Japanese Prints

Throughout art history, the Japanese culture has been an inspiration to many artists, with collections of Japanese prints being held by such major artists as Picasso, Van Gough and Menpes to name but a few. Japanese prints were often ephemeral in nature so were usually not produced in large editions and were made to comment on the social and political happenings of the time.
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Japanese print yoshikazu
1 - Utagawa YOSHKAZU (Active 1850-1870)
A soldier stands guard outside the British compound in Yokohama.
Rare image in that it shows European interaction with Japanese.
$1,250
Japanese prints
2 - Ogata GEKKO (1859-1920)
A beauty in a court costume: to her right a large  hanging flower ball, possibly for a wedding.
Fine condition.
From the series ‘Comparison of Beauties and Flowers’ pub. 1887-1889.
Fine condition
$350
Japanese print
3 - Ogata GEKKO (1859-1920)
Two women on a balcony, one looking through a telescope enjoying a view.
From the series ‘Comparison of Beauties and Flowers’ pub. 1887-1889.
Fine condition
​$350
Japanese print beisaku
​4 - Taguchi BEISAKU (1864-1903)
A scouting party in heavy snow and strong wind. The Japanese army was attempting to move heavy equipment from Yungcheng to Weihaiwei
Published 1895.
A three sheet composition.
$1480
japanese print
5 - Tsukioka KOGYO (1869-1927)
An Actor from the Noh play ‘Ama’.
​From the series One Hundred Noh plays, c.1900.
Fine condition
$345 



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​6 - Utagawa HIROSHIGE III (1842/3-1894)
Military elite visiting the Toshogu Shrine, Mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate. In the Meiji period Shinto became the official religion and Buddhism was suppressed.
A three sheet composition.
$950
Japanese print koson
​7 - Ohara KOSON (1887-1950)
A Basket of Spring Flowers, a felicitation for an abundant harvest.
​Published by Watanabe Shosaburo in 1932, first edition.
​A very fine example.
$1950
Japanese print Kiyochika
​9 - Kobayashi KIYOCHIKA (1847-1915)
Japanese troops crossing the River Ansong during the battle of Asan Korea, 1894. Three sheet print in good condition.
​$1,350
Japanese print yoshitoshi
10 - Tsukioka YOSHiTOSHI (1839-1892)
’Strolling’
A fashionable women from the Meiji period (1867-1912) in an iris garden.
From the series Aspects of Customs and Manners (Fuzoku Sanjuniso). This print is number 32.
From the first edition (1888).
Highly collectible and In very good condition.
$4,850
Japanese print shunsen
11 - Natori SHUNSEN (1886-1960) 
The actor Nakamura Takuemon  in the role of Oshichi ( the jealous woman)
From the series Portraits of Actors in Various Poses
1925-1929
Published by Watanabe Shosaburo.
​$1650

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12 - Toshi YOSHIDA (1911-1995)
​​Supper Wagon 
Published 1938, later printing
28.0 x 20 approx.
$385
Japanese print
​13 - Toshi YOSHIDA (1911-1995)
Shinjuku-Tokyo at Night
Pub 1938, later printing
28.5 x 20 cm.
​$385