JAPANESE ART AND DESIGN
Catalogue Information: 196 lots | 170 with images
Lot 1: TORII KIYONAGA (1752-1815) and UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI (1769-1825)
The first from a Furyu juni [Fashionable twelve] series, an elegant young man offers a light to one of two girls standing underneath a wistaria arbour, signed Kiyonaga ga, the second from the series Furyu juni tsuki [Fashionable twelve months], a you [...more]
Lot 2: Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806)
The lovers Oume and Kumenosuke from the series Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami [True feelings compared: The founts of love], signed Utamaro hitsu with publisher's seal Nishimuraya sei and kiwame seal, good impression, some fading of colours, trimmed at [...more]
Lot 3: Katsushika Hokusai (1760 - 1849)
Totomi sanchu [In the Mountains of Totomi Province], from the series Fukagu sanjurokkei [Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji]: two men sawing a great beam of wood, while another sharpens a saw blade watched by a woman with a child on her back, blue outlin [...more]
Lot 4: KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Koshu Isawa no akatsuki (Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province) from the series Fugaku sanjurokkei (Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji), travellers on the road passing through the village, black outline, signed Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu, publisher's seal Eijudo an [...more]
Lot 5: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Ohashi Atake no yudachi [Ohashi, sudden shower at Atake], from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei [One hundred views of famous places in Edo], signed Hiroshige ga and published by Uoya Eikichi, fair impression and colours, slightly trimmed at top and left [...more]
