A nanga style painting, ‘Summer Landscape,’ dated 1876, by Amano Tachibana; studio name: Amano Hoko (1828-1894). Ink and light pigment on silk with signature, inscription and four seals. Inscribed box (hakogaki). Mounted with dark blue, unpatterned silk and gold-colored ichimonji with bird, bamboo and floral pattern. Chinese hard-wood (karaki) roller ends of purple sandalwood [shitan; zitan (Chinese)]...

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Meiji Period (circa 1860-1880). A smiling Kanzan is elucidating some esoteric point to a pensive Jittoku who, while resting on his broom, points to a portion of text in an open scroll which Kanzan holds before him. Sumi ink painting and color pigment on aged, brownish-gold colored silk, mounted on paper, edged at top and bottom in blue brocade mounting strips (ten and chi) with hardwood scroll ends (jikusai), depicting Kanzan and Jittoku...

After Kano Tanyu (1602-1674) in the style of Sesshu. This is a fine pair of atmospheric landscape scrolls from the late Edo (Tokugawa) period (circa 1800) of the Kano-Ha (Kano School) which exemplifies the haboku painting technique and suiboku compositional style. The highly abstract haboku (“splashed ink” or “flung ink”) method was inspired by Chinese literati painting originating in the 13th Century and was adopted by the Japanese during the late Muromachi period...

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