Orig. Woodblock Print By Hiroshige Evening Snow at Kanbara

Not sure of the date of this original woodblock print by Hiroshige called Evening Snow, Kambara, from the series the fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido. If I had to guess by the other things I bought I would say 1940’s to 1950’s but could be the 1930’s. Lots of newer reprints of this picture but […]

Japanese Woodblock Print Samurai 1867

ARTIST: YOSHIIKU UTAGAWA (born 1833). DATE: 1867 (157 YEARS OLD). MEDIUM: NISHIKI-E (INK ON PAPER). 9.75 X 7 INCHES (25 CM X 17 CM). GENRE: UKIYO-E, MUSHA-E (PICTURES OF WARRIORS). SERIES: HEROES OF THE TAIHEIKI. SUBJECT: SAMURAI, SAMURAI ARMOR AND ATTIRE, SWORDS, WEAPONS BATTLE, WAR. CONDITION: Some prints have binding holes, tears, stains, and some […]

Hodo Nishimura Summer Rain 1930s Japanese Woodblock Print

Nishimura is generally believed to have been an in-house artist for the publisher Takemura Hideo in Yokahama from around 1930 until the business shut down in 1941. He is known to have signed his watercolors and some of his woodcuts as “Saito Hodo” or H. The majority of the work attributed to him was created […]