Japanese Two-Panel Screen, Yagyu Wild Ox

Sumi (ink) painting of bulls next to a stream with minimal colors on mulberry paper with silk brocade border.  

Kano School painting of horses in stabile, with a monkey. Mineral pigments on mulberry paper with silk brocade border.

This elegant Japanese two-panel screen masterfully combines traditional materials with striking minimalist composition. The screen features a dazzling and luminous background of gold...

In Japan, it is a Shinto belief that the deer is a treasured and sacred animal. This admirable scene captures this gentle creature in its natural habitat with beautiful detail in bot...

Impressive pair of Japanese two-panel byobu screens featuring late 18th-century edo period applied vignettes, poems, and paintings in various formats over a dramatic gold leaf square...

Color on silk, Scroll head: resin Image size: 510(W) x 440(H) [mm] Scroll mounting: 660(W) x 1400(H) [mm] Box size: 80(W) x 80(H) x 740(D) [mm] 930g Estimated packing size: 150(W) x ...

A six-panel Japanese folding screen from the leading Maruyama-Shijo artist Okamoto Toyohiko (1773-1845). Simply featuring three deer and a few sprigs of foliage on a sumptuous gold-leaf background this work emphasizes naturalistic expression and a masterful use of negative space. Reduced to its most basic elements, the blank spaces inspire imagination and evoke the smells, sounds and even the weather of the scene. Whilst deer are traditionally depicted in association with autumn, here the green growth on the tops of the foliage indicates the season of spring. The work references Maruyama Okyo’s two-panel deer screen...

A rare pair of antique Japanese Karashishi paintings in a landscape of rocks and peony flowers on gold leaf ground in fine handmade frames, Edo period, early 18th century. The Karash...