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I would like to apologize to all, we have been working on the Tohoku relief effort and have not been focused 100 percent on web sales. Many emails and packages have been delayed, we are doing our best to manage both. Your patience and understanding through the crisis have been sincerely appreciated. November 22 2011 Robert is in the earthquake/tsunami affected region and will be only sporadically available to answer emails through December 3rd. Your patience is appreciated. For more on their activities see http://www.idrojapan.org

Robert Mangold has been working with Japanese antiques since 1995 with an emphasis on ceramics, Paintings, Armour and Buddhist furniture.

Winter Landscape by Otaki Uzan Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1940   item# 1124416 (stock# ALR3079)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 550.00  Sharp winter landscape ink and light color on silk contained in a green copper silk border embellished with flowering vines and ivory rollers. The scroll is 22 x 82 inches (56.5 x 209 cm) and in overall fine condition. Some minor age spotting just below the signature. Otaki Uzan (1871-1939), a Nanga artist from Yamagata studied under Kawamura Ukoku before establishing himself in Tokyo. Often prized in the Japane ...click for details

Antique Japanese Snowy landscape Scroll by Hata Hakuho Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1930   item# 1120795 (stock# ALR3076)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 800.00  A fine silk painting by Hata Hakuho enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Yuki no Ko-minato (Small Port in Snow). Color on silk with frosty silver blue cloth extended in beige and featuring fine sculpted bone rollers. The scroll measures 21 x 50 inches (53 x 127 cm) and is in excellent condition. This could have been painted on the same day as his submission to the 1929 Teiten National Exhibition Which shares teh same title and appears to be the same scene from a very slightly dif ...click for details

Winter's End, Antique Japanese Screen, Takahashi Shiko Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1940   item# 1120769 (stock# ANR3075)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 2,750.00  A Nihonga Scene mounted on a two panel screen of a thatched house in the winter forest, blossoms just opening on the garden trees by Takahashi Shiko (1897-1970). The scene has been created over a complete wash of white, making the crisp early spring morning real and sharp. The screen measures 74-1/2 x 67-1/2 inches (189 x 172 cm) and is in excellent condition bordered in a red lacquer frame typical of the 1920s and 30s and retains the original backing paper. A superb example of the early Show ...click for details

Sumi-e winter scene, Mizuta Kenzan, 1922 Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1930   item# 1115349 (stock# ALR3060)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 750.00  Winter surrounds the bare trees of the village, the homes huddled warm in the safety of the rocks, an ink and light color painting by Mizuta Kenzan dated 1922. Green patterned silk border with large rosewood rollers capped with ivory. It measures 26 1/2 x 52 inches (67 x 132 cm) and is in fine condition but for some minor wrinkles in the border. Kenzan (1900-1988) was a prominent figure in Japanese Nanga circles fr ...click for details

Gold Bamboo Kacho Screen by Mizuta Chikuho Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1940   item# 1114641 (stock# ANR3056)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 Sold, Thank you!  Birds chatter, perhaps excited by the promise of Spring from the plum blossoms peeking out of a bamboo grove, winters snow melts and trickles through the stones in the stream belwo. A two panel screen, ink and light color on gold by Mizuta Chikuho (1883-1958). An excellent example of this artists Nanga style, the subject and rich wet lines of the bamboo crisp and direct, fading to washes of gray in the shadows. The screen measures 68 x 68 inches (172 x 173 cm) and is in fine condition. ...click for details

Tanuki and Bamboo under Crescent Moon, Seiei Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1940   item# 1111843 (stock# ALR3055)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 650.00  The tanuki rests, energy spent, among fallen bamboo leaves lit by the crescent moon, only those yellow eyes alert and watchful. A beautiful pigment on silk painting signed Seiei enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is bordered in patterned green silk and features bone rollers. The scroll is 21-1/2 x 76-1/2 inches (55 x 194 cm) and in overall fine condition.

Hototogisu and Moon, Japanese Scroll by Imao Keisho Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1940   item# 1082173 (stock# ANR2961)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 1,450.00  A shadow before the moon, the call echoes in the dark, the cuckoo: a fine painting in the truest Nihonga tradition by Imao Keisho (1903-1993) enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Ink on paper with fine brocade border, the scroll measures 39 x 113 cm (15-1/2 x 44-1/2 inches). Imao Keisho was born in Kyoto in May of 1903 the son of Imao Keinen (1845 - 1924), one of the most influential painters of the early 20t ...click for details

Important Exhibition Screen, Shisendo by Fukui Genzo Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1940   item# 1080896 (stock# ANR2958)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 5,000.00  A four panel screen depicting the famous Shisen-do by Fukui Genzo exhibited at the 1937 Bunten National Exhibition (Mod. Nitten) and published in the catalog for that year, as well as the Nittenshi vol. 13. The Pigment on paper screen measures 153 x 240 cm (60 x 94-1/2 inches) and retains the original backing paper. There is minor foxing and one scratch on the left side (see close-up photos). Born in Taisho 5 (1916 ...click for details

Japanese Koi Scroll, Painting, Yamamoto Daiji Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1960   item# 1053788 (stock# ANR2862)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 4,000.00  Carp swim languidly through the pale silk of this massive painting by important 20th century artist Yamamoto Daiji (1908-1987) mounted as a hanging scroll and dating likely from the late 1940s to 1950s. The three fish haunt the hollow of some moss circled pond like demure debutantes their presence as demanding of attention as homogeneous with the serenity surrounding. It is a scene any traveler to Japan will bring home with them. Pigment on silk, in fine silk border, with some fading to the b ...click for details

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