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[A Spring Stroll. Date seal: kiwame (1738-1848). Oban: 14 x 9 3/8. Publisher: Yeijudo (Nishinomiya Yohachi). Printed on the full sheet. Some staining in the margins; color fading; one wormage spot over the umbrella. A charming image of bijn strolling under cherry blossoms. $675.
Ando Hiroshige. 1797-1858.
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Manchurian Crane Feeding Her Fledgling Chicks in their Nest in a Pine Trees. Red Sun Beyond. c. 1848-51. Kakemono-e: 27 5/8 X 9 5/8 (sheet 28 X 9 3/4). Publisher: Marujin (?). Signed and sealed. Excellent condition apart from minor fading ad surface soiling. This image is among Hiroshige's scarcest kacho prints. $3,000.
Goshawk (Okata), Pine and Rising Sun. Date seal: 1852. Oban tata-e diptych (kakemono-e). 28 x 9 1/4 (sight size); 33 1/4 x 13 3/4 (framed). Some fading; 6 wormage spots, one stain in the moon, several fold lines at the top. Kakemono-e prints of this subject appear rarely. $1,750.
For another example, see Toyokuni III.
The image of a hawk on a pine branch, with the New Year sun rising behind, was a traditional subject of the Kano school. Hiroshige designed several of these kakemono-e which were inexpensive substitutes for the paintings that usually hung in the tokonoma, the alcove that is found in traditional Japanese houses.
Toyoharu Kunichika. 1835-1900.
Kunichika was a ukiyoe painrt artist who was a pupil first of Chikanobu, then of Kunisada.
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Kabuki Actors: Ichikawa and Iwai. c. 1860. 14 x 9 1/2 (sheet 14 x 8 3/4). Good color and condition. Soiling in the bottom right-hand; slight toning. $200.
Kabuki Actors. c. 1864. Oban diptych (14 1/8 x 18 3/4. Vivid color; 2 repaired tears in the top margin. $400.
Kabuki Actors Iwai and Ichikawa 1864. Oban diptych (14 1/8 x 19 1/4. Good color and condition. $500.
Kabuki Triptych. The actors are, loft to right, Kino Kuniya Bunzaemon, Suberoku, Miuyra Akemaki. 1865. Each sheet 9 1/2 x 14 x 9 1/2. Good color, paper losses at sheet edges. Provenance: Ulfert Wilke. $950.
Kunimasa. Active 1834-1852.
Kataoaka Gado II at Hogo. c. 1850. 14 x 9 1/4 (14 1/2 x 9 5/8). Excellent color and condition. $300.
Gototei Kunisada.
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After the Bath. c. 1825. Kakemono-e. 26 1/2 x 8 3/8. Mounted on black silk in the manner of a Japanese watercolor. Trimmed. $1,250.
The Bell. c. 1825. Kakemono-e. 26 1/4 x 8 1/2. Mounted on black silk, in the style of oriental watercolors. Trimmed. $1,250.
Kawanabe Kyosai. 1864-1942.
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Cat and Rat Beneath a Crescent Moon. Vertical oban. Signed "Kyosai ga." Excellent color and condition. $950.
Takeuchi Seiho. 1864-1942.
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[Monkey Business]. Vertical oban. Signed and sealed "Seiho." Excellent color and condition. $950.
Okuhara Seiko. 1837-1918.
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Two Moorhen (or Common Gallinule, Gallinula chlorpus) at a Reed-bank in MistShikishiban: 9 x 9 3/4 (image and sheet). Signed and sealed "Seiko". Illustrated: "Kacho-e by Seiko Compared with Watanabe Seitei's Illustrated Books on Birds and Flowers," Andon 76 (2004):41. $275.
Tree Sparrow (passer montanus) Just Starting from a Branch. Shikishiban: 9 5/8 x 10 1/8 (image and sheet). Publisher: Daikokuya (Matsuki Heikichi, 1818-1923). Signed Seiko. Illustrated: "Kacho-e by Seiko Compared with Watanabe Seitei's Illustrated Books on Birds and Flowers," Andon 76 (2004):49. $275.
Varied Tit (parus varius) [Looking Towards the Left]. Shikishiban: 9 x 9 3/4 (sheet 9 5/8 x 10 3/16). Publisher: Daikokuya (Matsuki Heikichi, 1818-1923). Signed Seiko. Illustrated: "Kacho-e by Seiko Compared with Watanabe Seitei's Illustrated Books on Birds and Flowers," Andon 76 (2004). Cover illustration. Fine color and impression with full margins. $275.
Katsukawa Shunshô (1726 – 1793).
Shunshô first studied painting, and then turned to woodblocks. His early prints, influenced by Harunobu, depict bijin; but from the 1760's he concentrated on portraits of actors. His most important contribution to the genre was his widely influential 'nise-e' ("likeness painting") or 'nigao' ("likenesses"), which were stylized but accurate facial likenesses of actors. These introduced a greater measure of realism and individuation into ukiyo-e actor portraits.
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The Actor Otani Hiroyemon II. c. 1780. Hosoban: 12 5/16 x 5 7/8. Signed "Shunshô ga." Good color and condition; imperfect color in the ground. $1,750
Katsukawa Shunsen. 1762-c. 1830.
Restaurant Selling Sweet Rice Dumplings. c. 1820. 15 x 10 1/4 (sheet 15 5/8 x 10 5/8). Good condition and color. Some surface soiling. 1 wormage area above the right foot. $750.
Yamaguchi Soken (after). 1759-1818.
Peacock. c.1900. 14 1/2 x 6 3/8. Signed 'Soken". A charming image printed with subtle colors and shading, with gauffrauge in the bird's tail. Excellent color and condition. $125.
Utagawa Toyokuni III. 1786-1864.
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Hawk, Pine and Rising Sun. Woodblock print. Kiwame seal: c. 1842. Oban tata-e diptych (kakemono-e). 28 1/2 x 9 3/4. Publisher: Yezabiya Tatsukure. Publisher's seal trimmed. Excellent condition and color. Kakemono-e prints of this subject appear rarely. $1,500.
For another example, see Hiroshige.
The image of a hawk on a pine branch, with the New Year sun rising behind, was a traditional subject of the Kano school. Hiroshige designed several of these kakemono-e which were inexpensive substitutes for the paintings that usually hung in the tokonoma, the alcove that is found in traditional Japanese houses.
Actor and Courtesan Prints
Bando Goncoro and another Actor with Bamboo. c. 1853. Vertical oban: 14 1/8 x 9 3/4 (sheet 14 5/8 x 10.) Excellent color and condition. $175.
Danjuro Shikuro 1855. 14 3/8 x 9 3/4 (image and sheet). Paper losses in top right and left margins margins, 1 small hole beneath the hands holding the sword hilt. Excellent color. $125.
Genji Monogatari, Chapter 24. 1852. 9 1/4 x 13 1/2 (9 7/8 x 14 5/16). Center fold, some soiling in top margin; good color and impression. A charming image of a bijn and her two children conversing with Prince Genji. $175.
Kabuki Scene. 1860. Oban diptych (14 1/2 x 20). Three stains in lower margins, 3 paper losses in left-hand margin. $550.
Woche Shimokazu Reading a Scroll. 1853. Publisher: Tsujiokaya Bunsuke. 13 1/2 x 9 1/4 (image and sheet). Excellent color and condition. $250.
Series: Actors for the 53 Stations of the Tokaido.
Date: 1852.
Publisher: Tsujioka Bunsuke.
Size: vertical oban.
This is Kunisada's best series of actor bust portraits. Other images from the series are available upon request.
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Asakasa, Sawai. Excellent color, good condition. $325.
Chiryu. Printed with gauffrage in the white part of the robe. Good color, impression and condition, apart from minor soiling, less pronounced than in the image. $350.
Fujikawa. Excellent color and condition. $4o0.
Futakawa Excellent color, impression and condition. $375.
Hodogaya. Excellent color, impression and condition. $450.
Ishibe.Excellent color, impression and condition. $450.
Ishiyakushi. Fine color. Fair condition -- two small stains in the top, small paper losses, 1 in top and 2 in bottom margins. $225.
Kawasaki Fine color. Fair condition -- wormage and paper losses in the arm, 3 losses in the sky. $225.
Kusatsu. Very good color, impression and condition. $375.
Kyoto. ood color, impression and condition. Some surface soiling. $325.
Mishima. excellent color and impression. Slight soiling and creasing. $325.
Nihombashi. Fair color, poor condition: paper losses, soiling. $150.
Numazu. Excellent color and condition. $450.
Odawara Good color. and condition.$350. Another impression with uneven inking in the sky and a small tear in the lower margin, $300.
Okazaki. Good color and condition. Some printing folds in the face and arms. $300.
Sakanoshita Good color and condition. $325.
Seki. Good color and condition. Slight soiling in the neck. $375.
Shinagawa. Good color. Several small holes in top sky and margin, paper loss on lower margin, printing folds. $225.
Shono. Good color. Several small holes in top margin, paper loss on lower maring, printing folds. $275.
Totsuka. Good color. Image loss to the left of the man's shoulder, one ink stain in the sky, 1 pinhole in the arm,slight soiling. One pinhole in the arm. $275
Tsuchiyama. Good color and condition. Slight soiling. $400.
Yokkachi Good color and condition. $350.
Yoshiwara. Excellent color and condition. $400.
[Courtesan, Her Son, and a Curious Client]. c. 1824. Vertical oban. 13 7/8 x 9 1/4. Publisher: Mori-ya Jihei (Mori-Ji) Kinshindo. Traces of fold marks (the print had been folded into quarters). Signed: Utamaro. $1,250.
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