Richard Kruml

Richard Kruml

Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

 Click here to view image full size. Evening snow , Asukayama from the set: Eight Views of the Suburbs of Edo. Published by Kikakudo c 1837-8. One of Hiroshige’s earliest and finest sets. The first private issue of these prints…

Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

 Click here to view image full size. The Whirlpool at Naruto, Awa Province, from the Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces. Published by Koshimuraya Heisuke and dated Hare 9 (1855). The best design from the set. Very good impression; good…

Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

 Click here to view image full size. A mist scene showing Oyashiro Shinto Temple, Izumo Province from the Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces. Published by Koshimuraya Heisuke and dated Ox12 (1853) Good impression; very good colour. Minor marks on…

Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

 Click here to view image full size. Poem by Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason ( 972-994 ) from the set Hyakunin isshu oba ga etoki, ‘The Hundred Poems Explained by the Wet Nurse’. Published by Nishimuraya Yohachi ( the first five…

Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

 Click here to view image full size. Hira no bosetsu, ‘Evening Snow on Mount Hira’ from the first Omi Hakkei set published by Eisendo and Hoeido, c1834. One of Hiroshige’s best designs. Fine early impression with the mountain printed. Fine…

Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

 Click here to view image full size. The great lantern at the Kinryuzan Temple, Asakusa, in snow. Asakusa Kinryuzan from The Hundred Views of Edo, Meisho Edo hyakkei. The set published by Uoya Eikichi with this design dated Ansei lll/7…

Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

 Click here to view image full size. Joshu Ushibori from Fugaku sanju-rokkei, the “Thirty-Six views of Mount Fuji”. The set published by Eijudo c1829-33. Probably the most difficult design from the set to find in early impression. (There exist first…

Keisai EISEN (1790-1848)

 Click here to view image full size. Early morning snow on Nihonbashi. The first design from Kisokaido rokujukyu-tsugi, “The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kiso Highway” published c1836 by Takeuchi and Hoeido. The extremely rare first edition with rising sun, publisher’s…

Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

 Click here to view image full size. Beauties and snow on the Sumida River. The winter scene from a set of four triptychs of famous places in the four seasons. Published by Marujin, 1848-49. Considered to be Hiroshige’s finest design…

Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

 Click here to view image full size. Tsuchiyama from The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido. The set published 1833-34 by Takenouchi Magohachi and Tsuruya Kiemon, Shows a daimyo’s procession crossing a stream in heavy rain. Very good early impression. Very…

Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

 Click here to view image full size. Kambara, Station 16, from The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido, generally known as the Reisho Tokaido. Published c1850-51 by Maruya Seijiro. Extremely fine first edition with the deluxe red pigment in cartouche. Fine…

Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

 Click here to view image full size. Hakone tochiba no zue, “Hakone Spa” from the set Honcho Meisho, “Views of Our Homeland”. An excessively rare set published by Fujihiko, c mid 1830s. I have never noted another impression of this…

Keisai EISEN (1790-1848)

 Click here to view image full size. The Ina River Bridge, Nojiri from the series Kisokaido rokujukyu-tsugi, “The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kiso Highway”, published c.1836 by Takeuchi and Hoeido. Extremely rare first state of first edition of this fine…

Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

 Click here to view image full size. Aki, Itsukushima Sairei-no zu. Aki is the old name for Hiroshima. The beautiful Torii of Itsukushima Shrine at Miyajima is considered to be one of the three best views in Japan. Published Ox12…

Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

 Click here to view image full size. The Urami Falls, Mt. Nikko, Shimotsuke Province, Shimotsuke, Nikkosan Urami no taki from the Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces. Published Ox 8 (1853) by Koshimuraya Heisuke. Fine, very early impression but not…

Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

 Click here to view image full size. The temple compound if the Akiba Shrine, Ukiji, Ukiji Akiba no keidai, from The Hundred Views of Famous Spots in Edo. Published Snake 8 (1857) by Uoya Eikichi. Fine impression and colour. Minor…

Isoda KORYUSAI (1735-1790)

 Click here to view image full size. An hashira-e showing nine cranes, a pine tree and the rising sun. A triple talisman of good luck. The tancho ( “red crest” ) Japanese Crane, Grus japonensis, is the second rarest crane…