSEN (1747-1821)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, sumi and light colour on silk, image size 32 x 11.5 in; 81.3 x 29.2 cms. His life is not well documented but he is known to have studied under…

Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

 Click here to view image full size. An important original Hiroshige painting. Sumi and colour on grey silk, 22.5 x 13.75 inches, 57 x 35 cms. An atmospheric scene showing an evening view at Tamegawa. Villagers hurrying home across a…

Kawanabe KYOSAI (1831-1889)

 Click here to view image full size. A fine painting, sumi on paper, showing three crows on the boughs of a willow tree. Crows were one of Kyosai’s favourite subjects and, apart from paintings, he used them in various formats:…

Kawanabe KYOSAI (1831-1889)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, full colour on silk, image size 41.25 x 16.2 in; 114.8 x 41 cms. A draughtsman of great dexterity with a wild, often bizarre, imagination. Loved sake, sometimes painting under…

Maki BOKUSEN (1736-1814)

 Click here to view image full size. A fine original painting, full colour on silk, 40.5 x 12.5 in; 102.9 x 31.7 cms showing a beauty reading a long (love ?) letter. Her maid on the floor beside her. Bokusen…

Matsui KEICHU (Active 1785-1819)

Click here to view image full size. A wonderful original painting, full colour on silk, image size 35 x 12.75 in; 89 x 32.5 cms. Shows three of the leading actors around 1800: Segawa Kikunojo III (above); Iwai Kumesaburo I…

Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, full colour on paper, 48.75 x 13.75 in; 124 x 35 cms. Shows Kintaro (aka Sakata no Kintoki) riding a large Chinese shishi lion. Kintaro was a child of prodigious…

Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Click here to view image full size. An important pair of original paintings, light colour on silk, 35.5 x 12.75 in; 90 x 32.5 cms. The left painting shows Asukayama in the Eastern Capital (Edo). This was one of the…

Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Click here to view image full size. A fine and large original painting, sumi and light colour on silk. Image size 45.5 x 20.25 in; 115.5 x 51.5 cms. Shows Kato Toranosuke (1562-1611) and Yamaji Shogen (1546-1583) locked in combat…

Ishikawa TOYONOBU (1711-1785)

Click here to view image full size. A very fine original painting, sumi and colour on paper with extensive laquer and a large emossed gold floral pattern on the bijin’s kimono; other areas in gold. Image size 35.25 x 17.75…

Utagawa KUNITSUGU (1800-1861)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, sumi and colour on silk with extensive splashed and applied gofun. Image size 29.25 x 13.25 in; 74.25 x 33.75 cms. A rare pupil of Toyokuni. Another fine painting by…

Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, sumi and light colour on paper, image size 13.5 x 20 in; 34.3 x 50.8 cms. Shows the Shiraito no Taki waterfall at Hakone. The water, originating from Mount Fuji,…

Kawanabe KYOSAI (1831-1889)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, sumi on paper, image size 36.75 x 12 in; 93.3 x 31.7 cms. A draughtsman of great dexterity with a wild, often bizzare, imagination. Loved sake, sometimes painting under its…

Nishiyama KAN’EI (1834-1897)

Click here to view image full size. A gajo (album) of 21 original paintings by Nishiyama Kan’ei, the son and pupil of Nishiyama Hoen. They both worked in Osaka and Kan’ei carried on the Shijo school tradition. Relatively few paintings…

Katsukawa SHUNSHO (1726?-1792)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, sumi and full colour on silk, 32.25 x 10 in; 82 x 25.5 cms. An important print artist and his paintings being considered one of the glories of Ukiyo-e. Produced…

Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, sumi and light colour on silk, 13.5 x 20.5 in; 34.5 x 52 cms. Shows the renowned Husband and Wife rocks, Meoto Iwa, “Married Couple Stones,” off Futami, Mie, Japan.…

Mori SOSEN (1747-1821)

Click here to view image full size. A large and extremely fine painting, sumi and light colour on silk, 48 x 22 in; 122 x 56 cms. Shows monkeys on rocks and a large tree beside a mountain stream. Sosen’s…

Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Click here to view image full size. An original drawing, being a preparatory sketch for a painting, sumi and red under-drawing on paper, mounted as a kakemono. Image size 10.5 x 13 in; 26.5 x 33 cms. An unusual view…

Hosoda EISHI (1756-1829)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, full colour on silk, 32.5 x 10 in; 82.5 x 25.5 cms. Shows a promenading courtesan under a full moon – presumably on the way to an assignation. She wears…

KAIGETSUDO School

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, full colour on paper, 39.75 x 15.25 in; 101 x 38.75 cms. Shows a beauty erotically biting a cloth. The kimono is decorated with a strong motif of flowering plants.…

Torii KOTONDO (1900-1976)

Click here to view image full size. An original painting, full colour on silk with touches of gold, 45.5 x 14.5 in; 115.5 x 36.75 cms. Shows the famous story of the demon Ibaraki of Rashomon (a gate south of…