Catalog: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese (779)

Children on Stilts in Snow
Artist's seal not read.
Date: 1950s-60s.
Size: 4.75 x 3.25 inches.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print tipped along its top edge to original card.
Condition: Excellent.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Kyoto Maruyama Park
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Square Takemura seal.
Date: 1930-40s.
Size: 5.5 x 3.5 inches.
Titled and sealed by the artist.
Reference: TK-TM-130.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Artist: Unsigned
Ueno Lotus Pond in Tokyo
Date: ca. 1920s-30s.
Size: Approximately 5.25 x 3.25 inches)
Medium: Japanese shin-hanga woodblock print attached along its top edge only to an used holiday card with correspondence.
Condition: Print is excellent. Tiny dot in sky. Card correspondence has marks.

Okuyama Gijin (b. 1934)
Heian Shrine
Date: ca 1950s.
Size: 7.75 x 5.5 inches.
Self-published by the artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Shizuo Ashikaga
Sparrow on Bamboo
Date: 1950s.
Size: Koban. Approximately 7.75 x 5.25 inches.
Bears the artist's seal.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Smudge in margin.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Kyoto Kiyomizu Temple
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Round Takemura seal.
Date: 1930-40s.
Size: 5.5 x 3.5 inches.
Titled and sealed by the artist.
Reference: TK-TM-140.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent

Okuyama Gijin (b. 1934)
Shorenin Temple Garden
Date: ca 1950s.
Size: 9.5 x 4.75 inches.
Self-published by the artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Kyoto Kinkakuji
Artist not known.
Date: 1930s-40s
Print size: 5.75 x 3.5 inches.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Seal at lower right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: A couple of small points of foxing at upper back.

Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)(1871-1945)
Shrine in the woods; blue Sky
Size: Approximately 5.5 x 3.5 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Shotei seal at lower right.
Date: Pre-1936.
Reference: Shotei catalog #S-38.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print in postcard form.
Condition: Mark near upper right edge.

Hiroshige Ando
Fuchu, Nichomachi (Titled in image)
Size: Approximately 5.5 x 3.5 inches.
Date: ca 1910.
Publisher: Matsumoto Print Works. No. 419 publisher's tag on back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Waviness corresponding to location of tag.

Takahashi Shotei
Shrine by the River
Date: 1930s. This edition early postwar.
Size: 5.5 x 3.625 inches
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Artist's seal at lower right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Top margin edge has slight browning.

Kihei Sasajima
The Buddhist Goddess Kisshouten
Date: ca. 1960s.
Publisher: Yoneda Minoru (impressed colorless seal at lower margin).
Date: 7 x 5 inches.
Medium: Woodblock print.
Condition: Slight toning. Margin trimming.

Hiroshige Ando
Fuchu, Nichomachi (Titled in image)
Size: Approximately 8.5 x 3.5 inches.
Date: ca 1910.
Publisher: Matsumoto Print Works. No. 40 publisher's tag on back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Bend lower right corner. Chip upper left corner.

Woman in Snow with Umbrella and Lantern
Artist: Unsigned.
Date: 1930s or earlier.
Size: 5.5 x 3.5 inches.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Small raised bump at lower left.

Josetsu (Jousetsu) 城雪
Cock and Hen with Chickens under a Plum-tree
Size: 7 x 4.75 inches.
Date: ca. 1910.
Publisher: Matsumoto Print Works. Cat. #164 tag on back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print from a painting by Tokyo artist Josetsu.
Condition: A few marks. Slight waviness corresponding to location of tag on back.

Title: Mountain Temple and Snow
Artist: Not known.
Print size: Approximately 5.675 x 3.5 inches.
Date: 1950s-60s
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Print is tipped along its top edge to original blank card.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Ide Gakusui
Chrysanthemums
Size: Approximately 5.5 x 3.5 inches.
Date: 1950s-60s.
Gakusui signature and seal lower right.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo
Woodblock print is attached along the top edge only to original 7 x 4.625-inch blank card.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Title: Tokumochi
Artist's signature not read. The second kanji in the signature is read "haru" or "shun."
Print size: Approximately 5.125 x 3.375 inches.
Date: ca. 1930s.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print tipped along its top edge onto a 6.625 x 4.75-inch greeting card containing a signed message.
Condition: Print excellent. Card is discolored.