Posts by Richard Kruml:
Totoya HOKKEI (1780-1850)
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A dragon emerging from dark clouds. An extremely rare surimono; the few other known examples being trimmed.
Fine impression, very good colour and condition. Signed Hokkei.
Status: Sold
Totoya HOKKEI (1780-1850)
Click here to view image full size. A langoustine and fish. An extremely rare surimono designed for the Gogawa Club (seal top right) and produced by Shunman sei. Very good impression, colour and condition with blind-printing on fish. Signed Hokkei sha. Status: Sold
Okumura MASANOBU (c.1686-1764)
Click here to view image full size. A major artist attributed with the invention of the hashira-e and uki-e and who may have been the first to change from hand colouring to colour printing. Tera no kashi, “Sweets From a Temple” from Masanobu’s most highly regarded shunga set: Someiro no yama neya no hinagata, “Mountains […]
OSAKA SCHOOL (c.1830)
Click here to view image full size. A complete set of twelve oban shunga prints. Printed with sumi outline blocks only, omitting the colour blocks and coloured by hand instead. Extensive details hand applied and with grey mica grounds and other areas with mica. This set was either a special one-off commission for a valued […]
Okumura MASANOBU (1686-1764)
Click here to view image full size. A pair of lovers. Obviously one sheet from a shunga album. A sumizuri-e print with careful hand-colouring. Although possibly not contemporary the colouring certainly has considerable age. Published c 1710s. Very good impression. Slight offsetting of sumi and other minor soil and backed wormholes. Centre fold. Status: Sold
Unsigned Shunga (Attributed to Utagawa KUMINAO)
Click here to view image full size. Three volumes complete. Shunkei otogi bunko, “Erotic Bedrooms, A Collection of Fairy Tales”. Original covers and title slips. Published circa early 1850s. Very fine impressions and colour, very good condition. Status: Sold Click here to view image full size.
Unsigned Shunga (Attributed to Ichiyusai KUNIYOSHI)
Click here to view image full size. Three volumes complete. Shunshoku koi no kakehashi, “A Bridge of Love”. Original covers and title slips. Published circa late 1840s. Very fine impressions and colour, very good condition. Status: Sold Click here to view image full size.
Unsigned Shunga (Attributed to Keisai EISEN)
Click here to view image full size. Three volumes complete. Koi murasaki, “Purple Love”. Original covers and title slips. Published circa early 1840s. Very fine impressions and colour, one wormhole on one volume, otherwise very good condition throughout. Status: Sold Click here to view image full size. Click here to view image full size.
Isoda KORYUSAI (fl.c.1764-1788)
Click here to view image full size. Two complete koban sets of twelve prints each showing loving couples. Two double pages shown from each album. Minor soil and one stain, but otherwise very good impression, colour and condition. Status: Sold Click here to view image full size. Click here to view image full size. Click […]
Torii KOTONDO (1900-1976)
Click here to view image full size. Utatane, “A nap”. See The female image nos.177-1 and 177-2, p.132. This impression has a silver mica ground. Published by Ikeda Showa 5 (1930). Limited edition seal au verso, no.53 from 100. Perfect impression and colour. Minor toning in margin, otherwise perfect condition. Signed Kotondo ga with seal. […]
Yamakawa SHUHO (1898-1944)
Click here to view image full size. A girl performing the nunozarashi. See The female image, no.156, p.118. There are later printings of Shuho prints but this is from the original edition. Published 1936. Perfect impression, colour and condition. Signed Shuho. Status: Sold
Kawase HASUI (1883-1957)
Click here to view image full size. Mount Fuji viewed from Satta mountain pass., Satta toge no Fuji. Published by Watanabe (seal lower right margin) Showa 10 (1935). Hasui produced a number of variant (colour) impressions of this design. Perfect impression, colour and condition. Signed Hasui with Kawase seal. Status: Sold
Takahashi SHOTEI (1871-1945)
Click here to view image full size. A large print (13.75 x 20.5 inches; 35 x 52 cms) of a cat prowling around a staked tomato plant. A rare print by an artist who obviously had a penchant for cats as there are several other designs of them by him. Published by Fusui Gabo, Showa […]
School of Mori SOSEN (c. early 19th century)
Click here to view image full size. A group of seven small monkey paintings on silk, 11.75 x 11 cms. Of fine quality. Probably by a leading Sosen pupil. Mounted in a concertina album. Unsigned. Status: Sold Click here to view image full size. Click here to view image full size. Click here to view […]
Ryusai SHIGEHARU (1803-1853)
Click here to view image full size. A bust portrait of the actor Arashi Rikan in an onnagata role as Osome. Published by Honsei c1830-32. A border of game cards, balls and battledore and shuttlecock. Forms a complete diptych design with print below. Very good impression, colour and condition. Full size. Signed Gyokuryutei Shigeharu ga. […]
Ryusai SHIGEHARU (1803-1853)
Click here to view image full size. A bust portrait of the actor Ichikawa Danzo in the role of Hisamatsu. Published by Honsei c1830-32. A border of game cards, balls and battledore and shuttlecock. Very good impression and colour. One very small wormhole and minor marks, otherwise very good condition. Full size. Signed Gyokuryutei Shigeharu […]
Gigado ASHIYUKI (FI. 1814-1833)
Click here to view image full size. The actor Arashi Kitsusaburo II as Minamoto Sanmi Yorimasa about to kill the composite beast, the Nue, with an arrow. Dated Bunsei 5, 9th month (1817). Very good impression and colour. Deluxe printing on heavy hosho. Very good condition. Signed Ashiyuki. Status: Sold
Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. The beach of the Dancing Girl in Harima Province from Rokuju-yo shu meisho zue, “Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces”. The set published by Koshihei between 1853-1856. Very good early impression showing strong woodgrain. Fine colour and condition. Signed Hiroshige ga. Status: Sold
Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. A chuban triptych showing three beauties relaxing at Takanawa from a set of Eight Views of Edo. Published by Joshuya Kinzo c.1849-50. (Tamba no.146.) Very good impression, colour and condition. Signed Hiroshige ga. Status: Sold
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. Kanagawa Oki Nami-ura from the “Thirty-six Views of Fuji”. The set of forty-six prints published between 1823 and 1829 by Eijudo. Probably the most eulogised Japanese print and the masterpiece from the set as well as being one of the world’s great graphic images. Medium impression. Blue outline. […]
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. Two volumes complete Toto shokei ichiran “A View of the Famous Sights of the Eastern Capital”. Dated Kansei 12 (1800) and published by Tsutaya Jusaburo, Suwaraya Mohei and Suwaraya Ihachi, all of Edo. Original covers, hand-painted with Iris flowers, and title slips. The first edition (probably of 200 […]
Kitagawa UTAMARO (1753-1806)
Click here to view image full size. (Seiro Ehon) Nenju Gyoji, Yoshiwara Events or “Annals of the Green Houses”. One of Utamaro’s major books showing the annual events in the only government licensed brothel district in the city of Edo (Tokyo). Two volumes complete published Spring 1804 by Kazusaya Chusuke juo. Text by Jippensha Ikku. […]
Taiso YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. An actor as a tattooed fireman from a set of seven prints Isami no Kotobuki. “A Celebration of Gallantry”. Firemen often had elaborate tattoos to show their indifference to pain. The set published by Daikin 8/1865. Rare. Very fine impression and colour. On thick deluxe hosho. Gofun oxidised […]
Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. An uncut sheet of two chuban prints showing Kobayakaw Saemon Koretaka and Saito Musashibo Benkei from the set: Wakan kidan kagami, “A Comparison of Strange Stories from China and Japan.”” The set published 1880 by Kodama Mathichi. Very good to fine impression, colour and condition. Variegated cartouche. Signed […]
Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. An uncut sheet of two chuban prints showing Toki Daishoro and Chinsei Hachiro Minamoto Tameasa from the set: Wakan kidan kagami, “A Comparison of Strange Stories from China and Japan.” The set published 1880 by Kodama Mathichi. Very good to fine impression, colour and condition. Variegated cartouche. Signed […]
Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. An uncut sheet of two chuban prints showing Tahara Fujita Hidesato and Kodan Uzaemon Naoyuki from the set: Wakan kidan kagami, “A Comparison of Strange Stories from China and Japan.” The set published 1880 by Kodama Mathichi. Very good to fine impression, colour and condition. Variegated cartouche. Signed […]
Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. An uncut sheet of two chuban prints showing Skura Sogo and Sakenomi Doji from the set: Wakan kidan kagami, “A Comparison of Strange Stories from China and Japan.” The set published 1880 by Kodama Mathichi. Very good to fine impression, colour and condition. Variegated cartouche. Signed Yoshitoshi ga. […]
Katsukawa SHUNSHO (1726-1792)
Click here to view image full size. The actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX and Bando Matatoro IV (hand-written in sumi) grappling together. Published c.1768. Not in Gookin. Very good impression. Some fading. Wonderful blue ground. Very good condition. Signed Shunsho ga with Hayashi in jar-shaped outline seal. Status: Sold
Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. An uncut sheet of two chuban prints showing the Chinese generals Shin Shobu and Tobu Ribu from the set: Wakan kidan kagami, “A Comparison of Strange Stories from China and Japan.” The set published 1880 by Kodama Mathichi. Very good to fine impression, colour and condition. Variegated cartouche. […]