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Toyahara Chikanobu. 1838-1912.
A Mother Takes her Son for A Walk during the Russo-Japanese War. c. 1993. Kakemono: 28 3/8 x 9 7/16. Repairs and staining; fine color. An extremely scarce historical image. Signed Chikanobu. $750.
Utagawa Hirokage. Flourished c. 1855-1865.
[Barber Shop]. c. 1860. Series: Edo Meisho: Comic Famous Views of Edo. Station: Akasaka. Vertical oban. Signature: Hirokage ga. Seals: date, publisher: Kansendo (Izumiya Ichibei - 1783-1868). $125.
Ando Hiroshige. 1797-1858.
Title: Mixed Prints of the Tokaido (Tokaido Harimaze Zuye). Series of 55 images in 12 sheets. Date: 1852. Publisher: Ibasen. Format: Oban Tateye. The images are: Arai (top right); Shirasuka (top left); Futagawa (center); Yoshida (bottom right); Goyu (bottom left). Good color and condition. Harimaze prints are designed to be cut apart. $1,250.
Title: Mixed Prints of the Tokaido (Tokaido Harimaze Zuye). Series of 55 images on 15 sheets. Date: 1856. Publisher: Kinkodo. Format: Oban Tateye. Harimaze prints are designed to be cut apart. $1,250.
Title: The Road Below the Rakan Temple in Buzen Province. Series: Sixty-odd Famous Places of Japan ( Dai Nippon Roku-Ju Yosha Meisho Zue-E). Series of 70 prints; this image is #61, Date: 1854. Publisher: Koshihei. Format: Obanyokoe. Trimmed to the border; paper loss through the figure on the right; one small wormhole, top left; otherwise fine color and condition. $550.
Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) and Gototei Kunisada (1786-1865).
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Prince Genji in Exile at Suma. Kaei VI/4 (1853). Series: A Fashionable Genji. Oban triptych. Signature: Hiroshige ga, Toyokuni ga. Seals: Ichiryusai, date seals. Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi. Censore: Kinugasa Fusajiro, Murata Heiemon. Engraver: Yokogawa Takejiro. $3,750.
Yu. Tiger (1854). Series: So-Hitsu Gojusan Tsugi: The 53 Stations of the Tokaido by Two Brushes. Vertical oban. Signature: Hiroshige ga, Toyokuni ga. Seals: artist, date, publisher: Maruya Kishiro. Good color and condition. $250.
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. $300.
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. Margins trimmed. $1,250.
Shinto Priest and Temple Bell. c. 1825. Kakemono-e. 26 1/4 x 8 1/2. Mounted on black silk, in the style of oriental watercolors. Margins trimmed. $1,250.
Kawanabe Kyosai. 1864-1942.
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Cat and Mouse 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.
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.
Utagawa Toyokuni III. 1786-1864.
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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. $225.
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. $250.
Fujikawa. Excellent color and condition. $300.
Futakawa Excellent color, impression and condition. $275.
Hodogaya. Excellent color, impression and condition. $350.
Ishibe.Excellent color, impression and condition. $350.
Ishiyakushi. Fine color. Fair condition -- two small stains in the top, small paper losses, 1 in top and 2 in bottom margins. $125.
Kawasaki Fine color. Fair condition -- wormage and paper losses in the arm, 3 losses in the sky. $125.
Kusatsu. Very good color, impression and condition. $275.
Kyoto. ood color, impression and condition. Some surface soiling. $225.
Mishima. excellent color and impression. Slight soiling and creasing. $225.
Nihombashi. Fair color, poor condition: paper losses, soiling. $150.
Numazu. Excellent color and condition. $350.
Odawara Good color. and condition. $250. Another impression with uneven inking in the sky and a small tear in the lower margin, $200.
Okazaki. Good color and condition. Some printing folds in the face and arms. $200.
Sakanoshita Good color and condition. $225.
Seki. Good color and condition. Slight soiling in the neck. $275.
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 margin, printing folds. $175.
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. $175
Tsuchiyama. Good color and condition. Slight soiling. $300.
Yokkachi Good color and condition. $250.
Yoshiwara. Excellent color and condition. $300.
Utamaro II. died c. 1931.
[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. $950.
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