Japanese Two-Panel Screen Spring Flowers

Screen depicts Summer flowers and birds on gilded silk. Signature reads: Konishi Fukunen. Notes about Artist: Konishi Fukunen (1887-1959) was born the second son of the Paper mounting specialist Konishi Uhei in Takeo, Fukui prefecture in the mid Meiji period. In 1902 he was sent to Kyoto to study painting under Suzuki Shonen...

Mineral pigment on gold silk. Signature reads: Nana Keicho Ho, Shinsho, Gachu ; Seal reads: Soju ; Seal on reverse reads: Koto Fusai.

Japanese two panel screen: Moon Viewing, painting of two noblewomen admiring the full moon outdoors. Extremely sophisticated execution of painting ove...

Japanese two panel screen: Falcons in Flight. Showa period (1926-1989) vibrant painting on silk of eagles hunting over turbulent water. The painting on this screen was made using a d...

Mineral pigments on gilded silk with gilded bronze hardware. Signature reads: Shunkan.

Japanese two panel screen: Summer flowers on silver. Meiji period painting (1868 - 1912) of Summer flowers including morning glories and daisies against a garden fence. Signature and...

Impressive early 19th century Japanese Edo period two-panel screen featuring flowering plants and grasses of autumn. Painted in the Tosa School style Bunka Bunsei period or Ogosho pe...

Serene Japanese Showa period two-panel folding byobu screen depicting a large spring blossoming prunus tree or plum tree. Beautifully painted with ink and natural color pigments on m...

Dramatic Showa period two panel folding byobu screen depicting a large white goose in flight in an evening snow covered winter landscape. Made in the American school style watercolor...

Kokaku Ouya (1911-1966) June 1954 Two-panel Japanese screen. Mineral pigments on paper. In this early Postwar Nihonga painting title ‘June’ a field of blooming irises fills the expansive picture plane. The work is a unification of the realistic and the decorative; relying in sketching from nature and melding it with simplified forms and clear colors. The artist has highlighted chalk white, lilac and deep royal purple against a palette of subdued greens. Spots of bright yellow unify the flower field. The strong sense of vertical composition, and indeed the subject matter are strongly reminiscent of Fukuda Heihachiro’s ‘Irises’. Painted in 1934 this work was recently exhibited at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington as part of the Sotatsu exhibition. Heihachiro freely acknowledged that his concept of a flattened, pure-form decorative style flowed from the Rinpa masters Sotatsu and Korin. The irises as subject matter are a clear homage to a famous screen painting by Ogata Korin. Originally presented as an enormous hanging scroll at the 1954 national Inten exhibition (Japan Art Institute Exhibition), we have had this work converted into a two-fold screen. The thick application of pigments were ultimately unsuitable to the rolling and unrolling of the hanging scroll; and its sheer size, weight and fragility made it very difficult to safely present. Its conversion into a folding screen, which is not uncommon in Japanese art, ensures the preservation and continued enjoyment of the work of art. The Nihon Bijutsuin (Japan Art Institute) oversees the Inten exhibition. It was originally founded in 1898 by Okakura Tenshin. It was shut down temporarily but was revived in 1914 by Yokoyama Taikan...

Spring landscape by an unknown painter of the Rinpa school, 19th century, six-panel ink painted on gold leaf on rice paper. The flowers are made with the "gofun" technique, natural or pigmented white oyster powder. Rinpa (? ?, Rinpa) is one of the major historical schools of Japanese painting. the style was consolidated by the brothers Ogata Korin (1658–1716) and Ogata Kenzan...

Japanese screen with two doors painted with mineral pigments on rice paper. Early Showa period.