Hawk Attacking a Duck. 1881. Chuban: 8 x 5 3 /4 (sheet 9 3/4 x 6 5/8). Probably from the book: Bairei's Album of 100 Birds. Publisher: Okura Magohei. Seal: Bairei. $75.
A Mother Takes her Son for A Walk during the Russo-Japanese War. c. 1993. Kakemono: 28 3/8 x 9 7/16. Repairs and staining; fine color. An extremely scarce historical image. Signed Chikanobu. $750.
Yorimasa and the Wild Boar. 1830. Kakuban Surimono. 8 1/4 x 7 1/16. Sheet grubby, some soiling. Gauffrage in the Kimono and the boar's head. Unsigned. $1,500.
Three Carp. 1916. Woodblock. Oban: 8 x 11 3/4 (sheet 10 x 14 1/2). Series of 12 prints: Gekko's Gahou. Subtle bokashi shading. Gauffrage in the fish and water. Signed 'Gekko' above the artist's rectangular seal. $275.
Planting Rice. Vertical oban. 9 7/8 x 4 13/16. Ink transfers; grubby; otherwise in good condition. Signed Hiroshige ga. $175.
Series: Views of Edo.
Cherry Blossom Time Along the Sumida River. (Tokyo). Series: Edo Meisho (Famous Views of Edo). 1849. Horizontal oban: 8 1/2 x 13 1/2 (sheet 9 1/2 x 14 1/2). Publisher: Shorindo (fujiokaya Keijiro). Full margins with a few wormage holes. Signed: Hiroshige ga. $300.
Zojoji Pagoda, Akabane. 1849. 8 11/16 x 13 11/16 (sheet 10 7/8 x 14 11/16). Series: Famous Views of Edo. Horizontal oban. Publisher: Shorindo (Fujiokaya Keijiro). Good color; there is a slight amount of staining in the image, but is otherwise in good condition. Signed: Hiroshige ga. $275.
Kinryuzan Temple, Asakusa in Springtime. 1853. Horizontal oban. 8 1/2 x 13 3/8. Series: Famous Views of Edo. Trimmed; 2 1/2" diagnal printing fold in the right-hand sheet edge; good colors. Signed: Hiroshige ga. $275.
Otanashi River Dam, Oj., #19. Series: 100 Views of Famous Places in Edo. 1857. Vertical oban. 13 1/4 x 9 (sheet 14 3/8 x 9 3/4). Publisher: Uowei. Colors faded; binding holes on right, just into the image. Signed Hiroshige ga. $175.
Pagoda of Zojoji [Temple] Akabane (Station 49). 1857. Series: 100 Famous Views of Edo. Vertical oban. 13 3/8 x 8 7/8 (sheet 14 33/8 x 9 3/4). Full sheet with margins. There are 4 binding holes in the left-hand margin; one wormage spot in the sky. The colors are faded. Signed: Hiroshige ga. $200.
Temmangu Shrine at Kameido. Series: Edo Meisho (Famous Places of Edo). 1847-48. Horizontal oban: 8 1/2 x 13 3/8 (sheet 9 7/8 x 14 5/8). Margins grubby; but otherwise in good condtion. Signed: Hiroshige ga. $750.
[The Temple at Asakusa]. Series: Edo Meisho (Famous Views of Edo). Horizontal oban. 8 5/8 x 13 5/8 (sheet 9 7/8 x 14 3/4). There is a 1 3/16" paper loss, lower right hand, just outside the image; otherwise in excellent condition. Fresh colors on a full sheet. Signed: Hiroshige fude. $450.
Famous Places in the Eastern Capital.
Morita Theatre. Series: Toto Meisho (Famous Views of the Eastern Capital). Horizontal oban. 8 3/4 x 13 1/8. Publisher: Sanoki. Timmed; good color and in good condition. Signed: Hiroshige ga. $550.
The Plum Grove at Kameido. Series: Famous Sites in the Eastern Capital. Mid 1830's. Horizontal oban. 8 3/4 x 13 1/2 (image and sheet). Illustrated: Keys, The Male Journey in Japanese Prints, p. 137. Trimmed; good color and condition. Signed Hiroshige ga. $550.
Suruga Street, Theatre District in Ni-chome. Series: Tota Meisho (Famous Views of the Eastern Capital). 8 13/16 x 13 9/16. Horizontal oban. Publisher: Sanoki or Kikakiu. Good color and impression; trimmed. Signed: Hiroshige gwa. $350.
Sixty-odd Famous Places of Japan (Dai Nippon Roku-Ju Yosha Meisho Zue-E).
The Road Below the Rakan Temple in Buzen Province. Series: Sixty-odd Famous Places of Japan ( Dai Nippon Roku-Ju Yosha Meisho Zue-E). Series of 70 prints; this image is #61, Date: 1854. Publisher: Koshihei. Format: Obanyokoe. Trimmed to the border; paper loss through the figure on the right; one small wormhole, top left; otherwise fine color and condition. $550.
Series: The 69 Stations of the Kisokaido Road.
Fushimi (Station 51). Series: The 69 Stations of the Kisokaido Road. By Hiroshige and Eisen. 1833-1834. Horizontal oban: 8 3/4 x 13 1/2 (sheet 9 3/16 x 14). Good color and condition. Seal: Kinjudo. Publishers: Ise-Ri or Yamoda-ga. Not a first printing. Signed Hiroshige; Eisen's signature omitted. $500.
Series: 6 Views of the Tama River.
Shokoku (My Country). Series: 6 Views of the Tama River. 14 1/16 x 9 3/8. Vertical oban. Publisher: Noshua Yasubei. Trimmed; toned. Signed: Hiroshige gwa. $125.
Series: Mixed Prints of the Tokaido (Tokaido Harimaze Zuye).
Mixed Prints of the Tokaido (Tokaido Harimaze Zuye). Series of 55 images in 12 sheets. Date: 1852. Publisher: Ibasen. Format: Oban Tateye. The images are: Arai (top right); Shirasuka (top left); Futagawa (center); Yoshida (bottom right); Goyu (bottom left). Good color and condition. Harimaze prints are designed to be cut apart. $1,250.
Mixed Prints of the Tokaido (Tokaido Harimaze Zuye). Series of 55 images on 15 sheets. Date: 1856. Publisher: Kinkodo. Format: Oban Tateye. Harimaze prints are designed to be cut apart. $1,250.
Series: The 53 Stations of the Tokaido.
Eijiri (Station 19). Series: Tokaido Gyousan Tsugi (The 53 Stations of the Tokaido). Later printing 1880. Horizontal oban. 7 11/16 x 12 3/16. Toned and trimmed. Signed: Hiroshige fude. $125.
Fujikawa. Series: Tokaido Gyousan Tsugi (The 53 Stations of the Tokaido). 1847-1850. Chuban: 6 3/8 x 8 11/16. Publisher: Tsutaya Jusaburo. Trimmed; in good condition with very good color. Signed: Hiroshige gwa. $125.
Hiratsuka (Station 8). Series: Tokaido Gyousan Tsugi (The 53 Stations of the Tokaido). 1833-34. Horizontal oban. 9 x14. Publishers: Hoeido, Sankakudo. Trimmed; good impression and color. Signed: Hiroshige ga. $550.
Kanaya (Station 25). Series: Tokaido Gyousan Tsugi (The 53 Stations of the Tokaido). Later printing 1880. Horizontal oban. 7 11/16 x 12 3/16. Toned and trimmed. Signed: Hiroshige fude. $125.
Mishima (Station 12). Series: Tokaido Gyousan Tsugi (The 53 Stations of the Tokaido). Later printing 1880. Horizontal oban. 7 7/8 x 12 1/2. Toned and trimmed; there are 3 slight stains in the image. Signed: Hiroshige fude. $100.
Tsuchiyama (Station 50). Series: Tokaido Gyousan Tsugi (The 53 Stations of the Tokaido). Later printing 1880. Horizontal oban. 8 7/8 x 13 3/4. Trimmed; there there is some paper loss in the lower right hand corner. Signed: Hiroshige ga. $175.
Yoshiwara: Fuji from the left (Station 15). Series: Tokaido Gyousan Tsugi (The 53 Stations of the Tokaido). Later printing 1880. Horizontal oban. 7 7/8 x 12 1/2. Toned and trimmed. Signed: Hiroshige fude. $125.
Yui (Station 17). Series: Tokaido Gyousan Tsugi (The 53 Stations of the Tokaido). 1847-1850. Chuban: 6 3/8 x 8 11/16 (sheet 6 5/8 x 8 7/8). Publisher: Tsutaya Jusaburo. Some ink transfer; otherwise in fine condition. Untrimmed. Signed: Hiroshige gwa. $175.
The Tokaido set.
The Tokaido. c. 1847-48. The complete set of 54 chuban woodblock prints (8 5/8 x 13 1/8), mounted as an album. Published by Tsutaya. Good impressions with unfaded colors, laid down in the album. Fair condition: some wormage, tears, time staining, and paper loss and grubiness in the outer margins. Signed Hiroshige ga. $3,000. This is only one file, so it will take time to download.
Sumida River. 1861. Series: Eight Views of the Sumida River. Vertical oban. 13 1/8 x 9 (sheet 14 x 9 5/8). Publisher: Kikakudo. Good color and impression. Signed: Hiroshige ga. $375.
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Prince Genji in Exile at Suma. Kaei VI/4 (1853). Series: A Fashionable Genji. Oban triptych. Signature: Hiroshige ga, Toyokuni ga. Seals: Ichiryusai, date seals. Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi. Censore: Kinugasa Fusajiro, Murata Heiemon. Engraver: Yokogawa Takejiro. $3,750.
Yu. Tiger (1854). Series: So-Hitsu Gojusan Tsugi: The 53 Stations of the Tokaido by Two Brushes. Vertical oban. Signature: Hiroshige ga, Toyokuni ga. Seals: artist, date, publisher: Maruya Kishiro. Good color and condition. $250.
Kunichika was a ukiyoe print artist who was a pupil first of Chikanobu, then of Kunisada.
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Kabuki Actors: Ichikawa and Iwai. c. 1860. 14 x 9 1/2 (sheet 14 x 8 3/4). Good color and condition. Soiling in the bottom right-hand; slight toning. $175.
Kabuki Actors. c. 1864. Oban diptych (14 1/8 x 18 3/4. Vivid color; 2 repaired tears in the top margin. $300.
Kabuki Actors Iwai and Ichikawa 1864. Oban diptych (14 1/8 x 19 1/4. Good color and condition. $350.
Kabuki Triptych. The actors are, left to right, Kino Kuniya Bunzaemon, Suberoku, Miuyra Akemaki. 1865. Each sheet 9 1/2 x 14 x 9 1/2. Good color, paper losses at sheet edges. Provenance: Ulfert Wilke. $550.
Kataoaka Gado II at Hogo. c. 1850. 14 x 9 1/4 (14 1/2 x 9 5/8). Excellent color and condition. $175.
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After the Bath. 1844. Kakemono-e: 26 1/2 x 8 3/8. Series: Pairing beautiful Women with Kimono Fabrics. Appropriately mounted on black silk. Censor's seal: Yoshimura. Publisher: Aritaya Kiyoemon. Signed Oju Kunisada. $1,250.
Shirabioshi (Temple Dancer). c. 1840. Kakemono-e. 26 1/4 x 8 1/2. Publisher and signature partially trimmed. Signed 'oju Kochoro Kunisada ga,' Mounted on black silk in the manner of a Japanese watercolor. Margins trimmed. $1,250.
The Kabuki Actor: Iwai Kumesaburo as the Geisha Otsuma in a Summer Silk Kimono Standing by a Bench. Kiwame seal (1815-1842). Vertical oban. 14 5/8 x 9 3/4. Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shozo (active c. 1818-1854). Excellent color and condition. Signed: Gototei Kunisada ga. $275.
Baigoro Kunisada II (Toyokuni IV). 1823-1880.
Park in Edo. Date: 1851-53. Horizontal oban. Series: Toto Meisho (Famous Places of the Eastern Capital). Signature: Kunisada. Trimmed to the border; one puncture, lower right. Fine color. $125.
Daimyo Procession, Suzuka Pass, Sakanoshita. 1865. Series: 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road. Vertical oban. 13 1/4 x 9 (sheet 14 1/4 x 9 5/8). Full margins; one wormage spot in the left ahnd margin, well outside of the image. Excellent color and condition. Signed: Kuniteru ga. $275.
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Metal (Kane). Series: Select Five Elements (Mitate go gyô) Date: 1852. Oban triptych. Series: Genji Monogatari. Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei (Sanoki). Artist's seals: Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and Kiri (Paulownia imperialis). Excellent color and condition. $1,250.
Obo Muroku and Ioshiko 1847-48. Vertical oban. 14 x 9 3/4. In poor condition; paper losses and colors faded; backed. Signed: Kuniyoshi ga. $75.
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Cat and Mouse Beneath a Crescent Moon. Vertical oban: 14 5/8 x 9 7/8 (sheet 15 7/16 x 10 3/16). Signed "Kyosai ga." Excellent color and condition. $550.
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[Monkey Business]. Vertical oban: 15 1/8 x 10 1/8. Signed and sealed "Seiho." Excellent color and condition. $550.
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Two Moorhen (or Common Gallinule, Gallinula chlorpus) at a Reed-bank in MistShikishiban: 9 x 9 3/4 (image and sheet). Signed and sealed "Seiko". Illustrated: "Kacho-e by Seiko Compared with Watanabe Seitei's Illustrated Books on Birds and Flowers," Andon 76 (2004):41. $175.
The Actor Otani Hiroyemon II. c. 1780. Hosoban: 12 5/16 x 5 7/8. Signed "Shunshô ga." Good color and condition. $1,250
Restaurant Selling Sweet Rice Dumplings. c. 1820. 15 x 10 1/4 (sheet 15 5/8 x 10 5/8). Good condition and color. Some surface soiling. 1 wormage area above the right foot. $375.
[Children Teasing a Sleeping Man]. Book illustration. 7 1/4 x 4 5/8 (image and sheet). Printed on Japanese mulberry paper. Ink transfer, especially on the seated man on the left. Unsigned. $75.
Coming Home from the Teahouse at Night. Book illustration. 7 3/16 x 4 3/8 (image and sheet). Printed on Japanese mulberry paper. Unsigned. $85.
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Hatsune: First Warbler. Date: c. 1847. Vertical obans, left and right sheet of a Genji triptych. Series: Tosei bijin furyu asobi ( Fashionable beauties in popular distractions). No print title. Publisher: Maruya Kiyojiro. Censor seals: Kinugasa and Yoshimura. Red Toshidame seal. Signature: Kochoro Toyokuni ga. $250.
From the left, Bando Muraemon I and Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as banto (= clerk) Gonkuro and Ushiwaka Denji in 'Edo zakura Kiyomizu Seigen' . The play was performed at the Ichimura theatre. Date: 3/1853. Right sheet of a kabuki diptych. Vertical oban: 14 1/8 x 9 3/4 (sheet 14 5/8 x 10.) Publisher: Minatoya Kohei. Excellent color and condition. $100.
Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Danshichi Kurobei in 'Hanashobu otoko kagami'. The play was performed at the Nakamura theatre. Date: 4/1855. Right sheet of a kabuki diptych. Vertical oban. 14 3/8 x 9 3/4 (image and sheet). Censor seals: Kinugasa, Murata. Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizo. Excellent color. Paper losses in margins, 1 small hole beneath the hands holding the sword hilt. $95.
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From the left, Sawamura Tossho II and Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Kageyama Shigenojo (?), Yaegaki Monzo in "'Kosode Soga azami no ironui'. Performed at the Ichimura theatre. 1859. Vertical oban diptych (14 1/2 x 20). Three stains in lower margins, 3 small paper losses in left-hand margin. $350.
Date: 1852.
Publisher: Tsujioka Bunsuke.
Size: vertical oban.
This is Kunisada's best series of actor bust portraits. Other images from the series are available upon request.
Asakasa, Sawai. Excellent color, good condition. $225.
Chiryu. Printed with gauffrage in the white part of the robe. Good color, impression and condition, apart from minor soiling, less pronounced than in the image. $250.
Fujikawa. Excellent color and condition. $300.
Futakawa Excellent color, impression and condition. $275.
Hodogaya. Excellent color, impression and condition. $350.
Ishibe.Excellent color, impression and condition. $350.
Ishiyakushi. Fine color. Fair condition -- two small stains in the top, small paper losses, 1 in top and 2 in bottom margins. $125.
Kawasaki Fine color. Fair condition -- wormage and paper losses in the arm, 3 losses in the sky. $125.
Kusatsu. Very good color, impression and condition. $275.
Kyoto. ood color, impression and condition. Some surface soiling. $225.
Mishima. excellent color and impression. Slight soiling and creasing. $225.
Nihombashi. Fair color, poor condition: paper losses, soiling. $150.
Numazu. Excellent color and condition. $350.
Odawara Good color. and condition. $250. Another impression with uneven inking in the sky and a small tear in the lower margin, $200.
Okazaki. Good color and condition. Some printing folds in the face and arms. $200.
Sakanoshita Good color and condition. $225.
Seki. Good color and condition. Slight soiling in the neck. $275.
Shinagawa. Good color. Several small holes in top sky and margin, paper loss on lower margin, printing folds. $225.
Shono. Good color. Several small holes in top margin, paper loss on lower margin, printing folds. $175.
Totsuka. Good color. Image loss to the left of the man's shoulder, one ink stain in the sky, 1 pinhole in the arm,slight soiling. One pinhole in the arm. $175
Tsuchiyama. Good color and condition. Slight soiling. $300.
Yokkachi Good color and condition. $250.
Yoshiwara. Excellent color and condition. $300.
[Courtesan, Her Son, and a Curious Client]. c. 1824. Vertical oban. 13 7/8 x 9 1/4. Publisher: Mori-ya Jihei (Mori-Ji) Kinshindo. Traces of fold marks (the print had been folded into quarters). Signed: Utamaro. $950.
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