Cranes on Rocky shore. A delicate and very detailed  silk painting of excellent quality dating from 1900 .
 This is very elegant. Price with its box is £210

Fuji San in Winter by Suiko 57x28 including artists box. A remarkable painting of Fuji san. The winter scene is extremely convincing and the pure use of perspective is outstanding . The silks are in good condition and are very subtlety patterned. The artists signature is in yellow and his seal is red which blends well into the composition. On a personal note I think that the foreground conifer tree is one of the very best paintings of a winter forest I have seen. This is Japanese Larch, larix kaempferi. I recognised this from Japanese Larch I have grown in my Bonsai Collection. Larch, although a conifer, is deciduous.
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Larch Forest (2002) 46 inches long 50 inches tall. Grown from Seedling trees in 1987 CC

Soho 'Fuji in Spring' 41 x 24 Painted in1850 This is an outstanding example of Fujisan in Sumei painting. A case of less is more.
While the scroll mounts are old I felt that these were acceptable. I can remount this scroll if the buyer prefers.
The scroll with box. £210

Moon Goose

The early 20th century scroll painter Kado created this wonderful evocation of a Goose flying in moonlight. in1930
22.9x47.3

The scroll is damaged and the painting needs to be treated to remove some of the creases. This work will take place in late spring 2010 and should be completed by the end of June hopefully. It is a lot of work so we are not rushing this project. The scroll mounts will be similar to the original colours.

With a box this scroll will be £210

 

Two paintings by Ujo Hara.A.D 1884-1971. Born in Kumamoto pref. Painter, poet, calligrapher. Teacher is Chokunyu Tanomura, Chikugai  Himejima . Seisho Fukuda.

These are being mounted into a pair of matching scrolls with a double Antique Kimono Silk covered Scroll Box The scrolls are around 32 inches wide

Gyokuden Murase son of Soseki Murase 1852-1917

Soseki Murase Father 1823-1878 eggplants

Both scrolls are being remounted

Dating from 1850 this superb painting on silk of  Goose Flying into the moon. Being remounted

 Morning mist on the mountains. The scroll ends are being restored as these are loose. With the original artists signed box.

Rokko painted this scroll of a man washing his horse in a river. Being remounted as the scroll mounts  are stained.

  Seisen -Waterfall and Pine Taki Matsui 80x25 1978

Snowscape Sansui ga 1900 75.2 Width 22.4

The signature on the scroll reads Shibata Gito 柴田義董Japan, 1780 – 1819

Gito Shibata, 白川芝山.

Pupil of Go Shun 1752-1811 the founder of the Shijō school of Kyoto

Shibata Gitô was born in Bizen and moved to Kyoto, where he became a student of Matsumura Goshun (1752-1811), the founder of the Shijô school of painting. Soon he became an important member of this school, specializing in landscapes and kachôga. His early death prevented him from becoming more widely known and from becoming as famous as Matsumura Keibun and Okamoto Toyohiko, the other two most prominent members of the Shijô school.
He also painted in the style of the Maruyama-Shijō school, whose founder Maruyama ōkyo (1737-95) had developed a new, naturalistic style to depict, among many other subjects, genre scenes of the urban life of Kyoto. Shibata Gitō (1780-1819) was a pupil of ōkyo's contemporary Go Shun (1752-1811). He died young and his works, characterized by fine brushwork and a light-hearted charm, are relatively rare.

The signature reads 'Gitō sha' ('Painted by Gitō')
References:
Araki, Tsune (ed), Dai Nihon shôga meika taikan, Tokyo 1975 (1934), p. 2210
Roberts, Laurance P., A Dictionary of Japanese artists, New York, 1976, p. 32 Notes: from a British Museum scroll:

Pictures of Flowers and Birds (Kachoga) took as its main subjects birds, grasses, and flowers. Some focused only on grasses and flowers, while in others insects such as cicadas, bees, and butterflies appeared in place of birds. There were in fact a large number of sub-types, including some that depicted animals like dogs, rabbits, or deer, in combination with flowers or trees.

Signature from a Gito Scroll in the British Museum                                                   Signature of this later scroll The signature is essentially the same
The signature reads 'Gitō sha' ('Painted by Gitō')                                                     the artist has now placed his double seal inside an oval