All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1491782 (stock #N13-16)
The Kura
$5,000.00
A set of four large scrolls depicting seasonal landscapes by Shirakura Niho enclosed in the original signed double wood box exhibited at the 1936 Nangain-Ten and published in the book Shirakura Niho (page 127 figures 102-107). Ink & Light color on Paper in fine silk mountings, they have been completely cleaned and restored to original perfect condition retaining the original cloth by Kitaoka Hyboido of Kyoto. Each scroll is 66 x 138.5 cm (26 x 54-1/2 inches)...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1960 item #1491735 (stock #08455)
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$300.00


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...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1491562 (stock #08451)
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$400.00


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))...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1970 item #1491520 (stock #08450)
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$200.00


SHAKOTAN BLUE 1970

Vintage Japanese oil painting on canvas, 'Fine scenery of Shakotan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakotan,_Hokkaido)' by Yakuwa Shiro (1914-93), 1970. 33 x 24.5 x 1.7 cm (12.99 x 9.64 x 0.66in)...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1491070 (stock #15153)
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$250.00


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)...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1490859 (stock #08440)
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$250.00


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)...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1990 item #1490361 (stock #04451)
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...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1990 item #1490360 (stock #04450)
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...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1489766 (stock #Shumin001A)
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.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1489473 (stock #08426)
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$280.00


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)...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1489298 (stock #L122)
The Kura
$650.00
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...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1960 item #1489143 (stock #2112062)
tomoe art
$600.00
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...

All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1960 item #1488807 (stock #12534)
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$250.00


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)...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1950 item #1488803 (stock #2303016)
tomoe art
$760.00
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...

All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1900 item #1488472 (stock #2210016)
tomoe art
$360.00
A pair of wild duck...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1487740 (stock #12527)
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$300.00


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...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1487701 (stock #2304047)
tomoe art
$900.00
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 ...

All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1960 item #1486804 (stock #2203242)
tomoe art
$400.00
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 ...

All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1970 item #1486370 (stock #2102006)
tomoe art
$340.00
Ink wash landscape. Painted with ink on silk. Signed and sealed.

Some insignificant light marks are present on the painting and mounting, otherwise the piece is in very good condition. It is accompanied by a paulownia wood storage box.

Painting: 10 1/4” x 42 1/2” (26cm x 108cm)
Scroll: 15”x 71 1/4” (38cm x 181cm)

All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1486368 (stock #2112158a)
tomoe art
$900.00
Bodhidharma. Painted with ink on silk. Signed and sealed.

Bodhidharma is a monk who is said to be the founder of Zen Buddhism in China. Although there are many legends about him, and some things are unknown during his lifetime, it is certain that he was a real person, and he is important as the founder of Zen Buddhism, a form of Buddhism that developed independently in China and then Japan.

Kanokogi Takeshiro(1870-1941) studied painting techniques with Sangorō Matsuyama in his homet...

All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1486147 (stock #2304046)
tomoe art
$640.00
Title: Traveling. 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 paintings ``Amak...

All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1930 item #1485247 (stock #2112170)
tomoe art
$450.00

Ichiyo Kannon/guanyin Bodhisattva, the Goddess of Mercy with heart sutra. Painted with ink and pigments on silk. Signed and sealed. It is dated as painted in 1922.

It is based on a legend that is said the Kannon Bodhisattva saved Zen Master Dogen(1200-1253) while he was traveling to China for Zen Buddhism. On the way home, he was hit by a terrible storm, so he recited the kannon heart Sutra with all the heart, the Kannon Bodhisattva appeared on the lotus petal, and the wind and rain cal...

All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1485200 (stock #1052)
The 20th century Japanese scroll painting by the artist, Miyadai Tamae (1945-?). Miyadai Tamae is a Japanese painter who specializes in flower-and-bird paintings characterized by his effective use of ink. His paintings are popular for their subdued and tasteful colors. Ink and color on Silk, hanging scroll. This painting represents a cricket happily living in the nature. Signed “Tamae”, with one signature seal of the artist. Only one scroll head survived, otherwise excellent condition.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1930 item #1485198 (stock #1054)
Dustieoo Antique
$1,200.00
Japanese Meiji period scroll painting by the artist, Katsuyo. Ink and color on paper, hanging scroll. The painting depicts a beauty in the rain, holding her umbrella. Signed “Katsuyo”, with one signature seal of the artist. The painting is in very good condition, however, the mounting is broken.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1900 item #1485194 (stock #1058)
The painting was attributed to Momokawa Meiho. Ink on paper. No framing. The painting depicts a peaceful scenery of a valley and mountains.. No signature. Good condition, except for some small cracks of the crisp paper.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1485193 (stock #1059)
This lovely album was attributed to Ishihara Matsuyoshi 石原松芳, signed in 昭和庚辰年 (1940). 28 spreads (56 pages) in total, and 27 paintings in one album. Subjects from birds, flowers, mythologies, still life, figures to landscapes, a glimpse of the artist's rich spiritual world. Signed with two seals on each painting. Very good condition, no big damage except for the aging paper.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1950 item #1485191 (stock #1061)
The painting is about Buddha’s story of Zen meditation. Re-mounted by the previous owner.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1900 item #1485190 (stock #1062)
The print is about a Japanese mythology. Original mounting. AS IS condition.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1970 item #1483271 (stock #2308100)
tomoe art
$560.00
Octopus and Anchor. Painted with ink on paper. Signed Koho and sealed.

Some insignificant light marks, insignificant light crease and foxing are present on the both painting, insignificant light marks are present on the mounting, otherwise the piece is in very good vintage/antique condition with the age. It is accompanied by an aged paulownia wood storage box.

Painting: W12 1/4” x H51 1/8” (W31cm x H130cm)
Scroll: W16” x H76 3/4” (W40.5cmx H195cm)

All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1970 item #1483121 (stock #08411)
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$200.00


PORTRAIT OF A LADY

Vintage oil painting on wooden plate, by a Japanese painter, Yoshito Shibata (1910-1995), circa 1960-70s, 24 x 33.3 x 0.5 cm (9.44 x 13.11 x 0.19in)


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All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1482788 (stock #11089)
Hanging scroll painting. Title: Kyokojitsu (Rising sun). A bright red sun rising above the clouds with a golden glow. Nihonga.
Ink, mineral colors and gold wash on silk.
Signed Wakō, seal Wakō.

Mid-20th century or a little later.

Mounting: H 67 x W 23.5 in. (inc. scroll ends)
Painting: H 42 x W 16 in.

Very good condition. Scroll ends are plastic, imitating ivory.

Comes with the original wooden storage box. Inscription outside: Kyokojitsu (Rising sun). I...

All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1482767 (stock #12501)
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$250.00


LANDLADY

Vintage hanging scroll with hand-drawn portrait of a certain Japanese landlady on silk, Showa period, 20th century, Japan, total: approx. 48.5 x 175 cm (19.09 x 68.89in). Aged deterioration as is as seen.


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All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1960 item #1478457 (stock #230519A)
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Lovely Japanese Byobu Screen 6 panels with Spring Flowers.
The size of Screen: 148" L x 66" W (376 cm x 168 cm)
This Byobu is made finely and fine condition. Gold leaves and
Painting is very lovely. There is no place to be repaired.
It has the signature of artist name, Naofumi, but we do not
have profile information. Dating of screen from 1950’s.
Please note the screen was painted on gold leaf background
with watercolor paint which make tree leaves appear ...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1960 item #1478456 (stock #230516B)
SANAI FINE ART & ANTIQUES
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Lovely Byobu Screen 6 panels with Autumn Flowers.
The size of Screen: 148" L x 66" W (376 cm x 168 cm)
This is Byobu was made finely and fine condition. Gold leaves and
Painting is very lovely. There is no place to be repaired.
It has the signature of artist name, Nofumi, but we do not
have profile information. Dating of screen from 1950’s.
Please note the screen was painted on gold leaf background
with watercolor paint which make tree leaves appear darke...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1920 item #1478214 (stock #Bartlett004)
Charles W. Bartlett
Title: Kobe
Date: 1915
Board size: 12 x 8.75 inches. Image size: 10.75 x 7.25 inches.
Medium: Watercolor on paper.
Signed "C.W.B", titled, dated, and dedicated in pencil.
Condition: Painting is laid down to board. Paper toned in places.
Note: As signed, the work was painted in 1915, the year Bartlett arrived in Japan, and was subsequently presented as a Christmas gift in 1936.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1950 item #1476460 (stock #12465)
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$1,200.00


9 METER-LONG GHOST SHUNGA SCROLL

Rare find of very long shunga (pornographic painting) scroll without any texts on paper, approx. 29 x 900cm (11.41 x 354.33in), early 20th century, Japan. Some expected creases and worm holes as is. The story is that an woman who married with a high-ranking Buddhist priest had shortly treated as an object for the sexual pleasure of many priests then died and became a vagina ghost and revenge on those priests.


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