Japan 19th cent.
OBAN AND OTHER FORMATS
YOSHIMOTO GESSO 吉本月荘 (1881-1936)
Kacho-e -”Sparrows and Bamboo in Wintery Landscape” - 雪竹に雀. Original colour woodblock print. Signature: Gesso. Publisher: Mitsugiri. Edition: about 1920/30s.
24,2 x 11,6 CM
From the collection of Robert O. Muller
KITAGAWA TSUKIMARO (Kikumaro)
喜多川月麿 (active ca.1794 - 1836)
The courtesan Tamagushi (Tamakushi) from the house Tamaya at Edo-machi nichome and two kamuro named Kazashi and Katsura 玉屋内 玉櫛 江戸町二丁目 かさし かつら. Original colour woodblock print. Signature: Kansetsu Tsukimaro ga. Publisher: Uemura Yohei. Censor seal: Kiwame and Futakata (極, 貳方). Edition: 1918. A personally written poem by the courtesan inscribed on the left side of the depiction.
OBAN 39,8 x 26,6 CM
OHARA KOSON 小原古邨 (1877 - 1945)
Kacho-e – “Floating Wild Ducks and Suzuki gras”. Original colour woodblock print. Signature: Shoson. Seal: Shoson. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Edition: Showa 6 (1931), Ato-zuri (later reprint of the original printing plates before 1989).
OBAN 39 x 26 CM
UNKNOWN MASTER
Reprint of Chinese illustration from the book Kaishi engaden, Vol. I (theoretical book on the art of drawing). Edition: end of 19th century.
29 x 20 CM
SHODA KOHO 庄田耕峯 (1871 – 1946?)
''Dusk''. Original woodblock print from a series of 21 nightly scenes. Seal: Ko-Ho. Publisher: Nishinomiya Yosaku (Hasegawa). Edition: about 1930, 2nd edition in blue tones (1st edition in sepia tones, 1920s). On the back with small stamp reading ''Made in Japan''. The marginal notes reading 版権所有 西宮與作 Hanken shoyu Nishinomiya Yosaku - ''All rights by Nishinomiya Yosaku''.
CHUBAN 27,5 x 20,5 CM
UNKNOWN MASTER
Kiyomizudera in Kyoto in a clear starry night and the Arashi mountains in the far back. Woodblock print. Seal: Shima Company. Publisher: Shima Company. Edition: mid/about 1930. On the back with small stamp reading ''Made in Japan''.
OBAN 25,9 x 38,6 CM