1920s Japanese painting TORII in snow by IMURA HOGAI

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1930: item #727162

Early 1920s Japanese scroll painted with ink and color on paper. The scroll depicts a temple gate (torii) and pines covered with fresh fluffy snow. Superb quality realistic painting perfectly capturing the mood of the scene. Wonderful composition in Japanese taste, the painting is in great shape, beautiful brocade mounts with cloud design, lacquered wood scroll ends. Signed IMURA HOGAI (born in 1882- died in ?) in ink, and marked with red paste seal (see detail). Scroll size 77 by 11.5 inches, p... Click for details

19c Japanese scroll painting DANCERS by TANSAI

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1940: item #727154

1930s Japanese scroll painted with ink and colors on silk. The scroll depicts a Sambaso dancer with characteristic hat and fan, and a Saizo dancer playing tsuzumi (a hand drum), all under a rope with ribbons tied to it. Excellent painting capturing the festive mood, wonderful brushwork. Great composition in Japanese taste, the painting is in excellent shape (old tear on the top of the mounts fixed with archival adhesive tape, not noticeable from the front of the painting), rich silk brocade moun... Click for details

1930s Japanese scroll painting HORSE by HIROSHI

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1940: item #727153

1930s Japanese scroll painted with colors on paper. The scroll depicts a horse feeding from a barrel by a building, while its groom smokes resting on another barrel, all below a sun half-hidden by a cloud. Did not photograph well. Wonderful quality realistic painting, great brushwork. Excellent composition in Japanese taste, in great condition (one crease seen on Enlargement 2), bamboo and wood scroll ends. Signed in ink HIROSHI, and marked with red paste seal (see detail). Scroll size 73 by 13 ... Click for details

1930s Japanese scroll painting DUCK & MOON by KANSO

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1940: item #727076

1930s Japanese scroll painted with colors on paper. The scroll depicts a duck resting on the grass by a stream under a crescent moon. Did not photograph well. Wonderful quality realistic painting - see the differentiated feathers of the bird, and freely painted blades of grass. Excellent composition in Japanese taste, in great condition (some foxing to the paper mounts, not on the painting itself), lacquered wood scroll ends. Signed in ink KANSO, and marked with red paste seal (see detail). Scro... Click for details

Japanese Scroll Painting by Kosetsu, Mt. Fuji & Dragon

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1940: item #724391
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The size of Scroll: 75 1/2" Long x 22" Wide, Painting area size: 49 3/4" Long x 16 1/2" Wide. Beautifuly painted Japanese Scroll painting done over silk background. It is painted by Sumi(black ink) on Mountain Fuji and Dragon. The eyes of dragon and stream around dragon painted by little gold. The subject is "Fuji Goe Ryu"(dragon passing over Mountain Fuji). The painting was done in very dynamic form of clouds and dragon. The shade of sumi and blank white space are beautifully controlled and sho... Click for details

Taisho samurai

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1930: item #724384

An historically significant moment portrayed with exquisite detail and breath-taking realism. A truly monumental work and one with an unforgettable immediacy and tension. The drama is heightened by the cast of the late afternoon shadows on the stairs of the castle. Brilliant crimson and indigo pigments highlight the samurai lord and his retainer. Dating to the early 20th century the piece may well have been painted for exhibition due to its large size. The signature and seal read Chuko, altho... Click for details

'Approaching dusk'

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1940: item #722558

Dating to the early Showa period, this work is titled 'Shayo', or 'Approaching dusk'. The white cat is sitting under a thin cover of spiderwort plants, their presence indicating late spring or early summer. Spiderworts open their flowers at dawn and fade by the mid afternoon, their appearance here intimating the passing of the day. The work has been painted with gofun and pigments on silk. It is in very good original condition. The signed and sealed storage box also bears a label with th... Click for details

Radical Scholar Landscape Screen Set by Shirakura Niho

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1930: item #718688
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A lurid landscape spreads across two two-panel screens by Shirakura Niho signed and dated 1929. Two colorful scholars share a quiet moment in the shelter of a thatched hut. On first examination it appears nonsensical, a chaotic collection of dashes and dots, however the closer one examines the painting the more one realizes the detail and planning that went into the imagery, It is performed with ink on paper framed in dark mulberry frame and has been recently re-backed with forest green paper.... Click for details

Very Nice Japanese Scroll Painting Monkey by Ensen

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1950: item #718644
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The size of Scroll Painting: 50" Long x 26" Wide, painting area size: 15 3/4" Long x 22" Wide. The scroll painting done on paper. The border are done in brocade and top and bottom also done in silk. The scroll end(jiku) end has bone finsh. Very nice Japanese macaue, Japanese monkey(Nihon Zaru) painting playing with Japanese new year badmington ball(made by fether). The expression of Monkey as well as the hair are finely painted technique. The painting done by Sumi and little bit color of brown a... Click for details

Unusual Small Daruma Zen Art Painting By Mokurai

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings Pre 1920: item #704209
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A small image of the Daruma performed with a dry brush by Takeda Mokurai (1854-1930) and framed in the original patterned blue paper mounting with dark wood rollers. Above is written a short verse in the clerical script for which he was famous reading: Night comes while chanting, The mountains color with twilight. The scroll measures 10 by 47 inches (25 x 119 cm) and is very clean but for some minor wrinkling. Mokurai began his journey down the Buddhist path at the age of 7 under the priest R... Click for details