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RECENT ACQUISITIONS

MINAMOTO YOSHITSUNE fighting BENKEI on Gojo bridge
- Two diptychs depicting the welll known fight -

Utagawa KUNIYOSHI
work of 1839-41
Provenance: ex B.W. Robinson coll.

Utagawa YOSHIFUJI
work of c. 1854
Print diptych and preliminary drawing of the right panel.

KORYUSAI
The lady Sonoume
with her servant

Ouchi MAKOTO
Fan - the syllable 'Ke'
limited ed. no. 23/60

Ito SHINSUI
Rain Shower in the Sun; 1917
RARE, pre-earthquake work,
one of Shinsui's earliest.

attr. to Ipposai KUNIAKI
Frogs as sumo wrestlers and referee
- brush drawing ('shita-e')

attr. to TOSHIKATA & YOSHITOSHI
Miscellaneous Meiji-period preparatory drawings
for woodblock-printed novels, etc.; some reflecting
Western fashion and life-style of the time.

Kyosai style
Fighting Tengu
(Writing paper (?) design)

Utagawa HIROSHIGE
Miho Bay in Suruga Province
uchiwa-e (fan print)

Utagawa HIROSHIGE
Spring rain at Tsuchiyama - station no. 49
From Fifty-three stations of the Tokaido

Utagawa HIROSHIGE
from: Fishes series; 1832-34
Abalone & Snipe-Fish

Kikugawa EIZAN
Geisha during a banquet
playing a finger game (ken)
- Rare, early work of 1814 -

Utagawa KUNISADA
One thousand shrines visited
From a series of actor portraits
in book page design; c. 1832.

Utagawa KUNISADA
One thousand shrines visited
From a series of actor portraits
in book page design; c. 1832.

Ono BAKUFU
Great Japanese Fish Pictures
five designs still available; 1937-40

Katsushika HOKUSAI
Hokusai Manga; vols. I - XII
A particularly clean 1870s edition set.



Ippitsusai BUNCHO
from: Ehon butai ogi; 1770
('A Picture-Book of Stage Fans')

Yamamoto SHOUN
The Flower Bouquet; 1909
(stylistic forerunner
of 'shin hanga')

Utagawa HIROSHIGE
Tokaido series; c. 1850
no. 8: Hiratsuka

Utagawa HIROSHIGE
Tokaido series; c.1850
no. 11: Hakone

attr. to Kawanabe KYOSAI
Two ghosts; 1850s-60s
- sumi and color on paper -

SHIRO Kasamatsu
Evening rain at the
pagoda of Yanaka; 1932

Utagawa HIROSHIGE II
from: Edo meisho zue
Ocha-no-mizu River; 1861

HIROAKI (Shotei)
Shrine in snow at sunset
1920s-30s

Ohara KOSON
Cicada
1904-12

SPECIAL FEATURE:

KIDAI SHORAN ('Excellent view of our prosperous age')
- Strolling along a boulevard of ancient Tokyo -

- a fascinating INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE on CD ROM
together with an 8 m / 26 ft. long digital printout.

From a recently discovered, 12 m / 39 ft. long, scroll painting
of 1805 in the possession of the Berlin Museum of East Asian Art.

- WINNER of several international awards.

- The digital printout is SOLD, but we do
have three more copies of the CD ROM -

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