Paper Prints

A wonderful image titled "Market in Mukden (「奉天市場」Hôten ichiba)" by one of Japan's finest 20th century artist and one of, if not the greatest working artist in the Shin-Hanga (new pr...

A Japanese folk art woodblock print by Shozan Takahashi of the Otsu-e School. This figural print is an excellent example of Takahashi Shozan's adept knowledge of traditional block pr...

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川廣重 Woodblock from"The 53 Stations of the Tokaido" 1832 Artist: Hiroshige Utagawa was born in Edo as Tokutaro Ando and grew up in a minor samurai family. His father belonged to the firefighting force assigned to Edo Castle. It is here that Hiroshige was given his first exposure to art: legend has it that a fellow fireman tutored him in the Kano School of Painting, though Hiroshige’s first official teacher was Rinsai. Though Hiroshige tried to join Toyokuni Utagawa's studio, he was turned away. In 1811, young Hiroshige entered an apprenticeship with the celebrated Toyohiro Utagawa. After only a year, he was bestowed with the artist name Hiroshige. He soon gave up his role in the fire department to focus entirely on painting and print design. During this time he studied painting, intrigued by the Shijo school. Hiroshige’s artistic genius went largely unnoticed until 1832. In Hiroshige's groundbreaking series of woodblock prints, The 53 Stations of the Tokaido (1832-1833), he captured the journey along the Tokaido road, the highway connecting Edo to Kyoto, the imperial capital. With the Tokugawa Shogunate relaxing centuries of age-old restrictions on travel, urban populations embraced travel art and Hiroshige Utagawa became one of the most prominent and successful ukiyo-e artists. He also produced kacho-e (bird-and-flower pictures) to enormous success. In 1858, at the age of 61, he passed away as a result of the Edo cholera epidemic. Utagawa Hiroshige’s woodblock prints...

Antique Japanese woodblock triptych print by Toyohara, framed and dating to circa 1920. This piece features a serene domestic scene with elegantly dressed figures, showcasing the tra...

Saccolabium Coeleste Orchid – Reichenbachia Plate 30, c.1888 A magnificent hand-colored lithograph of the orchid Saccolabium coeleste (now classified as Rhynchostylis coelestis), pu...

Antique "Whittington's Alms House, Highgate" Framed Colored Print Drawn by M. Shepherd Engraved by T. Dale. Circa Late 19th Century. Measurements: 11" H x 14" W x 1" D. Print: 4" x 6...

Antique print titled 'Turnix Jondera'. Bird print of the Indian button quail. This print originates from 'The Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon' published 1879-1881. Artists...

An antique Japanese woodblock print from the 19th century depicting monks having tea. Created in Japan during the 19th century, this woodblock print showcases an indoor scene featuri...

Japanese Diptych Woodblock by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) 豐原國周 published in 1881 by Yamamoto Heikichi Dimension: with frame, 24.75" x 20.75" with...

A wonderfully composed and colored, limited edition woodblock print by famed Japanese artist Junichiro Sekino. This print, which is titled "Profile/ Portrait of Young Girl in Kimono", is signed and sealed/ stamped in red at the lower right. It was created in 1957 and comes from a limited edition of 100 prints (the exact number of this particular print is likely listed in pencil below the matt but we have not removed the print from the frame to confirm the exact number). An exquisite and rare/hard-to-find work. The detail in the girl's kimono is quite beautiful. Junichiro Sekino was largely considered, along with Kiyoshi Saito, to be one of Japan's paramount 20th-century master print artists. Both were prominent leaders of the Sosaku Hanga movement. Sekino's works can be found in many museums including: The Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., the Art Institute Chicago, the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, the British Museum, and the Portland Art Museum among many other Fine museums throughout the world. A version of this image can be found in the Harvard Art...

Japanese Woodblock Print by Eizan Kikugawa,???? (1787~1867) ABOUT THE ARTIST A native of Edo, Eizan Kikugawa was born as Toshinobu Omiya in 1787. He began his artistic career s...

Original Japanese Woodblock print by Hokusai Katsushika, 葛飾北齋 '1760-1849' About the artist Japanese artist, Hokusai Katsushika, was born in Edo as...

A beautifully composed Japanese woodblock print by American born artist Joshua Rome titled "Tsukiyo" or Moonlit Night. The limited edition print is hand signed in pencil, sealed i...

Rare views of early Singapore and Johore in 1907. 1) Swiss Rifling Club 2) Woodlands Station 3) Johore These heliogravures are on one leaf from the extremely rare boxed Ma...

Original Image of the Government House, Singapore, of over 100 years old. Very rare. The Istana (English: The Palace) is nowadays the official resi...

Print Toyohara Chikanobu Japan Woodcut 1880

A wonderfully composed and richly colored abstract woodblock print by Japanese artist Akira Kurosaki ((黒崎彰). The print is hand pencil signed, titled (W...

A wonderfully alluring, mesmerizing, vibrantly colored abstract screenprint (screen print) by Japanese American artist Kyohei Inukai (1913-1985). Born Earle Goodenow, Kyohei Inuka...

Antique Japanese Woodblock Print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), 一勇齋國芳 Dimensions: with frame: 12.75" W x 18.5" H without frame: 9.5" W x 13.5" H

A beautifully designed and composed woodblock print by famed Japanese artist/ printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most importan...

Japanese woodblock print (1823) by Yanagawa Shigenobu 1880 version, unframed. About the artist Born in Yanagawa in 1787, Shigenobu worked as a puppet maker before a successful care...

with frame cm.41,5x35

Print Toyohara Chikanobu Japan Woodcut 1880

Original Japanese Woodblock print by Totoya Hokkei ????(1780-1850) About the artist Totoya Hokkei (?? ??, 1780–1850) was a Japanese artist best kno...

Wonderful large abstract print by famed Japanese master printer Hideo Hagiwara who was generally considered one of the finest post-World War II Sosaku Hanga artists. In 1989 he was awarded a Gold Medal by the Nobel Prize Committee for five works produced on themes from the novels of Kawabata Yasunari. This print, titled Masque No...

Original woodblock work by " Three Geishas" Kikukawa Eizan (????) 1787-1867, depicting the traditional Japanese ladies with the traditional beautiful cu...

A fantastic original limited edition Shin Hanga woodblock print by famed French artist Paul Jacoulet titled "Vieillad au Chapelet. Kawadzu (Old Man with Rosary - Kawadzu)" which depi...

2 Japanese Woodblock Prints (Double-Side) by Toyohara Kunichika, and Shosai Ikkei - from Thirty-Six Comics of the Famous Places of Tokyo. Note: This is one piece of woodblock print. It is double-sided with two different prints on each side. - The video is the purpose for displaying the double-sided images in the acrylic frame, the actual images will be various. I listed many lots for the same artists, but the video images will apply to all the lots. Size: image: 9.5" x 13.5" with Frame: 12.75" x 15.75" About the Artists - Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese: ?? ?? 30 June 1835 – 1 July 1900) was a ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock print artist. Talented as a child, at about thirteen he became a student of Tokyo's then-leading print maker, Utagawa Kunisada. His deep appreciation and knowledge of kabuki drama...

Original Japanese Woodblock print, chuban Size "An unbecoming thing" by Totoya Hokkei  (1780-1850) About the artist Totoya Hokkei (1780–1850) was a Japanese artist best known for h...

Original Woodblock print Japan (1925) by Tsukioka Kogyo (signed). From the series ‘Noga Taikan’. Based on characters of Noh Plays.

Print size: 225 x 330 mm Sheet size: 270 x 390 mm "Tsuki Hyakushi Masterpiece Collection “『月百姿傑作撰集』 is a compilation of selected masterpieces from ”Tsuki Hyakushi"『月百姿』 a masterpi...

A wonderfully composed and boldly colored Japanese woodblock print. The print appears to be signed along the top margin (or these are publisher marks). From an impressive collect...

A wonderful Japanese woodblock print by famed Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando Hiroshige) (1797-1858) tilted No. 51 - Minakuchi, from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-t...

Katsukawa Shunsho, 勝川春章 This woodblock was published by Imperial Household Museum in 1947, The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro ? in the Green Room Consulting ...

This exceptional and highly engaging, wonderfully detailed print titled "Wakanohana waiting for Dohyo-iri" depicts a portrait of a once well-known Sumo Wrestler in a strong, confiden...

Utagawa Yoshitora, ????? (1836~1880) was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers who was active from about 1850 to about 1880. He w...

Influenced by Western advertising, commercial posters featuring beautiful women in modern settings gained popularity in China in the 1920s and 1930s. Posters like this one came to symbolize prosperity and fortune and were often purchased by Chinese consumers to decorate their homes. This 1930s advertisement...

A bold abstract limited edition woodblock print by famed Japanese artist/printmaker Junichiro Sekino featuring a fierce bird likely an eagle or hawk. The wood grain of the printing ...

A fine antique Taisho period Japanese woodblock print. Depicting a swooping heron above a riverbed with a thin sliver of a crescent moon in the background. By Seikо̄. Seikо̄ is tho...

Original woodblock work by Sanzo Wuda depicting the beautiful life in the traditional Japanese countryside calm and easy, framed and signed. Dimension: Image 13 1/2" x 10" : with fra...

Utagawa Yoshitora, ????? ( ????) was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers who was active from a...

Utagawa Yoshitora, ????? ( ????) was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers who was active from about 1850 to about 1880. He was b...

Original Woodblock print Japan (1925), by Tsukioka Kogyo. From the series ‘Noga Taikan’. Based on characters of Noh Plays

A beautifully designed and composed woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, conte...

A beautiful and strongly composed woodblock print by renowned Japanese painter/artist Torii Kotondo. This work, titled Rain (Ame), is a highly coveted pr...

Original woodblock work " The Geisha" unsigned Dimension: Image 4.5" x 6.5": with frame 11.25" x 13.5", Professional Framing with highly skillful worker and material.

Print size: 245 x 360 mm Sheet size: 270 x 385 mm Exterior: 330 x 480 mm A masterpiece by woodblock artist Shirou Kasamatsu　笠松紫浪 "Large Lantern of the Asakusa Kannon-do"　「浅草観音堂大提灯」 ...

About The Artist: The art of Tomikichiro Tokuriki (1902-1999) is an important bridge between the two great movements of Japanese art in the early twentieth century; shin hanga and sosaku hanga...

Incredibly detailed Ryohei Tanaka etching of a structure on the Japan countryside c1989. Beautifully framed and matted in a custom rounded edge teak frame. Signed in pencil by artist...

“Chinese Dancer” by Naoko Matsubara (1937-). This deeply-colored red woodblock print is signed in pencil, titled, and numbered 23/250. Framed under glass, the image measures approxim...

A truly wonderful and exceedingly rare early limited edition woodblock print by famed Japanese artist/printmaker Junichiro Sekino. This print, titled "Yosaku Feeling Ill", is one of Sekino's earliest known works. A very dramatic image done in black and white, this work features the artist himself in a self-portraiture as he comforts his young son (who evidently does not feel well) in an almost playful and knowing manner. The print is double signed - once in white ink within the image and also hand pencil signed and numbered (9/30) by Sekino in the lower margin. The image features a focused and rather direct composition emphasized by the use of just the two colors. It is an exquisite and very rare/hard-to-find work. Quite engaging. A must for collectors of Sekino's work. Junichiro Sekino was largely considered, along with Kiyoshi Saito, to be one of Japan's paramount 20th-century master print artists. Both were prominent leaders of the Sosaku Hanga movement. Sekino's works can be found in many museums including: The Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., the Art Institute Chicago, the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, the British Museum, and the Portland Art Museum among many other Fine museums throughout the world. Would be a fantastic addition to any modern Japanese print...

Antique Japanese Wood Block Print “Thunderstorm At Tateishi” Signed by Hiroaki Takahashi C1925. Measures - 14.75"H x 7.75"W x.25"D. An antique Japanese woodblock print titled '...

Chinese Propaganda Poster 1974 Vintage Chinese Poster from the period of the Chinese Proletarian Cultural Revolution. 1974 People's Publishing House, He Bei Province. Unlined. Proven...

A beautiful and strongly composed woodblock print by renowned Japanese painter/artist Torii Kotondo. This work, titled Steam (Steam Bath)/ Vapor (Yuge), ...

This exceptional and stunning, limited edition large woodblock print is considered by many experts to be Sekino's masterpiece. The limited editi...

Antique Japanese Wood Block Print Of A Geisha Escorted By Shoki, Vanquisher Of Demons Unsigned 1920 Measures - 15 1/2" x 11 1/4" x 7/8" This is a Japanese woodblock print from 1920...

A wonderful and quite rare woodblock print by famed Japanese artist/ master printmaker Natori Shunsen of well-known Japanese actor Onoe Kikugoro VI in the drama "Tengajaya-mura (or T...

A beautifully composed, rare woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, contemporary Japanese printmakers of the 20th century. This print is titled "Tosyodai-Ji Nara". The wood grain and rich colors are amazing. The print is signed in white ink and stamped within the image and titled, dated (1959) and numbered (75/80) in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. This particular image is quite rare and hard to find. A copy of this print can be found in the Museum of fine Arts in Boston. Would be a great addition to any modern Japanese print...

A somewhat rare and hard-to-find image by Japanese artist Masaoka Konobu Hasegawa (though we have also seen this image attributed to artist Hanabusa Hideki as well) of a male Bunraku puppet...

This calendar advertisement poster for White Horse cigarettes was produced by Hu Boxiang, a famous commercial advertising artist in Shanghai during the 1920s-1930s. Framed in a highly ornate floral border, a fashionable woman poses while gathering plum blossoms, emblems of winter and eternal beauty. Dressed in a traditional qipao but with Western hairstyle and accessories, the woman reflects the rising influence of Western advertising and the Art Deco movement during the economic boom of early 20th century Shanghai. Beneath this scene is a calendar for the year 1936, surrounded by packs of prominent cigarette brands...