Old art from East Asia

I share my favorite pieces of art mostly from Japan, Korea and China.

[yama-bato]

Dancing forest animals art print, Japanese animal painting, Vintage frog wall art, Kawanabe Kyosai woodblock, Woodland creatures

[seraphica]

Butterfly Fish

Designed and printed by Kasamatsu Shiro in 1967 (Japanese, 1898-1991)

[softcoffeeandroses]

Kawanabe Kyōsai - Deer and Monkeys, ca. 1887 Album leaf; ink and color on silk 36.2 x 26.7 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[the-evil-clergyman]

Nightingale and Hibiscus by Utagawa Hiroshige (19th Century)

[the-cricket-chirps]

Utagawa Toyokuni 初代 歌川费国, Japanese, 1769-1825

The Red Carp

c. 1804/18

[lionofchaeronea]

Pagoda in Rain at Nightfall, Yanaka, Tokyo, Kasamatsu Shiro, 1932

[mimiminimal]

Hanabusa Itcho.  Blind musician with Biwa lute on his back, chased by a dog, Edo period (1603-1868), 18th century.  Ink, colors on paper/ 31.0 x 52.0 cm. 

[quo-usque-tandem]

Dancing Skeletons by Kawanabe Kyosai

[the-cricket-chirps]

Kawanabe Kyosai

Lobster

ca. 1880s.

[nobrashfestivity]

Shiro Kasamatsu

Sky in Winter

[lionofchaeronea]

The Cassia Grove Studio (handscroll, ink and color on paper), Wen Zhengming, ca. 1532

[lionofchaeronea]

Black Bear Cub, Mori Shūhō, 1799

[sumi-no-neko]

今尾 景年 Imao Keinen (1845 - 1924) From the album for Picture Exercises - Keinen Shu Gajo, 1906.

[nobrashfestivity]

Untei Sekine, Small Rohdea japonica collection, 1832

[nobrashfestivity]

Untei Sekine, Anemones, 1830-1835

[nobrashfestivity]

Kasamatsu Shirô

Temple Service at Zôshigaya (Oeshiki, Zôshigaya) 1934

[thekimonogallery]

New Year’s Card: Children in Automobile Artist Unknown 1914,  Japan

Color lithograph; ink on card stock

Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards