Katsushika Hokusai

Farmers Eating - Woodcut Print by Katsushika Hokusai - 1814

1814

Landscape from "Fugaku hyakkei" is an original modern artwork realized after Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849). Original Woodcut print from the series "Fugaku hyakkei" (100 views of Mount Fuji). From the second posthumous edition 1878. Passepartout is included. Publisher Eiraku Toshiro. Sheet dimensions: 24 x 26 cm. Good conditions. Signs of age and wear. Hokusai created the monumental Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji both as a response to a domestic travel boom in Japan and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji. Landscape from "Fugaku hyakkei" is an original modern artwork realized by Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849) in the Second half of the XIX Century. Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849) known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Hokusai is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa...

The Stirrups of Musashi is an original modern artwork realized by Katsushika Hokusai in 1836. Mushae (double page, book 1836). B/W print. From the book "Ehon Musashi abumi" (The St...

Rare tryptich. Woodcut print nishike-e in loose sheets.  Utagawa Yoshikazu was a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and was active until around 1870. He is remembered for images of battles,...

Landscape from "Fugaku hyakkei" is an original modern artwork realized by Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849). Original Woodcut print from the series "Fugaku Hyakkei" (100 views of Mount Fuji). From the second posthumous edition 1878. Passepartout is included. Publisher Eiraku Toshiro. Sheet dimensions: 24 x 26 cm. Good conditions. Signs of age and wear. Hokusai created the monumental Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji both as a response to a domestic travel boom in Japan and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji. Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849) known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Hokusai is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa...

"Various Himochi" Wagashi Festival Japanese Woodblock Print by Utagawa Toyokuni Rare oversized early 19th century 5-tiered woodblock by Utagawa Ichiyosai Toyokuni, (Japan, 1769-1825), a Japanese lord and wife oversee a sekku festival of food, music, and dolls or toys. '"oshi" is the first day of “Mi (Snake)” in the third month of the lunar calendar. This day, known in modern Japan as the Girls' Festival, originated in China as a form of purification ceremony in which water and drinking peach blossom wine were used to drive away evil. Many kinds of hishi-mochi appear in this picture of hina ningyo (dolls associated with Hinamatsuri, or the Girl’s Day) from Omochae. The custom of eating special dishes at events throughout the year and at milestones in people's lives has existed since ancient times. This paragraph specifically focuses on the annual event called sekku, and life events that involve eating sweets. Joshi is the first day of “Mi (Snake)” in the third month of the lunar calendar. This day, known in modern Japan as the Girls' Festival, originated in China as a form of purification ceremony in which water and drinking peach blossom wine were used to drive away evil. According to the Keiso saijiki, in ancient China, on the third day of the third lunar month, people ate “ryuzetsuhan,” which is the juice of gogyo (Jersey cudweed) mixed with rice flour and nectar. In Japan, there is a record in the Heian period history book Nihon Montoku tenno jitsuroku [839-5] that it was an annual event to make kusamochi using gogyo on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, which may have been influenced by Chinese customs. The tradition of eating kusamochi on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar continued after that. By the Edo period, however, hishimochi had come to be used as a sweet to serve on the third day of the third month. A picture of a hishimochi is included in the Morisada manko , which we mentioned in Part 1. According to it, hishimochi in the Edo period were often three layers of green-white-green instead of the now common red-white-green. However, it is possible to see from our collection that not all hishimochi were made in this way. Omochae published in 1857, is a good example. Omochae is a type of ukiyoe print...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing travelers at a teahouse in Otsu, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji upper left, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a winter scene in Hamamatsu, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji upper right, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige (J...

Aaron Ashley, Inc. Printed in USA Good/fair condition (creasing and staining in bottom left corner) 37 x 14 in.