EditorialA Flute-Playing Monk (Komuso); The Fourth Month (Uzuki), from the series Fashionable Poetic Immortals of the Four Seasons (Fuzoku shiki kasen).
EditorialCup on foot with Hebrew inscription, Slightly conical foot, on the underside a cut star. Funnel shaped chalice, rounded and faceted on the underside, on which a Hebrew text is engraved in a garland of floral vines, coming from a cornucopia: At the plac...
EditorialA Flute-Playing Monk (Komuso); The Fourth Month (Uzuki), from the series Fashionable Poetic Immortals of the Four Seasons (Fuzoku shiki kasen).
EditorialRock garden, Three haiku poems (poem in 17 syllables), on a stylized background of three rocks in a Zen garden., anonymous, Kyoto, 1850 - 1860, paper, colour woodcut, h 198 mm ? w 188 mm.
EditorialMen haori with poem and three young dogs, Haori for a man with a decoration on the lining of three playing young dogs, two brown and one white, with a poem above it by the priest Shaku Soen (1859-1919): 'Dai kushi, Joshu iwaku mu, inu iwaku wan' (About...
EditorialPortrait of the Zen priest-painter Wu-Chun Fan, Portrait of the Zen priest-painter Wu Chun Fan., Zhao Yongxian, China, 1590, silk, ink, dye, l 72 cm ? w 63 cm.
EditorialA Flute-Playing Monk (Komuso); The Fourth Month (Uzuki), from the series Fashionable Poetic Immortals of the Four Seasons (Fuzoku shiki kasen).
EditorialHappy Improvisations on a Riverboat Journey, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1767, Japan, Handscroll; woodblock print; ink on paper, 11 3/16 x 39 ft. 7/16 in. (28.4 x 1189.9 cm), Prints, Ito Jakuchu (Japanese, 1716?1800), This scroll records a journey in s...
EditorialA Flute-Playing Monk (Komuso); The Fourth Month (Uzuki), from the series Fashionable Poetic Immortals of the Four Seasons (Fuzoku shiki kasen).
EditorialThe Courtesan Shiratama from the Tamaya House (Tamaya no uchi Shiratama), Ikeda Eisen (Japanese, 1790-1848), Edo, about 1820s, color woodblock print, 14-15/16 x 10 in., series, The Seven Greatest Beauties of the New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara zen sei ke...
EditorialThe Courtesan Shiratama from the Tamaya House (Tamaya no uchi Shiratama), Ikeda Eisen (Japanese, 1790-1848), Edo, about 1820s, color woodblock print, 14-1/2 x 9-13/16 in., series, The Seven Greatest Beauties of the New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara zen sei...