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Japanese Contemporay Painting & Ukiyoe

Painting from Mitsui Kaji

Mitsuo Kaji "1944 ~

Title: Cat 

Oil on canvas

Signed front and back

Painted in 2023

Image size:26 x 21 cm. Frame size: 42 x 37 cm ca Price on request   Item #45​​

Mitsui Kaji sunflower painting

Mitsuo Kaji "1944 ~

Title: Sunflower

Oil on canvas

Signed front and back

Painted in 2022

Image size:30 x 40 cm. Frame size: 47 x 56 cm ca Price on request   Item #46

One major painting  from Takato Yamamoto

Takato Yamamoto 1960 ~

front-signature Takato Yamamoto
Back signature Takato Yamamoto

Front & back signature

Title: Emblem of Twin Capricorn 
acrylic on paper
sealed (lower left), signed, titled and dated (on the reverse)
painted in 2012-21
Image: 29.8×29.8cm Paper: 37.9×38.0cm
Exhibited:
Takato Yamamoto" In the garden with the goat" Original Paintings Exhibition', NADiff modern,
Tokyo, 27 August - 30 September 2021
Literature:
'In the garden with the goat', Takato Yamamoto, Geijutsu Shinbunsha, 2021, illustrated on P.133
Price on request   Item #44

Ukiyoe from Yoshitoshi Tsukioka

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi "1839 ~ 1892

From the serie: One Hundred aspects of the moon

Description: Chinese beauty holding a stringed instrument

 

Ukiyo-e "woodblock print" backed with Japanese paper

Size: 35.7 x 24.2

US$ 800   Item #329

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - One Hundred aspects of the moon

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi "1839 ~ 1892

From the serie: One Hundred aspects of the moon

Description: The Village of the Shi Clan on a Moonlit Night - Nine-Dragon Tattoo from "The Water Margin",

featuring Shi Jin

 

Ukiyo-e "woodblock print" backed with Japanese paper

Size: 35.6 x 24.3

SOLD  Item #330

Ukiyoe master Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 1839 ~ 1892

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi "1839 ~ 1892

From the serie: One Hundred aspects of the moon

Description: This scene depicts the famous poet and compiler of the Ogura Hyakunin IsshuFujiwara no Teika, falling asleep on the veranda of the Sumiyoshi Shrine. The shrine was devoted to the patron deity of poets, and according to tradition, while Teika slept, he dreamt of deity visiting him in the form of a ghostly old man.

 

Ukiyo-e "woodblock print" backed with Japanese paper

Size: 35.6 x 24.3

SOLD   Item #331

1) The painting: “Emblem of Twin Capricorn” is a major artwork from Takato Yamamoto.

The artist spent almost ten years to perfect it in his style.

 

If you are intersted, we can send the photos of the chronological development of this painting by your request.

His other three major artworks were sold by Sotheby’s in 2010 reaching over 60,000 US$ and over 30,000 US$ each in 2012 and 2014.

 

A painter from Akita Prefecture, Takato Yamamoto (b. 1960) graduated from the painting department of Tokyo Zokei University. He is known for his unique style of painting, which he calls the "Ukiyo-e Pop Style" and its further development, the "Heisei Aestheticism."

He is a member of the Tokyo Illustrators Society and the International Ukiyo-e Society.

 

2) Mitsuo Kaji is a multi-talented artist in jewelry, paintings and singing. 

“The Great Ashoka Diamond,” -a 21.75 carat ring he designed- garnered prominent international attention as it was sold at Christies

in 2023 close to 4,000,000 US$.

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