Zenga
Now that the end of the summer gets closer, so it feels, the pAn art fair in Amsterdam will need attention. For your information, it will take place in the RAI from November 21st-28th. More later.
While preparing the up-date last time it was hot and we suggested that water should help. It helped; we’ve hardly seen so much rain in August.
For now let’s see what Zen will bring us.
This month up-date is Zenga. We like to give some special attention to Deiryû and Dokuzan who are represented with some works, not just painting (calligraphy) but pottery as well.
And for the others we tried not to bring just calligraphy, but also pictorial subjects.
The works of the priests (and the nun) are:
Taikan Monju (1766-1842)
Taikô Sôgen (1772-1860)
Hidaka Tetsuô (1791-1871)
Ôtani Shôchin (1817-1894)
Nantembô (1839-1925)
Shiseki Renshu (1842-1914)
Genpô Daiin (Kitano) (1842-1933)
Kogai Gyokusen (1853(1858?)->1928)
Murakami Mutei Mutei (1863-1923)
Hashimoto Dokuzan (1869-1938)
Sakamoto Kôjô (1875-1969)
Seisetsu Genjô (1877-1945)
Tesshû Kôzuki (1879-1937)
Sagawa Myôshun (1891-1988)
Deiryû (1895-1954)
Kasumi Bunshô (1905-1998)
Fujita Kaikô (born 1924)
Reishû (dates unknown)
WATER
The thaw is setting in. Summer reached finally into the Netherlands. Not just reached us, but hit us. We’re sissies down here.
To get some coolness, water helps. This month water will be the theme; enjoying the pleasures of flowing, drinking, pouring, keeping, getting fresh, getting wet, getting soaked, having fun.
This month’s gallery also shows a small exposé of the media we deal in: fans, drawings, albums, paintings and pottery (no tanzaku this time). The artists, painters, potters and poets sharing this with you for the next two summer months are:
Kanô Tôju Yoshinobu (17..-1820)
Ôta Nanpo (Shokusanjin) (1749-1823)
Ueda Kôchô (1788-1850)
Okajima Rinsai (1791-1865)
Ôtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
Tachimatsu Yoshitora (1809-1882)
Hoashi Kyôu (1810-1884)
Shimada Soseki (1834-19..)
Makida Tanemaro (1835-19..)
Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924)
Kubota Tôsui (1841-1911)
Yamamoto Baisô (1846-1921)
Mori Hankei (1858-19..)
Yoshida Keishû (1860-19..)
Okamura Kinsen (1861-19..)
Aoyama Taiseki (1864-19..)
Takahashi Dôhachi V (1869-1914)
Ikeda Enson (1870-19..)
Kosugi Kôun (1875-19..)
Oka Buntô (1876-1943)
Itô Kôin (1886-19..)
Dômoto Inshô (1891-1975)
Miyake Kôhaku (1893-1957)
Kôgawa Suigaku (born in 1905)
Mori Hanitsu (act Meiji)
Yasuazuma Dôan (dates unknown)
Seiseki (dates unknown)
No real special theme this month, except that is the end of spring and the beginning of summer.
An up-date of things to do, things done, but mainly things to look out for and things to enjoy.
A website that’s hopefully nice and interesting and to your liking.
The artists of this month, painters, potters and poets, old as well as new, but all dead and from far away ... as usual.
Hanabusa Itchô (1652-1724)
Kamo Suetaka (1752-1842)
Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
Yoshimura Kôkei (1769-1836)
Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
Okada Hankô (1782-1846)
Ueda Kôchô (1788-1850)
Mihata Jôryû (act 1830-43)
Kishi Renzan (1804-1859)
Maekawa Gorei (1806-1876)
Miyoshi Unsen (1812-?)
Tanomura Chokunyû (1814-1907)
Kishi Chikudô (1826-1897)
Okajima Seikô (1827-1877)
Sekiguchi Rôun (1836-1901)
Katayama Tôshû (1848-19..)
Seifu Yôhei III (1851-1914)
Ueda Tangai (1863-1939)
Takahashi Dôhachi V (1869-1914)
Hashimoto Dokuzan (1869-1938)
Okutani Shûseki (1871-1936)
Otaki Uzan (1871-1939)
Takahashi Dôhachi VI (1881-1941)
Hashimoto Ryôka (act Meiji period)
Hayashi Buntô (1882-1966)
Hakuun
This month the theme is fumpon. It will make an interesting show, because within the field fumpon might look and differ towards one and the other.
So among others we show a small group of beautiful designs for ukiyo-e sliding doors, a set preliminary designs for one of the Castle prints by Hashimoto Okiie, and a set of 2 studies for a painting by Zeshin; and a rare example of an almost identical subject which is painted twice by Hatta Kôyô, which shows the extraordinary Japanese draftmanship.
A fumpon is a drawing, but it can serve different purposes.
- It can be a preliminary design for a painting.
- It can be the underdrawing, or the tracing which one can place under the silk (or paper) when to brush a “finished” painting.
- It can be a tracing, to serve as a copy for scholarly purposes, or to store in archive.
Most of the fumpon are anonymous, but can be linked to a school.
An important collection of fumpon can be found in the Shimada collection. A series of (at least 5) books by: Takai Sôgen, “Collection of Maruyama School Preliminary Paintings” have been published in Kyoto in1997. They are on different subject matters.
In this month’s up-date a number of the fumpon comes from this Shimida collection and here they seem to be mainly by Kawamura Kihô, at least so it says. Many of the others from seem to be from the same collection and might have been produced by known artists in the early years of the 19th century. The Shimada catalogues make many attributions; I don’t think it is not for me to do so.
Some of the known artists involved are:
Teisai Hokuba (1771-1844)
Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)
Hatta Kôyô (1882-1944)
Hashimoto Okiie (1899-1993)
But most of them anonymous and in number of cases with attributions.
So we didn’t made it to the Pacific Asia Show in New York. Let this April’s update be a small comfort. Let's have spring and get rid of the cold feet.
Enjoy this month’s selection of early modern Japanese paintings by the following artists:
Kishi Kinsen (act. Meiji)
Takebe Hakuhô (act. 1890-1900)
Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918)
Kubota Beisen (1852-1906)
Taniguchi Kôkyô (1864-1915)
Terazaki Kôgyô (1866-1919)
Nakajima Kahô (1866-1939)
Natsume Sôseki (1867-1916)
Kajino Genzan (1868-1939)
Iwaya Sazanami (1869-1933)
Kikuchi Sokû (1873-1922)
Chigusa Sôun (1873-1944)
Nishimura Goun (1877-1938)
Kanei Isshô (1879-1944)
Hashimoto Kansetsu (1883-1945)
Matsuyama Shôzan (1884-19..)
Yazawa Gengetsu (1886-1952)
Hirai Baisen (1889-1969)
Mugaku (dates unknown)
The sale last month couldn’t have been better.
All but one was sold.
Onwards to the next success:
But alas not at the New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show
which will be held from March 25th – 28th 2010
at The Market Suites at 7W New York
7 West 34th Street at 5th Avenue
Opposite the Empire State Building
Artists represented in the March update are:
Igawa Meimon (1751-1805)
Aoki Mokubei (1767-1833)
Ichida Banri (1770-1842)
Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
Niwa Hankanshi (1773-1841)
Shibata Gitô (1780-1819)
Õtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
Kishi Renzan (1804-1859)
Kita Kadô (1812-1877)
Ozawa Kagaku (act. 1840-1850)
Kawabata Gyokushô (1842-1913)
Shinten'ô (1823-1885)
Nishiyama Kan'ei (1833-1897)
Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924) Kawabata Gyokushô (1842-1913)
Takeuchi Seihô (1864-1942)
Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
Aoki Seiko (1879-19..)
Takahashi Dôhachi VI (1881-1941)
Itô Seiu (1882-1961)
Deiryû (1895-1954)
Kasumi Bunshô (1905-1998)
Nammei (dates unknown)
From March 25-28 Oranda Jin will participate at the New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show. More information will be provided in the next up-date.
But first:
SALE, SOLDES, AUSVERKAUF, UITVERKOOP, 大売り出し
For the last 23 years we piled up too many nice things in the gallery ..., around us, too many paintings occupying the progress of growing, etc. etc. So ...
For the first time in 23 years Oranda Jin has gathered enough stock to organize a proper clearance sale of Japanese paintings!
SALE REMARKS & RULES
• The paintings have no boxes unless signed
• We only take firm orders and the paintings are not to be returned
• For orders over € 200 (or $ 300) the shipping cost as air freight postal parcel is included
• No credit cards are accepted, please use Pay Pal
• If you pay by bank transfer, please take care of all bank costs
• If you pay by check add either € 30,- (or $ 45) extra to cover the costs
Good luck and take your chance. We give a big discount on wonderful paintings by famous and known artists like:
Anonymous (the most famous)
Tanke Gessen (1721-1809)
Fukuhara Gogaku (1730-1799)
Gan Ku (1749-1838)
Yamanaka Shônen (17..-1819)
Morikawa Chikuso (1763-1830)
Nakayama Koin (1765-1849)
Yoshimura Kôkei (1769-1836)
Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
Nishimura Nantei (1775-1834)
Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841)
Kinoshita Õju (1777-1815)
Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843)
Uragami Shunkin (1779-1846)
Yokoyama Kazan (1781/4-1837)
Tanaka Nikka (17.. -1845)
Oda Kaisen (1785-1862)
Ueda Kôchô (1788-1850)
Mochizuki Gyokusen (1794-1852)
Ueda Kôkei (..-1860)
Hatta Chiki (1799-1873)
Shiokawa Bunrin (1801-1877)
Satake Eikai (1803-1874)
Maekawa Gorei (1805-1876)
Nakanishi Kôseki (1807-1884)
Hirano Gogaku (1810-1893)
Tanaka Hôji (1813-1885)
Mori Kansai (1814-1894)
Gan Rei (1816-1883)
Hishida Nittô (1817-1873)
Kanô Sosen (1820-1900)
Murase Sôseki (1822-1877)
Okamura Sekiran (1834-1895)
Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)
Nantembô (1839-1925)
Imura Jôzan (1843-1925)
Kôno Bairei (1844-1895)
Imao Keinen (1845-1924)
Hara Zaisen (1849-1916)
Kubota Beisen (1852-1906)
Hagio Kyukô (1861-1923)
Umemura Keizan (1866-1934)
Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
Kikuchi Soku (1873-1922)
Tanomura Shôkô (1878-1910)
Hayashi Buntô (1882-1966)
Nozoe Heibei (1895-1980)
Kasumi Bunshô (1905-1998)
We wish you a grrrrreat, happy and healthy year of the tiger 2010.
There is snow; it is freezing in other words, what a beginning of a New Year. For the New Years up-date there is snow and there are tigers, what a beginning of a Tiger Year. And what good artists who made these Japanese paintings and pottery: Nagazawa Rosetsu (1754-1799) Tani Bunchô (1763-1840) Nishimura Nantei (1775-1834) Uragami Shunkin (1779-1846) Õtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) Mochizuki Gyokusen (1794-1852) Nakajima Raishô (1796-1871) Shiokawa Bunrin (1801-1877) Kishi Renzan (1804-1859) Mori Kansai (1814-1894) Gan Rei (1816-1883) Fujimoto Tesseki (1817-1863) Hayagawa Suiseki (1834-..) Suzuki Kason (1860-1919) Mano Kyôtei (1874-1934) Miyake Kôhaku (1893-1957) Ekishû Sôshin (1896-1989) Sagawa Myôshun (1916-..) Anonymous - Settei (Tsukioka) school Anonymous Kanô school Yaku Gakyô (dates unknown) Kôho (dates unknown)
Sekisô and his time
The Pan fair from 2009 is history, and what a nice history it was.
More visitors than ever before, the dealers were for the greater part satisfied, and so are we. We hope that those who came to visit us are also happy. Art does well; Japanese art and especially Japanese painting.
On our way to Christmas and New Year we present a modest web show, which mainly is dedicated to the modest Nanga artist Yamamoto Sekisô (1872-1944).
It is a pleasure to show his multi-lateral skills and to show works in which in some cases he cooperated with friends.
We surrounded him with a couple of Nanga contemporaries:
Sekijô (Kankai) (act. 1850s)
Yamanaka Seiitsu (Shinten'ô) (1823-1885)
Teranishi Ekidô (1824-1916)
Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)
Asai Hakuzan (Ryûtô)(1842-1907)
Imura Jôzan (1843-1925)
Kitsuda Eihô (1902-1974)
Hinseki (dates unknown)
and his friends:
Baishû (dates unknown)
the potter: Matsumoto Shigenobu (1864-1950)
PAN FAIR AMSTERDAM 2009
From November 22-29 the PAN fair will be held at the
RAI - Parkhal in Amsterdam.
Opening hours from 11 am. - 7 pm. daily.
Except for Thursday 26 and Sunday 29 when we close at 6 pm.
Oranda Jin is looking forward to welcome you in our booth # 78.
After 2 months of beautiful fan paintings we now show a variety of paintings on paper, silk and stoneware and in albums as an introduction to the PAN fair. (Hand scrolls and screens will be available at the show too).
We will try to show the many faces of Japanese painting and to show that many of the Japanese artists have except for blood also Zen and poetry in their veins. But most of all that once you accepted the Japanese image it immediately shows its beauty, its elegance, its impact, its minimalism, its modernity, its unbound boundaries, restricted freedom, its cramped as well as its wide mind, its manic and mad driving perfection.
Some highlights:
- On this up-date as well as in the PAN catalogue a beautiful tea bowl for autumn by Seihô is presented as well as a charming painted portrait of a girl by Tomioka Eisen, one of the best-known kuchi-e artists at the turn of the twentieth century.
- 2 Eccentric preliminary sketches by Kuniyoshi (why wouldn’t they have been published as prints ???) and 2 pieces of decorated pottery by the eccentric priest Shimizu Kôshô, an artist already famous during his lifetime and whose star is even more rising since his death in 1999.
- You’ll find some beautiful albums. There is one by Suzuki Shônen, which has a may be even more beautiful introduction calligraphy by Hashimoto Kansetsu. And another great album by Chokunyû who is also represented with an exquisite tea bowl.
- A rare abalone shaped cake-bowl by Rengetsu, a bowl by Shunkyo and from his teacher Bunkyo a sake-rinsing bowl.
- Another eccentric item is the haiku by Hekigodô, one of the important renovators of the modern haiku movement in the early twentieth century not as much as the haiku but its calligraphy. After you passed the paintings of autumn atmospheres and of one girl on one elephant, at the end you will find two extraordinary paintings, of which one is showing a 100 girls and another picturing a 100 crows in the snow.
Hope you like the show and we look forward to see you at booth 78 and show you even more.
The Japanese painters (and some potters) who are responsible for the pictures of this PAN introduction are:
Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843)
Tanaka Nikka (17..-1845)
Õtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Tanomura Chokunyû (1814-1907)
Hiroshige III (1843-1894)
Imao Keinen (1845-1924)
Suzuki Shônen (1849-1918)
Nomura Bunkyo (1854-1911)
Takahashi Yobei (Taizan)(1856-1922)
Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905)
Takeuchi Seihô (1864-1942)
Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
Kawahigashi Hekigodô (1873-1937)
Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)
Hashimoto Kansetsu (1883-1945)
Satô Suikei (1884->1935)
Shimizu Kôshô (1911-1999)
Yamataka Suichô (dates unknown)
Kizanjin (dates unknown)
Sohô (dates unknown)
Hakuun (dates unknown)
ORANDA JIN CATALOGUE 19 Nanga fan paintings
PART 2
This October update focuses on the second part of our latest catalogue. We now present in this month’s website gallery the numbers 37-72.
The hard copy is available at the Oranda Jin gallery, upon request (please send an e-mail to orandajin@home.nl), and at the PAN fair in Amsterdam.
The Pan will be held at the RAI - Parkhal in Amsterdam
from November 22-29, 2009.
We look forward to see you at booth 78
where we will reside from 11 am. - 7 pm. daily
(except for Thursday 26 and Sunday 29 when we close at 6 pm.)
In the catalogue we focused on artists of the18th and 19th century.
A number of the artists are known, some of them are famous and important but it features also artists we have never heard from but who are exceptionally good like:
Niwa Kagen (1742-1786)
Yamaoka Geppô (1760-1839)
Yamamoto Baiitsu (1783-1856)
Oda Kaisen (1785-1862)
Kusuba Haisen (1787-1867)
Yoda Chikkoku (1790-1843)
Haruki Nammei (1795-1878)
Hashimoto Sesshô (1802-1877)
Fukuda Hankô (1804-1864)
Takahashi Kyôson (1805-1868)
Nakanishi Kôseki (1807-1884)
Hoashi Kyôu (1810-1884)
Hirano Gogaku (1810-1893)
Hine Taizan (1813-1869)
Taniguchi Aizan (1816-1899)
Fujimoto Tesseki (1817-1863)
Maeda Chôdô (1817-1878)
Amano Hôkô (1828-1894)
Taki Katei (1830-1901)
Sugawara Hakuryû (1833-1898)
Maeda Kakô (1833-1905)
Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)
Chôgun (dates unknown)
Sonjô (dates unknown)
Yokose Kinshô (act. 1860s)
ORANDA JIN CATALOGUE 19 Nanga fan paintings
It has been a busy summer. We presented our new Oranda Jin catalogue 19 during the exhibition at the Jan van Hoof Galerie.
36 items of the catalogue will now be presented on this web site. The second part will be shown in Oranda Jin’s October update.
The catalogue is available at the Oranda Jin gallery, upon request and at the PAN fair in Amsterdam from November 22-29, 2009.
With the artists of the fan paintings we focused on the 18th and 19th century only. A number of the artists are known, some of them famous and important and artists we have never heard from but who are exceptionally good:
Tanke Gessen (1721-1809)
Ike Gyokuran (1727/28- 1784)
Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
Suzuki Meimon (17..-1819)
Akada Gagyu (1747-1822)
Kaino Kakusai (1748-1833)
Suzuki Fûyô (1749-1816)
Haruki Nanko (1759-1839)
Yamaoka Geppô (1760-1839)
Oka Yûgaku (1762-1833)
Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
Yagi Sonsho (1771-1836)
Sô Taigan (1773-1850)
Nakabayashi Chikutô (1776-1853)
Tanomura Chikuden (1777-1835)
Nukina Kaioku (1778-1863)
Uragami Shunkin (1779-1846)
Rai San’yô (1780-1832)
Yamamoto Baiitsu (1783-1856)
Sô Kazan (1788-1872)
Kamei Shôkin (1798-1857)
Kinoshita Itsuun (1799-1866)
Tani Shun'ei (act. late 18th - early 19th)
Takahisa Ryûko (1801-1859)
Murase Taiotsu (1804-1881)
Miura Gomon (1809-1860)
Nakabayashi Chikkei (1816-1867)
Maeda Chôdô (1817-1878)
Chô Sanshû (1833-1895)
Tatsusai
Kakuzan
ORANDA JIN’S SUMMER EXHIBITION
Sunday July 12th we had the opening of our summer exhibition in the most beautiful situated gallery
of ’s-Hertogenbosch: Jan van Hoof Galerie. We will be there Thursday - Sunday from 14.00 till 18.00. Looking foreward seing you.The show will last until August 2nd.
A major part of the show will focus on a rare collection of Nanga fan paintings, which is supported by a new Oranda Jin catalogue (# 19).
Of course Japanese paintings and painters’ pottery will be the main part of the exhibition, of which many new and some really stunning acquisitions from our recent trip to Japan like an impressive set of golden screens by Imao Keinen.
The sculptor Gerard Höweler created new stones from old stones. While overlooking the exhibition, the city and its polder, the stones will make it an almost four-dimensional experience.
Artists at the show:
Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
Kanô Tôrin (17..-1820)
Õta Nampo (Shokusanjin) (1749-1823)
Kanô Tanshin (Morimichi) (1785-1835)
Kikuchi Yôsai (1788-1878)
Onishi Chinnen (1792-1851)
Mochizuki Gyokusen (1794-1852) (Shigeteru)
Kita Kadô (1812-1877)
Shinten'ô (1823-1885) (Yamanaka Seiitsu)
Kishi Chikudô (1826-1897)
Imao Keinen (1845-1924)
Suzuki Shônen (1849-1918)
Suma Taisui (1868-1955)
Morohoshi Seishô (1870-19..)
Saitô Shôshû (1870-19..)
Okutani Shûseki (1871-1936)
Ikai Shôkoku (1881-1939)
Daimaru Hôpô (18.. -1935)
Sawamura Tôsai I (- 1941-)
Inshô, Dômoto (1891-1975)
Kakô, Morino (1899-1987)
Deiryû (1895-1954)
Kasumi Bunshô (1905-1998)
Kôho (dates unknown)
ORANDA JIN’S SUMMER EXHIBITION
Sunday July 12th will be the opening of our summer exhibition in the most beautiful situated gallery of ’s-Hertogenbosch: Jan van Hoof Galerie. The show will last until August 2nd.
A major part of the show will focus on a rare collection of Nanga fan paintings, which is supported by a new Oranda Jin catalogue (# 19).
Of course Japanese paintings and painters’ pottery will be the main part of the exhibition, of which many new and some really stunning acquisitions from our recent trip to Japan like an impressive set of golden screens by Imao Keinen.
The sculptor Gerard Höweler created new stones from old stones. While overlooking the exhibition, the city and its polder, the stones will make it an almost four-dimensional experience.
June’s up-date will be filled with animals, reptiles, birds and mammals, most of them tigers and painted by the well-known artists:
Go Shun (1752-1811)
Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
Nishimura Nantei (1775-1834)
Tanaka Nikka (17..-1845)
Tosa Mitsuzane (1780-1852)
Oda Kaisen (1785-1862)
Kôchô, Ueda (1788-1850)
Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841)
Egawa Tan’an (1801-1855)
Shiokawa Bunrin (1801-1877)
Kishi Renzan (1804-1859)
Kita Kadô (1812-1877)
Murase Sôseki (1822-1877)
Gan Kyô (1829-1874)
Nantembô (1839-1925)
Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918)
Kikuchi Hôbun (1862-1918)
Katsurada Kojô (1865-19..)
Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
Mano Kyôtei (1874-1934)...
ORANDA JIN’S SUMMER EXHIBITION
Sunday July 12th will be the opening of our summer exhibition. It will last until August 2nd. You make a note in your agenda and we will keep you informed concerning details. One detail though, lifting a corner of the veil, the exhibition will be in the most beautiful situated gallery of ’s-Hertogenbosch with a stunning view on the city and its polder...
BAMBOO
Oranda Jin presents this month artists’ impressions of BAMBOO.
In Japan bamboo is the emblem of pliancy and security since it bends to the storm and gives refuge to the tiger. Bamboo is a very popular subject of Japanese paintings but as bamboo is extremely difficult to depict well, painting bamboo is a kind of master proof.
Bamboo is also one of the three gentlemen (friends of winter) together with plum and pine.
As the Buddhist artist nun Rengetsu says in her waka:
This gentleman
grows and grows
Auspiciously:
Learn from it and
You will ever flourish.
(Stevens p. 48)
The painters and potters of this month are:
Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
Inoue Shirô (1742-1812)
Sakai Hôitsu (1761-1828)
Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
Hosokawa Rinkoku (1779-1843)
Rai San'yô (1780-1832)
Mugai (act c. 1800)
Harahiro Sekijô (act c. 1805)
Yokoyama Seiki (1792-1864)
Hirano Gogaku (1810-1893)
Takeuchi Seihô (1864-1942)
Fukuda Kodôjin (1865-1944)
Terazaki Kôgyô (1866-1919)
Okutani Shûseki (1871-1936)
Yamamoto Sekisô (1872-1944)
Hayakawa Baitei (1878-19..)
Mitsui Hanzan (1880-1934)
Morikawa Shôtei (1882-19..)
Miura Chikusen IV (1911-1976)
Nammei (dates unknown)
Tessô (dates unknown)
Mokusen (dates unknown)
THE UNEXPECTED
’s-Hertogenbosch is small provincial town, with a humble local museum, kicked around by its local government. Never the less this museum has the largest collection of painters’ pottery (artists' ceramics) of twentieth century western artists in the World. From “Picasso to Penck, from Appel to Koons.”
Walking the streets of Kyoto once we felt inspired by this local idea and decided to find out whether there was such a niche of pottery by Japanese painters in Japan.
Now that the SM’s (City Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch) shows a large part of their collection called: “THE UNEXPECTED”, from March 8 – June 1 2009 - www.theunexpected.nl, we like to make a small addition.
This month’s up-date is dedicated to Japanese painter’s pottery, if possible accompanied by a painting.
The artists, painters as well as potters of this month’s web-show are:
Nichôsai (1751-1802/3) (brewer, painter and author of bunraku plays)
Õtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) (nun, poet, potter and painter)
Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924) (painter)
Takahashi Dôhachi IV (1845-1897) (potter)
Suzuki Shônen (1849-1918) (painter)
Fukada Chokujô (1861-1947) (painter)
Matsumoto Shigenobu (1864-1950) (potter)
Takahashi Dôhachi V (1869-1914) (potter)
Yamamoto Sekisô (1872-1944) (painter)
Deiryû (1895-1954) (painter priest)
Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (1896-1948) (attr. to)
Nishimiya Seiko (dates unknown) (potter)
Shinen (dates unknown) (potter)
Hakuzan (dates unknown) (potter)
Tôan (dates unknown) (potter)
Nihonga and modern artists
This March up-date shows Nihonga and modern artists who are born after 1850.
Tanaka Kan illustrates Japan’s national hymn. The link and a little scrolling gives you the music as well. A tiny bit of multi media for a change.
The other artists are:
Kubota Beisen (1852-1906)
Fukada Chokujô (1861-1947)
Nakajima Kahô (1866-1939)
Kobayashi Gokyô (1871-1929)
Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
Toda Gyokushû (1873-1933)
Uejima Hôzan (1875-1920)
Kiyomizu Rokubei V (1875-1959)
Nishimura Goun (1877-1938)
Kanamori Kanyô (1882-1932)
Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)
Takahashi Chikunen (1887-1967)
Uchiumi Chôkô (1888-c.1924)
Dômoto Inshô (1891-1975)
Muraoka Hôga (1892-1962)
Kawamura Riken (1896-19..)
Morino Kakô (1899-1987)
Tanaka Kan
Kôu
Unkei
Unkoku
SAN FRANCISCO ARTS OF PACIFIC ASIA SHOW
(Apologies for the wrong dates at our last month’s news, but these are the correct dates)
From February 6-8 the 13h Annual San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show will be held at the Festival Pavilion at the Fort Mason Centre in San Francisco.
Opening hours:
Friday and Saturday 11am-7pm.
Sunday 11am-5pm.
We will be there. You are very welcome.
As the New Year of the Ox has just begun, this February up-date will be dedicated to the Ox, the New Year, and a few of its symbols including snow.
The artists illustrating this New Year up-date are:
Raihô (Mihô Enki) (1730-1817)
Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
Nagazawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)
Azuma Tôyô (1755-1839)
Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841)
Uragami Shunkin (1779-1846)
Õtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
Shiokawa Bunrin (1801-1877)
Gan Rei (1816-1883)
Anonymous (Settei school)
Seiran (dates unknown)
Nantembô (1839-1925)
Suzuki Shônen (1849-1918)
Suzuki Kason (1860-1919)
Ôhashi Manpô (1860-1943)
Nishigawa Tôrei (1865- after 1925)
Ohara Koson (1877-1945)
Yaku Gakyô (dates unknown)
Miura Chikusen (I, II, or III)
Miyake Kôhaku (1893-1957)
HAPPY NEW YEAR
First of all we like to wish all of you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year of the ox, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO HERE WE COME
Let us start with a surprise; this New Year will be our maiden presence at The San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show, which will be held from February 5-9 at the Festival Pavilion at the Fort Mason Centre.
This year we won’t be showing at the Pacific Asia Show in New York.
We hope San Francisco will be as good for us as New York has been for many years. Next year most probably we will be back in NY.
We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco and hope you look forward to seeing us there. You will be most welcome to visit our booth in which we will show very good paintings and painters’ ceramics.
See you soon.
Meanwhile:
ORANDA JIN CATALOGUE # 18, PART 3
This month’s website focuses on the third part of Oranda Jin’s Catalogue # 18. It did well so far, which means that quite a number of the paintings have been sold.
For those who haven’t seen catalogue 18, these are the artists of this months’ up-date.
Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
Ôtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
Mochizuki Gyokusen (Shigeteru) (1794-1852)
Egawa Tan’an (1801-1855)
Tanomura Chokunyû (1814-1907)
Mochizuki Gyokusen (Shigemine) (1834-1913)
Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924)
Nantembô (1839-1925)
Kiyomizu Rokubei IV (1847-1920)
Chikushin (1854-1936)
Murakami Mutei Mutei (1863-1923)
Nakajima Kahô (1866-1939)
Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942)
Sakata Yôshirô XIII (Deika) (✝1934)
Hashimoto Dokuzan (1869-1938)
Shôshû (Saitô Daiichirô) (1870-1934)
Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
Seisetsu Genjô (1877-1945)
Kôzuki Tesshû (1879-1937)
Keijû Reikyô (1881-1935)
Kasumi Bunshô (1905-1998)
ORANDA JIN CATALOGUE # 18, PART 2
This month’s website focuses on the second part of Oranda Jin’s Catalogue # 18. It did well so far, which means that quite a number of the paintings have been sold.
The Amsterdam Pan Fair treated us well and made it a successful show for us. We like to thank you for your support.
For those who haven’t seen catalogue 18, these are the artists of this months’ up-date.
Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
Nichôsai (1751-1802/3)
Yomono Utagaki (Magao) (1753-1829)
Ryûryûkyo Shinsai (1764-1823)
Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
Okamoto Toyohiko (1773-1845)
Kawamura Bumpô (✝1821)
Nakabayashi Chikutô (1776-1853)
Nukina Kaioku (Sûô) (1778-1863)
Yanagawa Seigan (1781-1858)
Matsuyoshi Shôkei (act.1830s)
Õhara Donshû (✝1857)
Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864)
Ichikawa Danjûrô VII (1791-1859)
Õtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
Ukita Ikkei (1795-1859)
Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)
Kazan (1825 ->1893)
Yasuda Rôzan (1830-1882)
Kawabata Gyokushô (1842-1913)
Shônen (1849-1918)
Kimpu (dates unknown)
ORANDA JIN CATALOGUE # 18, PART I
This month’s website is mainly focusing on the first part of Oranda Jin’s Catalogue # 18, the new one. In our opinion it is quite a nice one. It did well so far.
We also show two items that you might consider as a tiny, tiny preview to our PAN fair.
PAN AMSTERDAM
http://www.pan-amsterdam.nl/
From November 23-30 the PAN, the National Art and Antiques fair will be held in Amsterdam in the RAI-Parkhal. From our booth 78 we will show and present our new catalogue and more. You are most welcome and we look forward seeing you (again) in our booth.
The paintings and pottery from this November web show are by the artists:
Nonomura Sôtatsu (.. -1643?)
Kanô Dôshun (..-1723)
Yamaguchi Sekkei (1644-1732)
Itô Jakuchû (1716-1800)
Tatebe Ryôtai (Kan’yôsai) (1719-1774)
Ike Taiga (1723-1776)
Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
Okada Beisanjin (1744-1820)
Noro Kaiseki (1747-1828)
Totoki Baigai (1749-1804)
Watanabe Gentai (1749-1820)
Gibon Sengai (1750-1837)
Matsumura Goshun (1752-1811)
Nagazawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)
Aoki Mokubei (1767-1833)
Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841)
Tosa Mitsuzane (1780-1852)
Kita Kadô (1812-1877)
Doi Gôga (1817-1880)
Ôtani Shôchin (Rôkei)(1817-1894)
Takahashi Ôshin (1855-1901)
ORANDA JIN CATALOGUE # 18
Oranda Jin's catalogue # 18 is published. We are very happy with the result. We hope that our search for the new and unexpected has made this catalogue into one that is again surprising and adventurous. After this month's up-date the catalogue will follow in three consecutive sections.
From November 23 -30 the PAN, the National Art and Antiques fair will be held in Amsterdam in the RAI-Parkhal. From our booth 78 we will show and present our new catalogue and more. All of you are very welcome.
But meanwhile:
Except for the southern hemisphere people suffer as well as enjoy the fall. The fall of leafs, the fall of rain, wind and the early darkness. Time to move inwards, time for shelter. Getting melancholically.
If you feel like that, you are not alone; pick your company from these Japanese painters who made this season into their subject.
Itô Jakuchû (1716-1800)
Haruki Nanko (1759-1839)
Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
Onishi Keisai (1773-1829)
Suzuki Nanrei (1775-1844)
Kinoshita ôjû (1777-1815)
Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843)
Tanaka Nikka (17..-1845)
Maruyama ôshin (1790-1838)
Haruki Nammei (1795-1878)
Nakajima Raishô (1796-1871)
Ueda Kôkei (..-1860)
Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)
Nantembô (1839-1925)
Imao Keinen (1845-1924)
Fukada Chokujô (1861-1947)
Katsurada Kojô (1865-19..)
Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
Chigusa Sôun (1873-1944)
Okuda Jakusô (1875-1963)
Hirai Baisen (1889-1969)
Dômoto Inshô (1891-1975)
Katô Kumpô (1892-19..)
Saishô (dates unknown)
Unkoku (dates unknown)
PRELIMINARY DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES RELATED TO THE UKYO- E SCHOOL
It is some time ago that we paid special attention to preliminary drawings and sketches related to the Ukiyo-e school. While getting them together there turned out to be enough to make a complete update and better even, enough rare drawings to make it a very interesting one.
Amongst others you will find an original preliminary drawing by Toyokuni I, the design of a triptych by Kiyochika, and a landscape drawing by Yoshitoshi (alas rather small, but never the less very rare), small paintings on silk by Kunisada and Kuniaki. All of those are very rare. And this is really amongst others...
Hosoda Eishi (1756-1829)
Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864)
Gountei Sadahide (1807-1873)
Yoshitora (act 1840-1880)
Hachisuka Kuniaki (1835-1888)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Hiroshige III (1843-1894)
Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915)
Natori Shunsen (1886-1960)
Miyake Kôhaku (1893-1957)
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
After a short break of sand sun and sea, we assembled another group from our Japan trip, new or refreshed. 200 years of Japanese painting done by the painters:
Tanke Gessen (1721-1809)
Inoue Shirô (1742-1812)
Totoki Baigai (1749-1804)
Kamo Suetaka (1752-1842)
Azuma Tôyô (1755-1839)
Hatta Koshû (1760-1822)
Watanabe Nangaku (1767-1813)
Okamoto Toyohiko (1773-1845)
Nukina Kaioku (Sûô) (1778-1863)
Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843)
Hosokawa Rinkoku (1779-1843)
Shibata Gitô (1780-1819)
Okada Hankô (1782-1846)
Gan Tai (1782-1865)
Mihata Jôryû (act 1830-43)
Ôkura Ryûzan (1785-1850)
Ôhara Donshû (17..-1857)
Mori Kansai (1814-1894)
Nakabayashi Chikkei (1816-1867)
Murase Sôseki (1822-1877)
Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918)
Hagio Kyûkô (1861-1923)
Murakami Mutei Mutei (1863-1923)
Uejima Hôzan (1875-1920)
Hashimoto Kansetsu (1883-1945)
Fresh and refreshed from Japan, recent acquisitions.
During our recent trip to Japan we found a number of fine paintings and fine pieces of painters pottery, which we like to share with you. Some of the paintings of this months up-date have been remounted and look fresh again.
The works represent different schools like Maruyama-Shijô, Kishi, Nanga, Rimpa, Ukiyo-e, Independent and Nihonga.
The artists are:
Itô Jakuchû (1716-1800)
Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
Utagawa Toyohiro (1773-1828)( attr. to)
Okada Kanrin (1775-1849)
Tanaka Nikka (17..-1845)
Rai San'yô (1780-1832)
Ôtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
Mori Kansai (1814-1894)
Rissetsu (dates unknown)
Murase Sôseki (1822-1877)
Shinten'ô (Yamanaka Seiitsu) (1823-1885)
Yasuda Rôzan (1830-1882)
Nomura Bunkyo (1854-1911)
Taizan (Takahashi Yobei)(1856-1922)(potter)
Kishi Kinsen (act. Meiji era)
Hanrei (dates unknown)
Nakajima Kahô (1866-1939)
Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942)
Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
Kikuchi Sokû (1873-1922)
Watanabe Kôkan (1878-1942)
Keijû Reikyô (1881-1935)
Fujita Kaikô (1924-
MASTERWORKS BY UNKNOWN, UNREAD AND ANONYMUS PAINTERS
There are and have been many Japanese artists no one ever heard of and who are not found in books and reference works. And yet their paintings are very good.
Of course it is possible that I can't find these painters because of my lack of knowledge. Sometimes it is very hard to read a signature or the artist has a name, which is the same as that of many others, and can't be deducted from the list. Sometimes a signature is misread. And there are painters who are using a pen name that can't be traced. Many of the amateurs I don't know and there are painters whose lives didn't make it to the end or didn't manage to reach inside art books or catalogues. And there is also the famous Mr. or Mrs. Anonymous who never signs the work of art. Any way there are a lot of reasons for someone's fifteen minutes of fame to celebrate it in total obscurity.
The obscure painters showing at this month's gallery are:
Anonymous
Hansen
Hokuteki
Jôki
Junboku?
Kanchô
Kinsui
Kôu
Moi (Sôgetsu)
Okakaga Taisen
Sen'osei
Shinhô
Shunga
Shungaku
Sôun
Takanashi Hôzan
Takatsuta Hokuen
Tôchô
Unkoku
Unread
This month we enjoy a little layback after sweating on the New York Pacific Asia Show. Fanning our selves with the twenty kami-ôgi on our April web show.
Until April 20 you still have the opportunity to visit
KI BAITEI & KINKOKU EXHIBITION
With some 300 paintings on show by the Nanga painters Ki Baitei (1734-1810) and Yokoi Kinkoku (1761-1832)
At the ôtsu City Museum of History
2-2 Goryo-cho
ôtsu, Shiga. 520-0037
Japan
FAN PAINTINGS
Although the themes and painting techniques of fans are often similar and related to concurrent scroll and screen paintings, the unique format and shape of the fan provide alternative solutions for individual creativity through compositional design.
Gitter, Kurt A., Japanese fan paintings from western collections. New Orleans Museum of Art, 1985.
Fans were meant to use and thrown away after the change of season or fashion. Often though fan paintings, or painted fans were given as presents as a token of friendship or as a souvenir from a party or gathering. This custom is still known today.
What makes fan paintings so charming and intimate is the creative enjoyment an artist feels when executing a painting or poem on a fan. It makes fan paintings highly collectable. Their humble beauty is beyond discussion. In a frame under a mat this wedge-shaped fan looks wonderful.
The artists of these fans are:
Kanô Nagatsune (Eijô) (1731-1787)
Hatta Koshû (1760-1822)
Nagayama Kôin (1765-1849)
Maruyama Ôzui (1766-1829)
Okamoto Toyohiko (1773-1845)
Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843)
Nakajima Raishô (1796-1871)
Tani Bunji (1812-1850)
Okamoto Sukehiko (1822-1883)
Katô Rinryô (act 1860-70s)
Suzuki Hyakunen (1825-1891)
Kôno Bairei (1844-1895)
Numata Kashû (1838-1901)
Hagio Kyûkô (1861-1923)
Nakajima Kahô (1866-1939)
Nakagawa Wadô (1880-19.. )
Mitsuyasu Shôsen (1880-19..)
Akamatsu Renjô (18..-19..)
NEW YORK ARTS OF PACIFIC ASIA SHOW
From March 21-24
Oranda Jin will be showing Japanese paintings and painters' pottery
at the New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show.
Gramercy Park Armory, Lexington Ave. at 26th, New York.
Getting started with Japanese prints we moved on to paintings and since last year our stock has been enriched with Japanese ceramics (decorated) by painters.
Again we hope to share our enthusiasm for these fields with you.
We will present a considerable number of Rengetsu's poem pottery, but also pieces of famous and well-known potters from different generations like Rokubei and Dôhachi decorated by painters like Nichôsai, Raishô and Tessai and Zen related tea ceramics.
The main part will still be paintings, which spreads between a stunning calligraphy by the priest Jiun Onko up to beautiful set shikishi of the four seasons by Kamisaka Sekka and a magnificent portrait of a lady by the famous "French" painter Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita. There will be scroll paintings by ôkyo, Shôhaku, Rosetsu, Jakuchû, and Gan Ku, though most of the paintings date from the 19th century and represent various styles like Maruyama-Shijô, Nanga, Nihonga and Zenga. We also bring fans, tanzaku, drawings (unmounted paintings), albums and hand scrolls.
We look forward to meet again in our booth to enjoy looking at the things we love.
KI BAITEI & KINKOKU EXHIBITION
we also like to draw your attention concerning an important exhibition with some 300 paintings by the Nanga painters Ki Baitei (1734-1810) and Yokoi Kinkoku (1761-1832)
March 6 - April 20
Ôtsu City Museum of History
2-2 Goryo-cho
Ôtsu, Shiga. 520-0037
Japan
Artists represented in the March update as well serve as a preview for our show at New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show are:
Musen Jôzen (1693-1764)(Tangai)
Itô Jakuchû(1716-1800)
Jiun Onkô (Sonja) (1718-1804)
Soga Shôhaku (1730-1781)
Maruyama Ôkyo (1733-1795)
Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
Gan Ku (1749-1838)
Nichôsai (1751-1802/3)
Nagazawa Rosetsu (1754-1799) Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841)
Shibata Gitô (1780-1819)
Ôtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
Nakajima Raishô (1796-1871)
Kiyomizu Rokubei III (Shôun)(1820-1883)
Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924)
Takahashi Yobei (Taizan)(1856-1922)
Sakurai Hyakurei (act Meiji era)
Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968)
Moriyama Kankei (Kankei jôkin) (1889-1956)
Katô Shunji (1892- 1979)
Katô Kumpô (1892-19..)
Tôko (dates unkown)