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Place of Origin: Japanese
17th Century Japanese Screen. Ink Plum Tree & Birds by Kano Naonobu.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Kano Naonobu (1607-1650)
Plum Tree and Birds
Six-fold Japanese Screen. Ink and slight color on paper.
In this evocative ink work spread over a six-panel folding screen, we see the consummation of the elegance and refinement of the Edo Kano school. This 17th century screen is a rare surviving example of a large-scale bird and flower painting by Kano Naonobu, the younger brother of Kano Tanyu...
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17th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
Japanese antique screen - EDO period - Willow over a stream
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Antique Japanese 6 panel screen from the early Edo period (C1650). One of a pair (both available). This magnificent golden screen shows...
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1650s Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Painting, Framed Panel, Willow and Sparrows, circa 1920 Taisho era
Located in Kyoto, JP
Anonymous
Summer willow and sparrows
Taisho period, circa 1920
Framed painting. Mineral pigments, mica, gold, ink and gofun on silk
Dimensions (framed):
H. 98 cm x W. 135 cm x D...
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1920s Taisho Vintage Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Silk
Japanese Painting, Hanging Scroll, Mid 19th Century, Koi and Water Plants
By Iwase Hirotaka
Located in Kyoto, JP
Iwase Hirotaka (1808-1877)
Koi and Water Plants
Hanging scroll, ink, color, gold wash and gold flecks on silk
Inscription: Hirotaka
Seal: Ille...
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1860s Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Japanese Antiques Silver folding screen, 2-panel
Located in Niiza, JP
Unfolded size: 1700 x 1700 x 20 mm
Foldable: 850 x 1700 x 40 mm, 7kg
Estimated size after packaging (sandwiched between 5 mm plywood): 13 CM x 95 CM x 185 CM
Weight 20 KG
A beautifu...
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20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Edo Six Panel Table Screen After Maruyama Okyo
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic diminutive Japanese Edo period table top screen depicting a lively water landscape with flora and fauna. The screen is beautifully painted o...
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19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Japanese Framed Silk Painting, Turtledoves and Peaches, Taisho Era, circa 1920
Located in Kyoto, JP
Nakamura Daizaburo
Turtledoves in a Peach Tree
Taisho period, circa 1920
Framed painting. Mineral pigments, ink and gofun on silk
Signed: Daizaburo
Dimensions (framed)...
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1910s Taisho Vintage Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Silk
Mid-18th Century Japanese Screen Pair, One Hundred Flowers, Chrysanthemums
Located in Kyoto, JP
Omori Soun (b. 1704)
Chrysanthemums - One Hundred Flowers
A Pair of Six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink, color, gofun and gold leaf on paper.
Dating ...
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Mid-18th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Japanese Taisho Period Byobu Four Panel Folding Screen
Located in New York, NY
Antique Byobu Four Panel Screen.
Japan, late 19th to early 20th century. Taisho period.
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Late 19th Century Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
19th Century Japanese Scroll Painting, Birds & Flowers of the Four Seasons
Located in Kyoto, JP
Birds and flowers of the four seasons
Early to mid-19th century
Ink, pigment and gofun on silk
Unidentified artist
Signature: S...
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1830s Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Japanese Showa Six Panel Screen Manchurian Crane Bamboo Grove
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Enchanting Japanese Showa period six-panel byobu screen titled "Bamboo Forest-Immortal Together". The large screen depicts six manchurian cranes in a ...
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20th Century Showa Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Early 19th Century Japanese Screen. Cherry Blossom & Pheasants by Mori Tetsuzan
Located in Kyoto, JP
Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841)
Pheasants and Cherry Blossoms
Two-fold Japanese screen. Ink, color, gofun, gold and silver on paper.
A two-fold Japanese bir...
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Early 19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Showa Four Panel Screen Fall Persimmon Tree
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Beautifully weathered Japanese Showa period four-panel byobu screen depicting a persimmon tree in the fall. Ink and natural color pigments on light gold silk background. Made in the ...
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20th Century Showa Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Japanese Screen mid Edo gold leaf
By Japanese Studio
Located in Brescia, IT
This 18th century six-panel screen is truly special. The author is unknown, but his singular genius in portraying dozens of chrysanthemum flowers created with the white of the "gofun...
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Mid-18th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Early 20th Century Japanese Screen Pair - Ink Pine Trees on Gold
Located in Kyoto, JP
Imao Keisho (1902-1993)
Pine Trees
Early 20th Century, Circa 1930
Pair of six-panel Japanese screens. Ink on silk and gold leaf.
Dimensions: Each screen H. 67.5” x 148” (172 cm x 376 cm)
A pair of monumental six-panel Japanese pine screens by the renowned Nihonga artist Imao Keisho. Here Keisho entirely removed the background and brought the pine trees to the surface of the painting. This simplification of the elements makes the scene exceptionally direct and compelling and injects a very modern...
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Early 20th Century Showa Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Miniature Four-Panel Screen Blue and Green Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
19th century mid-Edo period Japanese four-panel miniature screen. Depicting a beautifully painted Chinese blue and green landscape in the Nanga School...
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19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Antique Framed Japanese Shunga Woodblock Print of a Couple Making Love
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Japanese Shunga woodblock print in gilt frame depicting a man and a woman making love. Created in Japan, this woodblock print called...
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19th Century Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paint
Japanese Antique Pair Jade Green Mandarin Duck Screen Holders
Located in South Burlington, VT
A handsome pair of Japanese hand cast Mandarin Duck screen holders with highly detailed plumage possessing a lovely original jade green finish , early Taisho period, early 20th cen...
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Early 20th Century Meiji Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Iron
Paravento giapponese a sei pannelli dipinto su foglia d'argento
By Japanese Studio
Located in Brescia, IT
Paesaggio giapponese: paravento a sei pannelli dipinto a pigmenti minerali su foglia d'argento.
Elegante e moderno esempio di arte orientale senza figure uccelli o fiori.
Paravento b...
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Mid-20th Century Showa Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silver Leaf
Byobu- Japanese Folding Screen Gold Leaf
By Japanese Studio
Located in Brescia, IT
Japanese six-panel screen from the Kano school: Japanese landscape with an elegant crane.
Hand painted with mineral pigments and gold leaf inks.
The pure gold leaf is laid with great...
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Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Antiques Silver Screen, 6-panel Byobu
Located in Niiza, JP
Size when unfolded: 3480 x 1180 x 15 mm
Can be folded to 580 x 1180 x 105 mm. 7㎏
Estimated size after packaging (sandwiched between 5 mm plywood): 22 CM x 70 CM x 130 CM
Weight 22 KG...
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20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Two-Panel Screen with Snow Cranes on a Willow Tree, 19th C
Located in New York, NY
This great masterpiece is one of the most amazing screen paintings we have seen, each snow crane is painted with its own personality and attitude, using the finest pigments and Gofun...
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1860s Japonisme Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brocade, Wood
Meiji Era, Circa 1900 Japanese Screen Pair, Flowers & Birds of Spring & Autumn
Located in Kyoto, JP
Flowers & Birds of Spring and Autumn
Unknown artist.
Japan. Meiji period, circa 1900.
A pair of six-fold screens. Ink, color, gofun and gold leaf on paper.
Signed: Gaga S...
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1890s Meiji Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Meiji Six Panel Screen Kano School Bird Waterscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Stunning late 19th century Japanese Meiji period six panel byobu screen featuring a deep blue waterscape with pheasants and ducks. Made in the Kano sch...
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19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Japanese Showa Period Peacocks Painted on Silk
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Colorful Japanese ink and color on silk Showa painting of a pair of peacocks. Vivid colors and beautiful details with a signature and seal on right side bottom. Framed in a midcentur...
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20th Century Showa Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Plexiglass, Paper, Wood
19th Century Japanese Screen
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
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...
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19th Century Chinoiserie Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Set of Two Excellent Birds And Dragonfly Shoji Doors Screens
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, an excellent pair/set of two (2) shoji "Birds and Dragonfly" bamboo doors or screens recently acquired from a Japanese private collector. The hand carved boards are artisti...
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Early 20th Century Taisho Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bamboo, Wood
Japanese Two-Panel Kanō Screen -Tale of Genji & Cherry Blossoms
Located in Greenwich, CT
Japanese Two-Panel Screen Kanō school, depicting a scene from the Tale of Genji , with various noble ladies and gentlemen in a landscape of cherry Blossoms - ink, colors and gold ...
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Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
Japanese Screen Painting, circa 1700 'Horses' by Kano Tanshin
Located in Kyoto, JP
Horses
Kano Tanshin Morimasa (1653-1718)
Two-panel tea-ceremony Japanese screen or furosaki
Ink on gold leaf,
late 17th-early 18th century
Measures: H 55 cm x W 182 cm
The Kano school was closely aligned with the warrior class in Japan. The samurai, who lived in a closed and rigid hierarchical society established by the Shogunate, were drawn to the energy and freedom horses symbolize; Kano school artists commonly depicted the equine creatures as they are here, in unfettered and carefree family groups. China originally introduced horse paintings to Japan; the works typically focused on capturing the essence of horses in their various environments and often involved integrating human figures into the images.
Kano Tanshin Morimasa (1653-1718) was the son of Kano Tanyu...
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1690s Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Edo Four Panel Screen Flowering White Chrysanthemums
Located in Rio Vista, CA
19th century extraordinary Japanese late Edo/early Meiji period four-panel byobu screen featuring flowering white chrysanthemums painted in a moriage (raised pigment) style. The pain...
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19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Japanese Large Contemporary Yellow Black Gilded Raised Silk Folding Screen
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Japanese contemporary two panel folding screen or "byobu" featuring genryoku style handcrafted raised silk kimono in yellow, black and gold on a cream color background. Tagasode is t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Brocade
Early 20th Century Japanese 6-Panel Gouache and Gold Leaf Painted Table Screen
Located in Morristown, NJ
20th c., Showa period gouache and gold leaf Japanese screen. Depicting plum tree blossoms on a riverbank across 6 panels. Plum blossoms are often mentioned in Japanese poetry as a symbol of spring...
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20th Century Showa Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Hand Painted, 4 Panel Folding Screen with Crane Birds, Room Divider
Located in Waasmunster, BE
Hand Painted, 4 Panel Folding Screen with Crane Birds, Room Divider
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1970s Japonisme Vintage Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Asian Large Edo Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screen Landscape Monkeys Trees
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous, wonderfully composed six-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen/room divider depicting a family of playful monkeys among the blooming trees and mountainous lands...
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Early 19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Meiji Two-Panel Screen Chinese Country Winter Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Late 19th / early 20th century Japanese Meiji period two-panel folding byobu screen featuring a winter landscape with a Chinese country villa and distant village. Kano School screen ...
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19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
19th Century Japanese Screen, Deer in Spring, Maruyama Shijo School
Located in Kyoto, JP
A six-panel Japanese folding screen from the leading Maruyama-Shijo artist Okamoto Toyohiko (1773-1845). Simply featuring three deer and a few sprigs of foliage on a sumptuous gold-leaf background this work emphasizes naturalistic expression and a masterful use of negative space. Reduced to its most basic elements, the blank spaces inspire imagination and evoke the smells, sounds and even the weather of the scene. Whilst deer are traditionally depicted in association with autumn, here the green growth on the tops of the foliage indicates the season of spring. The work references Maruyama Okyo’s two-panel deer screen...
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Early 19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Golden Mountain Scenery Screen
Located in Fukuoka, JP
This stunning 2-panel screen is a sublime representation of traditional Japanese artistry from the Showa period. It features a delicate and elegant depiction of mountainous landscape...
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20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Textile, Wood
Signed Japanese Meiji Period Table Top Screen, circa 1890
Located in San Francisco, CA
Meiji period Japanese lacquered and hand painted folding table top screen.
The bas relief (heavily textured) sculptural painting of a serene quiet nature setting in an intricately ca...
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Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Paint
Japanese Fine Antique Screen Hand Painted "Buddhist Nature" in Sumi Ink
Located in South Burlington, VT
From our recent Japanese Acquisition Travels
Praised as "the crown of poets from the eastern lands."
Japan, a good antique six-panel screen Byobu depicting hand painted on paper w...
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Early 20th Century Taisho Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Screen, Early 20th Century Wagtail & Chrysanthemum by Ishizaki Koyo
Located in Kyoto, JP
Ishizaki Koyo (1884-1947)
Wagtail & Chrysanthemum
Early 20th century
Folding screen in two-panels. Ink, pigments and gofun on gold leaf.
Sign: Koyo
Seal: Koyo
This ...
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Early 20th Century Taisho Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Edo Four Panel Screen Flowering Peony Prunus Magnolia
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Early 19th century Japanese Edo/Tokugawa period four panel folding byobu table screen featuring peony, prunus, and magnolia. Painted with ink and natural color pigments on silk with ...
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19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Edo Period Seasonal Transition Screen
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Edo Period Seasonal Transition Screen
Period: Edo
Size: 368 x 153 cm
SKU: PTA148
This exquisite six-panel screen, adorned with golden flakes, beautifully portrays the seamles...
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19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Large Japanese 6-panel byôbu 屏風 (folding screen) with chrysanthemum garden
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A very colourful and captivating large six-panel byôbu (folding screen) with a refined continuous painting of a luscious flower garden filled with many different types of chrysanthemums (kiku), next to a winding river.
This multi-coloured painting is set on a shiny gold-leaf background, and the chrysanthemum flowers are painted by using shell paste (gofun) in low relief.
Several clutches with a great variety of chrysanthemum flowers are in full bloom and they each show their unique form and colour. Varying from white, red, yellow and pink. The flowers bloom all around and on different kinds of bamboo fences and trellises.
In Japan chrysanthemums are believed to represent happiness, love, longevity and joy.
The panels are surrounded by two silk borders, a thin black one, and a wide brown one. The screen is protected by a black and red negoro’nuri...
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Late 19th Century Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Asian Pair of Large Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screens Mythical Landscape
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, alluring, wonderfully composed and engaging hand-painted large pair of six-panel Japanese/Asian Byobu folding screens depicting an almost magical/ mythical village scene...
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18th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Mid 19th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Flowers & Birds of the Four Seasons.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Shioka Sorin (1781-1850)
Flowers & Birds of the Four Seasons
Pair of six-panel Japanese Screens. Ink, gofun and pigments on silk.
Dimensions (each screen): H. 91.5cm x W. 285cm (3...
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Mid-19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Japanese Four-Panel Folding Screen Byobu Signed Showa Period C.1950
Located in London, GB
A four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a floral scene with birds.
Japan, C.1950 Showa Period
An attractive example, beautifully h...
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Mid-20th Century Showa Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Paper
Japanese Extraordinary Tall 44 Inch Kokeshi Doll, Signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a collector's dream and extraordinary monumental example of a 44 inch high one- of -a- kind handcrafted and hand painted wooden Kokeshi doll, circa mid-20th century.
Extraord...
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Mid-20th Century Showa Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Japanese Silver Screen Pair, Meiji Period, Herons & Plovers, Shijo School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Heron & Plovers
Ink and silver leaf on paper
Maekawa Bunrei (1837-1917)
A pair of low six-panel Japanese screens by Maekawa Bunrei, a later master of the Kyoto based Shijo school of painting. On the right screen a solitary white heron stands motionless in a stream. On the left screen plovers play along a shoreline. The elegant forms are executed employing fluid, minimalistic ink brushstrokes. The soft brushstrokes and the sharp light of the silver leaf lend the scenes a sense of translucence. The sophisticated composition superbly exploits the long, horizontal pictorial surface of the pair of folding screens...
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Early 1900s Meiji Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silver Leaf
Antique Japanese Six-Panel Screen by Kano Chikanobu "Shushin"
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Late 17th century Kano school peony landscape screens. Both screens signed: Hogan Josen Fujiwara Chikanobu Hitsu - Kano Chikanobu (Shushin) (1660 - 1728...
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Early 18th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Lovely Nihonga Scene Meiji/Taisho Period Scroll Japan Artist Landscape Kunii Oyo
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
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...
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19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Pair of Japanese kakejiku 掛け軸 (hanging scrolls) depicting Niô guardians 仁王
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Pair of impressive, antique kakejiku (hanging scrolls) showcasing the awe-inspiring Niô guardians, also referred to as heavenly kings.
Each painting cap...
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Early 18th Century Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brocade, Silk, Paint
19th Century Japanese Screen for Tea-Ceremony, Ink Bamboo and Plum on Gold Leaf
Located in Kyoto, JP
Three Friends of Winter
Nakajima Raisho (1796-1871)
Late Edo period, circa 1850
Ink and gold leaf on paper.
This is a double-sided Japanese Furosaki or tea-ceremony screen from the mid 19th century; bamboo and plum on the front, young pines the back. It by Nakajima Raisho, a master painter of the Maruyama school in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. In this work Raisho combines exquisite ink brushwork with large open spaces of brilliant gold-leaf to inspire the viewers imagination. Rather than naturalism, he is searching for the phycological impression of the motifs, resulting in abstraction and stylization. His simplification of the motifs the result of looking to capture the inner nature of the objects. This art motif is known as Sho Chiku Bai, or the Three Friends of Winter. Evergreen pine connotes steadfastness, bamboo suggests both strength and flexibility, while plum blossoms unfurling on snow-laden branches imply hardiness. Combined, this trio is emblematic of Japanese new year. Chinese literati were the first to group the three plants together due to their noble characteristics. Like these resilient plants flowering so beautifully in winter, it was expected of the scholar-gentleman to cultivate a strong character with which he would be able to show the same degree of perseverance and steadfastness even during times of adverse conditions.
The screen would have been placed near the hearth of a room used for the Japanese tea ceremony, shielding the fire from draughts and also forming a stimulating and decorative backdrop behind the tea utensils. It would have been used in the Hatsugama, or first tea-ceremony of the new year.
Nakajima Raisho (1796-1871) originally studied under Watanabe Nangaku before entering the school of Maruyama Ozui. He was the highest ranking Maruyama school painter at the end of the Edo period and was known as one of the ‘Four Heian Families’ along with Kishi...
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Mid-19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Edo 19th Century Japanese Folding Screen Six Panels Battle of Menpei
By Japanese Studio
Located in Brescia, IT
Samurai on horseback and by boat from the famous battle of Menpei Japanese folding screen six-panel of "Tosa School" painted with mineral pigments on vegetable on golden silk , earl...
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Early 19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Set of Four Japanese Silk Hanging Scrolls Screens C.1920
Located in London, GB
A stunning set of four Japanese silk mounted vertical hanging scrolls.
Dating from C.1920 Taisho Period.
The watercolour and ink on silk depicts a larg...
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1920s Japonisme Vintage Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Set of Four Japanese Fusuma Painted Door Panels
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Rare set of four Japanese Showa period door panels known as Fusuma in Japanese architecture. Similar to a Shoji room divider but made of an opaque materia...
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20th Century Showa Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Mid 19th Century Framed Japanese Painting. Grasshopper & Hibiscus.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Obata Tosho (1812-1886)
Grasshopper & Hibiscus.
Late Edo period, mid 19th Century
Framed Japanese Painting. Ink and color on paper.
Individually framed 19th century bird and flow...
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Mid-19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Folding Screen Landscape paint on Gold Leaf Six Panels
By Japanese Studio
Located in Brescia, IT
Folding screen depicting a landscape by a painter of the Rinpa school, early 19th century.
Six panels painted in ink on gold leaf and "gofun" on vegetable paper.
Rinpa is one of the ...
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Early 19th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Late 17th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Battle of Ichi-no-tani and Yashima.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Anonymous
Late 17th Century
Battle of Ichi-no-tani & Yashima
Dimensions: Each Screen: H. 175 cm x W. 385 cm (69” x 151.5”)
This pair of Japanese screens depict two significant battles from the Genpei War (1180–85), as recounted in the Tale of the Heike, a semi-historical epic chronicling the conflict between rival clans for control of Japan, written in the early 1200s.
Each screen portrays a single battle through a series of small episodes, framed by gold clouds, landscape elements, and architectural features. True to the style of many screens inspired by The Tale of the Heike, the scenes are rendered in lavish colors and gold, downplaying the brutality of the warfare. Although based on real events, these narratives often glorified and romanticized the heroic feats of the warriors. Viewers at the time would have been familiar with the story’s details, leading to a proliferation of paintings on folding screens inspired by this theme from the late Muromachi to the early Edo periods.
On the right screen, we see the Minamoto’s attack on the Taira, who have retreated from the capital, Kyoto, toward the sea. The central building represents the temporary Taira headquarters, where Taira soldiers are holding the young Emperor Antoku. The Minamoto plan to launch a surprise attack from the rear after descending the steep cliff known as Ichi-no-tani, depicted at the top center. This scene highlights the tactical brilliance of Minamoto commander Yoshitsune and the courage of his men.
The left screen captures moments from the Battle of Yashima...
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Late 17th Century Edo Antique Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
