Dealing in fine Japanese prints, paintings and books since 1968
Dealing in fine Japanese prints, paintings and books since 1968
Click here to view image full size. A tobiuo, flying fish, and ishimochi, white croaker, together with a single lily from the second fish series. Published by Yamasho c 1840-42. Poem by Toshigaki Maharu. Good impression and colour. Minor marks…
Click here to view image full size. An otanzaku print showing a carp leaping a waterfall. This is an allusion to a Chinese story of a sturgeon that crossed the rapids of Lung Men on the third day of the…
Click here to view image full size. A bird on a bamboo branch. A sumi koban print published 1846. These prints were obviously cheaply produced and are invariably poor impressions. Ex Hayashi collection. Fine impression and condition. Signed Shigenobu ga…
Click here to view image full size. A bird above waves. A sumi koban print published 1852. These prints were obviously cheaply produced and are invariably poor impressions. Ex Hayashi collection. Fine impression and condition. Signed Shigenobu ga. Status: Sold
Click here to view image full size. A black cat with a bell round its neck. A striking design published by Fusui Gabo, Tokyo, c1935. Fine impression and colour. Fine condition. The cat’s body is heavily lacquered and the two-tone…
Click here to view image full size. Shimada, a grouper, and an ainame, greenling, together with red-berried nanten from the second series of fish prints published by Yamasho c1840-42. Numerous copies exist of the prints from these two series and…
Click here to view image full size. A chu-tanzaku showing two geese flying against a full moon. Excessively rare: apparently unrecorded. Not illustrated in any standard reference work. Fine impression, colour and condition. Signed Hiroshige ga. Status: Sold
Click here to view image full size. Three hoso-tansaku (13.75 x 3 in; 35 x 7.6cm)kacho prints. Published by Matsumura Yahei c1830s. Excessively rare. Fine impression and colour. Several small repaired wormholes otherwise very good condition. Signed Hiroshige ga. Status:…
Click here to view image full size. An exceptionally rare print with inscription which reads: Koneko yoriatsumatte oya ni naru, “The kittens gather together and become a mother cat”. The cat’s body is formed by the convoluted forms of nineteen…
Click here to view image full size. A humorous print showing a cat holding aloft a rat by it’s tail, a sliver of moon above. Printed only in sumi and light brown. Rare: Illustrated in Kawanabe Kyosai, Shigeru Oikawa, The…
Click here to view image full size. Ai or ayu, river trout, (Plecoglossus altivelis) swimming in a stream from the first fish series published by Eijudo c1832-4. Probably the best design from the two series. (See also Paintings on this…
Click here to view image full size. An untrimmed fan print showing a parody of the Yoshiwara, the courtesans and customers depicted as grasshoppers. Published c.1880’s. Fine impression and colour. Slight centre-fold, otherwise fine condition. Signed Ayaoka. Status: Sold
Click here to view image full size. A vertical diptych showing a tiger. A striking design published by Yamamotoya Heikichi c1820s. Fine early impression with gauffrage. Fine colour. Slight creasing and small edge repair, but otherwise very good, Full size.…
Click here to view image full size. Koi (‘carp’) swimming beneath hanging wisteria. One of Yoshitoshi’s finest and most popular designs. Published 1889 by Akiyama Buemon. Very fine early impression, fine colour. Slight trimming at bottom otherwise very good condition.…
Click here to view image full size. A vertical diptych showing a carp ascending a waterfall. A notoriously difficult design to find without browning and there are many late impressions. Very good impression with careful gradation. Only minimal toning of…
Click here to view image full size. Awabi and snipe-fish from Hiroshige’s first fish series published commercially by Eijudo around 1832-34. A rare design to find in early state. Kruml 6b (Andon 49). Very good impression and colour. Mica on…
Click here to view image full size. An uchiwa-e ( fan print ) showing a young girl leaning over the side of a boat and wetting a towel. “Cool” from a set of six prints: Imayo rokkasen, “Six Modern Choises…
Click here to view image full size. An uncut uchiwa-e ( fan print ) showing a turtle swimming amongst water-lilies and minnows. Chinnen, one of the culminating artists of the Shijo movement, is best known for his illustrated books (…
Click here to view image full size. A bust portrait of a beauty in the form of a fan from a series of the Six Tama Rivers, this being the Ide (or Hagi) no Tamagawa in Yamashiro. Published by Tsujiokaya…
Click here to view image full size. An aizuri-e fan print: Oji from Edo Hakkei. Apparently an unrecorded print. Very good impression and colour. Several repaired wormholes at bottom, otherwise good condition. Signed Shunei ga. Status: Sold
Click here to view image full size. Bust portraits of girls from a set of fan prints with title “A Parody of Six Elegant Selections”, comparing these beauties to inset view of blooms. Fine impression, colour and condition; untrimmed. Signed…
Click here to view image full size. Bust portraits of girls from a set of fan prints with title “A Parody of Six Elegant Selections”, comparing these beauties to inset view of blooms. Fine impression, colour and condition; untrimmed. Signed…
Click here to view image full size. Bust portraits of girls from a set of fan prints with title “A Parody of Six Elegant Selections”, comparing these beauties to inset view of blooms. Fine impression, colour and condition; untrimmed. Signed…
Click here to view image full size. Bust portraits of girls from a set of fan prints with title “A Parody of Six Elegant Selections”, comparing these beauties to inset view of blooms. Fine impression, colour and condition; untrimmed. Signed…
Click here to view image full size. A fan print showing a young girl holding a cat as reflected in a mirror. Of the utmost rarity. Published by Iba-ya Sensaburo. Fine impression, very good colour and condition. Mica on blue…
Click here to view image full size. A Chinese ship entering the harbour. A rare print published by Yamatoya c1810s. Other impressions illustrated in: Nagasaki Prints And Early Copperplates, Masanobu Hosono, pl.33, p.55 and A Collection Of Nagasaki Colour Prints…
Click here to view image full size. A bird’s-eye panorama of Nagasaki harbour. These views are the most remarkable of the Bunkindo productions demonstrating linear perspective and, when early impressions as here, showing the use of block and stencil printing.…
Click here to view image full size. A fine chuban from a series parodying the Seven Gods of Good Fortune, this being Daikoku, the god of wealth, seen here attempting to stand on one of his straw bales of rice.…
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing showing the actor Ichikawa Danjuro V in an unidentified role. Drawn c mid 1780s. Such drawings from this period are very rare. Indeed, any prior to the 1810s are rare.…
Click here to view image full size. An extremely large and important drawing showing beauties on a restaurant verandah overlooking the Sumida river. A preparatory study for a painting which was either not executed or has been lost. Although an…