CROW TENGU AND INARI FOX
Hand-painted Shugendo image on see-through silk, with 'Karasu tengu' (Crow-billed goblin) ridding on the Inari fox of divine messenger, expressing the final figure of ultimate monk having the "force" (flying ability and supernatural power) trained by Mountain asceticism, but with such unusually funny faces with cool eyes that make you a little fool somehow as a rare type. Showa period, 20th century, Japan...
A vibrant image of a paradisaical island over which soar white cranes by Shirakura Kanyu (Niho) enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Horai Senkyo-zu. This scroll is signed Kanyu, placing it in or after 1940 , when he changed his art name. It is performed with pigment on silk in a fine silk border with solid ivory rollers (these will be changed if exporting). It is 145 x 65.5㎝ (57 x 26 inches) and is in excellent original condition...
SHOTENGAI 1952
Early postwar Japanese oil painting on canvas, 'Town of Wakamatsu', May, 1952, by Ueno Haruka (1896-1978), 53 x 45.5 x 2 cm (20.86 x 17.91 x 0.78in), probably as a rare scene of vibrant retro local market street of Wakamatsu in Kita-Kyushu region well-known for the biggest domestic coal shipping port at that time...
AT THE BEACH 1972
Vintage Japanese oil painting on canvas by Shirane Mitsuo (1926-2002), 1972. Attached with metal frame (74.3 x 62.1 x 3.8 cm (29.25 x 24.44 x 1.49in))...
BY THE WATER'S EDGE
Vintage anonymous oil painting on canvas, Showa period, 20th century, Japan, 27 x 22 x 2 cm (10.62 x 8.66 x 0.78in)...
ÉTRETAT 1937
Antique Japanese oil painting on board, titled 'Landscape of Étretat', 1937, by Tsukamoto Shigeru (1903-1983). 46 x 37.6 cm (18.11 x 14.80in)...
The size Painting: 16 1/8" W x 12 9/16"
Artist: Signed and sealed on lower left corner.
Kanji letter name, "Hata".
Subject: Lotus Leaf and Flower .
Year of painting: 1980-1990
Medium: Watercolor painting on Japanese large Shikishi Board.
With folded presentation cover.
Condition: New, it never been framed...
The size Painting: 16 1/8" W x 12 9/16"
Artist: Signed and chop sealed on lower left corner.
Kanji letter name, "Ina"
Subject : Plum Tree with Blue Bird.
Year of painting: 1980-1990
Medium: Water Color on Japanese large Shikishi Board.
With folded presentation cover...
Ota Shumin (1884-1950, Japanese)
Boats on River (given title).
Date: 1930s.
Size: Oban. 17.25 x 12.625 inches.
Signed "Shumin" by the artist.
Medium: Japanese watercolor.
Condition: Tonal difference at edges where formerly matted. Light creasing visible in side light.
Note: Shumin participated in a painting event at the 1936 Olympics.
CATHEDRAL
Antique Japanese oil painting on wooden board, with no title (but provably 'Notre Dame de Paris'), 1930s, 40.3 x 33.3 cm (15.86 x 13.11in), attached with a Japanese-written certificate proving that the actual grand son himself possessed this work of Tsukamoto Shigeru (1903-1983)...
Water streams between the verdant hills on this lurid landscape by 20th century artist Shimizu Hian. Ink on paper completely remounted in silk with black lacquer rollers. The poem reads: Hana chirite Arui ha, Samuki hi mo arinu, Haru no Yukue no shizuka nari keru (Early flowers have fallen and the cold lingers, nonetheless Spring quietly approaches). It is 63 x 129 cm (25 x 51 inches) and in excellent condition...
Bird and flower painting depicted tit birds in the cotton flower. Painted with ink and pigments on silk. Signed Gyokkei and sealed.
Mochizuki Gyokusei(1900−1951)was a Japanese painter born in Kyoto. He was a pupil of prominent artists Nishiyama Suisho (1879-1958) as well as his father Mochizuki Gyokukei (1874-1938). Gyokusei graduated from and taught at the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts and the Kyoto Municipal Special School of Painting for further art education in Kyoto...
USA
Vintage Japanese oil painting on canvas, landscape of Usa in Oita prefecture, by Midorikawa Kotaro (1904-1983) as a modern Japanese painter during Taisho-Showa period. Showa 35 (1960)...
A hermit under a plum tree. Painted with ink and pigments on silk. Signed Shumei and sealed.
The hermit seems to be relaxing under the plum tree, as if meditating. It is depicted with so much presence that he almost pop off the screen...
A pair of wild duck. Painted with ink and pigments on silk. Signed and sealed. It is attributed to Ishii Kinryo.
Ishii Kinryo(1842-1926) was a Japanese painter active during Meiji(1868-1912) - Taisho era(1912-1926)in Japan. He was a pupil of a prominent artist Furuichi Kinga(1805-1880) and Okamoto Shuki(1807-1862). Kinryo travelled all over the country and taught students at his art school after he got back to Okayama prefecture. After 1903 he moved to Osaka and established his art studio...
RURAL WINTER
Anonymous vintage Japanese oil painting on wooden board, attached with an original frame, as nostalgic snowy streetscape of somewhere in country side of old Japan,
around Taisho period, early 20th century, Painting: 33 x 23.5 x 0.5 cm (12.99 x 9.25 x 0.19in), Frame: 44.5 x 35.8 x 4.5 cm (17.51 x 14.09 x 1.77in). Aged deterioration as is. Damage at frame as seen.
*If you don’t want this frame (for reducing its EMS shipping cost or so), please let me...
Bijinga. The title: Summer evening. Painted with ink and pigments on silk. Signed and sealed.
Katsuda Tetsu(1896-1980) was a Japanese painter from the Taisho(1912-1926) and Showa era (1926-1989). He studied Western painting at Tokyo School of Fine Arts (now Tokyo University of the Arts). He turned to Japanese painting and became an apprentice to Yamamoto Shunkyo(1872-1933) in 1923. He graduated from Kyoto City Painting College (currently Kyoto City University of Arts) in 1930.His history ...
Mountain waterfall. Painted with ink and pigments on paper. Signed and sealed.
Yano Kyoson(1890-1965)was a Japanese painter from the Taisho(1912-1926) and Showa era (1926-1989). In 1921 he founded Nippon Nangain with some famed and leading artists during the time such as Mitsui Hanzan, Kono Shuson(1890-1987), Komuro Suiun(1874-1945), Ikeda Keisen(1863-1931), and Mizuta Chikuho(1883-1958), and also studied at the private Osaka Art School with Fukuoka Seiran(1879-1954) and Western painter ...