Fukui Heinai | Otaru Canal Fuji

Fukui Heinai | Otaru Canal FujiArtist: Fukui Heinai (1920 November 3rd, 2009) Date: 1997 Title: At The Otaru Canal Otaru Unga Ni Te (B) Medium: Woodblock Print Size: 12cm x 15cm Fukui Henai is an Aomori Printmaker who began making prints in 1948, and is known for his striking landscapes as seen here in his depiction of the Otaru Canal in Hokkaido. Mounted delicately at the top border to a acid free backing as pictured.

Shūeisha (1964)Title: The Work of Poet Ki No TomonoriSeries: An Untitled Series of Thirty-six Poetic ImmortalsMedium: Offset lithograph printed on tradtional Japanese handmade washi paperSize: Envelope 31

Title: Boating to Admire the Harvest Moon | Shuyu no Suki

Series:  The Sixty-Nine Posting Stations on the Kisokaido Road | 木曽海道六拾九次之内 | Kisokaido Rokujukyu-Tsugi no Uchi

Title: Autumn Moon Over the Bridge

Medium: Offset lithograph printed on tradtional Japanese handmade washi paper

Formerly this print had been identified as Matsuchiyama Temple

Date: 1840-42

Title: The Actor Iwai Kiyotaro playing the Wife Fujinami of Sagizaka Sanai and the Actor Bando Zenji as Kozasa the Wife of Washizuka Kandayu | Iwai Kiyotaro no Sagizaka Sanai no Tsuma Fujinami to Bando Zenji no Washizuka Kandayu no Tsuma Kozasa

Title: The Actors Nakajima Wadaemon as Bôdara Chôzaemon and Nakamura Konozô as Gon of the Kanagawaya | 中島和田右衛門のぼうだら長左衛門と中村此蔵の船宿かな川やの権

Play: Hana Ayame Bunroku Soga | 花菖蒲文禄曽我

The saturated colors and stylized forms in such prints helped inspire the Impressionist and Post-impressionist movements decades later

Size: 36cm x 24