Vintage Bamboo Japanese Art, Wall Art 5 excellent pieces

Japanese Lacquered Decorated Wall Panels, Screens These 4 very attractive decorated panels in the Shibayama style, probably created for the export market They are lacquered in go...

Large Bretby Bamboo Ware Art Pottery Jardiniere This is a Twin Handled Jardiniere the Handles have piercing serpent eyes The Jardiniere is in good antique condition. It is 11” t...

Chinese Silk Table Screen with Intricately Carved Stand The beautiful double sided painted silk panel shows a boat in the river and a bridge, the framed panel can be lifted out The...

Large Heavy 19th century Carved chinoiserie 4 Fold Screen This very impressive privacy screen has four large and profusely carved panels, the design is of very many dragons and se...

Antique Japanese 6 panel screen from the early Edo period (C1650). One of a pair (both available). This magnificent golden screen shows...

Painting of a perforated garden stone with red bamboo growing behind. Chinese zekku poem reads, "Returning home to my grass hut on a spring evening," by the Tang-poet Qian Qi. Screen...

Moon and bamboo in ink on gold paper with red and black lacquered negoro frame. (Meiji period) Calligraphy reads: Beauty in ink painting with standing woods and branches, like in par...

Kawai Gyokudo (?? ??, November 24, 1873-June 30, 1957) was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter in the Nihongo school, active from Meiji through Showa period Japan. His real name was Kawai Yoshisaburo. Contents Biography Gyokudo was born in what is now Ichinomiya city, Aichi Prefecture, as the eldest son of a paper, ink and brush merchant. He went to Kyoto in 1887 to study under Kono Bairei of the Maruyama-Shijo school of painting. In 1896, he moved to Tokyo and he became the student of Hashimoto Gaho, of the Kano school. He also studied Western-style painting and developed a highly personal style, especially in the field of landscape painting. Gyokudo is noted for his polychrome and occasionally monochrome works depicting the mountains and rivers of Japan in the four seasons, with humans and animals shown as part of the natural landscape. Among his representative works are Futsuka zuki (“The New Moon”), Yuku haru (“The Departing Spring”), Mine-no-yu (“Evening at the Mountain Top”), and Bosetsu (“Snow in the Evening”). In 1898, Gyokudo joined with Okakura Tenshin and Yokoyama Taikan...