Taki Waterfalls
Waterfalls are Summer scrolls as the falling water can add a coolness  to the room while misty landscapes can be a wonderful meditation vehicle

TAKI( Waterfall ). This type scroll is for summer  in Japan. It creates a cool atmosphere

The magnificent antique hand painted works of art show the Japanese style of painting at its very best. Some of these scrolls are very old and in some cases these have been completely restored where the original mounts were beyond repair. The original ends and boxes have been retained if these were available but the silk mounts have been replaced with similar colours to the original. Nothing has been altered with the actual painting. 
Boxes have been made or are supplied with all Scrolls from Tokonomascrolls.com




Taki, Uguitsu and Momji

A riot of gold is the colour theme of this exquisite jewel of a painting in a beautiful example of a unique  Japanese style  from a great artist. Gentle almost nishiki gold dust is scattered throughout  the silk background giving this painting an almost ethereal look. A stylised bird on a maple tells us that this is a image of Spring, leading to  warmer weather tempered by the cool rushing waters of the waterfall

Uguisu (鶯, Japanese bush warbler (sometimes translated as Japanese nightingale), Cettia diphone): early spring. The bird is used as an example of sweet sounds. Uguisu were mentioned in the preface to the Kokinshū. It is often associated with ume blossoms and new growth in early Japanese waka and is regarded as a harbinger of spring (春告鳥, harutsugedori, literary "bird that announces the arrival of spring").While maples are usually representative of Autumn, in this painting  the maple (momji) leaves are light green and symbolise spring

Painted by TOSHIKO MITSUYA one of Japans most famous women painters.
Painted on silk with gold silk mount

Signed TOSHIKO and her seal, (1904-1992) This is an outstanding Scroll.

With artists own box £325

The scroll ends are made from Ivory


 

 

A wonderful Waterfall landscape created by the artist Seisen with Box.  £220


Taki Sansui Ga.  Waterfall Landscape

A truly beautiful image of a waterfall with a tall bridge near the bottom. Maple trees arch gracefully over the thundering falls as an old fisherman takes his basket and rod ready for a days fishing from the river below.

Painted around 1930. 78x22 inches-Bone Jikusaki -Scroll Ends. The top and the bottom mounts are almost acceptable but I would like to remount these two sections as they can be made better and the scroll will look all the better for this . The buyer can choose.

 With Box.£190

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A very  elegant Taki-Waterfall by the artist Shoin painted around 1900  £160


Asai Seisho-Nachi no Taki  Circa 1820

Signature is of Ohara Donshu (大原呑舟 (1791–1857) Shijo painter pupil of Shibata Gito

53.3x186.5cm 20.9x73.4

I can restore the mounts of this lovely and very elegant scroll but as these are not too bad I am offering the scroll as is for £165 including its box. I can remount the painting into new silks if you wish for £95.Under offer


Ohara Donshu was born in Awa Province (Modern Tokushima Prefecture).
He was the adopted son of Ohara Donkyo (大原呑響), and he studied
painting under Shibata Gito (柴田義董).
He was good at painting landscapes and figures
This painting is from the late Edo period by the Shijo school artist Ohara
Donshu of the tallest waterfall in Japan viewed through a pine covered valley.
Brushstrokes of varying tonalities suggest depth whilst the ink washed background
enhances the contemplative, nocturnal mood. Ohara Donshu (Ohara Kon)
was most active between the years 1811 and 1836. He died on the 29th of
December 1857. He was born in and resided in Kyoto. He was a student of
the prominent Shijo school artist Shibata Gito (1780-1819). He also studied
under his father Ohara Donkyo (died 1810) who was a self taught painter in
the Nanga tradition. Donshu's works are held in the
British Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Painted with ink on loosely
woven silk the painting is in good condition

Gito Shibata, 白川芝山.was the teacher of Seisho

Shibata Gitô was born in Bizen and moved to Kyoto, where he became a student of Matsumura Go shun (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 subject of this painting;

Nachi-no-Otaki are also known as the Number one Falls-Ichi no Otaki  . This is a very atmospheric image that reminds me in some ways of the great glacier shifts which created the magnificent waterfalls of Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite and Bridalveil Falls in Yosemite. Similar landscapes are in Japan deep in the mountains and his is an older image of the famous  Nachi-no-Otaki Falls and the water from these mighty falls create lakes of pure fresh mountain water which has always been an attraction for the Japanese.

The Nachi Primeval Forest, is a place of mountain god worship. Nachi-no-Otaki / Ichi no Otaki Falls, 133 meters high. The name comes from Mount Nachi, however as this is the biggest waterfall in Japan it is also affectionately known as Ichi No, (Number one) OTaki, (of all Waterfalls). Ichi no Otaki.


In the Mt. Nachi-san area is the Kumano Nachi-taisha Shrine. This has five Shinto buildings called "Kumano-Gongen" structure, which are very important cultural properties of Japan and are architecturural examples from the 8th through 10th century. Other places worth a visit include the Seiganto-ji Temple with a vermilion three-storied pagoda that has now become a Mt. Nachi-san's symbol, and the Hiryu-jinja Shrine where the holy go to worship the Nachi-no-Otaki Falls, also known as "Ichi-no-taki", as what symbolises the divine spirit. The three-storied pagoda of the Seiganto-ji Temple was reconstructed in 1972, and its viewing platform area affords a full view of the Nachi-no-Otaki Falls.Kumano 
Nachi-san mountain, with its slopes covered by a primeval forest of luxuriant evergreen trees, is about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) inland from the Sea of Kumano. Cascading down between the peaks, the Nachi River runs over 48 waterfalls. Nachi Fall or  Ichi-no-Taki, is the largest of these. The great Ichi-no-Taki, where in a 13-meter-wide flow, one ton of water drops straight down for 133 meters (436 feet) every second, rivals the Kegon Fall at Nikko and the Fukuroda Fall in Ibaraki Prefecture as the most beautiful waterfall in Japan. Nearby, said to be the first place to have enshrined and revered Nachi Fall, is the Nachi Shrine, one of the three Kumano Grand Shrines. 
 

  
Yosemite:
Bridalveil    Upper Falls         Upper Falls

    
Yellowstone  

  
  Ichi noOtaki

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Taki to Sansui Ga by Hoshu. With artists box.

I believe that this is the early 20th century painter Sakai Hoshu who was a pupil of Hoitsu

Beautiful Scroll of a Waterfall landscape 67x22 with the original Artists Box Sold
Superb original condition


 

Kaiseki  painted this Taki to Momji- Waterfall through Maple Leaves 1950 75x25 
Tremendous detail with ferns growing on the rocks in the spray of the waterfall. £225 
I need to do a little work on this before selling.
This includes the removal of the crease

Sadakata (Sakata?) Kaiseki (1882-1967?)

Born in Okayama prefecture and educated at Kansai Gakuin University. Studies under Kyose Shoseki and becomes his son-in-law. He goes abroad to France and enters the Salon d'automne exhibition where established artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir threw their support behind this exhibition and even Auguste Rodin displayed several drawings. Since its inception, the greats and future greats of the art world such as Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso have been shown here. An obvious magnet for young artists from around the world including Japan

Later in life he created hanga or woodblock prints. Not much of his life is recorded and is thought to have passed away after 1933. However, Kaiseki did change his artist name 3 times and the painting is during the 1930s when Kaiseki was living in Tokyo's Bunkyo ward until when he moved back to Okayama during the war. Kaiseki was known to have favoured to paint Mt. Fuji many times during his life. During the years when he used the name Youkei, Mt. Fuji was center to his paintings and used more landscapes compared to his earlier works where there were more genre paintings with Mt. Fuji as the background.


 

This is the scroll prior to restoration


Taki signature says Tanigami Konan 1879 - 1928

66x18 This is to be the subject of a Remount during September /October 2010 and please note that the top and base sections are in grey and not blue. Just a photographic anomaly
 

Konan Tanigami was born 1879 in Hyogo prefecture. He is well known "Birds and flowers" Nihon-ga artist. He was first Japanese to paint Western flowers and established a dynamic painting of flowers and birds.
 
Konan Tanigami produced five volumes of pictures of Western Plants which were published by Unsodo 1917/18. In 1917 he was selected to produce a series of peony prints for the Teiten (Imperial Exhibition). He is one of Japan's most famous naturalist artist.

This waterfall scroll is certainly a departure from his more popular style but many artists painted the cooling effect of waterfalls (Taki)

Konan is one of Japans most famous artists and scrolls are rare and very valuable.

With a new hand made antique Kimono Silk covered box created for this scroll. £275

 

When researching this artist we found that here is  another Konen listed from this periood incidentally: Uehara Konen was born in 1878 in Tokyo. He studied painting with Kajita Hanko and the well-known artist Matsumoto Fuko, and then spent five years studying in the Nihon Bijutsuin (Japan Fine Arts Academy). He collaborated with the publisher Watanabe Shozaburo on several woodblock prints during the 1930's, although only two prints are listed in the 1951 Watanabe catalogue. Konen served in the Imperial Household and in the Foreign Ministry, probably as a wartime artist. He continued to exhibit award-winning paintings in various exhibitions and served as a juror for the Tokyo Metropolitan. Konen died May 24th, 1940 in Tokyo.

 

 

 

Taki by Tanigami Konan 1879 - 1928 66x18 Newly restored. (Grey silk and not blue)


Artist is Maeda Ichiou (1890 - 1939)
Born in Gifu prefecture, his other name was Kenichi
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He was taught by Yamamoto Sunkyo. He lived until the age of 49.

The seal (seal script can be hard to decipher) but its more like a short line poem of the uguisu or a Bush Warbler, which relates the the artist's name Ichiou which is one bush warbler.

This is a absolutely beautiful Sansui ga, landscape, of a waterfall through autumn leaves. The light that has been captured by this artist is quite stunning and the balance of the subject has been extremely well done. Flocks of birds fly through the leaves and in front of the waterfall and the entire image is full of life and movement. Painted on silk this Sansui ga has all the elements that you would like to see in a landscape painting . The mounts are in very good condition. On a personal note this has, without doubt, been  one of my favourite scrolls in this genre. 70.1z23.1 inches
With its box, this wonderful scroll is £225

 


Waterfall and Pine Scroll 
This was recently remounted onto new silks. The top silk is grey and the double border is white and turquoise green. 
The silk covered box has been also  been made from the same green kimono silk .The outside fine edge is in brown. Beautifully mounted, this superb 
Waterfall Scroll is £195.


Waterfall into Lake Landscape £175 with Box. Recently and exquisitely remounted onto new silks.



Detail of scroll mounts-click for bigger image

 Waterfall through a Maple branch. Painted on Silk. This was remounted this year and the image at the side shows the incredible detail of the mounting. The mounting is on silk with wood ends. A silk covered Box comes with this scroll. £225 UK Post included is  Airmail. Courier Post (UPS etc) is plus £20 to EEC and plus £30 to North America

Waterfall  landscape fully restored on silk 

Waterfall painting Size  110.0cm x 45.0cm / 43.3" x 17.7"
Hand painted on Silk. I managed to find this old painting 
which had, at one point been on a scroll. That scroll had long since been discarded. It was in a frame
It has now been re mounted on a scroll. 
However I wanted to keep the scroll to around 60 inches  and while not correct in the mathematical dimensions of a traditional Scroll, This was designed for 
Bonsai or Tokonoma exhibition background display
The feeling of thundering water is quite wonderful in this excellent painting by a Japanese Master, The top of the scroll has the palest beige silk with a hint of green and the brocade border reflects the green in the Maple tree, The scroll colour to match this superb silk painting was designed by my friend, a third generation Scroll Maker in China.

Including Brocade Silk covered box £ 225

60 inches by 28 inches 

 


The Great Hannoki Waterfall. A stunning example of Japanese Art at its very best. The painting as been remounted onto new silks and the scroll comes with a hand made wooden box.

This is the tallest waterfall in Japan and is the Hannoki Falls, at 497 m. Believed to house a kami called Hiryu Gongen worshiped at Kumano Nachi Taisha, it is part of the "Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range" 
UNESCO World Heritage Site.

£225


Waterfall through a maple branch This is a very slim scroll 12 inches wide £175 Comes with wood box


Haruki Nanko 1819 Taki -waterfall which has been restored with period scroll ends and new silk mountings in dark and light grey (not blue as the pictures) . Box included with scroll. Ready end of November around 78x24 £220

Haruki Nanko (1759-1839)

Nanko had become popular as a painter during the1830s he had become equal to one of the reigning artists at that time,Tani Bunchô (1763-1840) who was also a friend . It had taken Nanko some time to gain recognition in Edo. The reason for this was his many years travelling to study Southern Chinese painting. However, in the course of his travels he gained many students. When he returned to Edo he introduced this Southern painting style where all Nanga painters in Edo still worked in the Northern style. His son Nammei, (Haruki Nammei 1795-1878) was still developing his own style at the time during this rise in popularity of his father but he became well known in his own right.

 

The box for this scroll is in antique Kimono Silk and is very subtle in the water pattern echoing the subject of the  scroll making the a perfect box for this detailed painting