EditorialYoung couple with letter, Kneeling girl with letter in right hand, holding the kimono of a standing boy, bundles of silk in the foreground, in the background a veranda with flowering bonsai tree., Suzuki Harunobu (mentioned on object), Japan, 1765 - 17...
EditorialBowl with a continuous landscape with scholars, Porcelain bowl with a slightly flared wall and slanted edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the outside of the bowl a continuous representation of scholars in a landscape with water, trees and rocks, a sc...
EditorialThe salt shell Shiogai (title on object) A comparison of Genroku poems and shells (series title) Genroku kasen kaiawase (series title on object), A box of salty cookies in the form of plum blossom. Behind it a pipe in a case and a tobacco bag with nets...
EditorialSanpoukazari to otafuku no men, Decoration of three treasures and a mask of Otafuku., Ikeda, Eisen, 1790-1848, artist, [between 1820 and 1823], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 19.7 x 17.7 cm., Print shows the mask of the joyful mythological figure Otafuku, ...
EditorialUeki fukujuso uri, Plant seller., Torii, Kiyonaga, 1752-1815, artist, [between 1780 and 1820, printed later], 1 print : woodcut, color., Print shows two women with male servant looking at bonsai trees on the platform of a shoulder pole with the plant s...
EditorialUeki fukujuso uri, Plant seller., Torii, Kiyonaga, 1752-1815, artist, [between 1780 and 1820, printed later], 1 print : woodcut, color., Print shows two women with male servant looking at bonsai trees on the platform of a shoulder pole with the plant s...
EditorialSanpoukazari to otafuku no men, Decoration of three treasures and a mask of Otafuku., Ikeda, Eisen, 1790-1848, artist, [between 1820 and 1823], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 19.7 x 17.7 cm., Print shows the mask of the joyful mythological figure Otafuku, ...
EditorialInro with screen, Five-part inro with a decoration of ao a screen and bamboo and a bonsai on the other side. Signed., anonymous, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1825, Edo-period (1600-1868), wood (plant material), lacquer (coating), h 8.4 cm.
EditorialBonsai Plum, Compass, and Pocket Sundial with Design of Calendar, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jo, vol. 3), ????????????, Edo period (1615?1868), 1806, Japan, Privately published polychrome woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in a...
EditorialBonsai oxalis, Oxalis megalorrhiza (Red-edged wood sorrel, Oxalis rubrocincta). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London, Ridgeway, 1842.
EditorialSanpoukazari to otafuku no men, Decoration of three treasures and a mask of Otafuku., Ikeda, Eisen, 1790-1848, artist, [between 1820 and 1823], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 19.7 x 17.7 cm., Print shows the mask of the joyful mythological figure Otafuku, ...
EditorialUeki fukujuso uri, Plant seller., Torii, Kiyonaga, 1752-1815, artist, [between 1780 and 1820, printed later], 1 print : woodcut, color., Print shows two women with male servant looking at bonsai trees on the platform of a shoulder pole with the plant s...
EditorialUeki fukujuso uri, Plant seller., Torii, Kiyonaga, 1752-1815, artist, [between 1780 and 1820, printed later], 1 print : woodcut, color., Print shows two women with male servant looking at bonsai trees on the platform of a shoulder pole with the plant s...
EditorialSanpoukazari to otafuku no men, Decoration of three treasures and a mask of Otafuku., Ikeda, Eisen, 1790-1848, artist, [between 1820 and 1823], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 19.7 x 17.7 cm., Print shows the mask of the joyful mythological figure Otafuku, ...
EditorialGumi, natsugumi or cherry silverberry, Elaeagnus multiflora. Popular as an ornamental plant or bonsai tree. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.