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With a specially made antique silk covered box £220

Beautiful Fuji san

Fujisan. Showa Mizu no tori no Haru ( Year of the Water rooster, during the Showa (1933) , Spring) Signature: Shichijusai Ou

Seal; Sango

newly restored and with a specially made antique silk covered box £195

Pine Tree and Tori Gate-Sansui Ga.Signature and seal: Touho

Circa 1900 newly restored and with a specially made antique shot silk covered box
£195

Taking Tea and reading books-The Scholars Picnic-Painted circa 1850 newly restored and with a specially made period antique silk covered box
£220

The colour of the mountings are actually grey and not blue

Ontake. this wonderful Sumei-Ink Painting-

Painted in 1909

Shimazaki Ryu'o (1865-1937)Born in Edo-Tokyo. At first, he learned Western painting from Kenkichi Sakurai. Later, he turned his painting style to Japanese. Learned the techniques of the Yosai school from Fuko Matsumoto, and also learned techniques of the Maruyama school from Gyokusho Kawabata. He was also good at painting Japanese beautiful girls-Bijen.

180 x 54cm 71 x22 inches

This has now been restored and comes with a specially made antique Kimono Silk covered Box.

£275

Mount Ontake (御嶽山, Ontake-san), also referred to as Mount Kiso Ontake (木曽御嶽山, Kiso Ontake-san), is the second highest volcano in Japan at 3,067 m (10,062 ft) located around 100 km (62 mi) northeast of Nagoya. It is on the borders of Kiso and Ōtaki, Nagano Prefecture, and Gero, Gifu Prefecture. It should not be confused with Mount Mitake, a mountain in Tokyo written with the same characters, and various other Japanese mountains which share the name Ontake. A small pond located near the base of Mount Ontake contains a number of koi that have achieved seemingly impossible life spans. The oldest known vertebrate animal known to recorded history was a koi named "Hanako," who died here in 1977, at the age of 226 years—outlasting the world's oldest tortoise by 38 years.^[

before restoration after restoration

Numata Masayuki, Bokusai, Kashu. A nobleman from Owari province. Lived most of his life in Nagoya. Pupil of his grandfather Numata Gessai who had studied ukiyo-e under Maki Bokusen and bunjinga under Baiistu. Numata was sufficiently highly regarded that he was commissioned by the emperor Meiji to decorate the Imperial Palace in 1888

Famous for a three volume book that he wrote and illustrated called Shucho Gafu between 1885 and 1916. This is one of his original paintings

Numata Kashu was from Nagoya and . He did a three volume kacho-ga in the period from about 1885 to 1890 and it was reprinted at least twice in the 20^{th
century. Original printings of his books like this one are harder to
find than the contemporary kacho books by Kono Bairei, Imao Keinen and
Watanabe Seitei (Shotei). Numata was more concerned with the birds than
with the flowers in his prints and his books are ornithologically more
accurate than most of the genre.}

Each book included as introductory material accompanying 12 leaves, printed both recto and verso, of striking color woodblock prints showing various species of birds in their natural habitats, some of the prints double page. Sm. 4to. Dec. stiff wrpps., tie-bound. Tokyo (Matsuyama-do Shoten/ Shosando Shoten) 1916.

This is the specially made silk covered and lined box that we have created for this wonderful scroll painting

Shûchô Gafu (Pictorial Monograph of Birds) Volume 2 (?) only (of three). 25.1 x 17.9 cm. 26 leaves including initial leaf of printed text 25 single- and 12 double-page colored plates and a final page (i.e. one side of a leaf) of printed text. Contemporary plain blue wrappers stitched Japanese style with red Japanese lettering piece on upper (right) cover. Printed endpapers. Yellow upper endpaper. Tokyo, Nakamura Sataro, 1885.

This is a beautiful work of the kachô genre with the wood blocks printed in subdued colors that include green, yellow, red, brown, orange, blue and dilutions of black. One or two of the plates are done in pure sumi-e i. e. varying dilutions of black and gray. Amongst the turn-of-the-century masters of kachô, including, besides Numata, Bairei Kôno, Watanabe Seitei (Shotei) and Keinen Imao, Numata seems to have been the most bird oriented, so much so that, according to Bartlett and Shohara, his later works published in Tokyo, barely qualify for the “ka” designation. His albums seem scarcer than those of the other artists.

According to the Yale catalog (their three-volume set is a 1938 issue), this work was published in three volumes beginning in 1885. Bartlett and Shohara do not name this work but mention three volumes by Numata of “beautiful bird and flower pictures in 1890...”.

(Shûchô Gafu ?) (Pictorial monograph of birds). (Volume 3 of 3?). 25.0 x 18.1 cm. Laid paper in Japanese double construction (conjugate leaves) sprinkled with mica. Red upper paste-down with Japanese characters and 27 leaves. Japanese-style stitched binding. Bound Japanese style right to left with patterned blue paper over card. Lacks title label slip from upper cover. (Tokyo, Nakamura Sataro ?), 1889.

Red upper paste-down with characters; two leaves framed with double-green lines containing Japanese characters and two red stamps; 17 single and eight double-paged colored woodblock prints within single gray-ruled borders; final page of characters with two red stamps (different from those at beginning).

Numata Kashu was from Nagoya and was sufficiently highly regarded that he was commissioned by the emperor Meiji to decorate the Imperial Palace in 1888. He did a three volume kacho-ga in the period from about 1885 to 1890 and it was reprinted at least twice in the 20th century. Original printings of his books like this one are harder to find than the contemporary kacho books by Kono Bairei, Imao Keinen and Watanabe Seitei (Shotei). Numata was more concerned with the birds than with the flowers in his prints and his books are ornithologically more accurate than most of the genre. This one is exquisite with much brighter colors than the first volume and with some gauffrage and mica-sprinkled paper. Some of the color may have been applied by hand.

The specially made antique kimono silk covered box reflects the colours of the scroll through the fan motif

Researching this: I think this is Yoshimichi Shunpô (Japanese, born after 1899) £210

Antique Japanese silk was used to make this lovely box for this wonderful scroll

The grandson of Mizuno, Toshikata (1866-1908) who was a famous woodblock print artist.

Shinso Mizuna also created prints and was published a number of times by Unsodo Publishers

Unsodo is the name of a large Japanese publishing company with branches in both Tokyo and Kyoto. Founded in 1891, this company is still in existence today. From the 1890s through the 1930s, the Unsodo publishing house was involved in printing high quality pattern books for various crafts including textiles and lacquer. They also published fine art books with color woodblock print illustrations. After World War II, Unsodo became associated with a number of different shin hanga artists. Unsodo published several series of original landscape prints during the late 1940's, including 'Twelve Views of Japan' and 'Twelve Views of Kyoto'.

Mizuno, Toshikata (1866-1908) Japanese-style painter, illustrator. Lived in Tokyo. First learned woodblock printing from Taiso Yoshitoshi, then studied Japanese-style painting with Watanabe Shotei. Also studied decoration of ceramics. Member of the Nihon Bijutsu Kyokai and Nihon Bijutsuin, frequently serving as a juror for these groups. Among his puils were Ikeda Terukata, Ikeda Shoen, and Kaburagi Kiyokata. Painted genre subjects in a modified ukiyo-e manner with Shijo-style background.
In 1887 succeeded Yoshitoshi as illustrator for Yamato shinbun. Designed prints of battle scenes of Sino-Japanese War. At turn of the century was designing illustrations, including fashion plates for a department store. Frequent subjects were women and children in traditional garden settings.

.Width 20.8" : Height 74.2" ( With the original artists signed box. )
*Otake Chikuha (1878-1936):
He was born in Niigata. He learned painting from Sasada Unseki of Nanshu-ha he was given the pseudonym Chikuha. In 1891, he moved to Toyama with his older brother and he made money by painting illustration for newspapers or advertisement. His younger brother got a prize of the book named Shokokumin, he started to send illustration to this book. After he moved to Tokyo and learned under Kawabata Gyokusho, he got prizes that made his painting very popular.
His pseudonym is Seppou.

Inscription:
Dated December of the 8th year of Showa ( 1933) celebrating the 70th birthday for Nobuyoshi (?)
Signature: Koushou Senshi

Seal: Top seal: Kimura Gaitetsu Bottom seal: Koushou (?)

This is a scroll by an outstanding artist Shuko(Shuka) . The scroll mounting has been replaced and a new box made.

there was a tiny separation damage is at the bottom of the outside mount and this has been fixed.

Shuka Takahashi (1877 - 1952 ) £355
Japanese artist.
His real name was Toshita.
He was born in Okayama Pref. in 1877
and lived in Kyoto.
He studied painting with Syunkyo Yamamoto.
The artist's precise date of death is unknown but most research gives me that he died in 1952.
Shuka did a ink and wash scroll painting in 1945 depicting the atomic bomb exploding on Hiroshima in 1945;
Takahashi sent this "illustrated letter," created in the weeks after the bomb, to his close friend, physician
Michihiko Hachiya, who stayed in Hiroshima to treat victims of the blast