Japanese Painting Meiji Period Scroll by Kano Hogai Landscape a Luxury Craft

``Snowy Mountains and Gorges'' drawn by the great master Kano Hogai . This is a wonderful work drawn using the techniques of the Kano school. Original is Author: Kano Hogai (1828-...

Hashimoto Dokuzan was a leading figure in early twentieth-century Zen Buddhism, serving as abbot of the major monastery Shōkokuji in the city of Kyoto and served as chief, kanchō, of the Shōkokuji branch of the Rinzai sect of Zen from 1909 to 1933. Before he entered the priesthood, he trained to be a painter under the celebrated literati artist Tomioka Tessai and continued to paint throughout his life. The present worked shows a lone Chinese man in a deep woods, leaning over the railing of a stone bridge to gaze at rushing stream below—a scene of communion with nature that East Asian painters...

[Authentic work] ◆ Norikuni Kawamura ◆ Junsei in ink ◆ Double box ◆ Hand-painted ◆ Silk ◆ Hanging scroll Kenho Kawamura [Artist directory appraised...

[Authentic Artwork] ◆ Tadashi Mamiya ◆ Waterfall ◆ Japanese Painting ◆ Saitama Prefecture ◆ Hand-Painted ◆ Silk ◆ Hanging Scroll Discover the serene beauty of Tadashi Mamiya's "Wate...

[Authentic work] ◆ Gengetsu Yazawa ◆ Mountain and Lake Off Day ◆ box ◆ Landscape ◆ Nagano Prefecture ◆ Handwritten ◆ Paperback ◆ Hanging scroll ◆ Gengetsu Yazawa Art yearbook appr...

[Authentic Artwork] ◆ Bisen Fukuda ◆ Chinese Landscape ◆ Lake Dongting ◆ Illustration of the Great Dongting ◆ Box ◆ Handpainted ◆ Paper ◆ Hanging Scroll ◆ Explore the artistic world...

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...

A set of three paintings of ink and watercolor on silk mounted within brocade borders as scrolls by Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918). This is a very rare an...

This is a picture of a cat drawn by a person named "Toshizumi Nitta" from the end of the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji period. She is a very simple and cute cat. He is a vassal of the Tokugawa Shogunate, born in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture (southern part of Gunma Prefecture). He was related to the Tokugawa family and lived in a large mansion in the Ota clan in Gunma prefecture. However, the Nitta family's territory was very small, and they were by no means a wealthy vassal. He seems to have lived quite poorly. So he painted cats and sold them to people. The Nitta family continued to draw pictures of this cat for four generations. "Nitta toshizumi" is equivalent to the fourth generation. During the Edo period, sericulture was thriving in the Kanto region. Cats were said to be the gods of silkworms, as they drive away mice, the natural enemies of silkworms. It was the Nitta family who drew such a cat on paper, pasted it in the silkworm chamber, and sold it as a mouse repellent. There were also other monks who painted pictures of cats, but the Nitta family in particular was related to the Tokugawa family, so people believed that paintings of cats had special powers. , a lot of paintings...

A fine matching pair of hanging scrolls ink on paper mounted in green brocade borders circa Edo period (17-18th century). The Kano school painting depicts wild geese in the reeds by the margin of water, a popular subject borrowed from the Chinese tradition. Both painting were signed as Tanyu with a red seal of Morinobu, his birth name. The storage box is also present and was inscribed with the title Painting of Geese and Reeds and Kano Tanyu...

Large and exceptional Japanese hanging scroll with a realistically painted depiction of a nesting crane by Yoshifuji Yoshio, Taisho/Showa perio...

Japanese Kano school screen with pine tree, camellias, cherry blossom and Chinese figures in the landscape, circa 18th century. Materials: Pigmen...