Japanese Hand Painted Screen Pair, Plum and Bamboo
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Pre 1950 item# 840672 (stock#ANR2485)
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A pair of miniature screens enclosed in a custom made wooden box dating from the early Showa era, first half of the 20th century. Sprays of blossoming plum and rustling stands of bamboo grow robustly in the late winters cool, a gold sheen in the background promising the coming of Spring. The screens measure 14-3/4 by 34 inches (38 x 86 cm) each. They are in excellent condition with only some minor puckers in the right hinge of the left screen.
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Antique Japanese Screen by Takada Biichi
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Pre 1940 item# 832679 (stock#ANR2476)
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3,400.00
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Mandarin ducks take flight from a storm washed rocky shore into a golden sky; a large two panel screen by Takada Bi-ichi dating circa 1935. The birds are worked in vivid color, expertly crafted in design consistent with the time. Each panel is 33-1/2 x 69 inches (85 x 175 cm). The mandarin ducks a popular theme in Japanese painting from time immemorial, both for their brilliant frocks and as symbols of marital bliss (it is believed that they choose one mate for life). Performed with pigment ...click for details
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Unusual Antique Japanese Seasonal 4-Scroll Set
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Pre 1950 item# 831913 (stock#ALR2474)
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The Kura
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375.00
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A set of four individual hand-painted silk scrolls enclosed in a custom Kiri-wood box signed Sanmon-Sato (Town with Three Gates). The vibrant brushwork is relaxed yet approaches the scenery in an unusual manner, lending exuberance to the work. A cow gazing slyly from fallow rice fields opens the set, followed by budding leaves on a willow draping over a seaside village. Summer is as if taken from one of the southernmonst islands, steep crags and palms, and autumn leaves burn in the grounds o ...click for details
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Lurid Ink Landscape Scroll by Mizuta Chikuho, 1925
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Pre 1930 item# 829810 (stock#ALR2474)
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950.00
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A wet three stage landscape of ascending pinnacles separated by mist dated 1925 by prominent early 20th century Nanga artist Mizuta Chikuho enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The ink on paper work is bordered in mustard cloth with gray piping and features bone rollers. The scroll measures 18 x 81 inches (45.5 x 205 cm) and is in fine condition but for minor wrinkles typical of handling. Mizuta Chikuho (1883-1958) was born in Osaka, where he studied under the stalwart artist Himejima ...click for details
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Lovely Japanese Waterfall Scroll, Terasawa Taiken
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Pre 1950 item# 769332 (stock#ALR2375)
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2 scissor-tailed ospreys soar playfully before a massive sun-dappled falls on this silk scroll by Terasawa Taiken enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The torrent is defined solely with dashes of light color intimating sunlight glistening off the dark stone and froth. A very unusual approach showing only the reflection and leaving the imagination to fill the vast areas of white with sound and current. The scene is bordered in patterned blue silk extended with gray and features ivory ca ...click for details
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Fine Japanese Koi Screen, Carp & Cherry Blossoms, Choko
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Pre 1970 item# 765708 (stock#ANR2367)
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Cherry blossoms shadow a fresh swirling pond fostering colorful koi swishing lazily about in the soft current. An endearing image for anyone who has visited Japan in the Spring. The image is performed with soft pigment on paper. It is bordered in gold on cream brocade with a black lacquered wooden frame and fine brass hardware, retaining the original patterned backing paper. All is in excellent condition. The screen measures 4 feet 6 inches by 9 feet (137 x 272 cm), an excellent size for wa ...click for details
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Unusual Japanese Silk Scroll by Yasuda Hanpo, 1922
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Pre 1930 item# 740533 (stock#ANR2340)
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1,300.00
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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
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Antique Japanese Silk Scroll, Oki Toyohira
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Pre 1930 item# 740062 (stock#ALR2338)
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850.00
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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
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Japanese Nanga Screen by Mizuta Kenzan, 1925
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Pre 1930 item# 739830 (stock#ANR2336)
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2,800.00
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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
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