Hiroshiga (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hiroshiga woodblock japan Gorgeous signed famous artist original vintage collectable art Bunnies. So beautiful and flawless woodblock. One of a kind. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Gorgeous signed famous artist original vintage collectable. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good Plus. A lovely reproduction of the Japanese pictorial classic. N.d., circa 1930. Oblong, 23 by 31 cm. Double-sided leporello, with 58 color plates -- so two panels devoted to map and a few other images outside of the Stations. Most appealing about this repro is the fabric cover with color imagery on both the front and back, and then the black and white panorama on the outer case, both inside and out. Repair of several folds in the leporello. Stain left by inapposite scotch tape repair of first fold -- tape now removed, but some abrasion of paper as well. Outer case fabric torn along edges and some blistering of fabric. Leporellos. Fabric on boards. Outer case.

Condition: Fine. Hiroshiga (illustrator). Stunning group of place cards that transcend the genre -- these place cards are exquisite miniature woodblocks based on Hiroshiga's immortal artwork. N.d., probably from the 1930s when this printer and publisher, Hideo Takemura, was active and such place cards would have had an enthusiastic pool of buyers among Western tourists. H. Takemura was known for his printing of woodblock prints, generally, of course, in a larger format. Place cards would have been a novelty offshoot of that, but in our view, they are more than just throwaway variant reproductions. Besides the charm of the small to some collectors, these cards have an intensity of color that is breathtaking; that intensity is undimmed even after a century. These cards -- and the card is thick and near unbendable -- are almost too nice to use for a party just to have tossed after. Even though Takemura printed his own artwork, one can understand the incentive to use Hiroshiga imagery for place cards because of their irresistible appeal to tourists wanting to take home a piece of quintessential Japan as they imagined it, and the traditional virtually always shapes their view of a foreign culture. Not to be slighted is the packaging of these cards. The box paper pastedown is itself a work of decorative art, with its faux wood grain design, a trompe d'oeil one could say, and a pattern that captures something of the evanescent notion that informs much Eastern art -- there is a sense of movement in the irregular rippling pattern. The paper label on top of the lid is has a silhouette design and some calligraphic characters. Condition: The cards are pristine, and obviously unused. The box is complete as well. The box has some wear. One of the short sides of the lid isn't attached to its long sided neighbors. The paper label has two insignificant closed tears near one another, but no loss of paper. Decorative Box. Each group of cards held together by paper band.

Condition: Fine. Hiroshiga (illustrator). Stunning group of place cards that transcend the genre -- these place cards are exquisite miniature woodblocks based on Hiroshiga's immortal artwork. Plus there is the added interest of the extra ten cards (two of two designs, three, of the other two designs) that obviously aren't quite yet the finished version of their artwork, yet are lovely just the same. These extras have some similarities to the artwork in the four complete sets, but they are unequivocally different -- the placement and size of a tori, for instance, is distinguishable, etc. N.d., probably from the 1930s when this printer and publisher, Hideo Takemura, was active and such place cards would have had an enthusiastic pool of buyers among Western tourists. H. Takemura was known for his printing of woodblock prints, generally, of course, in a larger format. Place cards would have been a novelty offshoot of that, but in our view, they are more than just throwaway variant reproductions. Besides the charm of the small to some collectors, these cards have an intensity of color that is breathtaking; that intensity is undimmed even after a century. These cards -- and the card is thick and near unbendable -- are almost too nice to use for a party just to have tossed after. Even though Takemura printed his own artwork, one can understand the incentive to use Hiroshiga imagery for place cards because of their irresistible appeal to tourists wanting to take home a piece of quintessential Japan as they imagined it, and the traditional virtually always shapes their view of a foreign culture. Not to be slighted is the packaging of these cards. The box paper pastedown is itself a work of decorative art, with its faux wood grain design, a trompe d'oeil one could say, and a pattern that captures something of the evanescent notion that informs much Eastern art -- there is a sense of movement in the irregular rippling pattern. The paper label on top of the lid is has a silhouette design and some calligraphic characters. Condition: All the cards, including the bonus cards, are pristine. Whoever bought the cards when visiting Japan clearly never dipped into the box once home, as it is complete and virtually untouched. The box has minor wear and soiling, as boxes not kept in a vacuum inevitably undergo. Decorative Box. Each group of cards held together by paper band.

Lowered price $ 300 Original woodblock hiroshiga signed vintage antique.

Japanese art geisha.