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Editorial Chokaro Sennin, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Ivory, H. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); W. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); D. 3/4 in. (1.9 cm), Netsuke, Yoshitomo, Chokaro Sennin?s horse is shown issuing from the immortal?s magical gourd. The animal was believe...
Editorial The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Kume no Sennin, Onoe Kikugoro I as Goi-no-suke Takenari, and Otani Hiroji II as Hata no Kawakatsu in the play "Keisei Asakusa no Kane," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1754. Torii Kiyomitsu I; Ja...
Editorial netsuke, wood, carved, Figure of a sage with scroll and fan, perhaps one of the sennin (or eight immortals), Shoriken., 18th century, Decorative Arts, Figure, Figure.
Editorial Chokaro Sennin, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Ivory, H. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); W. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); D. 3/4 in. (1.9 cm), Netsuke, Yoshitomo, Chokaro Sennin?s horse is shown issuing from the immortal?s magical gourd. The animal was believe...
Editorial " Courtesans as Three sake Drinkers", Edo period, 1710. From the album " Yuekun sennin" - (courtesans-immortals). A bikuni (female entertainer dressed as a travelling nun), a high-ranked courtesan and a male apprentice Kabuki actor ...
Editorial Netsuke of Sennin with Karashishi, 18th century, Japan, Ivory, H. 5 1/8 in. (13 cm); W. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); D. 1 in. (2.5 cm), Netsuke.
Editorial Netsuke of Old Woman with a Toad in her Hand (Gama Sennin), 19th century, Japan, Wood, H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); W. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); D. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm), Netsuke.
Editorial Kozuka, Shibuichi, Period: Anyei. School: Somin. Surface: Migaki. Shape: Kaku-jiri. Workmanship: Omote: Iroye chu-niku-bori taka-bori zogan; Ura: Katakiri. Egashira: Migaki. Design: Tachi-ichi: Ippon geta sennin (Sennin with single-support clogs); Ura:...
Editorial netsuke, wood, carved, Figure of a sage with scroll and fan, perhaps one of the sennin (or eight immortals), Shoriken., 18th century, Decorative Arts, Figure, Figure.
Editorial Kabuki players as the Eight Sennin (Triptych), Kininaga, d. ca. 1820, Woodcut on paper, mounted, Three panels joined to form a single composition. Description on verso of mount as follows: 'Beauties impersonating the eight sennin - Immortals. Kinto bea...
Editorial Kyto, Sanjsangen-d-Temple, Basu-Sennin, one of the 28 guardians of the thousand-armed Kannon, albumin paper, black and white positive process, hand-colored, image size: height: 20.4 cm; width: 26.5 cm, inscribed, in black ink: wooden figure, depicting ...
Editorial The Chinese sennin Ch'en Nan (Japanese "Chinnan").
Editorial Family of Monkeys, Edo period (1615?1868), late 17th century, Japan, One of a triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk, 60 x 30 1/4 in. (152.4 x 76.8 cm), Paintings, Tanshin Morimasa (Japanese, 1653?1718), The central scroll depicting the dee...
Editorial Tobae mitate ryugen sennin, Toba-e correspondence of a Chinese sage., Utagawa, Toyohiro, 1773?-1829?, artist, [between 1804 and 1818], 1 print : woodcut ; 35.6 x 23.5 cm., Print shows a man smoking a cigarette in a long holder, and a dragon ascending i...
Editorial Tobae mitate ryugen sennin, Toba-e correspondence of a Chinese sage., Utagawa, Toyohiro, 1773?-1829?, artist, [between 1804 and 1818], 1 print : woodcut ; 35.6 x 23.5 cm., Print shows a man smoking a cigarette in a long holder, and a dragon ascending i...
Editorial Hand guard, Oval tsuba with iroe takazogan on the front and raised relief Chokaro Sennin and the demon killer Shoki, who holds the gourd of Chokaro and lets a devil escape from it, a pine tree at the rear, signed 'hiroyasu'., Hiroyasu, Japan, 1800 - 18...
Editorial Hand guard, Oval tsuba with raised edge, on the front in iris-taka-zogan and deepening relief Chokaro Sennin who lets his horse come out of his pocket, at the rear a dead tree near a rock, signed 'nukagawa yasunori'., Nukagawa Yasunori, Japan, 1725 - 1...
Editorial Netsuke in the form of a holy man with a drum and staff, Taoist saint (sennin) with drum and staff. Polychromed wood., anonymous, Japan, 1700 - 1900, Edo-period (1600-1868), wood (plant material), h 13 cm.
Editorial The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Kume no Sennin, Onoe Kikugoro I as Goi-no-suke Takenari, and Otani Hiroji II as Hata no Kawakatsu in the play "Keisei Asakusa no Kane," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1754. Torii Kiyomitsu I; Ja...
Editorial Tekkai sennin, Parody of the Chinese sage Tieqiao., Okumura, Masanobu, 1686-1764, artist, [between 1711 and 1716], 1 print : woodcut ; 26.8 x 39 cm., Print shows a woman holding her hands over a man's eyes and blowing a puff of air upon which a small m...
Editorial Tekkai sennin, Parody of the Chinese sage Tieqiao., Okumura, Masanobu, 1686-1764, artist, [between 1711 and 1716], 1 print : woodcut ; 26.8 x 39 cm., Print shows a woman holding her hands over a man's eyes and blowing a puff of air upon which a small m...
Editorial Tobae mitate ryugen sennin, Toba-e correspondence of a Chinese sage., Utagawa, Toyohiro, 1773?-1829?, artist, [between 1804 and 1818], 1 print : woodcut ; 35.6 x 23.5 cm., Print shows a man smoking a cigarette in a long holder, and a dragon ascending i...
Editorial Tobae mitate ryugen sennin, Toba-e correspondence of a Chinese sage., Utagawa, Toyohiro, 1773?-1829?, artist, [between 1804 and 1818], 1 print : woodcut ; 35.6 x 23.5 cm., Print shows a man smoking a cigarette in a long holder, and a dragon ascending i...
Editorial The immortal (sennin) ?ky? A parody of biographies of wise men by courtesans: a series of seven prints (series title) Keisei mitate ressenden - nanaban no uchi (series title on object), A highly placed courtesan is holding onto a kimono rack, while the...
Editorial The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Kume no Sennin, Onoe Kikugoro I as Goi-no-suke Takenari, and Otani Hiroji II as Hata no Kawakatsu in the play "Keisei Asakusa no Kane," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1754. Torii Kiyomitsu I; Ja...
Editorial The Chinese sennin Ch'en Nan (Japanese "Chinnan").
Editorial Two Sages Gazing at a Beauty Treading Cloth (parody of Kume Sennin), c. 1769, Suzuki Harunobu ?? ??, Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770, Japan, Color woodblock print, hashira-e, 26 7/8 x 4 3/4 in., Untitled (Haworth Parsonage), 1849/60, English, England, Albumen ...
Editorial " Courtesans as Three sake Drinkers", Edo period, 1710. From the album " Yuekun sennin" - (courtesans-immortals). A bikuni (female entertainer dressed as a travelling nun), a high-ranked courtesan and a male apprentice Kabuki actor ...
Editorial The Courtesan Hana-ogi of Ogiya as the Sennin Tekkai (from the series Eight Immortals of Sensuality), mid 1790s. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?-1806). Color woodblock print; sheet: 36 x 23.6 cm (14 3/16 x 9 5/16 in.).
Editorial The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Kume no Sennin, Onoe Kikugoro I as Goi-no-suke Takenari, and Otani Hiroji II as Hata no Kawakatsu in the play "Keisei Asakusa no Kane," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1754. Torii Kiyomitsu I; Ja...
Editorial The Chinese sennin Ch'en Nan (Japanese "Chinnan").
Editorial Seated genius (Sennin).
Editorial Group of Sennin Standing Around a Camp Kettle.
Editorial Genii Gama Sennin and Tekkai.
Editorial Genii Gama Sennin and Tekkai Sennin.
Editorial The Chinese sennin Ch'en Nan (Japanese "Chinnan").
Editorial Seated genius (Sennin).
Editorial Group of Sennin Standing Around a Camp Kettle.
Editorial Genii Gama Sennin and Tekkai.
Editorial Chokaro Sennin, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Ivory, H. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); W. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); D. 3/4 in. (1.9 cm), Netsuke, Yoshitomo, Chokaro Sennin?s horse is shown issuing from the immortal?s magical gourd. The animal was believe...
Editorial Family of Monkeys, Edo period (1615?1868), late 17th century, Japan, One of a triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk, 60 x 30 1/4 in. (152.4 x 76.8 cm), Paintings, Tanshin Morimasa (Japanese, 1653?1718), The central scroll depicting the dee...
Editorial Netsuke of Old Woman with a Toad in her Hand (Gama Sennin), 19th century, Japan, Wood, H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); W. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); D. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm), Netsuke.
Editorial Netsuke of The Daoist Immortal, Gama Sennin with Frog, 19th century, Japan, Wood, H. 2 in. (5.1 cm), Netsuke, Toyomasa (Japanese, 1773?1856).
Editorial Sennin, Meiji period (1868?1912), 1870, Japan, Pottery, partly unglazed; the costume in reddish brown glaze (Takatori ware), H. 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm), Ceramics.
Editorial Netsuke of Sennin with Karashishi, 18th century, Japan, Ivory, H. 5 1/8 in. (13 cm); W. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); D. 1 in. (2.5 cm), Netsuke.
Editorial ?????????, Daoist Immortal Tobosaku Sennin, Edo period (1615?1868), late 18th?early 19th century, Japan, Ivory, H. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm); W. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); D. 1 in. (2.5 cm), Netsuke, Ryuminsai (Japanese, active late 18th?early 19th century).
Editorial Gama Sennin, Edo period (1615?1868), late 18th?early 19th century, Japan, Ivory, H. 5 in. (12.7 cm); W. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); D. 1 in. (2.5 cm), Netsuke, Shuzan, Gama is an immortal most knowledgeable about magical medicinal arts. The sage is always acco...
Editorial Genii Gama Sennin and Tekkai Sennin.
Editorial Tekkai sennin, Parody of the Chinese sage Tieqiao., Okumura, Masanobu, 1686-1764, artist, [between 1711 and 1716], 1 print : woodcut ; 26.8 x 39 cm., Print shows a woman holding her hands over a man's eyes and blowing a puff of air upon which a small m...
Editorial Tekkai sennin, Parody of the Chinese sage Tieqiao., Okumura, Masanobu, 1686-1764, artist, [between 1711 and 1716], 1 print : woodcut ; 26.8 x 39 cm., Print shows a woman holding her hands over a man's eyes and blowing a puff of air upon which a small m...
Editorial Tobae mitate ryugen sennin, Toba-e correspondence of a Chinese sage., Utagawa, Toyohiro, 1773?-1829?, artist, [between 1804 and 1818], 1 print : woodcut ; 35.6 x 23.5 cm., Print shows a man smoking a cigarette in a long holder, and a dragon ascending i...
Editorial Tobae mitate ryugen sennin, Toba-e correspondence of a Chinese sage., Utagawa, Toyohiro, 1773?-1829?, artist, [between 1804 and 1818], 1 print : woodcut ; 35.6 x 23.5 cm., Print shows a man smoking a cigarette in a long holder, and a dragon ascending i...
Editorial " Courtesans as Three sake Drinkers", Edo period, 1710. From the album " Yuekun sennin" - (courtesans-immortals). A bikuni (female entertainer dressed as a travelling nun), a high-ranked courtesan and a male apprentice Kabuki actor ...