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ICHIBAN STARTING TO CLOSE DOWN. We are starting to close down our business, a process that will take us a couple of years - age and health issues tell us it is time. We still have over 1300 items either currently listed on our website catalog or still to be posted onto it. So, from now on ALL ITEMS IN THE CATALOG MAY BE PURCHASED AT 40 % OFF THE LISTED PRICE. At these low prices, we do ask that you pay shipping and insurance charges for all items purchased. We reserve the right to require a 15 % re-stocking fee in cases where the reason for the return is suspect. With thanks for your years of patronage, we look forward to serving you until the last items are sold.

A Print by Utagawa Kunihisa II - Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1900   item# 982318 (stock# ICHI 43)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 595.00  This is a framed print by Utagawa Kunihisa II (1832-1891) - a pupil and son-in-law of Utagawa Kuniyoshi. It portrays two women by a stream that flows by a garden fence. One of the women is kneeling and the other is bent over as if to look for something in the water. (I seem to recall some legend about a shogun’s palace floating cups on saucers down stream once a year for people to collect – but I cannot find any reference to that so I am probably just having a “senior moment”). There are pine t ...click for details

A Woodblock Print by Utagawa Toyokuni – Samurai - Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1837 VR   item# 980959 (stock# ICHI 126)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 795.00  This is a superb print of a Samurai in full regalia by one of the greatest masters of Japanese woodblock printing. It is done in muted tones of browns, tans and a very faint pink (lower part of his garment). (The small yellow rectangle seen in the upper right corner of a few of the photos is an unfortunate reflection of a ceiling light while taking the photos.) ...click for details

A Print by Yoshitoshi - Thirty Two Women Series Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1900   item# 979196 (stock# ICHI 394)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 995.00  This is a fine woodblock print by the highly regarded Meiji woodblock artist, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. It shows a geisha with a fan and an elegant kimono – a full moon in the upper left. The print is beautifully framed in a gold painted frame that measures 21 ½” by 16” and is triple matted. The print itself measures 14 ½” by 9 5/8” – it is in excellent condition with no toning, foxing nor any other problems. It has not been examined out of the frame. It has excellent registration and vivid colors. ...click for details

A Print by Kunisada (Toyokuni III) – Comic Series Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1900   item# 973668 (stock# ICHI 110)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 695.00  This is a fun woodblock print by the famed Edo period woodblock artist, Kunisada(Toyokuni III). It is titled “Nango Rikimaru With Cut Foot” and is from Kunisada’s Comic Pictures Series. The print portrays a samurai dancing around on his right foot as he examines a cut or puncture wound on the outside of his left calf. He is next to a shoreline with gently breaking waves and a paddle lies on the ground next to him. There is no indication how he got the wound. ...click for details

A Print by Kunisada - Toyokuni III – Woman with a Sword Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1900   item# 972619 (stock# ICHI 2940)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 695.00  This is an intriguing print by Kunisada as it portrays a Geisha seated waiting for someone – apparently a samurai – as she hold the samurai’s sword in her two hands wrapped in a bundle of straw. One can only guess as to why she is holding it for that person. The registration and the colors in the print are excellent– the garment worn by the ...click for details

A Beautiful Aizuri-e Eisen Print of a Geisha – Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1900   item# 972070 (stock# ICHI 1263)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - 2250.00  This is a striking Aizuri-e blue print of a Geisha sitting on a low bench as if waiting for a a client or for another Geisha to go their local Geisha house. Her kimono is extremely ornate and is superbly drawn – as are her hair pieces, her obi and the bench on which she sits. Behind her is a picture of Mt. Fuji in a circular frame and a hanging cloth with kanji characters on it. ...click for details

A Framed Actor Print by Kunisada (Toyokuni III) - Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1900   item# 971463 (stock# ICHI 114)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 795.00  This is an interesting print by Kunisada from his series titled “The Breezy Lantern Series”. It shows a famous actor's portrait on a paper lantern and is titled “Portrait of Sasaki Saburo Moritsuma “(A Genji Warrior of the Heike) from the Noh drama “Fujito”. The registration and the colors in the print are excellent– the garment worn by ...click for details

Hiroshige – “Hara” – Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokai Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1837 VR   item# 970103 (stock# ICHI 66)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 1195.00  This print of Mt. Fuji as seen from the Hara station of the “Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido” is one of the few vertical prints Hiroshige did in his series of Tokaido prints. In several of his Fuji prints he portrayed the monumental size of Mt. Fuji – and its importance to the Japanese as a sacred mountain – he had the top of the volcano extend up through the margin of the print. It is as if he did not feel such a landmark should be contained in a conventional confined frame. ...click for details

A Framed Print by Toyokuni III – Kunisada – 1854 Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1900   item# 968458 (stock# ICHI 111)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 695.00  This is a super print by the Edo print maker, Toyokuni III – also known as Kunisada. It portrays a young man watching an artist at work. The boy stands behind a large lacquered rack that would be a kimono rack. On the left side of the artist you can see his vase of brushholders at the ready. The registration and the colors in the print ar ...click for details

Two Small Woodblock Prints – Landscapes – Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1900   item# 964023 (stock# ICHI 959)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 295.00  Two very nice early Japanese prints – one of a mountain scene with a boat in the distance – the other of a large rocky overhang on a mountain. One print measures 7” by 4 ¾” with an image size of 6” by 4”. The second print measures 7” by 4 7/8” – image size is 6” by 3 7/8”. They are in very good condition – minimal toning or wrinkling, we date them to the early Meiji period, circa 1870s-1880s. Both prints are signed - The first print translates as "Kikosuke" and the second, clearly by ...click for details

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