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Dozan (Active 19th century)- Turtle. Circa mid-19th century. Unmounted painting.
Ink and colour on paper. 23 x 25 cm. All of Dozan’s recorded work are shikishiban paintings in the Maruyama-Shijo style. A large group are in the Gerhard Schack Collection in the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.
$900

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Takahashi Biho (1873-?)- Crows in Flight. Circa 1900.
Shikishiban. Fine impression with splashed gofun. Fine colour and condition.
$900

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Anonymous - A sketchbook with numerous drawings after celebrated artists of the Maryuyama-Shijo school such as Mori Sosen, Mori Tetsuzan and Okamoto Toyohiko. Early to mid-19th century
Ink and colour on paper. 26.6 x 18.5 cm (covers). The cover is titled Shukuzu ((Small scale copies of paintings). Additional photos on request.
$1,800

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Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)- Still-life of Fish. Circa 1880's.
Fan print. Very good impression, colour and condition. Rare.
$680

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Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)- Leaping Sea-Bream. Circa 1880's.
Fan print. Very good impression, colour and condition. We have not been able to locate any other impressions of this design.
$900.

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Takeuchi Seiho (1864-1942)- A Fox and a Woman's Hat. Circa 1930's.
Large oban. 39 x 47.8 cm. Fine impression with white over-printing. Fine colour and condition. A Japanese audience would presume that the sneaky fox, once it had taken human form, would use the woman’s hat to add to the deception.
$900

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Urushibara Yoshijiro (1888-1953)- Heron in Rain. Circa 1920's
Large oban. 42.2 x 29.8 cm. Chapman and Homer, Yoshijiro Urushibara, C13. Provenance: By descent to Ichiro Urushibara (the artist’s son). Fine impression, colour and condition.
$1,400

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Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889)- Crow on a Branch. Circa 1880.
Octagonal fan print. 22.3 x 28.9 cm. Fine impression, colour and condition. Faint centrefold (as always).

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Utagawa Toyokun II (1777-1835)- A Hawk on a Branch with Rising Sun.
Circa 1830. Vertical oban diptych. Fine impression. Very good colour and condition. Extremely rare.

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Urushibara Mokuchu (1888-1953)- Orchids with Butterfly and Ladybird.
Circa 1920s. 34.6 x 25.2cm. Fine impression, colour and condition.
$900

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Yodo Gyokuei (Active Late 19th century)- Iris.
Circa 1880s. Fan print. 24.2 x 24.9cm. Fine impression with extensive mica sizing. Fine colour and condition.

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Ohara Koson (1877-1945)- Crow on Snowy Bough
Early 1900s. O-tanzaku. 37.6 x 19cm. Crows, Cranes & Camellias, no. 48a. Fine impression with extensive blind printing and burnishing. Fine colour and condition.
$1,250

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Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826-1869)- Dragon and Waves.
1860s. Album plate. Fine impression, colour and condition. Faint centrefold.

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)- A Bird on Wisteria.
Circa early 1840s. Chu-tanzaku. 35 x 11.6cm. Very good impression, colour and condition. A graceful aspect of this design is the way the placement of the poetry and the drawing of its characters echoes the stem of the wisteria.

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Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)- Crows in Flight at Sunset
1888. Shikishiban. 24 x 25.1cm. The New Wave no.33. Fine impression, colour and condition.

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Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)- Leaping Carp. From the series Hana kurabe (Comparison of Flowers)
Ca. 1880. Chuban. Fine impression with mica sizing on the fish. Fine colour and condition.
$350

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Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889)- Two Crows on a Plum Branch with Rising Sun.
After 1885. Kakemono-e. 69.9 x 26 cm. Clark, Demon of Painting: Kawanabe Kyosai, British Museum, frontispiece and plate 102; Kawanabe Kyosai: Selected Works from the Israel Goldman Collection, Tokyo, 2002, no. 68. Fine impression and colour. Very good condition.