MJH Design Arts Paintings and Screens

This 18th century "Kano school" six-panel screen is truly special. The author is unknown, but his singular genius in portraying these cranes near the water creates an emotion that ca...

It is a work drawn by Oi Kunii of the Maruyama school as you can see. It is a spring (cherry blossom)-colored landscape map that makes you feel a quiet...

A bold, spectacular Japanese hand-brushed, hand-painted silk scroll of two horses below plumb tree mountain- worthy of your favorite room Hand painting on silk in simple soft pleasin...

Charming Japanese Showa period two-panel folding byobu screen featuring an embroidered silk picture of beautiful gift boxes. Stunning pattern of Hanaguruma (flower cart) laden with d...

Lovely Nihonga scene Meiji/Taisho period scroll Japan artist painting. Painting size: (Width x height) mm 525 x 1499.

Mid-19th Century Japanese sixfold screen with atmospheric Nanga style painting. Black ink over gold leaf on paper, of a peaceful mountainous landscape emerging from mist. In the fore...

Nice four-panel Japanese screen painted on vegetal paper, depicting a landscape with a red maple, flowers and birds. The size is very refined and easy to place in a design project.

Pines and Cranes Anonymous. Kyoto Kano School. Late 17th/early 18th centuries, circa 1700. Pair of six-panel Japanese folding screens. Ink, gofun, pigment and gold leaf on paper. This bold composition presents two pine trees extending to the left and right across a gold leaf background. One tree is silhouetted against a green ground, golden clouds obscuring its true size, the other stretches across a stylized waterway. The pines are paired with Manchurian cranes with red crests and snow white plumage. Both have been highly auspicious motifs in East Asia since Chinese antiquity. Here the artist utilized fluid and instinctive ink brushstrokes to define the trunk, branches and tail feathers, in strong contrast to the precision and sharp angularity of the crane’s legs and beaks. The adoption of this vast metallic painting support required an unerring sense of design and composition, so that the negative space surrounding motifs could imply context for the otherwise floating pictorial elements. The brushwork detailing the trunks of the pines, the exaggerated dimensions of the pine trees and the strength and dynamism of the composition are all reminiscent of Kano Eitoku...

Axis: Vertical 194 cm, horizontal 49.5 cm Inside: Vertical 126 cm, horizontal 37 cm some errors will occur in the dimensions. Please understand. Status I don't know the details of ...

Reika Yoshikawa (Reika Yoshikawa, Meiji eight years (1875) May 4 days-Showa 4 years (1929) March 25), the Meiji Taisho era Japan painter. His real name is Hitoshi, commonly known as Saburo. Yamato-e basic widely while the oriental of classical learning in art, line drawing, especially in Seiga paintings representation by taking advantage of beautiful thin line, such as flow, "draw" from "null" to the center of gravity is going modern...

Exceptional pair of Japanese screens, 20th century Six parts, six times 45 cm wide Gold spotted paper with parts of old screens.

A Japanese sumi ink calligraphy Buddhist mandala mounted as a paper hanging scroll known as Kakejiku or sometimes Moji mandala. Termed as gohonzon in Japanese, it is a venerated object within Nichiren Buddhism (Hokkeshu; lotus sect). The originally concept was developed by the 13th century Buddhist priest Nichiren to guide the energy of the devotional chanting to...