Please be aware that all lots marked with the symbol λ are subject to CITES regulations Please see our Terms & Conditions, Section 22, for more information.Japanese Art: Lots 1-78 |
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UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1798-1861).
Woodblock prints, oban triptych entitled 'Akazawayama Ozumo' (Grand Sumo Tournament on Mt. Akazawa), depicting a historic sumo match between Kawazu Saburo Sukeyasu and Matano Goro Kagehisa, published by Maruya Kyushiro in 1858, signed Kuniyoshi ga, good impression. (3)
£500-700
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UTAGAWA SCHOOL.
19th Century.
Woodblock prints, oban triptych entitled 'Toseikodomozumo hyobanki '(Famous child sumo wrestlers in the present day), showing young sumo wrestlers practicing, unsigned. (3)
£200-300
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UTAGAWA KUNISADA (1786 - 1865).
Woodblock prints, oban triptych depicting a sumo match, the wrestler Shiranui (right) and Jin'maku (left) in the centre of the ring, flanked by the judge Hidenoyama (far right) and referee Shikimori Yojin (far left), signed Oju Toyokuni ga. (3)
£500-600
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UTAGAWA KUNISADA (1786 - 1865).
Woodblock prints, oban triptych depicting a sumo match, the wrestler Arauma is about to throw his opponent Koyanagi, watched by the judges Iseumi and Shikimori Ki'ichiro, signed Ichiyosai/Kochoro Toyokuni ga. (3)
£500-600
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UTAGAWA KUNISADA (1786 - 1865).
Two oban triptychs, showing sumo wrestlers backstage, each entitled 'Higashinokata Shitakubeya no zu' (a picture of a backstage in the East), and 'Nishinokata Shitakubeya no zu' (a picture of a backstage in the West), signed Ichiyosai/Kochoro Toyokuni ga. (6)
£500-700
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KUNIYOSHI AND TOSHIKATA.
19th Century.
Three woodblock prints, oban triptych depicting a scene from the play ''Chushingura', the night attack of forty-seven ronin samurai on the house of Moronao, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi; two oban tate-e prints by Toshikata, from the series 'the thirty-six selected beauties', subtitled 'Yukimi' and 'Toyama', framed and glazed. (3)
£200-300
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UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1798-1861).
Woodblock prints, two triptychs and one oban tate-e, showing warriors in battle, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga. (3)
£200-300
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YOSHITORA AND OTHERS.
19th Century.
Four oban triptychs, including two by Yoshitora, each depicting a battle scene from the Taiheiki, the chronical of medieval Japan; one by Yoshitoshi, depicting the siege of Kumamoto castle during the Boshin war, in 1877. (4)
£300-400
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KUNISADA AND KUNIHISA.
19th Century.
Two woodblock triptychs, the first by Kunisada, from the series Genji jyunikagetsu no uchi (Twelve months of the house of Genji), Shiwasu (December), showing women in busy preparation for a massive end-of-year clean; the second triptych depicting Sakata no Kintoki wrestling with Arataro in the mountain, observed by his mother and monkeys, signed Kunihisa ga. (2)
£250-300
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TSUKIMARO, HOKUSAI AND OTHERS.
19th Century.
Woodblock prints, oban triptych by Tsukimaro, entitled Tamagawa koganei no hashi, a young samurai and courtesans on a wooden bridge over the Tama river; another triptych by Yoshu Chikanobu, from the series, Chiyoda no Oomote, a courtesan kneeling in front of a local magistrate; one kakemono-e by Eisen, a standing beauty in snow; and one small print by Hokusai, from the series Tokaido Gojyusan tsugi (Fifty-three stations of Tokaido road), Mariko station, signed Hokusai ga. (4)
£500-600
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KIYOCHIKA AND KUNISADA.
19th Century.
oban tate-e triptych by Kobayashi Kiyochika, entitled 'Kodai moyo Murasaki Shikibu', depicting the poetess Murasaki Shikibu holding a fan, signed Kiyochika, framed and glazed; and three oban prints by Utagawa school artists, showing kabuki actors in their roles. (4)
£300-400
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KUNISADA AND OTHERS.
19th Century.
A collection of twenty-four wood block prints, all of oban tate-e format, including eleven prints from the series Shoga gojyu saneki, by Kunisada and Yoshitora, five prints from the series Haika shoga kyodai, by Kunisada. (24)
£300-400
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HIROSHIGE AND OTHERS.
19th / 20th Century.
A small aizuri-e by Hiroshige, depicting a sparrow on a camellia branch, with a poem, signed Hiroshige ga, 23 x 16.5cm; oban tate-e, entitled Tokyo Meisho, with subtitle 'Night scene of Matsuchiyama Hill and Sanya canal', a late edition of 'One hundred views of Edo', by Hiroshige; one small painting of a standing courtesan in kimono decorated with the Hell scene; one print by Eisen, showing a woman standing beside the river. (4)
£300-400
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TOSHIKATA AND OTHERS.
19th Century.
Eleven woodblock prints, including six prints from the series Sanju Rokkasen (Thirty-Six Selected beauties), each showing a woman in historical costume and settings, by Mitsuno Toshikata. (11)
£300-400
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KIKUGAWA EIZAN (1787 - 1867).
oban tate-e, a bust-portrait of a young woman reading a book, from the series 'Furyu Mutama gawa', a parody of the Six Jewel Rivers, with the subtitle 'Ide Tama river' in the book-shaped inset picture, signed Kikukawa Eizan with a publisher's seal 'Izumiya'.
£150-200
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KUNISADA AND OTHERS.
19th Century.
Seven oban tate-e, including three by Kunisada, one by Kuniyasu, one by Kuniteru, all showing kabuki actors in their roles, signed variously. (7)
£100-150
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NATORI SHUNSEN (1886-1960) AND OTHERS.
oban tate-e, a memorial portrait, shini-e, of a kabuki actor Onoe Baiko XI who died in 1934, published by Nihon Bijyutsu club, the no. 57 from the limited edition of 500, signed Shunsen; four further prints, banzuke, kabuki theatre programs, dated 1912. (5)
£100-150
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KAWASE HASUI (1883 - 1957).
oban tate-e, woodblock print, 'Zentsuji temple in rain', dated showa 12 (1936) in the margin, the publisher seal, Watanabe Shozaburo.
£150-250
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KAWASE HASUI (1883- 1957).
oban tate-e, woodblock print, entitled 'Haruno tsuki', Spring moon at Ninomiya beach, signed Hasui with a seal.
£150-250
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HIROSHI YOSHIDA (1876 - 1950).
The first entitled 'Nigatsudo Temple', depicting pilgrimage resting on the balcony of the temple in the evening, signed in pencil at the bottom margin, the seal Jizuri and dated on the left margin; the second, oban yoko-e, with. a title 'Suzukawa' printed in the bottom margin; a framed watercolour painting after the Nikko print by Yoshida. (3)
£300-500
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A SHUNGA BOOK.
Attributed to Utamaro, one volume, seven double-page, and two half-page illustration showing a couple making love, twelve pages of text printed in black and white, with a pale blue cover, 22 x 15.5cm.
£350-400
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A LARGE COLLECTION OF WOODBLOCK PRINTED BOOKS.
Including the biography of Kobo Daishi in Shikoku island 'Kobo Daishi ichidaiki, Shikoku meguri', one volume, published by Kanrindo, with some colour illustrations, the author Ryuryutei, the artist Gountei Sadahide, dated 1858, 17.5 x 12.5cm; Enko Daishiden(a biography of the Priest Honen), twenty-four volumes, in black and white, 23.9 x 18.9cm; Zenken Kojitsu (True tradition of bygone Heroes) twenty volumes, with cream colour covers with red title slip, black and white illustration by Kikuchi Yosai, 26 x 18cm; Shaka jitsuroku (Illustrated biography of Buddha), four volumes, dated 1852, 23 x 15.8cm; Nakatomi no Oh Arai zue (Illustration of Shinto purification), three volumes, written by Omuro Yujo, illustrated by Matsukawa Hanzan, dated 1850; Banzui'i shonin den (illustrated biography of the priest Banzui'i), two volumes, 26.5 x 19cm; Jyoudoushu ekoumon wakunzue (Picture-book of Jyodo teaching), three volumes, by Koukado Yatei, illustrated by Matsukawa Hanzan, 25.5 x 18cm; a fold-out sutra book of Dai Hannya kyo; and one small handscroll. (59)
£400-600
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THREE SECTIONS FROM A HANDSCROLL PAINTING.
17th Century.
Painted in colour and gofun on paper with gold flakes, each depicting a street scene with Chinese officials, street vendors and townsmen, framed and glazed. (3)
£200-300
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FOUR JAPANESE HANGING SCROLLS.
19th / 20th Century.
The first, attributed to Tatebe Ryotai in ink and colour on paper, with figures and calligraphy, 28 x 51.5cm, and three further scroll paintings depicting 'Cherry tree and Carps', 'Persimmon and Monkeys' and 'Reeds and Geese', in ink and colour on paper, unsigned, 13 x 48cm. (4)
£100-150
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TWO PAINTINGS.
Edo period.
Comprising a Buddhist painting depicting the deity, Shomei-Kongo in the centre, surrounded by attendants, 91x 36cm; and an Ukiyo-e school painting of a standing beauty reading a letter, in ink on paper, framed and glazed, 65 x 28cm. (2)
£200-300
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TWO JAPANESE HANGING SCROLLS.
20th Century.
Both painted in ink and colour on silk, the one with a standing beauty, signed Fumio, with a seal,126 x 40cm; the other, a landscape with a waterfall, unsigned, 105 x 34.5cm. (2)
£300-400
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NINE FRAMED PAINTINGS.
Meiji period.
In ink and colour on silk, one depicting a priest holding hoshu, the others each depicting a woman in kimono standing, 72 x 32cm. (9)
£500-700
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λ A LARGE INLAID TWO PANEL SCREEN.
Meiji period.
Each panel decorated in high relief, in ivory, bone and mother-of-pearl with various birds perched on a flowering cherry tree on a blue lacquer ground, within a red lacquered frame, the reverse painted similarly in lacquer, surrounded by engraved wood panels and borders with stylised bat and long-tailed birds, each panel 182 x 84cm.
Provenance: From Laureston Mansion House, the Isle of Man, acquired in 1974.
£400-600
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λ AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE OCCASIONAL DESK.
Meiji period.
The drop-down desk top hinged by chains on a tsuitate screen, decorated in high relief, in ivory, bone, mother-of-pearl and lacquer on wood, with birds and flowers motifs. 110 x 62cm.
£300-400
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λ A NAGASAKI LACQUER TRAVELLING DESK.
19th Century.
Of typical form, with a hinged cover opening to reveal a writing-slope lined with green leather embossed with a scroll pattern in gilt, an ink tray with glass ink jars, the side drawer containing various compartments including a seal case and a pen tray, the exterior decorated with a landscape, phoenix, and sprig of flowers in aogai shell inlaid on a black lacquer ground, 27 x 37 x 20cm.
£300-500
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A BLACK LACQUER DOCUMENT BOX.
Edo period.
Of rectangular form with canted corners, the cover with Hotei and his large sack delicately decorated in gold and rogin takamakie against a roiro ground, the inner tray, with plovers in hiramakie, 19 x 16 x 7.5cm.
£300-500
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A FINE LACQUER SUZURIBAKO.
Edo period.
The cover decorated on a black roiro ground with a Chinese immortal in a thick gilt moriage with painted dragons on the edges, the interior with monkeys looking at the moon from a rock among crashing waves, in gold and rogin takamakie, kirigane on a nashiji ground, fitted with two trays, an ink stone, and a copper water dropper in the shape of a shell and waves, with a wooden storage box, 23 x 21 x 4.5cm.
£800-1,200
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A LACQUER TWO-TIERED POEM BOX, BY SHUNSHO.
Edo period.
Delicately decorated in gold hiramaki and togidashi against a black roiro ground, with crickets and grasshoppers among creeping autumn flowers, the details of insects embellished with inlaid aogai, the interior of fine dense gold nashiji, signed Shunsho, with a Kagemasa seal, with a wooden fitted box, 33.5 x 11 x 9cm.
£800-1,200
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AN UNUSUAL SILVER AND LACQUER INCENSE CEREMONY SET.
Meiji period.
Comprising a boat-shape cart with a drawer in the centre, embellished in gold lacquer with waves and chidori with a silver handle woven to simulate ropes; a fitted silver incense burner and a matching silver incense mixing box, both engraved with cherry blossom, with a wooden storage box, 26 x 18cm.
£1000-1500
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A GOLD LACQUER KODANSU.
Meiji period.
The small rectangular cabinet, with a hinged door opening to reveal three drawers, richly decorated in gold takamakie, togidashi and kirigane, the front and the sides depicting a continuous scene, possibly Arashiyama in Kyoto, with mountains, a bridge, a waterfall, and flowering cherry trees, fitted with silver mounts and handles, 12 x 10 x 9cm.
£500-700
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A GILT WOOD CARVING OF TENNYO.
20th Century.
Pierced and carved with flying heavenly women amongst stylized clouds, painted in gilt, gilt metal decoration to the frame, 31cm wide.
£100-120
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A CARVED WOOD FIGURE OF FUDO MYO-O.
Edo period.
Standing on a rock holding a sword in his right hand, with a fierce expression and one eye half closed, a separately carved flame painted in gilt,18.5cm.
£400-500
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A GIGAKU MASK OF KARURA.
20th Century.
The dry lacquer mask painted in green, red and gilt, 25cm.
£100-120
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λ A COLLECTION OF MINIATURE IVORY MASKS.
19th Century or later.
Twenty-three folk and festival masks including oni, hyottoko, kappa, and Chinese generals, 5cm approx. (23)
£200-300
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λ A FINE TOKYO SCHOOL IVORY FIGURAL OKIMONO.
Meiji period.
Carved from a single ivory block, a Chinese scholar seated on a rock with one hand resting on the back of a child riding on a goat, the other touching the bell hanging from the collar of the animal, his robe decorated with engraved flower medallions, the goat's eyes inlaid in pale amber, signed Shunko in a red lacquer reserve, 18cm H.
£2,500-3,000
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λ A SMALL IVORY OKIMONO.
Meiji period.
Depicting a man seated holding up a bunch of grapes in one hand, signed Teimin, 4cm H.
£400-500
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λ A SMALL IVORY OKIMONO.
19th / 20th Century.
Depicting a man seated holding a long rope over his shoulders, signed Ryu, 4cm H.
£300-400
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λ AN IVORY OKIMONO.
Meiji period.
Depicting a man seated looking in surprise at oni appearing from a painting, 5cm H.
£400-500
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λ A SMALL IVORY OKIMONO OF A MAN ON A HORSEBACK.
Meiji period.
Carved from a single block, depicting women and a child beside an old man on a horseback under a pine tree, signed Somin, 8cm H.
£400-600
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λ AN IVORY OKIMONO OF MONKEY.
Meiji period.
Naturalistically rendered with inlaid eyes, seated and holding his toe, unsigned, 7cm H.
£500-600
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λ AN IVORY GROUP OKIMONO OF MONKEYS.
20th Century.
Depicting a mother monkey playing tug-of-war with her young, signed Shigeyuki on the base, with a wood stand, 7cm wide.
£300-400
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λ AN IVORY BRUSH POT.
Meiji period.
Carved in high relief comically depicting goblins and demons, no base, 9cm H.
£500-700
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λ A SHIBAYAMA BOX AND COVER.
Meiji period.
Of rectangular shape, a hinged cover decorated with a hawk perched on a flowering cherry tree in shibayama style, the exterior applied with ivory pieces simulating basket texture, signed Masahide, 15 x 20 x 7cm.
£1,200-1,500
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A GROUP OF DAMASCENE ACCESSORIES.
Circa 1920.
Two sets of matched necklaces and bracelets, and one pair of earrings, decorated with landscape, birds, flowers and boats in gold and silver inlaid, with the original box, various sizes. (6)
£200-300
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λ A COLLECTION OF SOFT METAL INLAID BUTTONS.
19th Century or later.
Twenty-one kanamono buttons and brooches in various sizes and shapes, intricately decorated with birds and flowers, samurai and geisha inlaid in gold, silver and soft metal on a shakudo/bronze ground; ten further carved ivory accessories and one metal bracelet. (31)
£350-500
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