Unusual Japanese Silk Scroll by Yasuda Hanpo, 1922

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1930: item #740533
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A beauty peaks out from a shuttered house at the moonlit river; an engaging scene by Yasuda Hanpo enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Here the artists has created a strong sense of moonlight, giving us only reflective surfaces and shadow. The unique style is typical of Hanpo, who was known, along with some of his contemporaries, Shirakura Niho and Fukuda kodojin, for their highly stylistic and original portrayals. The ink on silk scene is bordered in ripple patterned green silk and en... Click for details

Antique Japanese Silk Scroll, Oki Toyohira

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1930: item #740062
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Preparing fields, a painting by Oki Toyohira dating c. 1925 enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The landscape is dominated by a red walled hut before blue and brown mountains. Fresh green buds dot the willows branching into the scene from below, and the sky is golden with sunset. A masterful painting in the transitioning Taisho-early Showa style. The silk canvas is bordered in green patterned silk and features large ivory rollers. Toyohira (1899-1980) was born in Chiba prefecture, a... Click for details

Japanese Nanga Screen by Mizuta Kenzan, 1925

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1930: item #739830
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A minka thatched house lies dwarfed by shadowing trees in this fine ink on paper screen signed from the Snow Pavilion-Kenzan and dated Autumn 1926. The exagerated roof lends a sense of strength and permanance to the human dwelling, despite teh overhanging trees; as if to say We are here to stay! It is bordered in the original faded orange silk in a raw wooden frame, and has been recently freshly backed with forest green paper. The screen measures 65 x 63 inches (165.5 x 160 cm) fully extended... Click for details

Japanese Ink Scroll by Mizuta Kenzan 1922

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1930: item #739598
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Dark trees shoot vacant branches up to the cool winter sun, a pair of huts sheltered beyond a cluster of barren rock in the distance, a daunting ink painting by Mizuta Kenzan dated an autumn day in 1922 and signed Kenzan enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The ink on paper scene is bordered in pale green-beige patterned silk with rosewood rollers capped with ivory. The scroll measures 26-1/2 by 52 inches (67 x 132 cm). There is some wrinkling in the silk border; otherwise the scroll i... Click for details

Bijinga Japanese Original Painting by Tetsuya Shimazu

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1980: item #739590
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Bijinga Original Water Colour Painting by Tetsuya Shimazu, portraiting beautiful Japanese woman in spring. It comes with his signed and sealed certificate proof of authentication. Very good in condition. Its frame has some stains due to age. If you would like the painting without the frame, plesae ask us before shipping.

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Antique Japanese Screen by Yasuda Hanpo

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1930: item #739588
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Bare trees rise up from mist in this slightly sinister screen by Yasuda Hanpo dated Autumn 1925. An ox stands, symbol of strength and solitude, in the deftly brushed landscape. In the distance birds take to the dark sky. The ink has been allowed to diffuse into the paper creating a mystical aura around the heavy creature. It is performed with ink on paper, mounted on gold with vibrant red lacquer frame. Each panel is 28 x 67-1/2 inches (71 x 172 cm) and is in excellent condition, retaining ... Click for details

Mid 20th century - Nihonga screen

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1980: item #733007

A strikingly original and refreshing two-fold nihonga screen. An animated Japanese tit or shijukara sits atop a group of upturned flower pots. The late afternoon sun is creating long shadows across a row of unseen ornamental chrysanthemums. The seal reads Ryu although in the absence of further information we have been unable to confirm his details. The screen dates to the mid 20th century. The backing paper features repeated images of pigs, almost certainly in reference to the year of the pi... Click for details

1920s Japanese scroll ZEN painting GOURD by HIDA SHUZAN

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1930: item #728987

1920s Japanese scroll painted with ink and colors on paper. The scroll depicts a hollow gourd with stopper and wrapped cord for hanging, and a branch of a maple tree with red/brown leaves. Excellent painting in Zen taste with perfectly captured feeling of autumn melancholy. Wonderful quality painting, beautiful brushwork, in great condition, lacquered wood scroll ends. Signed in ink GEKKYO, and marked with red paste seal (see detail). Gekkyo is the go (artistic name) of Hida Shuzan (1877-1945). ... Click for details

1930s Japanese scroll painting bird & cherry by ZAIEN

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1940: item #728979

1930s Japanese scroll painted with ink and colors on silk. The scroll depicts a warbler on a branch of a flowering cherry tree. Did not photograph well. Wonderful quality realistic painting, great brushwork. Excellent composition in Japanese taste, some foxing, staining and creasing as seen on photos, bone scroll ends. Signed in ink ZAIEN (alternative reading is Arizono), and marked with red paste seal (see detail). Scroll size 74 by 18 inches, painting size 40.5 by 13 inches.

1930s Japanese scroll painting HOTEI by FUMIAKI

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1940: item #728965

1930s Japanese scroll painted with ink and colors on silk. The scroll depicts Hotei (one of the 7 Gods of Good Luck, also representing Maitreya - the Buddha of the future) with a huge bag on his back. Did not photograph well. Wonderful quality painting, excellent smiling face, great brushwork - see the stubble on his face, his toes and flowing lines in depiction of his robe. Excellent composition in Japanese taste, some foxing, beautiful brocade mounts with design of wispy clouds, wooden scroll ... Click for details