Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing showing a full length study of a woman. Sumi on thin paper. 19.5 x 10.5 in., 50 x 27 cms. Status: Sold
Japanese Prints London
Dealing in fine Japanese prints, paintings and books since 1968
Japanese Prints London
Dealing in fine Japanese prints, paintings and books since 1968
Richard Kruml
Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing showing a full length study of a peasant carrying a box on her head. A small vignette of a samisen player at the bottom left. Sumi on thin paper. 12.75…
Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing showing two full length female studies. Sumi on thin paper. 14.5 x 10 in., 36.5 x 25.5 cms. Status: Sold
Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing showing a full length study of a woman surrounded with various vignettes of the same model. Sumi and pentimenti on thin paper. 14.5 x 10.5 in., 37 x 26.5 cms.…
Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing showing a seated woman offering sushi on a platter. Sumi and pentimenti on thin paper. 12 x 9 in., 30 x 23 cms. Status: Sold
Kobayashi KIYOCHIKA (1847-1915)
Click here to view image full size. An original giga hand-scroll by Kiyochika, sumi and colour on paper, 504 inches x 10.5 inches. Shows the progress of a horseman on observing a beauty and attendant. Kiyochika, one of the last…
Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. A rare complete triptych hanshita-e (original drawing for a print). Presumably never published. A procession at Akasaka (?). Signed Hiroshige ga on first sheet. Status: Sold
Matsumura GOSHUM (1752-1811)
Click here to view image full size. A boy feeding geese. Sumi and light colour on paper, lightly laid onto card. From an album. 27 x 34 cms; 10.6 x 13.4 inches. Good condition. Sealed Goshun no in. Status: Sold
Tsubaki CHINZAN (1801-1954)
Click here to view image full size. Hovering dragonflies. Sumi and colour on paper. 28 x 35.8 cms; 11 x 13.9 inches. Good condition. Unsigned but from a fully signed album. Status: Sold
Kawanabe KYOSAI (1831-1889)
Click here to view image full size. Two fishermen in a punt. Sumi and light colour on paper. 19 x 30 cms; 7.5 x 11.9 inches. Good condition. Unsigned but from a fully signed album. Status: Sold
Suzuki KIITSU (1796-1858)
Click here to view image full size. A fan painting showing a children’s toy. A rotating lantern with moving images. Kiitsu was a pupil of Hoitsu. Sumi and colour on lacquered paper. Good condition for a used fan. Signed…
Hashiguchi GOYO (1880-1921)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing of a sleeping cat. The original hanshita-e for a published print from Ten Sketches, volume two, published 1918-20. Illustrated in Hashiguchi Goyo, 130 Years Birth. Memorial Exhibition catalogue, Chiba City…
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. An original sumi drawing of a seated bijin writing on a handscroll. From a series of such studies showing women in various attitudes, smoking; playing musical instruments; adjusting hair, etc. The design cut…
Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An important original drawing by Hiroshige being an hanshita-e (preparatory sketch) for an unpublished series Toto meisho gojusan tsugi, “Fifty-Three Views of Edo.” Shows Nihonbashi with a daimyo’s cortege crossing. Warehouses in the…
Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An important original drawing by Hiroshige being an hanshita-e (preparatory sketch) for an unpublished series Toto Fujimi junigatsu, “Mount Fuji Viewed from Edo in the Twelve Months.” This is February showing the Inari…
Torii KIYOMASU (FL. c. 1696-1720)
Click here to view image full size. An overlarge oban, 19.5 x 12.25 in; 49.5 x 31 cms. Coloured by hand with tan and mustard yellow. Shows the emporium of Daikokuten, the God of wealth and one of the Seven…
Attributed to Nishikawa SUKENOBU (1671-1750)
Click here to view image full size. A sumizuri-e print, probably from a set of 12 issued in album form, showing two courtesans, one holding a love letter which she is either delivering or collecting. Its difficult to intuit what…
Utagawa HIROSHIGE II (1826-1869)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing, sumi on paper, 9 x 12 in; 23 x 30.5 cms. Neko ni kamibukuro, “cat in a paper bag.” A proverb: “to back away from something.” Slight foxing, otherwise…
Utagawa KUNITSUNA (1805-1868)
Click here to view image full size. A preliminary brush drawing for a print laid onto Japanese paper showing a full length portrait of the sumo wrestler Fujibi Mitsuemon. Originally a drawing of another wrestler was made and altered with…
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. A small original drawing, 3.25 x 4.25 in; 0.825 x 1.05 cms. Sumi on paper laid onto card showing a vendor or waiter offering food. Very much in the style of the “Day”…
Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An original oban (14 x 9.5 in; 35.5 x 24 cms) hanshita-e drawing, sumi on thin paper, for an unpublished set Rokkasen kiri etoki, “Picture Storytelling of Climatic Scenes of the Six Immortal…
Utagawa KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)
Click here to view image full size. An original oban (10.5 x 15 in; 26.75 x 38 cms) preparatory drawing, sumi on thin paper, for an unpublished set. Shows a warrior and attendants, one of whom is being handed a…
Hashiguchi GOYO (1880-1921)
Click here to view image full size. An original pencil drawing on thick paper, 13.5 x 13.75 in; 34.25 x 35 cms, of a nude. Quite probably either Kodaira Tomi or Nakatani Tsuru. Both were his muse and had similar…
Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. An original preparatory drawing (hanshita-e) for an unpublished set. Shows a busy street scene with a doctor’s surgery on the right. Probably c early 1870s. Signed on a painter’s palette Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi fude.…
Taiso YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing in vigorous sumi and red ink showing fighting samurai. Possibly a preparatory sketch for an illustrated book. Lightly laid at edges onto Japanese paper, otherwise good condition. 6.5 x 10.75…
Taiso YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing in vigorous red ink showing fighting samurai. Possibly a preparatory sketch for an illustrated book. Lightly laid at edges onto Japanese paper, otherwise good condition. 7 x 10.5 in; 17.8…
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. An important large brush drawing in red ink showing a full length figure wielding a stave at a cowering adversary. The standing figure has no sword or armour but is obviously a chivalrous…
Utagawa KUNITERU (Fl. mid-19th c.)
Click here to view image full size. An original hanshita-e (preparatory drawing) for a triptych showing the ground floor interior of a brothel in the Yoshiwara with courtesans and their assistants. These first drafts by the artist themselves survive because…
Utagawa KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)
Click here to view image full size. An original sumi drawing showing the two gods of good luck, Ebisu and Daikoku, fishing from a boat. A variety of sea creatures can be seen in the water. Ebisu’s fishing line has…
Natori SHUNSEN (1886-1960)
Click here to view image full size. An original watercolour on cartridge paper of the actor Onoe Kikugoro VI as Tomomori. Shunsen is famous for his print series of actors published by Watanabe from 1916 until 1954. 39.2 x 28.5…