Early 1800s Paintings and Screens

Large Japanese Showa period six panel folding byobu screen depicting a grand mountain landscape with small village homes. Painted with natural color pigments over a gilt background. ...

Fascinating 19th century Japanese Edo period six-panel byobu screen depicting the Isle of Immortals. The painting features white Manchurian cranes among pines and flowering plum cent...

Fascinating pair of large Japanese 19th century Edo period six-panel folding byobu screens depicting the legend of Minamoto No Yorimasa (Japanese Samurai 1106-1180). The pair of pain...

19th century extraordinary Japanese late Edo/early Meiji period four-panel byobu screen featuring flowering white chrysanthemums painted in a moriage (raised pigment) style. The pain...

Japanese Four Panel Byobu Screen, with hand-painted scenes of flowers within gilt borders, chop seal marks to each panel. Larger panels: 38.75" H x 17.25" W x 1" D. Provenance: From ...

Late Edo period 19th century Japanese six-panel landscape screen featuring a cypress tree over a flowering hibiscus with a pair of hototogisu birds. Kano school painted with ink and ...

Fantastic 19th century Japanese Edo/Tokugawa period two-panel byobu screen featuring Chinese children frolicking on a garden terrace with a pavilion and large pine tree. Made in the ...

Impressive pair of 17th century Japanese Edo period Rinpa school screens made in the manner and style of Autumn Grasses by Tawaraya Sōtatsu (1570-1640). Beautifully decorated with wi...

Cherry Blossoms Kano Sanrakuki (1898-1981) Showa period, circa 1930 2-panel Japanese Screen Color, gofun and gold leaf on paper Against a backdrop of gold-leafed ground, the lichen covered trunk and branches of the life-sized cherry blossom tree reach out and beyond the confines of the pictorial surface. The overall composition has a feeling of flatness which draws emphasis to the surface and the three-dimensionality of the cherry blossoms. Painstakingly built-up layers of thickly applied shell-white gofun detail the voluminous blossoms and cover large areas of this tour-de-force of Japanese Nihonga painting. By simplifying the background, minimizing the number of colors and depicting the blossoms with such heavy relief, the artist has emphasized the stunning presence of the cherry tree. The type of tree depicted is the Yae-Zakura; a double-layered type of cherry blossom famed for its beauty and strength. When we think of Japanese cherry blossoms, the first thing that comes to mind is Somei Yoshino variety, which has a single flower with five almost white petals. This type is fragile and easily blown away by strong wind or rain. Most of the double-flowered cherry blossoms begin to bloom when the Somei-Yoshino falls, and the flowering period lasts longer than that of the Somei-Yoshino. Kano Sanrakuki originally studied painting at the Kyoto City Arts and Crafts School under the tutelage of Yamamoto Shunkyo...

This Asian screen print is a stunning six-panel byobu (folding screen) featuring a traditional Japanese landscape. The artwork showcases a serene scene with a lakeside pavilion set a...

Stunning Japanese Showa period two-panel folding byobu screen depicting three egrets in the grass at a pond. The large screen features a dramatic gold leaf square background with nat...

Impressive Chinese late Qing dynasty four panel folding coromandel screen featuring carved soapstone. The lacquered panels are decorated with idyllic scenes of beauties in a pagoda p...