Catalog: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese (770)

Kawase Hasui
Zojo Temple, Shiba. From the series, Twenty Views of Tokyo.
Date: 1925.
Edition: First with the Watanabe B seal (used 1924-1930).
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.25 inches.
Reference: Hotei #147
Removed from the original folder.
Medum: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Upper left margin corner reattached by conservator. Toning at back.

Ogata Korin (1658-1716)
Crows and Moon
Date: 1920s.
Size: Approximately 4.0 x 3.0 inches
Bears the artist's seal.
"Made in Japan" stamp on verso.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print after a design by Ogata Korin.
Provenance: The Robert O. Muller estate.
Condition: Excellent. Some thinning of paper at top margin.

Hiroshige Ando (Utagawa)
The Monkey Bridge in Kai Province (Kōyō Saruhashi no zu)
Date: ca. 1841–42 This edition early 20th century.
Size: Large vertical diptych at 29.0 x 9.625 inches.
Publisher: Bears Tsutaya Kichizo seal on front. This edition published by Adachi (seal on back).
Condition: Slight creasing at top corners. A couple of faint foxing spots near bottom.

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Kamoson Village on Sado Island
Date: 1921.
Size: Oban. 14.25 x 9.5 inches. Trimmed margins.
Hasui signature and diamond-shaped seal at lower right.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Black 6 mm seal at lower right.
Reference: Hotei #66.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: The margins have been trimmed as shown. Slight fading.
"A villager and child look at the reflection of distant sails on the lake" - Narazaki

Kawase Hasui
The Great Buddha, Kamakura (Kamakura Daibutsu)
Date: 1930.
The earlier version with the Buddha in shadow.
First edition with Watanabe B seal (used 1927-1932).
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.25 inches.
Reference: Hotei #204.
Condition: Removed from original folder. Excellent color.

Chiura Obata
Rainbow Falls, Inyo National Forest
Series: World Landscape Series - America.
Date: 1930.
Size: 17.5 by 13 inches.
Publisher: Takamizawa Color-Print Studio, Tokyo.
Medium: Woodblock print.
Condition: A conservator has reconstructed missing paper of the upper right corner margin. Other margin edge tears and losses repaired. Toned paper.

Ohara Koson
Monkey reaching for the reflection of the moon
Size: O-tanzaku. Approximately 14.75 x 7.5 inches.
Publisher: Daikokuya
Date: ca. 1910-1923.
Koson signature and seal.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Reference: K41.25 (cat...

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Arifuku Hot Springs, Iwami, 1924
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.25 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Bears the Watanabe "A seal," indicating a first edition.
Condition: Very good with faint matte line near image edge.

Kawase Hasui
Evening in Beppu
Souvenirs of Travel, third series.
Date: 1929.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. A first edition with the Watanabe A seal in the right margin.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15 x 10.25 inches.
Hasui signature and seal at lower left.
Reference: Hotei No. 143.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: The back has two spots of foxing. Tone line in margins.

Ohara Koson
Wading Egret
Size: O-tanzaku. Approximately 14.5 x 7.5 inches.
Date: Early 20th century.
Reference: K14.14 in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland).
Publisher: Daikokuya
Signed and sealed by the artist.
"Made in Japan" stamped on back.
Condition: Excellent.
Embossing on face, tail, and body.

Andrew Kay Womrath (1869-1939)
In collaboration with Yoshijiro Urushibara (1888-1953)
Venice at Night
Size: Chuban. Approximately 11.625 x 8 inches.
Edition: 3/50 OR 33/50. Numbered in pencil at lower left.
Date: ca 1920s.
Signed "A Kay Womrath" in pencil.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Foxing nearly entirely in margin...

Hiroshi Yoshida
Three Little Islands, 1930.
Bears the jizuri seal in the upper left margin, indicating self-printing by the artist. Also signed in pencil.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.50 x 10.25 inches.
Condition: Excellent.

Yoshijiro Urushibara
Stonehenge in Moonlight
Size: Oban. Approximately 14.75 x 9.75 inches.
Date: 1910s-20s.
Publisher: "Ken Hoshino & Co. 57-58 Chancery Lane, W.C." at lower margin.
Signed and sealed by the artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.
Please also see our Dawn view of this design (Urushibar016).

Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950)
Grand Canyon (from The United States series).
Date: 1925. First state with jizuri seal, indicating self-printing by the artist.
Size: Oban. Approximately 16.0 x 11.0 inches.
Pencil signed and titled in English. Signed and sealed in Japanese within the image.
Condition: Margin has two numbers noted in pencil and two original drying pinholes.

Torii Kotondo
Combing Hair (Kamisuki). From the Twelve Aspects of Women Series.
Dated: 1929 (numbered first edition)
Edition: 119 of 300 (Numbered by hand on verso as part of embossed stamp.
Paper size: 18.25 x 11.75 inches.
Publisher: Kawaguchi (sealed at right margin).
Carver: Ito. Printer: Komatsu...

Ohara Koson
Dancing Fox
Size: O-tanzaku. Approximately 14.75 x 7.5 inches.
Publisher: Daikokuya
Date: ca. 1910-1923.
Koson signature and seal.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Reference: K41.15a in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.
The fox wears a lotus leaf on his head. This more rare variant features grasses in the background.

Ohara Koson
Monkey in a Tree
Size: O-tanzaku. Approximately 14.5 x 7.5 inches.
Date: ca. 1910-1923.
Publisher: Daikokuya
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Reference: K41.21 and plate 30 in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland).
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Condition: Excellent with very slight bend at lower left corner. Uncirculated.
Provenance: The Robert O. Muller estate.

Toshi Yoshida (1911-1925)
Crabs
Date: 1925.
Size: 11.25 x 6.0 inches.
"Toshi" Japanese signature and seal.
Pencil signed and titled in English.
Condition: Excellent. Small tape remnants at top back.
This is the first woodblock print created by Toshi Yoshida. He was 14 years of age.