Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)
Cormorant Island, Lake Kawaguchi (Kawaguchiko Unoshima)
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.25 inches.
Date: ca 1929.
Hiroaki signature and Shotei seal at lower left.
Publisher: Fusui Gabo. Seal at lower right margin.
Reference: Shotei catalog #O-80.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Toning and light foxing...

Kawase Hasui
The Great Buddha, Kamakura (Kamakura Daibutsu)
Date: 1930.
The earlier version with the Buddha in shadow.
First edition with Watanabe B seal (used 1927-1932).
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.25 inches.
Reference: Hotei #204.
Condition: Removed from original folder. Excellent color.

Mashiko ware Vase by local potter Outsuka Sadao. Impressed Inlay Patterning. H. 12.75" x Body Dia. 6.5". Stamped at foot "Sada". Purchased in 1965. Good condition, holds water - tested. Condition notes: you can see in enlargement #2 that the vase has a lean/list to one side. Also, there is a "kamakizu" (kiln scar) of a small rock burst on the body...

Japanese folk art, farmer's clay doll: This man is Ninki Danjyo, the villain of the Kabuki play. The more awful the villain is, the lovelier the princess looks and the nice guy more angelic especially in Kabuki plays. Danjyo, with his magical power, is trying to transform himself into a rat...

Wooden panel covered with a thick layer of green urushi lacquer decorated with a lake landscape. A pontoon on stilts in light relief brown, ocher and yellow lacquer is surrounded by flowering Irises. The leaves are also in green thick lacquer and the flowers are in mother-of-pearl and eggshell, probably ostrich. The work is particularly neat and very solid. No signature, but certainly an excellent artist...

Japanese studio porcelain Quail family. Three pieces include male, female and young. The male and female heavy (1.8 lbs and 1.29 lbs [814 g and 586 g] respectively) and of stout potting though with well defined details and clear glaze with very faint bluish celadon trace where the glaze pools - mostly between feathers around the birds' necks. These two are clearly of earlier, accomplished production though not marked...

PORTRAIT BUST OF A WOMAN

Ceramic. Signed as "KIMURA, July, 1967". Japan. approx. H 36 x 22 x 25cm (14.17 x 8.66 x 9.84in). *Other items in the photos are not attached.


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Kawase Hasui
Spring Rain at Arakawa (Literally "May Rain")
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.5 inches.
Date: 1932.
Publisher: Doi Hangaten. Carver: Harada. Printer: Yokoi. Also bears the Doi watermark.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso. This seal combination indicates printing between 1950-1963.
Excellent color and condition.

Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918)
Winter Landscape
Date: Early twentieth century.
Publisher: Matsuki Heikichi / Daikokuya.
Sealed by the artist.
Size: Shikishiban. Approximately 9.25 x 9 inches.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
The print has backing paper attached at the left and right edges only.
Condition: Very good with left edge vertical crease corresponding to the location where backing paper is attached.

Shoda Koho
Country Scene (With Moon) from the Hasegawa Night Scenes series. Also known as "Canal by Moonlight"
Size: Chuban. Approximately 10.125 x 7.5 inches.
Date: 1910-38.
Publisher: Hasegawa/Nishinomiya Yosaku.
Sealed by artist. "Made in Japan" stamped on lower right verso.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: One dot of foxing in lower sky amongst trees.
Compare with our Koho074 Country Scene With Moon (Canal) (2).

A lovely Japanese woodblock print by artist Saito Kiyoshi (1907-1997) titled "Tea House". Signature in corner with red artist's seal. Framed. Size: (entire frame) 24" height, 29.5" width (artwork only) 14.5" height, 20" width

Studio Japanese porcelain vase with bulbous body, wide shoulders and delicate Kakiemon palette enamel decoration of flowering chrysanthemums issuing from rocks. Great potting, underglaze blue painting of the rocks, fantastic quality painting with red, lilac, blue, yellow and 2 shades of green enamels, in excellent condition. Signed on the bottom KISEN in underglaze blue. Height 8 1/2 inches, diameter at the widest 7 1/4 inches.

Vintage Japanese kiri wood round smoking set made from one piece of wood showing a bold beautiful grain. This tobacco smoking hibachi has a copper bowl and receptacle which are used to put a pipe or other smoking tools and ashes. Often used with tea ceremony, it measures 3.5" high x 6.5" diameter.

Lilian May Miller (1895-1943)
A Japanese Garden
Date: 1927.
Size: Approximately 5.625 x 3.75 inches.
From the book, Grass Blades from a Cinnamon Garden.
Monogrammed within the image.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Light crease at lower right corner.

Japanese shin hanga woodblock print titled "Temple in the Wood" depicting deer at a shrine deep in the woods around Nara by Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) dated Showa 15 (1940). Posthumous memorial edition as marked in the upper left margin. The artist's black ink stamped signature and red seal is at the lower left. The print is block titled and signed in the lower margin. Illustrated in "The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi," Abe Publications, color plate #237...

Japanese early 20th century woodblock print of a BIJIN by ATARO. Fine color and impression. The print measures 8 1/2" wide by 13" tall.

Kabuto maedate, or ornament that sits in the front of the Japanese helmet. Long-horned monster face with big teeth and fangs and pointy ears. Wood with reddish color. Japan, 20th century.
Height 9 inches, width 8 ½ inches.
Fine condition

Yoshimoto Gesso
Figure at Temple
Date: 1930s.
Print size: Tanzaku. Approximately 13.25 x 3.125 inches.
Publisher: Nishinomiya Yosaku (Stamp on verso)
Artist's seal at lower right.
Reference: No. 1591.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Woodblock print is attached along its top edge to original card.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.