Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1787-1858)
Click here to view image full size. Azuma no Mori no koji “ The Old Story of Azuma” from a set Toto kyuseki tsukushi, “Old Edo Stories, Illustrated.” Exceptionally rare: Four other designs from the set came up at the…
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
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Utagawa KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)
Click here to view image full size. A triptych with title Furyu ningyo zu, “Pictures of Dolls in Contemporary Fashion.” There was a craze for these lifelike dolls in the 1850s ( this triptych being dated 2/1856 ). In fact…
Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. An important original oban wood-block for printing the last sheet of a triptych Gishi youchi rannyu no zu, the night attack of the forty-seven Ronin. The block was cut by Hori Cho and…
Utagawa KUNISADA (1786-1865)
Click here to view image full size. A nagaban ( 20 x 9 in; 51 x 23 cms ) print showing a rear view of General Bacho ( Chinese Ma Chao ) on horseback carrying a huge axe. One of…
Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1787-1858)
Click here to view image full size. Masaki atari yori Suijin no mori uchikawa Sekiya no sata o miru zu, “View of Suijin Grove and Sekiya Village, Seen From Near Masaki” from Meisho Edo hyakkei, the “One Hundred Views of…
Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1787-1858)
Click here to view image full size. Konodai Tonegawa fukei, “View of Konodai and the Tone River” from Meisho Edo hyakkei, the “One Hundred Views of Edo” published by Uoei between 1856 and 1858 ( this being Dragon 5, 1856…
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. A view of two temples separated by water: Mimeguri and Ushi-no Misaka. From an early set of thirteen prints with title Shimpan uki-e, “New Perspective Prints,” published by Iseya Rihei, 1811. ( Although…
Cho GESSHO (1772-1832)
Click here to view image full size. An original painting showing an autumnal scene with a woodcutter carrying an axe and about to cross a bridge over a river that flows down from paddy fields with steep cliffs above. In…
Kobayashi KIYOCHIKA (1847-1915)
Click here to view image full size. Cats, one astonished by a painting on an easel of a rooster and chicken, the other pawing at the image and having upset a palette, throwing brushes and tubes of paint into the…
Utagawa YOSHIIKU ( 1833-1904 )
Click here to view image full size. No. 82, Goto Matabei Mototsugu stopping a cannon shot with his shield from a large chuban series Taiheiki eiyuden “ Biographies of the Heroes of the Taiheiki.” A fictional history written in the…
Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. The best design from the set Tsuki hyakushi, the “Hundred Phases of the Moon”. The set published between 1885 and 1892 ( this being 1886 ) by Akiyama Buemon. Benkei against a full…
Utagawa KUNISADA II (1823-1880)
Click here to view image full size. The cat witch Ama Myochin. The best design from the set Hakkenden inu no soshi no uchi, biographies of the Eight Dog heroes. She peeps between two bamboo curtains, the silhouette of her…
Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1787-1858)
Click here to view image full size. Oniwakamaru, the young Benkei, battling with the giant red carp that swallowed his mother. From a set Yoshitsune ichidai zu. Of the utmost rarity: Stewart in Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints, Kegan Paul,…
Kawanabe KYOSAI (1831-1889)
Click here to view image full size. MAY in romaji from a set of the twelve months, Junikagetsu no uchi, although this is the only known design for the set. One of Kyosai’s best designs. Shows Shoki, the “Demon Queller”…
Ichiyusai KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)
Click here to view image full size. Shinchunagon Tomomori clasping the great anchor and binding the rope about him prior to jumping into the sea after his defeat at the battle of Dannoura. From an untitled series of at least…
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. A fine long surimono with poems attached showing horsetails, fern fronds and kuzu ( arrowroot ) lying in and around a lady’s travelling hat with silk cushion and the two red cords for…
Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1787-1858)
Click here to view image full size. Awabi or tokobushi, abalone or “sea-ear” and sayori, Japanese half-beak or snipe-fish, together with peach blossom from the first series of ten prints published by Eijudo, c. 1832-4. Good impression. Very good colour.…
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. One of the most majestic landscape sets: Shokoku takimeguri, “Travelling Around the Waterfall Country.” A series of eight waterfalls, this being the Kirifuri, “Falling Mist” fall that cascades down Kurokami mountain in Shimotsuke…
Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. The sea shore at Izu from the set Fuji sanjurokkei, the “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.” The series published by Sanoya Kihei, 1852. This chuban set is now recognised as one of Hiroshige’s…
Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. Sakanoshita fudesute mine, “The Peak of Fudesute Mountain from Sakanoshita.” Fudesute means to “throw away brush” which alludes to the story of the artist Motonobu Kano who, unable to capture the beauty of…
Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. Otsu hashirii chamise, “The Running Well Teahouse at Otsu” from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido. The set published by Hoeido and Senkakudo, c. 1833-4. Shows the teahouse with the eponymous well at…
Katsukawa SHUN’EI (1762-1819)
Click here to view image full size. An original Shun’ei brush drawing showing the Soga brothers revenge on Suketsune in his tent. This appears to be a preliminary design for a print illustrated in Ukiyoe meihan, 500 Ukiyoe Masterpieces, no.…
Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1787-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An original Hiroshige brush drawing of an aji ( also muroaji ), horse-mackerel; awabi, abalone, and two ginger roots. On thin Japanese paper, 9 x 6.75 in, 22.9 x 17 cms. Beautifully signed…
Shibata ZESHIN (1807-1891)
Click here to view image full size. Two ehon complete with title on red slips: Shibata Zeshin gafu, “Picture Book by Shibata Zeshin, Shohan.” Original stippled yellow covers. Inside page: Ehon yamato nishiki no uchi, Shibata Zeshin sensei gafu. Toto…
Ittosai MASANOBU (active c1849-1853)
Click here to view image full size. The actor Kataoka Gado II as Honchomaru Tsunagoro in the play Honcho itoya no musume performed at the Chikugo theatre in 8 From the set: Date kurabe kyokaku den, “A Comparison of the…
MASUHARU (active c1840-1850)
Click here to view image full size. The actor Arashi Rikan III as Ukiyo Tohei in the kabuki play Sendai Hagi performed at the Onishi theatre in 3 From the set: Date kurabe kyokaku den, “A Comparison of the Stylishness…
Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. Mushashino no tsuki, “The Moon on Musashi Plain ” from the set Tsuki hyakushi, the “Hundred Phases of the Moon”. The set published between 1885 and 1892 ( this being 1892 ) by…
Toyohara KUNICHIKA (1835-1900)
Click here to view image full size. Suketakaya Takasuke IV as Inuzuka Shino on the roof of the pavilion Horyukaku fighting Kenpachi. A fine set based on Bakin’s Hakkenden, entitled “A Parody of the Hakkenden” published by Fukuda Kumajiro, 1883.…
Toyohara KUNICHIKA (1835-1900)
Click here to view image full size. Nakamura Shikan II as Inuyama Dosetsu battling with Inukai Kenpachi. A fine set based on Bakin’s Hakkenden entitled “A Parody of the Hakkenden” published by Fukuda Kumajiro, 1883. A rare series that shows,…
Utagawa KUNISADA (1786-1865)
Click here to view image full size. The best design from Rien kyokaku-den, ” The Story of a Chivalrous Man in the Theatrical World.” Shows the actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro as Danshichi, a fishmonger and otokodate ( “chivalrous commoner” ) in…