Showa Prints

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

A beautifully composed and boldly colored Japanese woodblock print by Sadanobu III Hasegawa (1881-1963) titled ''Kagamijishi'' (Lion Dance) featu...

Exquisite in design and execution. This work, titled "Transparent Shadow", is by Japanese master artist/printmaker Toko Shinoda (1913-2021) who is universally recognized for her merg...

Japanese Woodblock, printed in the Postcard-sized during the 1930s, this antique Japanese Woodblock is by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) with stamp and is titled “Autumn Shiobara.” This or...

A wonderful image titled "Bamboo Wood (Bamboo Grove/Takei Bayashi)" by one of Japan's finest 20th century artist and one of, if not the greatest working artist in the Shin-Hanga (ne...

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 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, contem...

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

A beautiful, gorgeously colored Japanese woodblock print by renowned Kyoto based artist Shodo Kawarazaki (1889 - 1973 ) who was known for his striking...

A Japanese woodblock print by Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950), entitled "Hirakawa Bridge". Part of his iconic series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo" (Tokyo juni dai), the vertical format print ...

A beautiful, lovely mood setting, quite large woodblock print by renowned Japanese artist/printmaker Joichi Hoshi. This work is titled "Forest, Blue" and features a thick, rich fore...

This exceptional and stunning, limited edition woodblock print is considered by many experts to be one of Sekino's masterpiece works (along with "Eiza and Matsuomaru"). The print of bunraku puppeteer master Kiritake Monjûrô is sealed, signed in pencil and numbered (76/100) by the artist and is also matted and framed. The print is circa 1953. A scarce and rare print. 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...

An early edition Japanese woodblock print "Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) from the series Collected Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen). The series was created in 1933 and this is an early edition with the publisher copyright seal "Hanken shoyu fukyo mosha Watanabe Shozaburo" dated from 1931-1941. Signed and sealed Hasui in plate. Date and titled on the lower margin. For a comparable print, see lot 86 in Sotheby's London Auction Landscape to City: A Collection of 20th Century Japanese Prints...

A Japanese woodblock print by Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950), entitled "Toshogu Shrine", The vertical oban format print was made in Showa 12th year (1937). On the left margin in grey in...

Japanese Woodblock, printed in the Postcard-sized during the 1930s, this antique Japanese Woodblock is by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) with stamp and is titled “Mount Fuji and Sailboat.”...

A poetically ambient Japanese woodblock print by Shiro Kasamatsu (1898-1991). Entitled "Kasumu Yube, Shinobazu Chihan" (Misty Evening at Shinobazu Pond), the print is one of the best-known landscape works by the artist. In an unusual color variation of near monotone "Arizuri" blue, the print depicts a spring evening by the pond when the sunset is receding into the night. The dim light with a soft glow was wonderfully reflected in the image. Composed in a perspective that is more western view, the image of the figures taking the steps under the Torii gate plays hide and seek through the branches of the weeping willows by the pond. The nearly all blue color, facilitated only with the dark silhouette of the trunk, renders the imagery a moody emotion. On the left margin there is the Title in Japanese (霞む夕べ 不忍池畔)and the artist's name Kasamatsu Shiro...

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

This wonderfully designed, abstract work by esteemed Japanese printmaker Tadashi Nakayama. The print is pencil signed, numbered (13/80), dated 1963, stamped on the verso by the artist, and embellished with metallic pigments. It is an uncommon and hard to find work. Nakayama has exhibited internationally in cities such as Rome, Tokyo, Krakow, Milan, and his works can be found in museums around the world including: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia. Cincinnati Museum of Art, Ohio, USA. fine Arts Museum of San Francisco - Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, USA. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii, USA. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA. Western Australian Art Museum, Perth...

A gorgeous, luminous, and sumptuously colored woodblock print by Japanese artist Hiroyuki Tajima titled "Small Garden, B" Tajima is famed for his use of dark, rich colors and striking abstract compositions and was heavily influenced and guided by his Zen Buddhist beliefs. The print is pencil signed, titled, dated (1967), and apparently numbered (6/50). Would be a great addition to any Japanese or Asian print collection or eye-catching stand-alone work in about any setting. His work can be found in various collections and museums including: The British Musem, London UK The Japanese Museum, Tokyo, Japan Harvard Art Museum Portland Art...

A beautiful and quite colorful Japanese woodblock print by renowned artist/printmaker Katsushika Hokusai titled "Shichiri Beach in Sagami Province" from his series Thirty-six Views o...

A Japanese woodblock print by Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950), entitled "Sarusawa Pond". Part of the "Kansai District Series", the vertical format print was made in Showa 8th year (1933)...

A very beautiful, serene large Oban size woodblock print by famed Japanese artist Tsuchiya Koitsu titled "Nagoya Castle" from the artist's series "Views of Japan." Nagoya Castle was...

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...

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

A beautiful work by famed Japanese artist Kaoru Kawano who was known for his whimsical portrayals of women, children, and animals. Stylistically, he was one of the first Japanese artists to combine Western-style elements with the traditional methods of woodblock printmaking. This work is known as "Dancing Figure (Eshima)" The print is signed (in white ink within the image) and sealed (in red) by Kawano. This work is a quite rare self-printed lifetime double dai Oban large-size print. The quality and colors are striking. It is likely from a limited edition and perhaps numbered on the lower margin (we can not verify as it was previously framed but we are confident that this is the case). A very beautiful and rich image. Would make for a great addition to any Japanese art and print collection or Stand-out accent work in about any setting. Frame dimensions: 30.5" high, 20.5" wide, .5" deep Viewable art...

A wonderful Mingei woodblock print titled "Joshin" (Goddess) by famed Japanese master Showa era printmaker/ artist Shiko (Shikou) Munakata (棟方志功 )who was widely considered to have be...

A truly wonderful and exceedingly rare abstract limited edition woodblock print by famed Japanese artist/printmaker Junichiro Sekino. This print, which appears to be titled "Tori &a...

A beautiful, quite elegant limited edition serigraph/silkscreen print by renowned Japanese artist Kojima Kimiko ( (小島カオル, born 1942 in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture) ) titled "Cherry Blo...

A beautifully composed and richly colored Japanese woodblock print by Kitagawa Utamaro featuring a semi-undressed kimono-opened nude woman, perhaps a Geisha or courtesan, enjoying a ...

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...

Here's a rare find from a collector we visited in Japan. A very unusual treasure.... This is a cache of old Chinese and Japanese bamboo paint and calligraphy artist brushes dating ...

A beautiful, gorgeously colored Japanese woodblock print by renowned Kyoto based artist Shodo Kawarazaki (1889 - 1973 ) who was known for his striking...

A beautiful and rather whimsical etching by famed Japanese artist Keiko Minami who was known for her pictograph-like aquatints/etchings with a playful, childlike aesthetic. This work features a natural landscape scene with a pair of birds sitting/nesting serenely in a blooming leaf filled tree. The etching is hand-signed and numbered (16/50) in pencil by Keiko along the lower margin. A rather gorgeous image. Would make for a great addition to collectors of Minami's work or Japanese / Asian art or make for an eye-catching stand-alone accent artwork in about any setting. Minami had many solo shows including: 1960 Minami Keiko...

A large, beautifully designed and colored, dramatically composed print by Japanese master printmaker Yoshitoshi Mori who was famed for his kappazuri stencil printing technique. In th...

A fantastic, quite engaging woodblock print by renowned Japanese Sosaku-Hanga artist/printmaker Nakao Yoshitaka (1911-1994) titled "The Black Cat" (sometimes also referred to as "Dev...

A beautiful, circular-shaped woodblock print by American master printmaker Clifton Karhu who lived in Japan for over 50 years. Karhu's work gained great esteem not only in Japan but ...

A wonderful image titled "Way to the Kasuga Shrine (Kasuga sando)" by one of Japan's finest 20th century artist and one of, if not the greatest working artist in the Shin-Hanga (new...

A gorgeously composed woodblock print by famed Japanese printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, contemporary Japanes...

A beautiful and wonderfully colored woodblock print by famed Japanese artist and Shin-Hanga master printmaker Kawase Hasui. This print is titled "Rain at Yasuniwa, Nagano Prefecture ...

A beautifully composed 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, which is titled "Daitoku-ji Kyoto (D)" is from a series of Kyoto temple images that Saito created. The woodblock print features strong, contrasting colors, beautiful wood grain, and a complex design - the cross-shaped walkway pattern which is highlighted by the small precisely placed stones is repeated on the temple wall. The wood grain in the yard, temple walls and sky add another layer of compositional depth. The print is signed in black ink and stamped/sealed in red within the image It is likely titled, dated (1960), and numbered (from a limited edition of 150) in pencil by the artist in the lower margin but hidden below the mat. Saito's "self-carved, self printed Kiyoshi Saito" personal label with his red chop seal...

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 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, contem...

A wonderfully composed image titled "Kinkaku(The Golden Pavilion)" by one of Japan's finest 20th century artist and one of, if not the greatest working artist in the Shin-Hanga (new ...

A wonderfully composed and subtly colored woodblock print by renowned Japanese woodblock artist Okiie Hashimoto (1899-1993) titled "Snow Hill #7". The work features a gorgeous wood g...

A wonderfully composed and quite engaging woodblock print by renowned Japanese artist/printmaker Shiro Kasamatsu (笠松 紫浪, 1898-1991) titled "Spring Rain at Kinokuni Mound (Kinokunisak...

Exquisite in design and execution. This work, titled "Moon", is by Japanese master printmaker Toko Shinoda (1913-2021) who is universally known for her merging of traditional Japanese calligraphy with modern abstract expressionism and use of Sumi ink. This print is hand-signed in pencil, titled, dated (1965), and numbered (3 /10) by the artist. It is from a very limited and small edition thus scarce and rare. Would be a great addition to any collectors of Shinoda's work or Japanese or Asian art or print collection or an eye-catching stand-alone accent artwork in about any setting. Sure to draw attention. Shinoda's works can be found in numerous private collections and international museums including: Albright–Knox Art Gallery, NY Art Institute of Chicago British Museum, London UK Brooklyn Museum, NY Cincinnati Art Museum, OH Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido Harvard Art Museums Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands Lehigh University Art Galleries Luxembourg Royal Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), New York Museum fuer Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin Museum of fine Arts, Boston Museum of fine Arts, Gifu Museum Folkwang, Essen Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, Toyama National Gallery of Victoria National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo National Museum of Singapore Niigata City Art Museum Singapore Art...

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, contem...

A fantastic surimono woodblock print by French artist Paul Jacoulet titled "Le Nid, Coree." Jacoulet was famed for his techniques involving lacquers, embossing, mica, and metal pigments, and with experimentations with powdered semi-precious stones. These authentic smaller, more personalized prints, known as surimonos, were made after designs of his regular, larger woodblocks...

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, contem...

A gorgeous and beautifully textured mezzotint print in the style of fellow Japanese artists Wako Ito, Hamanishi Katsunori, Tomoe Yokoi, Kaoru Saito, and Yozo Hamaguchi. The print is pencil signed (Noriko?), titled ("Crab Apple...

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...

A wonderful image titled "Misty Day in Nikko (日光　霧の日 Nikko kiri no hi)" by one of Japan's finest 20th century artist and one of, if not the greatest working artist in the Shin-Hanga ...

A beautifully composed and colored woodblock print by famed Japanese shin-hanga artist/printmaker Ito Shunsui (1898-1972) titled "Garden in Early Summer (Shoka no Niwa)" though it is...

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...

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

A gorgeous and quite radiant print by Japanese artist/printmaker Isamu Sakamoto titled "Morning Light." The work features the dawn ("Reimei") light reflecting off a traditional build...

A limited-editioned Japanese Woodblock print by Itō Shinsui (1898-1972) entitled Firework (花火 in Japanese) Catalogue number IS65. The print was created in Showa 7th year (1932) as pa...

Exquisite in design and execution. This work, titled "From a Distance", is by Japanese master artist/printmaker Toko Shinoda (1913-2021) who is universally recognized for her merging...

Exquisite in design and execution. This work, titled "Stream", is by Japanese master artist/printmaker Toko Shinoda (1913-2021) who is universally recognized for her merging of tradi...

A Japanese color woodblock print by Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) entitled "Carp and Tortoises". Relatively scarce on the market, the work was created in 1940 by the artist and printed...