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Shunga – Koban – Courtesan With Infant – Okubi-e – c.1830. |
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Very Rare Musha-e – The Fearless Swordsman Ariô Maru Fighting An Octopus Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川 国芳 – c.1834.
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Well-Known Warrior Print – 100 Aspects Of The Moon – Soga Brother
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Important Yokohama-e Masterpiece – Hunting Dutchmen Monkey Mountain – Yoshiiku – c.1861.
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Yokohama-e – English Couple – Mount Fuji – Woman On Horse – Yoshitora – c.1861.
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Civilisation Print – Azuma Bridge – Hiroshige III – c.1890.
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Kunitoshi – Beauties – Train – Famous Places In Tokyo – c.1870.
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Yokohama-e – English Couple With Dog – Woman Holding A Yokohama Print Yoshikazu – c.1861.
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Yokohama-e – Mother And Children – Yoshikazu – c.1860.
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Townscape – Yoshiwara District – Famous Cherry Tree – Ando Hiroshige – c.1840.
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Wonderful Comic Print – Taiso Yoshitoshi – Giant Octopus With Fishermen – c.1881.
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p2259
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p2255
- €685 - US$ > Oban – Shunsen – Beauties And Child – Landscape – c.1810.
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p2222 - Wonderful Rare Triptych With Five Changeable Central Acts – Italian Circus Baido Masanobu – c.1886.
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p2196 - €2850 - US$ >
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Famous Diptych Masterpiece – Warrior In Snow - Yoshitoshi – c.1886. |
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p2127
- €285 - US$ > Flying Geese In Moonlight – Utagawa Kuniyoshi - c.1840.
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p2056 - €1125 -
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Rare Hashira-e – Isoda Koryusai – Seven Lucky Gods On A Boat – c.1760/70.
Description: A rare pillar print featuring the famous Seven Lucky Gods mythology. Depicted from top to bottom, Bishamonten,(a Japanese version of the Buddhist deity Vasraivana) the god of warriors and authority, holding a trident harpoon and always looking angry because evil is ever present. Underneath him on the right stands Jurojin, the god of longevity. He is inextricably bound up with the tortoise (who’s in the water below) and the crane (above him). The goddess of art, knowledge and beauty Benzaiten is playing her shamisen (three stringed guitar) while Hotei , god of abundance and happiness, is shaving his beard. Next to them on the left with the long forehead is Fukurokuju, a deity for happiness, wealth and longevity, reading a scroll. It is said that this sacred scroll contains all the wisdom in the world. The man with the black hat and holding the fan is Ebisu, the god representing the fishers and merchants. Standing in front of the boat is Daikokuten, the god of wealth, commerce and trade, who is playing on a drum. Koryusai’s distinguishing and characteristic color scheme dominated by his favorite orange pigment (beni-e) is applied deliberately in this design. Although he worked in all genres and formats but he really excelled in the erotic genre (shunga) and the his handling of the pillar format (hashira-e) is unmatched in Ukiyo-e. His work has been included in the British Museum, Tokyo National Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum. Koryusai’s influence on Japanese art should not be underestimated. > Click here for an article on Koryusai’s Pillar Print and Shunga.
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p2034 -
Tsukioka
Yoshitoshi – Monkey Songoku - Ghost – Meiji Period -
c.1882.
Description: A beautiful Yoshitoshi design portraying the monkey
Songoku creating an army from his fur with each hair
becoming a monkey-warrior; from the Chinese novel Saiyûki
(Journey to the West). For this series Yoshitoshi created
40 designs (this is the 15th) with classical subjects
drawn in a humorous style. The prints seem to have been
popular since several subjects are known in re-issues. |
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p1958
- €500 - US$ > Shunga - Kunisada - Ohaguro - Black Teeth - c.1840.
Description: A highy detailed close-up portrait of an oiran (high-class
courtesan). During the Edo period, ohaguro, or teeth blackening, was a common practice amongst married woman as a symbol of marital fidelity, with a young bride collecting the ingredients from seven close friends and relatives and dyeing her teeth for the time just prior to her wedding. It was also practiced in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters, where an apprentice courtesan would receive the ingredients from seven friends and dye her teeth for the first time when she was on the verge of making her debut and accepting her first customer. |
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p1932
- €185 - US$ >
Description: A delightful image of travellers crossing the river in a boat. This series was published after his hugely successful "36 Views of Fuji". These ascetic designs capture the vitality of Hokusai's genius wonderfullly. Many of the images mimic his famous works in "100 Views of Fuji" and "36 Views of Fuji", sceneries that Hokusai perhaps felt the need to revisit. |
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p1915
- €750 - US$ > Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - Triptych - Court Ladies Under Cherry Blossom - c.1880.
Description: A marvellous triptych design by the great Yoshitoshi
depicting a court ladies' poem party under cherry
blossom. Click here for more info on > Yoshitoshi's art. |
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p1914
- €1975 - US$ > 53 Stations Of The Tokaido - Utagawa Hiroshige - Okabe - c.1833.
Description: This classic image by Hiroshige features a mountain stream between high green banks, with the narrow passage surrounded on one side by a stone wall. The small town Okabe-juke visible in the background. More info on the Okabe piece can be found on > Wikipedia Click here for another > Tokaido design! (Spring Rain)
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p1889
- €750 - US$ > Famous
Beauty Triptych – Chikanobu – The Emperor Meiji – Cool
Evening – 1887. Toyohara
Chikanobu
豊原周延
1838 ~ 1912 >
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on the Picture. Description: “The
Emperor and Empress enjoying the cool of the evening in a
moonlit garden”. Reference: Fig.1 in Portraits of the Emperor Meiji, Impressions 21, Ukiyo-e Society of America, 1999 by Donald Keene. Chikanobu was one of the most acclaimed masters of the bijin (beauty picture) genre during the Meiji era. His style respects the traditional ukiyo-e artists such as Utagawa Hiroshige, Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai which he combined with the Western influences that were introduced during the opening of the ports to the West in the Meiji Period. Conversely, Japanese woodblock prints, when discovered in Europe in the 1870’s, created an exciting vogue called Japonisme. There’s some controversy surrounding Chikanobu’s ‘Nobility Taking in the Evening Cool’ –design. Although technically it’s considered highly impressive some art critics have difficulties with its aesthetics. They suggest that the image is rude, vulgar and disturbing. That it breaks with the norms of all that made Japan so unique and adored among the cultured elite of Europe and America. Rather than to reveal the long-established values of Japan, the emperor and his female entourage show off their modern and excessive-looking western outfits. These critics claim that it is all pose, an allegation of innovation through “apparent comsumption.” Chikanobu, the bijin-e master, was more and more asked to design battle scenes praising the belligerent wars Japan started against China and later Russia. His efforts to provoke the warrior spirit of the Samurai in the setting of modernized combat only intensified the discrepancies fundamental in the seemingly tranquil setting of Nobility Taking in the Evening Cool. The fearless commandants, dressed in uniforms very much alike the one worn by the Emperor Meiji, are portrayed leading the collective nameless infantrymen into battle. By doing this, Chikanobu helped to weaken ukiyo-e as an applicable artistic discipline and unintentionally contributed to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Nevertheless this controversial print has been added to the collections of numerous museums worldwide such as:
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p1888
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Yokohama-e Design - Chinese Ship - Utagawa Yoshitora - c.1860. Description: Beautiful
Yokohama-e image in Nagasaki-e style representing a Chinese
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p1883
- €550 - US$ > Utagawa
Yoshitora - Italians - Flag - Yokohama-e - c.1860. >
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on the Picture. Description: Beautiful Yokohama-e
image depicting two Westerners with one of them carrying the Italian
flag. |
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p1882
- €315 - US$ > Pupil
Of Kuniyoshi - Englishman - Daruma Doll - Yokohama-e - c.1861. >
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on the Picture. Description: A nice depiction of
an Englisman sitting on a bench with a walking-stick in his
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p1852 - Utagawa Yoshikazu - Russian Couple - Yokohama-e - 1861.
Description: Oban tate-e size: 14 3/8" x 9 7/8" inches. Publisher: Yorozuya Kichibei. Fine impression, color and very good condition. Some very small thinning spots, minor marks and flaws otherwise in a superb state. A wonderful example of a Yokohama-e print at its finest. The image shows not only a Russian couple, but also a Russian ship. A striking detail is the print the woman is holding which depicts a foreign couple. It seems like Yoshikazu tells the viewer that his work is so faithful that even foreigners buy them. >Another impression of this print is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. |
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p1820 - Utagawa Hiroshige III - Train - Running Horse - Boats - Yokohama-e - c.1860s.
Description: Wonderful Yokohama-e portrayal of the various ways of transport during the Meiji period. |
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p1819 - Pupil Of Hiroshige - Ricksah, Train And Mountain - Yokohama-e - c.1870s.
Description: Beautiful Yokohama print depicting some passers-by who are looking at a riding train. Click here for more info on >Nagasaki-e.Part1 |
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p1818 - Utagawa Yoshitora - Steam Locomotive - Yokohama-e - c.1860s.
Description: Striking Yokohama-e design portraying a steam
locomotive riding through a tunnel being witnessed by a curious
audience. |
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p1817 - Utagawa Hiroshige III - Train At Yokohama Station - Yokohama-e - c.1860s.
Description: Delightful Yokohama-e design featuring the Yokohama railway station with the arrival of a train. Like Hiroshige II, Hiroshige III was a student of the famous Ukiyo-e master Utagawa Hiroshige. Hiroshige III married Hiroshige's daughter after she was divorced from Hiroshige II and called himself Hiroshige III. His work was heavily influenced by his father-in-law but at the same time also characterized by a very interesting insight into the industrial and cultural development of his country after the opening to the outside world. One of his favorite subjects were railway stations. More on >Utagawa Hiroshige III |
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p1811 - €475 - US$ > Utagawa Yoshitora - Chinese Men In Courtyard - Yokohama-e - c.1860.
Description: Yokohama-e design featuring three Chinese men chatting in a
courtyard. A servant with a long braid trailing down his back gestures
with his hands as the fellow at left looks back at him. A pair of
geese can be seen at lower right, and the room behind them holds a low
red lacquer table with stools placed next to it, a bird cage hanging
overhead. Rooftops are dotted among green foliage in the background. A delightful scene with
great detail in the setting and figures. Click here
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p1810 - €650 -
US$ > Rare Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - Lady Masao Attacked By Snakes - Supernatural Subject - Eastern Brocade Series - c.1867.
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