Catalog (819)

Paul Jacoulet
Les Jades, Mandchoukuo
1940s~1950s.
Image size: 6.0 x 4.25 inches.
Card size: 7 x 4.75 inches.
Self-published, one of a series of surimono.
Signed and sealed by the artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print attached along the top edge only to an unused holiday card.
Condition: Very light crease at upper right. Paper of card has toning and bends.

Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)
Cold Winter Wind
Size: Mitsugiri-ban. Approximately 12.5 x 6 inches.
Date: pre-1936 (Mid-1920s).
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. No. 204 in 1936 Watanabe catalog. M-4 in Shotei catalog.
Note: This is a chirimen (creped) version. The creping process was popular in the early 20th century. Creping reduces dimensions and makes prints more durable.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: The back is lightly toned.

Arai Yoshimune
Arashi-Yama, Kyoto
Dated: Jan 6, 1914.
Size: Approximately 5.5 x 3.5 inches (14 x 8.8 cm)
Not signed.
Publisher: Hasegawa Takejiro.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print in postcard form.
Condition: Excellent.
Note: The postcard mentions a one-year old Helen Donaggho, whose obituary at 90 years old can be found online.

Kiyoshi Saito
Village in Aizu in Summer (aka Village Scene with Brown Hill)
Size: 17.125 by 11.625 inches.
Date: 1940-50.
Signed and sealed in the image at lower left.
Printer: Ikegami. Seal at back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Back margins have tape.

Ohara Koson
An Eagle on a Tree
Size: Approximately 17 cm x 12 cm. 6.625 x 4.75 inches.
Date: ca. 1910.
Koson signature and seal at lower right.
Publisher: Matsumoto (no. 442). Tag at back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.
An early and rarely seen design not listed in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland). The design is similar to K13.3 (Eagle on leafless tree) in the above catalog.

Ohara Koson (Shoson)
Eagle in Flight Against a Snowy Sky
Size: Approximately 15.5 x 10.5 inches.
Date: 1933. Post-1957 edition.
Koson signature and seal at lower left.
Publisher: Watanabe. 7mm seal at lower left.
Reference: K13.2 in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Likely collector’s red seal in left margin.
Condition: Paper loss in margins. Otherwise very good.

Ohara Koson
Eagle With Outspread Wings
Size: Approximately 14 x 7.5 inches.
Date: 1910-23.
Koson seal at right.
Publisher: Daikokuya.
Reference: K13.2 in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Mild toning as shown at top and right.

Ohara Koson
Hawk Chasing an Insect
Size: Approximately 16 x 7.5 inches.
Date: 1910-23.
Koson signature and seal at lower right.
Publisher: Daikokuya.
Reference: K13.l9 in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Very Good/Excellent.
NOTE: THIS KOSON BIRDS OF PREY COLLECTION IS ON CONSIGNMENT FROM A CONNECTICUT COLLECTOR. NO PAYMENT WILL BE DUE UNTIL WE RECEIVE YOUR OR...

Ohara Koson
Goshawk on a Snow Covered Pine Branch
Size: 17.5 x 11.25 inches.
Date: ca 1930s-40s.
Koson signature at left. Not sealed by the artist and likely commissioned by shin hanga collector Robert O. Muller.
Publisher: Nishinomiya Yosaku.
Nishiomiya publisher's seal in left margin.
Reference: K13.16 in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.
NOTE...

Kaoru Kawano
Girl with Fan
Date: 1950s-60s
Size: Approximately 16.75 x 11.25 inches.
Sealed by the artist at lower left and on verso.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Top margin edge has tape residue.
Note: The fan shimmers with mica highlights.

Fukutaro Tanouchi
Udon
Publisher: Takemura Hideo.
Size: 5.5 x 3.625 inches.
Date: 1930-40s.
Signed by the artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Slight toning at left edge.
A rare and wonderful shin hanga design.

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Book: Geisha Girl (62 pages) by Aisaburo Akiyama (including two Hasui woodblock prints).
Date: June 1933 (July 1933 edition).
Book size: Approximately 8.25 x 5.5 inches.
Hasui signature and seal at lower right.
Cover woodblock print: Geisha Girl, 6 x 3.25 inches.
Frontispiece woodblock print: She Looks Out the Window, 6.75 by 3.75 inches.
Condition: Both woodblock prints excellent. Frontispiece attached only along the top edge.
Bo...

Flying Geese and Moon
Date: 1930s.
Size: Chuban. Approximately 10.25 x 7.375 inches.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Seal at lower right. Title unread.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Toning visible at front left. Paper residue on back.
Note: Found together with our very rare Koitsu819.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Maiko Beach
Date: 1930s.
Size: Chuban. Approximately 10.25 x 7.5 inches.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Seal at lower right.
Sealed by Koitsu at lower left.
Koitsu catalog no.: TK-TM-84
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Toning at back is only slightly visible at front. A couple of marks in sky to upper right of ship.
Listed as "very rare" in the Koitsu catalog.

Hiroshige Ando
A Pair of Poppies and Quails
Size: Approximately 8 x 3.75 inches.
Date: ca 1910.
Publisher: Matsumoto Print Works. No. 364 publisher's tag on back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.
Note: We find these Matsumoto-published Hiroshige scenes to be particularly good, but we don't list all of them. Please contact us if you are interested in seeing others.

Hiroshige Ando
Sudden Shower Over Shin Ohashi Bridge
Size: Approximately 5.625 x 3.5 inches.
Date: ca 1910.
Publisher: Matsumoto Print Works. No. 417 publisher's tag on back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.
Note: We find these Matsumoto-published Hiroshige scenes to be particularly good, but we don't list all of them. Please contact us if you are interested in seeing others.

Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870 - 1949)
Tago Bay (Tagonoura)
Date: 1936. 1970s-90s edition
Size: Chuban. 11.75 x 7.75 inches.
Publisher: Doi.
Koitsu catalog no. TK-DH-2
Condition: Two small spots in top margin. Faint mark near center tree.

Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870 - 1949)
Nikko Futarasan
Date: 1936. 1970s-90s edition
Size: Chuban. 11.75 x 8 inches.
Publisher: Doi.
Koitsu catalog no. TK-DH-35
Condition: Two small spots in top margin and one on back.

Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870 - 1949)
Yokohama Sankei Garden
Date: 1936. 1970s-90s edition
Size: Chuban. 11.75 x 8 inches.
Publisher: Doi.
Koitsu catalog no. TK-DH-28
Condition: Point-sized spots in top margin and one small spot on back.

Takahashi Shotei (1871-1945)
Cherry Blossoms at Sumida River Bank in Rain
Date: Pre-1936.
Size: Mitsugiri-ban. Image size 14.5 x 6.25 inches.
Scroll size: 28. x 8.625 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Title and Shotei seal at lower left.
Reference: M-27 in Shotei catalog. Watanabe #226.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print mounted as silk scroll.
Condition: Light creasing. Back paper of scroll is foxed. One of the knobs of scroll has broken off, but ...

Takahashi Shotei (1871-1945)
Priest in Snow on a Mountain Path
Date: Pre-1936.
Size: Mitsugiri-ban. Image size 14.5 x 6.25 inches.
Scroll size: 28 x 8.625 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Title and Shotei seal at lower left.
Reference: M-60 in Shotei catalog.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print mounted as silk scroll.
Condition: Light creasing. Back paper of scroll is foxed. Knobs of scroll have broken off, but we have them.
Note: One of Shote...

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Lake Shoji
Date: 1934.
Size: Oban. 15.75 x 10.5 inches.
Publisher: Doi Hangaten.
Carver: Harada. Printer: Yokoi.
This seal combination indicates a 1950-62 edition.
Koitsu catalog no. TK-DH-14.
Condition: Small indentation mark above left cloud. Slight creasing and toning.
Note: Another of the spectacular Fuji views for which Koitsu is known. Please also see our Koitsu766 and Koitsu767.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Kyoto Maruyama
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.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Sagami Kutsurei
Size: 5.625 x 3.75 inches.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Takemura seal at lower right.
Date: 1930s.
Koitsu's Shinsei seal at lower left.
Koitsu catalog no. TK-TM-144.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Back has toned areas.
Note: A rare design.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Kyoto Kitano
Size: 5.625 x 3.625 inches.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Takemura seal at lower left.
Date: 1930s.
Koitsu's Shinsei seal at lower right.
Koitsu catalog no.: TK-TM-120.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Back bottom edge is toned.
Note: Unlike the catalog example, this one is titled in the image.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Asakusa Kannondo Temple
Size: 5.5 x 3.625 inches.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo.
Date: 1930s.
Koitsu seal at lower left.
Koitsu catalog no.: TK-TM-132.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

City in the Rain (after Hasui)
(A rare alternative perspective on "City in the Rain" by Kawase Hasui).
Artist: Not known.
Date: 1930s.
Size: 5.625 x 3.75 inches
Publisher: Takemura Hideo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Yoshimoto Gesso
Flowering Branch (likely azaleas)
Date: 1930s.
Print size: Approximately 9.75 x 5 inches.
Publisher: Nishinomiya Yosaku (Stamp on verso).
Catalog #1492.
Artist's signature lower right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

(After) Kawase Hasui
Pine Beach at Miho
Date: January 1936.
Size: 7.875 x 5 inches (20.1 x 12.8 cm).
Note: This rare print was the cover of a dinner menu for an N.Y.K. Line cruise ship. There is no menu inside.
Publisher: Likely Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo), who produced another of our ship menu woodblock prints.
Medium: Shin-hanga woodblock print. The traditional means of woodblock print creation was employed for all steps through inking of...

Takahashi Shotei
Drawing up seawater under moonlight.
The figures are engaged in saltmaking, likely at Suma Beach
Date: pre-1936.
Size: Approximately 7.125 x 4.875 inches.
Shotei's Rakutei seal at left.
Reference: S-50 in Shotei catalog.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Lightly foxed. Paper residue on back.

Shoda Koho
Country Scene (sepia version) from the Hasegawa Night Scenes series. Also known as "Canal by Moonlight"
Size: Chuban. Approximately 10.25 x 7.5 inches.
Date: 1910s-60.
Publisher: Nishinomiya. stamp on verso.
Sealed by artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
This example bears the unusual "Nishinomiya Art" stamp on the back. The print was issued, adhered in this case, to a thick card like some very early Hasegawa Night scene editions. It is also uni...

Eagle Perched on a Cliff
Artist: Not Known. Variously attributed to Koson or Koho.
Date: ca 1930s.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Size: Approximately 8.5 x 3.75 inches
Provenance: The Robert O. Muller Estate.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Original white kento mark at the lower right corner.

Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995)
Morinji in Spring
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.75 x 10.75 inches.
Date: 1951. This edition later.
Impressed block signature.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition. Back has one piece of tape and one spot where the paper is slightly thinner.

Joichi Hoshi (1911-1979)
High Treetop (Red) (Takai Kozue - Aka)
Date: 1976.
Sheet size: 8.875 x 6.625 inches (22.5 x 16.2 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Faint matte toning visible outside the image.
Notes: We've added both photos and scans, one of which shows the lovely metallics.

Kawase Hasui
Houses by Water at Night
Date: 1951.
Size: Approximately 2.25 x 1.5 inches. Card size: 3.5 x 2.25 inches.
Hasui seal at right.
Woodblock print is attached along its top edge only to original blank card.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Condition: Excellent.
- A rare and truly tiny design.

Title: Mountain Temple and Snow
Artist: Not known.
Print size: Approximately 5.75 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.