Fine Framed Japanese Brush Painting of Bodhisattva

Fine Japanese brush painting of cherry blossom festival, ink and color on silk, 19th century, museum conservation framed. Overall size: 68" hi...

Japanese brush painting of a standing Bodhisattva of Mercy, beautiful colors and brush work, 19th century, original brocade mount

Fine elegant Japanese brush painting of four kittens with bees and flowers, curious and adorable kitten watching bees. Very finely painted. Ca. 1900 , ink and color on silk. Conserva...

Framed Japanese brush painting of two white geese swimming in a pond, 19th century, ink on paper, original brocade mount. Overall size with frame: 58" height 26" width Image size...

refined Japanese brush painting of samurais and archers in the landscape, a section originally from a handscroll. ink and color on silk. Cons...

Refined Chinese brush painting of plants, ink on rice paper, 19th century, signed with seal. Overall size: 17.6 width. 15.5" height Image size: 10.6"...

An ink painting on the fan surface by Japanese Zen artist Hidaka Tetsuo (1791-1871), now framed in a traditional Japanese carved wood frame with silk fabric mat and decorative hangin...

Two framed panels by Yamamoto Shunkyo depicting a carp (koi) leaping from a river. Ink and gold leaf on paper. Instinctively brushed in a freehand s...

A large and incredible Japanese painting of a Buddhist temple hall with Amida Nyorai, late Edo or early Meiji period, mid-19th century, Japan. Mounted wit...

An antique horizontal Japanese Meiji period qouache watercolor painting with black lacquered frame under glass. 65.5 inches long, 17inches high. Th...

Although western painting was initially embraced during Japan’s Meiji period (1868-1912), artists brought on a revival of traditional painting styles as they sought to create a modern Japanese style with roots in the past. This exquisite hanging scroll demonstrates the preference for soft layering of gray tones with judicious use of color. The landscape is rendered in soft ink washes that subtly distinguish between water, mountain, and sky. The scroll painting...

Tanaka Tessen (b.1890) Dahlias and Roosters Taisho period, circa 1920 Framed painting. Mineral pigments and ink on silk. Dimensions (framed): H. 159 cm x W. 97 cm x D. 2.5 cm (62.5” x 38” x 1”) An ornate and complex composition in which the artist explores almost the entire painting surface. The coloration is bold and evocative and the tinted silk ground recreates the warm golden glow of sunset. Soft, luminous brushwork details the black feathers of the roosters, which seem to cloud and blur in counterpoint to the sharper points of the eyes and beaks. Their brilliant red combs balance the composition, echoing the rich burgundy hues of the dahlias; the flowers exquisite and lifelike. Dahlias were an exotic subject favored by painters of the Taisho era. The painting belongs to the school of Kyoto Nihonga, exemplifying the principles of decorative elegance and consumate brush technique with which it was intimately associated. Painters of the time relied on the Shijo school method, basing the forms of the composition from life sketches. Sometimes they were then integrated with elements derived from Chinese bird and flower...