JAPANESE WORKS OF ART

A LARGE JAPANESE KANO SCHOOL SIX-FOLD PAPER SCREEN, BYOBU MOMOYAMA OR LATER, 16TH CENTURY OR LATER Depicting a procession in a mountainous river l...

A SMALL JAPANESE SIX-FOLD PAPER SCREEN, BYOBU MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Painted with two large cranes and other smaller birds in a luxuriant gard...

A RARE JAPANESE LACQUER PILLAR HANGING BY KOMA YASUTADA, HASHIRA-KAKE EDO PERIOD, LATE 18TH CENTURY The tall rectangular panel decorated in gold, ...

A JAPANESE NAGASAKI STYLE LACQUER CUTLERY BOX EDO PERIOD, C.1800 Formed as an urn with a rising cover revealing tiered compartments for knives, de...

A RARE JAPANESE NAGASAKI SCHOOL SCROLL PAINTING, KAKEMONO EDO PERIOD, C.1800 In ink and colour on paper, depicting two Dutch merchants conversing ...

TWO JAPANESE TOSA SCHOOL PAINTINGS MUROMACHI PERIOD OR LATER, 16TH CENTURY OR LATER Possibly fragments from handscroll paintings, makimono, both c...

THREE JAPANESE TOSA SCHOOL PAINTINGS MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY In ink, gold and colour on paper, typically painted with elegant figures in garden...

FOUR JAPANESE PAPER FAN PAINTINGS EDO PERIOD AND LATER, 18TH CENTURY AND LATER The first in ink and mica on paper depicting a monkey, signed Sosen...

A JAPANESE PAPER AND BAMBOO FAN, SENSU MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Both sides painted with shaped panels on a gold ground depicting various scenes ...

TWO JAPANESE PAINTINGS EDO OR MEIJI PERIOD, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY Both ink and colour on paper and each a section of a handscroll painting, makimon...

A JAPANESE PAINTING EDO PERIOD OR LATER, 18TH CENTURY OR LATER Probably from a scroll painting, kakemono, in ink and colour on silk, depicting a t...

A JAPANESE PAINTING MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Painted in ink and colour on paper, depicting two ducks, the birds naturalistically rendered and wi...

A JAPANESE HANDSCROLL PAINTING, MAKIMONO EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY In ink on paper, painted with nine shishi frolicking in a river landscape, the l...

SEVEN JAPANESE PAINTINGS EDO OR MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY In ink and colour on paper, five depicting insects including grasshoppers, mosquitoes, ...

A JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTING, KAKEMONO 20TH CENTURY In the style of Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968), in ink on paper and depicting a fox, the ...

TWO JAPANESE PAINTINGS MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY One painted in ink and colour on silk, depicting three macaques on a gnarly branch covered with ...

TWO JAPANESE PAINTINGS MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Both half-length portraits of beauties, the first holding an uchiwa fan painted with bamboo, wea...

A JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTING, KAKEMONO MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Depicting an extensive mountainous river landscape, with a fisherman in the foregr...

THREE JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTINGS, KAKEMONO EDO PERIOD AND LATER, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER All three painted in ink on paper, one with two large chara...

TWO JAPANESE PAINTINGS, KAKEMONO MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Both in ink on paper, one depicting two toads in a mountainous landscape, the other wi...

A JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTING MEIJI OR TAISHO PERIOD, 20TH CENTURY Painted in ink and colour on paper, depicting a large disgruntled-looking toad und...

LITERATURE A MORRISON, THE PAINTERS OF JAPAN,1911 Volumes I & II, no.4 from a limited deluxe edition of 150. (2) ...[more]

TWO JAPANESE INK DRAWINGS AND A WOODBLOCK PRINT EDO PERIOD OR LATER, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY One a preparatory drawing for a woodblock print depictin...

A RARE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT MAP OF THE WORLD BY HARAME SADAKIYO (ACT. 18TH CENTURY) EDO PERIOD, DATED 1720 Entitled Yochi zu or Yochi no zu (P...

A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE PREPARATORY DRAWINGS FOR WOODBLOCK PRINTS MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY In ink on paper, depicting beauties, birds, couples ...

A COLLECTION OF EIGHT JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT TRIPTYCHS MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Comprising: portraits of actors, beauties in gardens and other...

A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Including a triptych with three beauties in an interior and a diptych of men ...

A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Including eight oban tate-e and one chuban, five prints depicting shunga scen...

A JAPANESE SHUNGA EROTIC SCROLL PAINTING, KAKEMONO TAISHO PERIOD, 20TH CENTURY In ink and colour on paper, depicting pearl divers, ama, one scanti...

A JAPANESE SHUNGA EROTIC PAINTING, KAKEMONO MEIJI OR TAISHO PERIOD, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY Painted with a couple engaged in daily activities, the be...

THREE JAPANESE SHUNGA EROTIC PAINTINGS MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Depicting three couples enjoying amorous encounters, one on a go board and anoth...

TWO JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY YOSHIJIRO URUSHIBARA (1888-1953) TAISHO PERIOD, C.1924 After designs by Sir Frank Brangwyn RA (1867-1956), the fi...

FOUR JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) MEIJI PERIOD, C.1888 The four oban tate-e from the series Fuzoku sanjuni so (Thi...

FOUR JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1888 The four oban tate-e from the series Fuzoku sanjuni so ...

FOUR JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1888 The four oban tate-e from the series Fuzoku sanjuni so ...

FOUR JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1888 The four oban tate-e from the series Fuzoku sanjuni so ...

FOUR JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1888 The four oban tate-e from the series Fuzoku sanjuni so ...

FOUR JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1888 The four oban tate-e from the series Fuzoku sanjuni so ...

FOUR JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1888 The four oban tate-e from the series Fuzoku sanjuni so ...

FOUR JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1888 The four oban tate-e from the series Fuzoku sanjuni so ...

A SET OF TWELVE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) MEIJI PERIOD, C. 1880 The twelve oban tate-e forming the series Tokyo...

A COLLECTION OF SEVEN JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Including beauties in gardens, portraits of famous actors and other fig...

A JAPANESE PADDED-SILK PANEL, OSHI-E MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Depicting a procession of forty insects including grasshoppers, praying mantises, ...

A JAPANESE PADDED-SILK PANEL, OSHI-E MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Depicting many figures engaged in sericulture, the different stages of silk produc...

A JAPANESE COMPOSITE ARMOUR, GUSOKU EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY The helmet made up of eighteen plates, suji bachi kabuto, with the pierced circular f...

THREE JAPANESE EDGED SWORDS, A DAISHO SET AND A WAKIZASHI EDO PERIOD, 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY All three with black lacquer scabbards, saya, and the ...

A JAPANESE COMPOSITE ARMOUR, GUSOKU LATE MOMOYAMA/EARLY EDO, 17TH CENTURY The iron sujibachi kabuto helmet with 62 riveted plates and raised ridge...

A JAPANESE LACQUER HALF MASK, MENPO EDO PERIOD, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY In black lacquer on an iron base, with a bushy hair moustache, the kiritsuke ...

A JAPANESE LACQUER WAR HAT, JINGASA EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Of typical circular form and made up of twenty-four plates, the top lacquered in grey...

A JAPANESE LACQUER PEPPER SPRAY, METSUBUSHI MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Of typical form, the top decorated with a writhing dragon in gilt encirclin...

A SMALL COLLECTION OF JAPANESE SWORD MOUNTINGS MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY Comprising: a quatrelobed mokko gata tsuba in Mino-Goto style, ...

A LARGE JAPANESE GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF AMIDA BUDDHA MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY His eyes lowered and with a serene expression, his hair cast in tig...

A JAPANESE POLYCHROME LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF JIZO BOSATSU KAMAKURA PERIOD OR LATER, 14TH CENTURY OR LATER Depicted standing on a rectangular pli...

A PAIR OF JAPANESE PRICKET CANDLESTICKS, SHOKUDAI EDO PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH CENTURY OR LATER With tall stems and raised on four scrolling legs, wi...

A PAIR OF MASSIVE JAPANESE BRONZE LION DOGS, SHISHI EDO OR MEIJI PERIOD, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY The two mythical beasts depicted seated on their hau...

TWO JAPANESE BRONZE MODELS OF ANIMALS, OKIMONO MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY One modelled as a lion standing four-square with its head raised and bar...

A JAPANESE BRONZE SCROLL WEIGHT MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Modelled as a man struggling to shift a massive aubergine, together with a Chinese wate...

A MASSIVE JAPANESE BRONZE MODEL OF AN EAGLE, OKIMONO MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY The majestic raptor perched on a rocky outcrop, its wings fully op...

λ A JAPANESE BRONZE MODEL OF AN ELEPHANT, OKIMONO MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY The pachyderm standing four-square and with its trunk raised, the rou...

A JAPANESE BRONZE MODEL OF A CARP, OKIMONO MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY The fish depicted swimming with its fins undulating in the water current, th...