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Style: Showa
Japanese Antique Large Iron Plate Abstract Art 1900s-1940s / Wabi Sabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is a door that was an iron plate door made in Japan.
It is an old fixture made in the early Showa period (1900s-1940s), with iron plates carefully stretched over a cedar wood fr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Iron
Japanese Antique Lacquered Board/“Negoro” /Like abstract painting
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is an old lacquered board made in Japan.
It is called a "Negoro" board.
Negoro is a type of Japanese lacquerware.
It is characterized by applying black lacquer to the wood base ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Cypress
Wooden workbench of a Japanese lacquerware craftsman/20th century/wall-hanging
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a lacquerware craftsman's workbench believed to have been actually used in Fukushima Prefecture and other areas in the Tohoku region between 1945 and 1960. This box-shaped st...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Cedar, Lacquer
Early 20th Century Japanese Cherry Blossom Screen by Kano Sanrakuki
Located in Kyoto, JP
Cherry Blossoms
Kano Sanrakuki (1898-1981)
Showa period, circa 1930
2-panel Japanese Screen
Color, gofun and gold leaf on paper
Against a backdrop of gold-leafed ground, the lichen covered trunk and branches of the life-sized cherry blossom tree reach out and beyond the confines of the pictorial surface. The overall composition has a feeling of flatness which draws emphasis to the surface and the three-dimensionality of the cherry blossoms. Painstakingly built-up layers of thickly applied shell-white gofun detail the voluminous blossoms and cover large areas of this tour-de-force of Japanese Nihonga painting. By simplifying the background, minimizing the number of colors and depicting the blossoms with such heavy relief, the artist has emphasized the stunning presence of the cherry tree. The type of tree depicted is the Yae-Zakura; a double-layered type of cherry blossom famed for its beauty and strength. When we think of Japanese cherry blossoms, the first thing that comes to mind is Somei Yoshino variety, which has a single flower with five almost white petals. This type is fragile and easily blown away by strong wind or rain. Most of the double-flowered cherry blossoms begin to bloom when the Somei-Yoshino falls, and the flowering period lasts longer than that of the Somei-Yoshino.
Kano Sanrakuki originally studied painting at the Kyoto City Arts and Crafts School under the tutelage of Yamamoto Shunkyo...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
Wooden work board of an old Japanese lacquerware craftsman/wall hanging object
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a workbench used by a lacquerware craftsman around the Showa era. Originally, it was a workbench with drawers, but the drawer portion has been lost, leaving only the top boar...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Hiroshi Yoshida Signed Japanese Woodblock Print Hokuryo with Jizuri Seal, 1937
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful image titled "Hokuryo" by one of Japan's finest 20th century artist and one of, if not the greatest working artist in the Shin-Hanga movement. Yos...
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1930s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Tadashi Nakayama Signed Limited Ed. Japanese Woodblock Print Girl with Flute 'B'
Located in Studio City, CA
An exceptionally large, complexly designed (note the subtle repeated butterfly design pattern in the background and to the right of the main subject - apparently the artist's daughte...
Category
1980s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paper
Tadashi Nakayama Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Two Horses 1963
Located in Studio City, CA
This wonderfully designed, abstract work by esteemed Japanese printmaker Tadashi Nakayama. The print is pencil signed, numbered (13/80), dated 1963, stamped on the verso by the artist, and embellished with metallic pigments. It is an uncommon and hard to find work.
Nakayama has exhibited internationally in cities such as Rome, Tokyo, Krakow, Milan, and his works can be found in museums around the world including:
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia.
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Ohio, USA.
fine Arts Museum of San Francisco - Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, USA.
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii, USA.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA.
Western Australian Art Museum, Perth...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
circa 1930 Japanese Silver Screens by Isoi Joshin, Flowers of the Four Seasons
Located in Kyoto, JP
Flowers of the four seasons
Isoi Joshin (1883-1964)
Pair of six-panel Japanese screens
Ink, pigment, lacquer and silver leaf on pa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Asian Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Silver 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...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk, Plexiglass, Paper, Wood
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Antique Wall-Hanging Wooden Flower Vessel 1900s-1940s / Wabi Sabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old wall-mounted wooden vase made in Japan.
It was made in the early Showa period (1900s-1940s).
It looks like a work of sculpture that makes the most of the natural wood....
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Cedar
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Showa Two Panel Screen Blossoming Prunus Tree
Located in Rio Vista, CA
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...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Brass
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk, Paper
Old Japanese root tree object/Wall ornament/Wall decoration
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is an old Japanese wooden object.
It is carved from the root of a tree.
I believe it was made from the late Showa period to the early Heisei period.
The wood was originally a li...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Kiyoshi Saito Signed Japanese Woodblock Geisha Print Maiko Kyoto 3
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully and serenely composed woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, contem...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Kiyoshi Saito Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Bisyamonten, Kyoto
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully designed and composed woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, contem...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
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...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Brass
$2,400 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Kiyoshi Saito Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Daitoku-Ji Kyoto D
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully composed woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, contemporary Japanese printmakers of the 20th century. This print, which is titled "Daitoku-ji Kyoto (D)" is from a series of Kyoto temple images that Saito created. The woodblock print features strong, contrasting colors, beautiful wood grain, and a complex design - the cross-shaped walkway pattern which is highlighted by the small precisely placed stones is repeated on the temple wall. The wood grain in the yard, temple walls and sky add another layer of compositional depth.
The print is signed in black ink and stamped/sealed in red within the image It is likely titled, dated (1960), and numbered (from a limited edition of 150) in pencil by the artist in the lower margin but hidden below the mat. Saito's "self-carved, self printed Kiyoshi Saito" personal label with his red chop seal...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Japanese Indigo Dyed Old Embroidery Cloth / Japanese Toy Pattern / 1912-1960
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
It is a Japanese indigo dyed antique cloth.
It calls its name "fu-ro-shi-ki".
Originally used in the dressing room of the public bath "furo" during the...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Cotton
Japanese Silk Obi Kimono Belt /Table runner 1970s Gold Two Cranes
Located in Paris, FR
This is a Fukuro Obi made in Japan around 1970s.
It is made with Gold Silk (Kinshi) and it is in good condition.
Two cranes walking or flying together is the ultimate symbol of lo...
Category
1970s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk
$398 Sale Price
20% Off
Kaoru Kawano Signed Large Japanese Woodblock Print Dancing Geisha Figure Eshima
By Kaoru Kawano
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful work by famed Japanese artist Kaoru Kawano who was known for his whimsical portrayals of women, children, and animals. Stylistically, he was one of the first Japanese artists to combine Western-style elements with the traditional methods of woodblock printmaking. This work is known as "Dancing Figure (Eshima)"
The print is signed (in white ink within the image) and sealed (in red) by Kawano.
This work is a quite rare self-printed lifetime double dai Oban large-size print. The quality and colors are striking. It is likely from a limited edition and perhaps numbered on the lower margin (we can not verify as it was previously framed but we are confident that this is the case).
A very beautiful and rich image. Would make for a great addition to any Japanese art and print collection or Stand-out accent work in about any setting.
Frame dimensions: 30.5" high, 20.5" wide, .5" deep
Viewable art...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Japanese paintings with old kanji characters/20th century
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a painting of kanji drawn in Japan around the 20th century.
The artist's name is unknown.
It is hand-drawn.
This is 24 Japanese kanji, each of which is pronounced "kai" or "g...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Kiyoshi Saito Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Hirato Nagasaki A
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully composed woodblock print by famed Japanese Sosaku Hanga printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, contem...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Clifton Karhu Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print "Kamigano"
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, large woodblock print by American master printmaker Clifton Karhu who lived in Japan for over 50 years. Karhu's work gained great e...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
c. 1920s "Cormorant with Fish" by Ohara Koson
By Ohara Koson
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1920s Japanese woodblock print "Cormorant with Fish" by Ohara Koson. Ohara Koson (Shoson), 1877-1945. Provenance: Dr. Hugh McCormick Smith (1865-1941), world famous naturalist,...
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1920s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
Tsuchiya Koitsu Japanese Woodblock Print Sunset at Tomonotsu, Inland Sea, 1940
By Tsuchiya Koitsu
Located in Studio City, CA
A very beautiful, serene and relatively rare woodblock print by famed Japanese artist Tsuchiya Koitsu titled "Sunset at Tomonotsu, Inland Sea" was made...
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1940s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Toko Shinoda Signed Large Limited Edition Japanese Lithograph Print Moon, 1965
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Studio City, CA
Exquisite in design and execution. This work, titled "Moon", is by Japanese master printmaker Toko Shinoda (1913-2021) who is universally known for her merging of traditional Japanese calligraphy with modern abstract expressionism and use of Sumi ink.
This print is hand-signed in pencil, titled, dated (1965), and numbered (3 /10) by the artist. It is from a very limited and small edition thus scarce and rare.
Would be a great addition to any collectors of Shinoda's work or Japanese or Asian art or print collection or an eye-catching stand-alone accent artwork in about any setting. Sure to draw attention.
Shinoda's works can be found in numerous private collections and international museums including:
Albright–Knox Art Gallery, NY
Art Institute of Chicago
British Museum, London UK
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido
Harvard Art Museums
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Lehigh University Art Galleries
Luxembourg Royal Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), New York
Museum fuer Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin
Museum of fine Arts, Boston
Museum of fine Arts, Gifu
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
National Gallery of Victoria
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
National Museum of Singapore
Niigata City Art Museum
Singapore Art...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Kiyoshi Saito Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Nara, circa 1962
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully composed woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, contemporary Japane...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Japanese Signed Limited Edition Mezzotint Fruit Crab Apple Still Life Print
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous and beautifully textured mezzotint print in the style of fellow Japanese artists Wako Ito, Hamanishi Katsunori, Tomoe Yokoi, Kaoru Saito, and Yozo Hamaguchi.
The print is pencil signed (Noriko?), titled ("Crab Apple...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Yoshitoshi Mori Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Stencil Print, 1969
Located in Studio City, CA
A large, earthly toned, dramatically composed print, with just the right touch of humor, is by Japanese master printmaker Yoshitoshi Mori who was famed ...
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1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Hodaka Yoshida Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print "Cause, Blue"
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully realized, deeply colored abstract work titled "Cause, Blue" by renowned Japanese modern artist Hodaka Yoshida who was the second son of one of Japan's most celebrated a...
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1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Pair Framed Japanese Art Deco Botanical Woodblock Prints C.1930
Located in London, GB
Pair Framed Japanese Art Deco Botanical Woodblock Prints C.1930
Original hand-printed Japanese colour woodblock print.
Printed in 1930 and 1931. Signed and with artist's red seal.
Ex...
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Early 20th Century Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Paul Jacoulet Japanese Surimono Woodblock Print Le Nid, Coree the Nest, Korea
Located in Studio City, CA
A fantastic surimono woodblock print by French artist Paul Jacoulet titled "Le Nid, Coree." Jacoulet was famed for his techniques involving lacquers, embossing, mica, and metal pigments, and with experimentations with powdered semi-precious stones. These authentic smaller, more personalized prints, known as surimonos, were made after designs of his regular, larger woodblocks...
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1940s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Masaoka Konobu Hasegawa Signed Rare Japanese Bunraku Puppet Woodblock Print
Located in Studio City, CA
A somewhat rare and hard-to-find image by Japanese artist Masaoka Konobu Hasegawa (though we have also seen this image attributed to artist Hanabusa Hideki as well) of a male Bunraku puppet...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Japanese Old Iron Frame Of Winnow / Wall Decoration / Wabi-sabi Mingei
Located in Iwate-gun Shizukuishi-cho, Iwate Prefecture
This is an old Japanese winnowing basket's iron frame.
Winnowing basket is a single-mouthed or round-plate-shaped folk utensils used for sorting, transporting, and drying grains.
I...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Iron
Japanese Style Two-Panel Screen Winter Goose in Flight
Located in Rio Vista, CA
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...
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20th Century Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Brass
Kiyoshi Saito Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Katsura Kyoto G
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully composed woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, contemporary Japanese printmakers of the 20th century. This print, titled "Katsura Kyoto...
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1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Masaoka Konobu Hasegawa Signed Rare Japanese Bunraku Puppet Woodblock Print
Located in Studio City, CA
A somewhat rare and hard-to-find image by Japanese artist Masaoka Konobu Hasegawa (though we have also seen this image also attributed to artist Hanabusa Hideki as well) of a female Bunraku puppet...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Junichiro Sekino Japanese Woodblock Print Monjuro and Jihei of Bunraku Puppets
Located in Studio City, CA
This exceptional and stunning, limited edition woodblock print is considered by many experts to be one of Sekino's masterpiece works (along with "Eiza and Matsuomaru"). The print of bunraku puppeteer master Kiritake Monjûrô is sealed, signed in pencil and numbered (76/100) by the artist and is also matted and framed. The print is circa 1953.
A scarce and rare print.
Junichiro Sekino was largely considered, along with Kiyoshi Saito, to be one of Japan's paramount 20th century master print artists. Both were prominent leaders of the Sosaku Hanga movement. Sekino's works can be found in many museums including:
The Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., the Art Institute Chicago...
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1950s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Junichiro Sekino Signed Japanese Woodblock Print Boy and His Dog
Located in Studio City, CA
A relatively large, very appealing and enduring image of youth and friendship exemplified by a boy and his dog by master Japanese artist or printer Junichiro Sekino. The print is stamped with the artist's seal and signed in pencil by the artist and may also be numbered and dated as well, as most of his works are, but if so, it is hidden under the mat.
Junichiro Sekino was largely considered, along with Kiyoshi Saito, to be one of Japan's paramount 20th-century master print artists. Both were prominent leaders of the Sosaku Hanga movement. Sekino's works can be found in many museums including:
The Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., the Art Institute Chicago...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Old Japanese wooden wall hanging tropical fish picture / 20th century
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a tropical fish carving frame made in Japan, probably around the 20th century.
The frame is made of beech wood, and the base of the picture is paulownia wood.
Different types...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Kiyoshi Saito Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Hokkaido 'B' 1961
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully composed woodblock print by famed Japanese Sosaku Hanga printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, contem...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Vintage Japanese Framed Silk Embroidery Tapestry of Red Mount Fuji at Dawn Dusk
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, hand stitched Japanese silk embroidery/tapestry featuring a glowing red Mount Fuji (in the early morning dawn light or later dusk) rising above the undulating ocean like...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk, Wood
Kiyoshi Saitō Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print of Temple, 1965
Located in Studio City, CA
A precisely composed, darkly hued woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, contempo...
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1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Junichiro Sekino Signed Limited Japanese Woodblock Print Mr. Ozek's Daughter
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully composed and colored, limited edition woodblock print by famed Japanese artist Junichiro Sekino
This print, which is titled "Mr. Ozek's Daughter", is pencil signed, sealed in red, dated (1966), and numbered (5/100) by the master printmaker. A beautiful snapshot of a child and her favorite doll, an ever-trusted companion. Notice how the doll holds her hand in a protective gesture.
Junichiro Sekino was largely considered, along with Kiyoshi Saito, to be one of Japan's paramount 20th century master print artists. Both were prominent leaders of the Sosaku Hanga movement. Sekino's works can be found in many museums including:
The Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., the Art Institute Chicago, the Museum of fine Art, Boston, the British Museum, and the Portland Art Museum among many other fine museums throughout the world.
This listing is for print only (no frame).
Would be a fantastic addition to any modern Japanese print...
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1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Japanese Porcelain Plaque Arita Winter Landscape by Fujii Shumei, 20th Century
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Lovely and rare piece with documentation.
A superb blue and white porcelain plaque, with a landscape. Made by Fuji Shumei
Fujii Mr. A...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Two Panel Screen Late Autumn Forest, Rare Obara Paper Art Screen
Located in Hudson, NY
A masterful landscape made entirely of carefully arranged mulberry paper fibers in a Japanese art practice called Obara. Accented with gold leaf. Incredible craftsmanship and a wonderful rendering of bare trees. Made by Yamauchi Issei (b. 1929), stamped in the corner. Issei is well known throughout Japan as the leading artist in Obara Paper Art. Starting in 1948, he apprenticed with Fuji Tatsukichi, a leading proponent of the arts and crafts movement in Japan who worked to Revive many cultural traditions on the brink of extinction. Issei started exhibiting in the Nitten in 1953, won the Gold Medal in 1963, and eventually became a juror. His artwork was given as a gift to the Showa Emperor of Japan, as well as dignitaries such as General Douglas MacArthur...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
Vintage Japanese Formal Black Silk Kimono with Pheonix Embroidery
Located in Atlanta, GA
A vintage Japanese silk Kuro Tomesode Kimono, circa 1950s-1980s. Kuro Tomesode is a dress for married woman for the most formal occasions, equivalent of the evening gowns in the west. It is overall black, decorated only with patterns of bright colors on the bottom. This kimono has three Mon family crests on the front and back shoulder. It is lined with white silk in its interior. On the front, it features exposed white stitches around neck and breast, a very subtle and elegant touch. The bottom part of the kimono is decorated with an embroidery imagery of two phoenix in flight. The lavish use of gold and polychrome threads and meticulous rendition of the birds contrast greatly with the otherwise sober black background. Pheonix is the mythical bird traditionally represents the Queen or Female Supreme in Chinese culture. Known as Hoo-oo in Japanese, Pheonix is a symbol of good fortune, power and divine wisdom and represents the sun goddess Amaterasu, the Queen of Heaven and Creation, who was believed to be the ancestor of the lines of the Japanese imperial family...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk
Japanese Two-Panel Screen Spring Flowers
Located in Hudson, NY
A vibrant celebration of spring using a colorful ensemble of coxcomb, irises, lilies, hybiscus, and a blossoming cherry tree. Great examples of "tarashikomi" or "painting-in", a Rim...
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1930s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk, Paper
Exceptional Japanese Summer Asa Hitoe Weft Ikat Kimono Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
A super fine Japanese summer unlined (Hitoe) Kimono made with a soft Asa fiber blended with silk. The garment was hand-stitched and dated to circa 1930-50s Showa period. It is hard t...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Silk
Japanese Six-Panel Screen Buck and Doe at Dawn
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese six-panel screen: Buck and doe at dawn. Showa period (1926-1989) painting of a rising sun seen through a woodland scene with a pair of deer. In Japan, deer are thought to be...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Two Panel Screen Moon Rising Over Turbulent Ocean Landscape
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary sumie (ink) painting on silver.
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1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
20th Century Showa Period Beautiful Spring Garden Folding Screen Two Panels
Located in Brescia, IT
Japanese screen with two doors painted with mineral pigments on rice paper. Early Showa period.
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Late 20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Japanese Two Panel Screen Moon Viewing
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese two panel screen: Moon Viewing, painting of two noblewomen admiring the full moon outdoors. Extremely sophisticated execution of painting ove...
Category
1970s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
Japanese Cup of Sake 1960s Showa Porcelain Landscape of ISE
Located in Paris, FR
This is a small cup for drinking sake. It is called Ochoko in Japanese.
It was made in showa era around 1960s. It is made with porcelain and all hand painted.
This is Kutani ware.
...
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1960s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Two Panel Screen Chrysanthemums Through the Mist Obara Art Screen
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese two panel screen: Chrysanthemums Through the Mist Obara Paper Art Screen. Surreal and masterful rendering of chrysanthemums cloaked in mist that varies in opacity made entirely of carefully arranged mulberry paper fibers in a Japanese art practice called Obara. Accented with gold leaf. Unique in terms of both execution and dreamlike mood. Made by Yamauchi Issei (b. 1929), stamped in the corner. Issei is well known throughout Japan as the leading artist in Obara Paper Art. Starting in 1948, he apprenticed with Fuji Tatsukichi, a leading proponent of the arts and crafts movement in Japan who worked to revive many cultural traditions on the brink of extinction. Issei started exhibiting in the Nitten in 1953, won the gold medal in 1963, and eventually became a juror. His artwork was given as a gift to the Showa Emperor of Japan, as well as dignitaries such as General Douglas MacArthur...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paper
Japanese Two-Panel Screen "Women in Western Dress"
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Women in Western Dress, Nihonga style painting of two young women in Western style summer clothing, sitting at water's edge and cooling off by putting their feet in the water. Showa period painting...
Category
1930s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paper
Yoshitoshi Mori Signed Large Limited Edition Japanese Stencil Print, 1985
Located in Studio City, CA
A quite large and engaging fine print by famed Japanese printmaker Yoshitoshi Mori. The print portrays an ancient Samurai, one of Mori's favorite subjects, with an arrowhead in hand. It is stamped, signed, dated (1985) and numbered (12/50) by the artist. The original 1985 price of 300,000 yen can be seen written along the bottom edge of print. I have only seen this print offered once before making it relatively rare. A must have for collectors or admirers of Yoshitoshi Mori's work or lovers of Japanese prints in general. Would stand out in any setting and/or collection.
The print has been professionally framed.
Framed dimensions: 37" high, 45" wide and 1" deep
Considered to be one of Japan's finest and most innovative 20th century print makers, Mori has exhibited throughout the world and his works can be found in permanent collections in such museums and galleries as:
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Art Institute of Chicago
Baltimore Museum of Art
Barcelona Art...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Junichiro Sekino Signed Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Girl in Kimono
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully composed and colored, limited edition woodblock print by famed Japanese artist Junichiro Sekino.
This print, which is titled "Profile/ Portrait of Young Girl in Kimono", is signed and sealed/ stamped in red at the lower right. It was created in 1957 and comes from a limited edition of 100 prints (the exact number of this particular print is likely listed in pencil below the matt but we have not removed the print from the frame to confirm the exact number). An exquisite and rare/hard-to-find work. The detail in the girl's kimono is quite beautiful.
Junichiro Sekino was largely considered, along with Kiyoshi Saito, to be one of Japan's paramount 20th-century master print artists. Both were prominent leaders of the Sosaku Hanga movement. Sekino's works can be found in many museums including:
The Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., the Art Institute Chicago, the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, the British Museum, and the Portland Art Museum among many other Fine museums throughout the world.
A version of this image can be found in the Harvard Art...
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1950s Japanese Vintage Showa Wall Decorations
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Wood, Paper
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