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Spring 2025 Sale — Recent Update

This page lists only those art works featured on our website's Spring 2025 update. For the complete available web inventory, see the Artists' Gallery. We also have many works of art not listed on our website. If you have specific interests, please contact us.

Note: Click on images or text links for more information and larger pictures.

The descriptions of art works here and on the linked pages were written by John Fiorillo.


Japanese Prints, Paintings, and Related Works from Kamigata (Osaka-Kyoto Region)
Anon 06

Anonymous (unsigned) Osaka: Nakamura Shikan II (中村芝翫) as Tawara Tota Hidesato (藤原秀郷) in Otoko narikeri onna Masakado (男哉婦将門), Kado Theater, Osaka, 10/1834, ôban nishiki-e

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Ashiyuki 54

Ashiyuki: Arashi Kitsusaburô II (嵐橘三郎) as the fisherman Isoroku (actually Noguchi Kuranoshin 駒形蔵之進) in Momochidori naruto no Shiranami (A flock of plovers and the white waves of the whirlpool 百千鳥鳴門白浪), Naka Theater, Osaka, 1/1825, ôban nishiki-e

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Hironobu HNB13

Hironobu: Front (1R) Arashi Tokusaburô IV (嵐徳三郎) as Ishii Genzô (石井源蔵); (2R) Jitsukawa Enjaku (實川延若) as Ishii Hyôsuke (石井兵助); Back: (3R) Ichikawa Takijûrô (市川瀧十郎) as Naka no Tôbei (中野藤兵へ); and (4R) Mimasu Daigorô (三桝大五郎) as Akabori Mizuemon (赤堀水右箭門), in Katakiuchi ukiki no Kameyama, Onishi Theater, Osaka, 9/1865, deluxe chûban diptych

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Hirosada HSD86

Hirosada: (1R) Kataoka Ichizô I (片岡市蔵) as Magoedohei (馬士江戸兵衛); (2R) Jitsukawa Ensaburô (実川延三郎) as Sendô Kajizô (船頭梶蔵); (3R) Mimasu Daigorô IV (三桝大五郎) as Yurugi Saemon (由留木左衛門) in Keisei somewake tazuna (A courtesan's reins dyed in different colors けいせい染分總), Naka Theater, Osaka; Title: Somewake Tatsuna maki no ichi (染分たづな) Act I (巻ノ一) 1/1854, chûban nishiki-e triptych

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Hokuei HKE111

Hokuei: Nakamura Shikan II 中村芝翫 (Nakamura Utaemon IV 中村歌右衛門) as Miyamoto Musashi (宮本武蔵) in Katakiuchi nito eiyûki (復讐二島英勇記), Kado Theater, Osaka, Kado Theater, Osaka, 5/1835, ôban nishiki-e

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Hokuei HKE112

Hokuei: Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Chinzei Hachirō Tametomo (鎮西八郎為朝) (left) in Bow-shaped Moon around the Islands (Shimameguri tsuki no yumihari 嶋巡月弓張), Naka Theater, Osaka, 9/1833, from the series Contemporary Makeup Mirrors (Tôsei kesh kagami 當世化粧鏡), ôban nishiki-e

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Hokuei HKE113

Hokuei: Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) at Mount Tenpō (天保山), ca. 1835, aiban nishiki-e uchiwa

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Hokuei HKE114

Hokuei: Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Danshichi Kurobei (團七九郎兵衛) in Natsu matsuri Naniwa kagami ("Mirror [Pattern] of the Naniwa Summer Festival: 夏祭浪花鑑), Chikugo Theater, Osaka, 5/1832, ôban nishiki-e

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Hokuei HKE115

Hokuei: Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as the oil vendor Aburaya Yohei (油や与兵衛) in the Tale of the Oil Vendor in the Pleasure Quarters (Abura uri kuruwa banashi 油商人廓話), Naka Theater, Osaka, 8/1836, ôban nishiki-e

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Kunihiro KUH52

Kunihiro: Iwai Shijaku I (岩井紫若) as the courtesan Minoya Sankatsu (みの屋三勝) and Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Akaneya Hanshichi (赤根屋半七) in Daigashira Midori no Iromaku [The Surge of Love Beneath the Green Shroud(?) 台頭緑色幕], Naka Theater, Osaka, 3/1834, ôban nishiki-e diptych

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Kunihiro: Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Kowari Dennai (小割伝内) in Honobonoto Ura no Asagiri ("Daybreak hidden on the bay by morning fog": 払暁浦朝霧), Naka Theater, Osaka, 9/1832, ôban nishiki-e

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Sadamasu (Kunimasu) KMS56

Kunimasu (Sadamasu): (1R) Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Kagekiyo (景清) and 25) Nakamura Utaemon III (中村歌右衛門) as yakko (servant 奴) Komahei; mitate (見立), Osaka, ôban nishiki-e diptych, circa 1833 (mitate)

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Nagahide NG07

Nagahide: Nakamura Utaemon III (中村歌右衛門) in two roles as Mochizuki Genzô (望月源蔵) and Torii Matasuke (鳥井又助) in Keisei Kagamiyama (Courtesan and the Twin Mirror Mountain けいせい双鏡山), Kado Theater, Osaka, ôban nishiki-e

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Shunshi Gatoken SUS08

Shunshi: Onoe Tamizô II (二代目尾上多見蔵) as Obana Saizô (尾花才三) in Ogi awase nishiki-e sugata (Comparison of fans and brocade picture likenesses 扇競錦絵姿), Wakadayû (若太夫) Theater, Osaka, ôban nishiki-e

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YSK36

Yoshikuni: Rikaku (璃珏) as Fumiya Yasuhide (文屋泰秀); Shinsho (新升) as Sojo Hensho (僧正遍正); Baigyoku (梅玉) as Kisen-hoshi (喜せん法師); Sanko (三光) as Komachi-hime (小町ひめ); Shikan (芝翫) as Ariwara no Narihira (在原業平); Ichibe (市紅) as Otomo no Kuronushi (大伴黒主) in Imaginary Six Immortal Poets by Contemporary Actors (Tôsei yakusha mitate Rokkasen 当世役者見立六歌仙), ôban nishiki-e, 1/1827, mitate

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Yoshikuni YSK37

Yoshikuni: Ichikawa Danzô V (市川團蔵) as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡みつぎ) and Nakamura Tsurujûrô (中村鶴十郎) as Taizô (大蔵 ) in A song of Ise: Love and a dull blade (Ise ondô koi no netaba 伊勢音頭恋寝刃), Naka Theater, Osaka, 3/1827, ôban nishiki-e

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Yoshitoyo YTY03

Yoshitoyo (Hokusui): (Right) Sanjusangendô(三十三間堂; (Middle) Jaku-o-dera san-no-taki (若王寺 三の滝). No. 3 waterfall at the Jaku-o temple (Left) Yodo Shugyo (淀秋暁). Three sheets from the series Miyako hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Kyoto: 都百景, ca. 1860, chûban nishiki-e

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Japanese Prints, Paintings, and Related Works from Edo
   
Torii Kiyomitsu KIY01

Torii Kiyomitsu: Azuma Tôzô II (吾妻藤蔵) as the wife (女房 nyôbô) of Abe no Munetô (安倍宗任), ca. 1760s, hosoban benizuri-e

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Kunisada KNS19

Utagawa Kunisada: Onoe Kikugorô III (尾上菊五郎) as Daiku (carpenter) Rokusa (大工六三) in Keisei Date no kikigaki (The Courtesan and a Record of the Date Clan けいせい伊達抄), Kado Theater, Osaka, 1/1826, ôban nishiki-e

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 Utagawa Yoshiiku YIK01

Utagawa Yoshiiku: View of the Second-floor Dressing Room (Gakuya ni-kai no zu 楽屋二階之図), ca. 1861, ôban nishiki-e triptych (lower half of a hexaptych)

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Japanese Modern Prints, Paintings, and Related Works
Sarah Brayer BRY01

Sarah Brayer: "Bathtime Twilight" aquatint on Somerset paper, 1984, ed. no. 7/100, large format 77.1 x 54.3 cm

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Hata Tsuneharu HTA02

Hata Tsuneharu: Kobe, Nankin-machi (神戸 南京町), ôban shin hanga, Autumn 1916, from the series Hanshin meisho zue (Pictures of Celebrated Places in Osaka and Kobe, 阪神名勝図絵)

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Kawanishi Hide KWN30

Kawanishi Hide: Mt. Rokkô (六甲山), Seiyama (神戸背山), sôsaku hanga woodblock print, 26.0 x 35.0 cm

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Kawanishi Hide KWN31

Kawanishi Hide: Amanoshashidate (天の橋立), 1939, sôsaku hanga woodblock print, 16.5 x 23.1 cm

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Noda Kyuho: Owada (大和田), from the series Hanshin meisho zue (Pictures of celebrated places in Osaka and Kobe, 阪神名勝図絵), 1916, ôban shin hanga

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Onchi Koshiro ONC09

Onchi Kôshirô: "Dôbutsuen shoshû (動物園初秋), Zoo Early Autumn from the series One Hundred Views of New Tokyo (Shin Tokyo Hyakkei: 新東京百景), 1929, chûban sôsaku hanga 20.0 x 27.3 cm

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Takeda Sadayuki TAS01

Takeda Sadayuki: "Teahouse" in the Katsura Imperial Villa (Katsura Rikyû 桂離宮), 89/210, 1964, Large-format modern print (Image: 32.9 x 45.4 cm; Paper: 43.6 x 75.5 cm)

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Brian Williams WBR01

Brian Williams: "Arihara Winter I," thatched-roof houses in the Takashima area of Shiga Prefecture, 25/100, 1991, lithograph, large format 44.8 x 61.3 cm

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REFERENCE BOOKS (Japanese Prints, Paintings, and Related Arts)
Books

Books: The listing of currently available reference books can be found in the Books Gallery.

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