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ICHIBAN STARTING TO CLOSE DOWN. We are starting to close down our business, a process that will take us a couple of years - age and health issues tell us it is time. We still have over 1,100 items either currently listed on our website catalog or still to be posted onto it. So, from now on ALL ITEMS IN THE CATALOG MAY BE PURCHASED AT 40 % OFF THE LISTED PRICE. At these low prices, we do ask that you pay shipping and insurance charges for all items purchased. We reserve the right to require a 15 % re-stocking fee in cases where the reason for the return is suspect. With thanks for your years of patronage, we look forward to serving you until the last items are sold.

A Very Rare Jun Sekino Print of a Bunraku Puppet Catalogue: Fine Art: Prints: Woodcuts: Pre 1990   item# 927825 (stock# ICHI 3243)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $1,750.00  This is a quite rare woodblock print by Jun Sekino portraying a Bunraku Puppet. It is a very colorful print of the puppet with fine registration. Ours is an earlier edition of 100 - probably the first edition - and is number 20/100. As you will see, it has been framed at some point in the past - the person who framed it bent the top down about an inch of the top to make it fit the frame. You can also see some toning at the edge of the image where the mat met the image. Properly matted and framed ...click for details

A Print by Kawase Hasui – “Zentsu-Ji Temple” Catalogue: Fine Art: Prints: Woodcuts: Pre 1960   item# 909571 (stock# ICHI 2601)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $450.00  This is one of the famous prints by the shin-hanga painter Kawase Hasui titled “Zentsu-Ji Temple”. It portrays a magnificent temple at To-Ji, Japan for the followers of the branch of Buddhism called Shingon-shū. The print shows visitors with umbrellas going through the main gate to the temple as it is raining . In the misty background the pagoda of the temple can be seen. ...click for details

Woodblock print by Hiroshi Yoshida -“Toshogu Shrine" Catalogue: Fine Art: Prints: Woodcuts: Pre 1940   item# 907366 (stock# ICHI 1723)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $495.00  This is a Japanese woodblock print by Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), entitled “Toshogu Shrine”, 1937. This design is illustrated at plate 233, The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi, Abe Publishing Co., Ltd.,(Tokyo, 1987). We have not examined the print out of the print so do not know if it is pencil signed or whether it carries the jizuri mark indicating that it was printed under the supervision of Yoshida himself. ...click for details

Shin Hanga Print - GOYO – "Woman Applying Makeup" Catalogue: Fine Art: Prints: Woodcuts: Pre 1990   item# 596150 (stock# ICHI 3542)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $1,895.00  Hashiguchi Goyo (1881-1921) was one to the foremost Japanese print makers of the early 20th century. The print depicts a bijen-ga applying wearing a light summer kimono known as a yukata. The background is a very light whitish ping with ground mica that gives it a lustrous sheen. On the shawl the white flowers and the green background of the shawl are marked with fine gauffrage – best described as embossing that gives those sections a three dimensional aspect. The black lacquer back mirror held b ...click for details

A Woodblock Print by KOJIMA - 1980 Catalogue: Fine Art: Prints: Woodcuts: Pre 1990   item# 482205 (stock# Ichi 364)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $295.00  A lovely print titled "Kimiko" by modern Japanese print maker, Kojima. The print depicts a beautiful lady (Bijin-ga) standing in front of a flowering bush - with a highly stylized branch framing her image. The print dates from 1980 and is an Artist's Proof. It measures 9 7/8" by 9" - the image is 4 3/4" by 3 1/2". Mint condition - never framed or matted.

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