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  • 2012/10/01

    This year again Oranda Jin will participate in the Pan fair in Amsterdam; you can mark it from November 18-25th and it will take place in the RAI. More information will be in the next up-date.

    It is autumn now. And so is this month’s up-date.

    Enjoy the fall by:
    Katô Bunrei (1706-1782)
    Sôken, Yamaguchi (1759-1818)
    Nagasawa Roshû (1767-1847)
    Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
    Yamamoto Baiitsu (1783-1856)
    Maruyama Õshin (1790-1838)
    Hirano Gogaku (1810-1893)
    Hine Taizan (1813-1869)
    Sukehiko, Okamoto (1822-1883)
    Yasuda Rôzan (1830-1882)
    Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)
    Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918)
    Enson, Ikeda (1870-19..)?
    Sakamoto Unkoku (1871-19..)
    Doi Gihô (act. 1930s)
    Sôseki (dates unknown)
    Seian (dates unknown)



  • 2012/09/04

    The summer exhibition at Van Hoof was a very nice show. In spite of the weather and season it still attracted many people, and thanks to the newspaper, a reasonable number of visitors whom we didn’t know too. So I am happy to inform you that it has been a successful show with a good number of sales from the ceramic department too.

    And many more people know about Nakajima Kahô now.

    Because the exhibition had a substantial number of new acquisitions, and although many people came, not everyone has seen everything. So now for September, we present a number of paintings that were in the show but did not get the attention that they deserved.

    The Japanese paintings the most of you missed:

    Saigo (dates unknown)
    Kangetsu (dates unknown)
    Suda Kanko (dates unknown)
    Kisô? (dates unknown)
    Entai (dates unknown)
    Kyoshin (dates unknown)
    Yamazaki Unzan (1771-1837)
    Yokoyama Kakei (1816-1864)
    Okada Kakusen (act. 1833-1844)
    Kumagai Naohiko (1828-1913)
    Kaikôden Shingi (1832-1906)
    Murata Gyokuden (1853-1918)
    Suzuki Kason (1860-1919)
    Hasegawa Gyokujun (1864-1921)
    Katô Eishû (1873-1939)
    Oka Buntô (1876-1943)
    Konoshima Ôkoku (1877-1938)
    Yamada Kôun (1878-1956)
    Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)
    Satô Suikei (b. 1884)
    Mori Getsujô (1887-1961)



  • 2012/07/08

    25 years now Oranda Jin is dealing in Japanese pictorial Art. So something special to celebrate.

    From July 8 until July 29 the summer exhibition of 2012 will be held at

    Gallery Jan van Hoof
    Vughterweg 58-60
    5211 CM ’s-Hertogenbosch

    Opening hours from 2 pm. - 6 pm. from Thursday - Sunday and by appointment

    It is with great pleasure to publish and exhibit some of the works by Nakajima Kahô, one of my all-time favourite artists.

    His first appearance with us was in 1992 in catalogue nr. 7. Now 20 years later he gets his own catalogue at a special exhibition at Gallery Jan van Hoof.


    NAKAJIMA KAHÔ (1866-1939)

    Nakajima Kayô (1813-1877), the Shijô-school painter believed to be Kahô’s father, was a disciple of the Kyoto painter Yokoyama Kazan (1784-1837). Kayô’s elder daughter, Tatsu (d. 1869) married the noted painter Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924) in 1867. This family connection is believed to have been the initial basis for Kahô’s lifelong friendship with the much older artist. Kahô’s most famous painting is a portrait of Tessai, made in 1907, the same year he painted cat #1, the copy after Tessai.

    Kahô employed his most famous painting is a 1907 portrait of Tessai (in the same year as the copy after Tessai cat. #1).

    Kahô studied painting under Mori Kansai (1814-1892) and Tessai was his calligraphy teacher. In his early years Kahô was a competent painter in the Maruyama-Shijô tradition. At the end of the 1910s Kahô studied the 18th century painters from the Kansai district, Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799), Itô Jakuchû (1716-1800) and Yosa Buson (1716-1783). Especially the Buson style served as a model and he made many renditions of old haiga works by Kikaku, Buson, Go Shun and others in his own unmistakable style.

    Kahô mainly worked as a painter, but he also produced prints, lacquer paintings, and he decorated pottery. Due to his cooperation with other artist one might presume that during his lifetime he must have shared some fame. He participated in the World Exhibition in Chicago in 1893, but once he moved into the 20th century he shared a low-profile career, which was typical of many artists who successfully maintained themselves through the private sale of their works without ever attempting to gain prominence by way of the major public exhibitions.

    Kahô was so deeply interested in Jakuchû that he helped restore the Sekihôji temple.
    Kahô sold paintings he had created in Jakuchû’s style to raise money for the repair of some of the temple buildings. Kahô maintained his deep connections with the Sekihôji temple. Even a number of his works survive in the temple collection today.
    Kahô and his children are buried in the Sekihôji graveyard. When his eldest son died in 1915 he had his son's name and death date added to the back of his own gravestone. To the left of his grave marker is another dedicated to his second son, who died in 1937. Neither of the stones gives the date of Kahô's own death. However, the temple records for the Nakajima family have everything laid out quite clearly. Kahô died on the first day of the twelfth month of 1939.

    After Kahô’s death his name has vanished, but not for long I hope.

    With many thanks to Paul Berry for his biographical notes on Kahô in Literati Modern.

    References:
    Manheim, Ron, Haiku & Haiga, Bedburg-Hau 2006, # 72-73
    Kenyû, Kara, Bashô san no kao iru iru (Haiga related to Bashô), Kyôto 1996
    # 9, # 38, # 141
    Kato, Ruiko, Tessai and his Teachers and Friends, Kyoto 1997
    KNMC 320 (Tessai’s portrait by Kahô)
    Berry, Paul , Unexplored avenues of Japanese painting, Seattle 2001
    pp. 176-177 (# 89 Fushimi dolls of Hotei after Jakuchû)
    Berry, Paul & Morioka, Michiyo, Literati Modern, Honolulu, 2008
    p. 285 (# 81 Oni Senbei after Rosetsu)
    Schaap, Robert, A brush with animals, Leiden 2007 (# 54-57, A62-A67, A84)
    And in number of Oranda Jin catalogues



  • 2012/06/01

    On July 8 will be the opening of the summer exhibition at:
    Gallery Jan van Hoof
    Vughterweg 58-60
    5211 CM ’s-Hertogenbosch

    Opening hours from 2 pm. - 6 pm. from Thursday - Sunday and by appointment
    It will last until July 29.

    The exhibition will also have an emphasis on Nakajima Kahô with an accompanying catalogue. More on this item will be presented next month.

    This month with the upcoming exhibition in mind we already show a small selection of new acquisitions on the internet.

    Tatebe Ryôtai (1719-1774)
    Ôta Nampo (1749-1823)
    Go Shun (1752-1811)
    Chôbunsai Eishi (1756-1829)
    Tazaki Sôun (1815-1898)
    Imura Jôzan (1843-1925)
    Itô Tôzan I (1846-1920)
    Mori Hankei (b. 1858)
    Ueda Tangai (1863-1939)
    Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
    Sôtaka Taikô (1871-1968)
    Yamamoto Sekisô (1872-1944)
    Konoshima Ôkoku (1877-1938)
    Daimaru Hopô (1879-1959)
    Keijû Reikyô (1881-1935)
    Yamashita Chikusai (1885-1973)
    Inoue Sekison (1893-1975)
    Itsuhô, Itô (b. 1899)
    Doi Gihô (act. 1930s)
    Unseki (act c. 1940)
    Yoshimura Yoshirô (dates unknown)
    Yamamoto Kiyohide (>1985)
    Hôju (b. 1912)



  • 2012/05/02

    During 2 lovely weekends at Gallery Meijering Art Books we had a show, which was charming, as well as beautiful. Alas the number of people was too few not only to enjoy the show but also the surroundings of the Dutch river landscape. Next year don’t hesitate.

    It is still spring but summer approaches.
    Time to hike, enjoying the landscape sites and views at Oranda Jin.

    By the Japanese artists, painters, potters and poets:

    Mitani Tôetsu (Untaku) († 1675)
    Naitô Tôho (1728-1788)
    Noro Kaiseki (1747-1828)
    Takeda Unshitsu (1753-1827)
    Oka Yûgaku (1762-1833)
    Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
    Nukina Kaioku (1778-1863)
    Rai San'yô (1780-1832)
    Sô Kazan (Enjo Nissei) (1788-1872)
    Tanaka Nikka (17..-1845)
    Mori Kansai (1814-1894)
    Doi Gôga (1817-1880)
    Nantembô (1839-1925)
    Fukuda Kodôjin (1865-1944)
    Hashimoto Dokuzan (1869-1938)
    Kanei Isshô (1879-1944)
    Mitsui Hanzan (1880-1934)
    Miura Chikusen I (1854-1915)
    Kaigai Tennen (act. Meiji era)
    Hosô (dates unknown)
    Itô Tozan III (1901-70)
    Kitsuda Eihô (1902-1974)
    Kaigai Tennen (act. Meiji era)
    Yamamoto Kôtô (dates unknown)



  • 2012/04/02

    Two Weekends in April:
    Friday 13 - Sunday 15 and Friday 20 - Sunday 22.
    will be the 'Open Dagen' (Open days) at the gallery of Meijering Art Books.

    Guest exhibitors:
    Alastair Gibson from UK, Chinese Art
    Guus Röell from Maastricht, Colonial Art
    Oranda Jin, Japanese paintings and painters’ pottery

    Opening hours from 10.00 - 18.00,
    Except for Sunday April 15th, from 10.00 - 16.00 hours

    Meijering Art Books
    Rooijsestraat 11a
    6621 AH Dreumel

    To make it more fun, more interesting to come, customers, members of the society of Japanese Art and other visitors who like to know more about their paintings, are invited to bring them along. Together we can look at, talk about and discuss them.

    For more information visit the website: http://www.meijeringartbooks.com

    To make the exhibition more interesting we decided to incorporate a small show on blue and white artists porcelain, sometsuke. This field still is a rare and underestimated beautiful part of Japanese ceramics and it certainly deserves a little extra attention.

    The painters:
    Kanô Tan’yû (1602-1674)
    Nichôsai (1751-1802/3)
    Tanomura Chokunyû (1814-1907)
    Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924)
    Himeji Chikugai (1840-1928)
    Ôhashi Manpô (1860-1943)
    Matsuse Seisei (1869-1937)
    Ôbaku Dôgen Ninmyô (1877-1966)
    Tomita Keisen (1879-1936)
    Mitsui Hanzan (1881-1934)
    Ikai Shôkoku (1881-1939)
    Hatta Kôyô (1882-1944)
    Hirai Baisen (1889-1969)
    Ryûgai
    Shunpô


    The potters:
    Miura Chikusen I (1854-1915)
    Miyanaga Tôzan (1865-1941)
    Takahashi Dôhachi V (1869-1914)
    Daimaru Hopô (1879-1959)
    Miura Chikusen II (1882-1920), or III (1900-1990)
    Wada Tōzan I (1888-1967)
    Inoue Shunpô (1896-1965)
    Takano Seihô (Goun)
    Gozan
    Hakuzan
    Hôzan
    Mokusen
    Shôzan



  • 2012/03/01

    Next month, in the weekends of Friday 13 - Sunday 15 and Friday 20 - Sunday 22 April we participate in the 'Open Dagen' (Open days) at the gallery of Meijering Art Books in Dreumel.

    To give it a little extra, customers, members of the society of Japanese Art and other visitors are invited to bring their paintings for examination. Together we can look at them, talk about and discuss them and may be if omitting add name to it.

    Meijering will take care of the books on paintings and Jon de Jong from Oranda Jin will try to add relevant comments.
    Furthermore
    Alastair Gibson from UK, will show Chinese Art
    And from the Netherlands Guus Roell will bring Colonial art/furniture

    But first:
    After a successful SALE, which we guess was good for everyone, customers as well as Oranda Jin we now move on to next month.
    In this update we focus on 19th century drawings and sketches. We don’t understand but the value of Japanese draughtsmanship is still highly underestimated.

    Especially when looking at ukiyo-e drawings, the sketch, shita-e, is an indirect medium in the process to a print. You can see the artist think while writing a drawing on paper, but in Japan they were usually thrown away as an unfinished product.

    The draughtsmen:
    Hanabusa Issen (1698-1778)
    Hokuba (1771-1844)
    Kawamura Kihô (1778-1852)
    Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843)
    Uragami Shunkin (1779-1846)
    Okajima Rinsai (1791-1865)
    Hidaka Tetsuô (1791-1871)
    Mochizuki Gyokusen (1794-1852)
    Hiroshige (1797-1858)(attr. to)
    Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
    Kinoshita Itsuun (1799-1866)
    Kishi Renzan (1804-1859)
    Nishiyama Hôen (1804-1867)
    Nakanishi Kôseki (1807-1884)
    Shimada Nanzan (act. 1850-60)
    Nakanishi Kôgan († 1866)
    Watanabe Tetsurei (born 1822)
    Hiroshige II (1826-1869)
    Sugiwara Chikuho (1833-1882)
    Numata Kôzan (1849-1884)


  • 2012/02/01

    In making new plans for this year Oranda Jin starts to create space for many new acquisitions, if all goes well, by making an internet sale in this web update.

    Furthemore, In the weekends of Friday 13 - Sunday 15 and Friday 20 - Sunday 22 April we participate in the 'Open Dagen' (Open days) at the gallery of Meijering Art Books in Dreumel.

    As Meijering takes care of the books and Jon de Jong from Oranda Jin will try to comment and discuss on the paintings that you can bring along.
    Alastair Gibson from UK, will show Chinese Art
    And from the Netherlands Guus Roell will bring Colonial art/furniture


    But for now:

    SALE, SOLDES, AUSVERKAUF, UITVERKOOP, 大売り出し
    25 years of collecting paintings has inevitably grown into 25 years of storing paintings. The paintings on sale have gathered too much dust to legitimately keep them here as mere conversation pieces or reference material. They deserve a better life.

    2 years ago we made a start creating space ... not enough so it seems, still too many paintings occupy the progress of growing. We hope that this discount will help the paintings as well as Oranda Jin to move on to an even better stock.

    Good luck and take your chance. Most discounts are generous; most paintings are wonderful and most of the painters are famous.

    SALE REMARKS & RULES:

    • The paintings have no boxes unless signed, or otherwise original
    • We only take firm orders and the paintings are not to be returned
    • For orders over € 200 (or $ 300) the shipping cost as air freight postal parcel is included
    • No credit cards are accepted, please use Pay Pal
    • If you pay by bank transfer, please take care of all bank costs
    • If you pay by check add either € 30,- (or $ 45) extra to cover the costs


    Tanke Gessen (1721-1809)
    Kanô Eisen’in II (Michinobu) (1730-1790)
    Soga Chokumoku (act. 18th)
    Noro Kaiseki (1747-1828)
    Kanô Tôju Yoshinobu (Tôrin)(17..-1820)
    Ôta Nanpo (Shokusanjin) (1749-1823)
    Takeda Unshitsu (1753-1827)
    Yamaguchi Sôken (1759-1818)
    Haruki Nanko (1759-1839)
    Oka Yûgaku (1762-1833)
    Hamada Kyôdô (1766-1814)
    Tanaka Totsugen (1767-1823)
    Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
    Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841)
    Murakami Shôdô (1776-1841)
    Gan Tai (1782-1865)
    Yokoyama Kazan (1781/4-1837)
    Ueda Kôchô (1788-1850)
    Õhara Donshû (17..-1857)
    Mochizuki Gyokusen (Shigeteru)(1794-1852)
    Shiokawa Bunrin (1801-1877)
    Kishi Renzan (1804-1859)
    Nishiyama Hôen (1804-1867)
    Takahashi Kyôson (1805-1868)
    Nakanishi Kôseki (1807-1884)
    HineTaizan (1813-1869)
    Mori Kansai (1814-1894)
    Gan Rei (1816-1883)
    Murase Sôseki (1822-1877)
    Gan Kyô (1829-1874)
    Kimura Unkei (1830-1880)
    Mori Shungaku (act. Meiji)
    Kishi Kinsen (act. Meiji era)
    Hanrei (act. Meiji era)
    Matsumoto Fûko (1840-1923)
    Kawabata Gyokushô (1842-1913)
    Kôno Bairei (1844-1895)
    Suzuki Shônen (1849-1918)
    Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918)
    Kubota Beisen (1852-1906)
    Takebe Hakuhô (act. around 1890-1900)
    Yaku Gakyô (dates unknown)
    Watanabe Shôei (born 1873)
    Mano Gyôtei (1874-1934)
    Kokan Shûka (1875-1937)
    Mitsui Hanzan (1880-1934)
    Hashimoto Kansetsu (1883-1945)
    Hirai Baisen (1889-1969)
    Deiryû (1895-1954)
    Yasuichi Awakawa (1902-1976)
    Kasumi Bunshô (1905-1998)
    Takatsuta Hokuen (dates unknown)
    Mugaku (dates unknown)
    Sen'osei (dates unknown)
    Chikafuji Taisen (dates unknown)


  • 2012/01/03

    Wishing you a dragon year full of beauty, health, prosperity and most of all happiness.

    The calendar tells us it’s winter. Actually it’s still autumn; for six months now, dreary and warm; it only makes us longing for spring and summer.

    The painters:
    Hatta Koshû (1760-1822)
    Yoshimura Kôkei (1769-1836)
    Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
    Maruyama Õshin (1790-1838)
    Kanô Eigaku (1790-1867)
    Rissetsu (dates unknown)
    Yoshiwara Shinryû (1804-1856)
    Banri (dates unknown)
    Miyoshi Unsen (born 1812)
    Murase Sôseki (1822-1877)
    Nantembô (1839-1925)
    Kawabata Gyokushô (1842-1913)
    Kikuchi Hôbun (1862-1918)
    Katsurada Kojô (born 1865)
    Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942)
    Kajino Genzan (1868-1939)
    Tamura Gôko (1873-1940)
    Oka Buntô (1876-1943)
    Takase Goho (1878-1961)
    Matsuyama Shôzan (born 1884)
    Hirai Baisen (1889-1969)
    Itsuhô (act. c. 1925)


  • 2011/12/02
    The Pan fair has been successful.
    We sold more paintings and painters’ pottery then we did in any show in the past.

    That we are heading for a new year is no news.
    But a website with only chawan by painters and priests is.

    This month's tea bowls are by:

    Aoki Mokubei (1767-1833)
    Tanomura Chokunyû (1814-1907)
    Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924)
    Kawabata Gyokushô (1842-1913)
    Suzuki Shônen (1849-1918)
    Hirao Chikka (1856-1939)
    Takeuchi Seihô (1864-1942)
    Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
    Yamamoto Sekisô (1872-1944)
    Shimizu Yoshio (1891-1954)
    Sagawa Myôshun (1891-1988)
    Deiryû (1895-1954)
    Yamada Mumon (1900-1988)
    Kasumi Bunshô (1905-1998)
    Shimizu Kôshô (1911-1999)

    The potters:
    Takahashi Dôhachi IV (1845-1897)
    Matsumoto Shigenobu (1864-1950)
    Takahashi Dôhachi V (1869-1914)
    Kiyomizu Rokubei V (1875-1959)
    Asami Gorôsuke IV (1895-1967)
    Tôan (from Higashiyama)(act mid-20th century)

    and the kilns:
    Uchide kiln at Ashiya
    Kagura kiln near Ise
    Kagerôen kiln at Ôtsu
    Hakone kiln



  • 2011/11/01
    This year
    PAN FAIR AMSTERDAM 2011 celebrates its 25th anniversary.

    From November 20-27
    It will be held at the RAI - Parkhal in Amsterdam.
    Opening hours from 11 am. - 7 pm. daily.
    Except for Thursday 24 and Sunday 27 when we close at 6 pm.

    Oranda Jin will be sharing in the party and is looking forward to welcome you in our booth # 78.

    Every year we try to make our show at the Pan an unexpected experience from what you already expect in the field of the Japanese painting and painters’ pottery.

    This year with a delicate kyûsu teapot by Ôtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) and stunning seasonal quartet by Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918).

    And further the best of all sorts of everything by:

    Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
    Noro Kaiseki (1747-1828)
    Yamamoto Kagaku (born 1767)
    Yokoyama Seiki (1792-1864)
    Takaku Aigai (1796-1843)
    Kishi Renzan (1804-1859)
    Okamoto Shuki (1807-1862)v Fujimoto Tesseki (1817-1863)
    Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924)
    Ishikawa Ryûjô (1847-1927)
    Suzuki Shônen (1849-1918)
    Takeuchi Seihô (1864-1942)
    Matsumoto Shigenobu (1864-1950)
    Yamamoto Sekisô (1872-1944)
    Konoshima Õkoku (1877-1938)
    Tomita Keisen (1879-1936)
    Fujiwara Shigetomi (born 1898)
    Shirakawa Seiryû (dates unkown)
    Kôkyô (dates unknown)
  • 2011/10/03
    Albums
    This year again Oranda Jin will participate in the Pan fair in Amsterdam; you can mark it from November 20-27th and it will take place in the RAI. More information will be in the next up-date.

    As for this month no pottery, nor scroll paintings, instead we have a hand scroll, albums, books and sketchbooks from the early 19th until the first half of the twentieth century. A number of the albums are gassaku, done by several different artists, that’s why the list of this up-date involves so many artists.

    So, the Japanese painters and calligraphers of this month are:
    Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843)
    Uragami Shunkin (1779-1846)
    Nishiyama Hôen (1804-1867)
    Tachimatsu Yoshitora (1810-1883)
    Okabe Untei (born 1822)
    Kawanabe Kyôsai (1831-1889) with Fujisawa Bainan (Bynan) & Sakaki Kôson
    Tachimatsu Shunkei (born 1842)
    Mori Kinseki (1843-1921)
    Imao Keinen (1845-1924)
    Watanabe Shôeki (1848)
    Hattori Sekisen (born 1864)
    Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942)
    Ikeda Keisen (1863-1931)
    Katsurada Kojô (born 1865)
    Suwabe Chokutei (1868-1940)
    Muramatsu Ungai (born 1870-?)
    Niwayama Kôen (1870-1942)
    Hattori Goro (born 1871)
    Shimomura Kanzan (1873-1930)
    Ryoki Oe (born 1874)
    Ishino Kônan (born 1874)
    Yoshimura Hôryû (1874-1936)
    Kubota Beisai (1874-1937)
    Uejima Hôzan (1875-1920)
    Toya Hanzan (1876-1966)
    Kuboi Suitô (born 1876)
    Yamada Shûhei (born 1877)
    Uehara Konen (1877-1940)
    Nakagawa Wadô (born 1880)
    Kuwagayama Hakuhô (born 1880)
    Satô Suikei (born 1884)
    Uenaka Chokusai (1885-1977)
    Yamamoto Shuntei (born 1888)
    Miyake Kôhaku (1893-1957)

    And a number of unknown artists:
    Yamamoto Baigai, Minamoto Keikô, Koji Rokuroku
    as well as Bansui, Fugaku, Hônen, Keidô, Kôyoku, Nanrei, Ransho, Seisui, Sensô, Shimei, Shôsô, Shûgai, Tan’en, Tenkô, Un’in, Unraku, Untô


  • 2011/09/01
    Zen

    The last two months of the summer of 2011 in the Netherlands wasn’t worth calling it a summer. Buckets of tears came down. If you stayed elsewhere I hope you felt better and enjoyed it, and that you are ready for a new season now.

    Zen to start with. I have been trying to find and make combinations: same texts or subjects by different priests, a sake cup and tea bowls, chawan in combination with calligraphies by the same priest. And beautiful calligraphies, I haven’t been able to decipher or read and a few items I just like, and like to offer to you.

    Names of priests you know and names to learn and recognize a next time.
    Hopefully you like it as much as I do.

    Nantembô (Tôjû Zenchû) (1839-1925)
    Sôhan Gempô (Shôun) (1848-1922)
    Hashimoto Dokuzan (Gengi)(1869-1938)
    Tanaka Tesshû (Chishô) (1879-1937)
    Keijû Reikyô (Hôkôkutsu) (1881-1935)
    Sagawa Myôshun (1891-1988)
    Deiryû (Kanshû Sôjun) (1895-1954)
    Asami Gorôsuke IV (1895-1967)
    Hayashi Ekyô (Kaishû) (1896-1979)
    Yamada Mumon (Taishitsu)(1900-1988)
    Kasumi Bunshô (Katsuun) (1905-1998)
    Fujita Kaikô (born 1924)
    Ryûzan (dates unknown)
    Kadô dôjin (dates unknown)
    Murasakino Ryôan (dates unknown)

  • 2011/07/01
    Flowers.
    Once they bloom ....

    Flower paintings are on silk or paper, as usual. But as we are specialized in painters' pottery as well, a large number of these flowers paintings have their portraits on ceramics. The painters not just added them as decoration but they executed them as serious paintings. This kind of pottery still stands out as an extraordinary medium!

    Apologies for not limiting me to this summer season.
    The potters and painters of this month:

    Kiyohara Yukinobu (1643-1682)
    Itô Jakuchû (1716-1800)
    Totoki Baigai (1749-1804)
    Aoki Mokubei (1767-1833)
    Ôtani Shôchin (1817-1894)
    Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924)
    Kawabata Gyokushô (1842-1913)
    Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918)
    Nomura Bunkyo (1854-1911)
    Ueda Tangai (1863-1939)
    Takahashi Yobei IX (Taizan) (1864-1922)
    Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942)
    Suma Taisui (1868-1955)
    Takahashi Dôhachi V (1869-1914)
    Okutani Shûseki (1871-1936)
    Takase Goho (1878-1961)
    Daimaru Hôpô (1879-1959)
    Ikai Shôkoku (1881-1939)
    Takahashi Dôhachi VI (Kachûtei) (1881-1941)
    Kiyomizu Rokubei VI (1901-1980)
    Sawamura Tôsai I (-1941-)
    Hakuun (dates unknown)

  • 2011/06/03
    Birds.

    They sing, they fly, build nests, lay eggs.
    It’s June and already a little late for that,
    but flowers don’t bloom at the same time either.

    This months’ artists with birds in their heads and hands:
    Gan Ku (1749-1838)
    Yamaguchi Sôken (1759-1818)
    Hatta Koshû (1760-1822)
    Murakami Shôdô (1776-1841)
    Uragami Shunkin (1779-1846)
    Gan Tai (1782-1865)
    Ueda Kôchô (1788-1850)
    Okajima Rinsai (1791-1865)
    Arita Issei (act 1830s)
    Yamamoto Suiunjo (act. 1830s)
    Mori Kansai (1814-1894)
    Kishi Chikudô (1826-1897)
    Taki Katei (1830-1901)
    Numata Kashû (1838-1901)
    Hiroshige III (1843-1894)
    Hirafuku Suian (1844-1890)
    Ikoma Sekkei (1862-19..)
    Kajino Genzan (1868-1939)
    Tamura Gôko (1873-1940)
    Kôgawa Suigaku (born 1905)

  • News 0511

    This month we make a brief sketch of Nanga painting between the lines of the Meiji era, 1867-1912.

    As the Maruyama-Shijô artists had grown more and more in producing facile work, very good, in the tradition of their great teachers, but very traditional also, its popularity in the Meiji period declined. Quite a number of these artists had to make a living from working in the design industry. A good example were the five most promising Nihonga painters on who we focussed on on the website of last month.

    While the old painting schools were declining slowly Nanga started its second bloom.
    In the late Edo period bunjin scholars studied foreign science and became more and more aware of a larger world outside Japan. But they also became aware of the situation inside Japan, which grew into a national movement, which for traditional reasons tried to keep the emperor in Kyoto instead of forcing him to move to Edo. Times were turbulent and so were the brushstrokes by the Nanga painters. The initiating painters in this pre-Meiji era were amongst others Hankô, Chikkei, Tesseki, Kaioku and Taizan, all from Kyoto.


    But once the Meiji era has started foreign countries came more and more into focus and among these barbarian influences Chinese painting stood out. Some of the Japanese painters went to China. They returned with new ideas and inspiration and gave a boost to painting and Nanga painting in particular. After 1865 women were allowed to travel, which in case of Okuhara Seiko added a new and female exponent to the Tokyo art world.

    Of course for an era so much in transition this information is far far too brief. But we hope that some of the art work of the artists on this website can provide a little more information and give a face of its art, but we rather like you to get more interested in this slice of Japanese painting history.

    So the artists for this introduction:

    Tanomura Chokunyû (1814-1907)
    Doi Gôga (1817-1880)
    Yamanaka Seiitsu (Shinten'ô) (1823-1885)
    Teranishi Ekidô (1824-1916)
    Ema Tenkô (1825 -1901)
    Yasuda Rôzan (1830-1882)
    Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924)
    Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)
    Mori Kinseki (1843-1921)
    Ôkura Uson (1845-1899)
    Ônishi Mokudô (born 1853)
    Miura Chikusen I (1854-1915)
    Okuhara Seisui (1854-1921)
    Matsumoto Shigenobu (1864-1950)
    Sô Seiseki (1867-1923)
    Yamamoto Sekisô (1872-1944)
    Takahashi Dôhachi VI (Kachûtei) (1881-1941)
    Mitsui Hanzan (1880-1934) &
    Hakuzan (dates unknown)
    Sôseki (dates unknown)



  • March 11th 2011 at 2:46pm

    In between the clouds
    White of plum and cherry pink
    Deep black tsunami

    News
    The inducement for this website was the set of lovely plates by the five most promising Kyoto school Nihonga painters in collaboration with the potter Kiyomizu Rokubei IV in our latest catalogue number 20. It feels just nice to show a little more of their talents and skills. Their time during the years of gaining maturity, the second half of Meiji (1867-1912) was changing exciting and turbulent, new international contacts and contexts, including the wars against China and Russia, new educational systems and schools, competitive painting exhibitions, international exhibitions and exhibitions of industrial design.

    The artists Kikuchi Hôbun (1862-1918), Taniguchi Kôkyô (1864-1915), Takeuchi Seihô (1864-1942) and Tsuji Kakô (1870-1931), the four most important pupils of Kôno Bairei (1844-1895) and Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933) the leading student of Mori Kansai (1814-94) and the heir to the Mori family. Rokubei IV (1848-1920) the potter was one of the leading ceramists at the time.

    Hôbun was explicitly known as a painter of kachôga with an emphasis on sakura, cherry blossom. In 1881 he became a pupil of Bairei. Already in 1882 he won his first (bronze) prize at the Domestic Competitive Painting Exhibition. Most of his maturity Hôbun was a teacher at the Kyôto Municipal School of Fine Arts and Crafts. After 1903, at the top of his fame, he decided to specialize on kachôga only. From the first Bunten in 1907 onwards he has been appointed juror. He stayed in Europe from 1915 till 1918. Assisted by his pupil Yamada Kôun (1878-1956) he worked on a commission to paint the murals in the Japanese room at the 'Peace Palace' in The Hague, in the Netherlands.
    (Berry & Morioka ’99 p. 112)

    Kôkyô went to Tokyo in 1878 to study to study medicine. When his sister died within the next year he had to return to Kyoto. After he worked for his father in the textile wholesale business he started training as a painter in the studio of Bairei in 1883, nineteen years old, which is quite late to start as a painter. Still in the 1880s he already became involved in founding art-groups and art magazines and in the 1890s Kôkyô was a winner of awards at exhibitions. He exhibited at the Bunten and at the Paris World’s Fair. He taught at the Kyoto Municipal School of Fine Arts and Crafts and at the Kyoto college of Fine Arts. He was specialized in depicting historical subjects, but as good in landscape paintings and kachôga. Suffering from illness since the 1890s, cut short his career.
    (Berry & Morioka ’99 p. 102-103)

    Seihô was an extremely skilful painter, which earned him fame and a lot of pupils. In 1881, 16 years old he entered the Bairei studio and already the following year he won his first prize at an exhibition, which is a rare for such a young artist. In 1887 he married and established himself as a professional artist. Like Shunkyo and Kakô, Seihô worked at Takashimaya in the 1890s where they created designs for textiles. Seihô eagerly studied all different styles. In 1900 he went to Europe for six months to get acquainted with western painting. On his return he changed the first character "Sei" of his name into a character meaning "West". His two trips to China in 1920 and 1921 meant another enrichment to his painting. His flexibility in styles and the flamboyantly virtuoso way he handled his brush meant in the eyes of some critics that his craftsmanship reduced his artistic abilities.
    (Berry & Morioka ’99 p. 130-131)

    Kakô was born in Kyoto. His father was a Yûzen textile artisan, who encouraged his son to pursue a career in painting. In 1880 he became a pupil of Kôno Bairei. From 1890 Kakô worked with a number of his colleagues, including Seihô and Shunkyô at Takashimaya on the design department for textiles. After 1891, or 1892 he fell ill and moved to Osaka and after his recovery he travelled extensively throughout Japan. After a request by Kawai Gyokudô (1873-1957) to move to Tokyo and prolong his studies with Hashimoto Gahô (1835-1908), his indebtedness to his teacher kept him in Kyoto. In 1899 he started Zen training at the Kennin-ji under the Zen master Sôen Mokurai (1854-1930). This Zen training became an important element in his work. Up to 1920 he was a frequent exhibitor and prize-winner at the Bunten.
    It took along time before his experimental painting techniques and freedom were accepted. But once accepted he became the director of the Kyoto Municipal School of Fine Arts and Crafts in 1924, juror for the Teiten and several Kyoto exhibition groups.
    (Berry & Morioka ’99 p. 142-143)

    Shunkyo was born in Shiga prefecture. When he moved to Kyoto he studied painting with Nomura Bunkyo (1854-1911). In 1885 Bunkyo moved to Tokyo, after which Shunkyo became a pupil of Mori Kansai (1814-1894). Together with his friend Tsuji Kakô Shunkyo worked at Takashimaya creating designs for export textiles. Inspired by the West he studied photography and yôga, Western-style oil painting. Shunkyo was one the earliest Nihonga artists to use photography as an art form. After 1900 he became one of the most successful Nihonga artists in Kyoto and his juku (private teaching school) was as popular as the one of Takeuchi Seihô. As a teacher at the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and the Kyoto Municipal Special school of Painting he presented himself as a modernist, with a rose on his lapel, brushes sticking out of his pockets.When the Bunten, the yearly government exhibition made its start in 1907 Shunkyo was appointed jury member.
    After Shunkyo made his return to Shiga where he lived on the borders of Lake Biwa. He had his workshop located near Kagerôen and he became more and more involved in pottery. When Zezeyaki, or Kagerôen(revived Zezeyaki) ceramic (tea) ware in the traditional style from a kiln in Ôtsu was re-established by Iwasaki Kenzô in 1919, Kenzô received assistance by Shunkyo and Itô Tôzan (1846-1920).
    (Berry & Morioka ’99 p 126-127)

    Rokubei IV (Shôrin)(1847-1920) was the first son of Kiyomizu Rokubei III (Shôun)(1822-1883). He studied painting with Shiokawa Bunrin (1801-1877) and taking the artist name Go: Shôrin. After his fathers’ death he inherited the family title in 1883. He was a close friend with Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924) and especially close with Kôno Bairei, who also had his painterly education with Bunrin.
    Actively promoting Kyôyaki he established the Ceramics Commercial and Industrial Association at Kiyomizu Gojôzaka in 1884. He actively studied design, which resulted in his participation of the founding of the Yûtôen, a study group of designers and ceramic artists that was organized by Asai Chû (1856-1907). In 1907 he participated in the Kabikai, a study group of designers, presided by Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942). In 1913 he retired due to poor health, transferring the title of the family to his second son Kuritarô. He then took the artist’s name, Go: Rokkyo. The style of Rokubei IV is quiet and elegant, reflecting his own refined character. His works are considered the best among all the works of the succeeding Rokubei generations.

    Rokubei V (Shôrei)(Goyo)(1875-1959) was the second son of Kiyomizu Rokubei IV.
    Rokubei V studied Shijô painting with Kôno Bairei. His artist name Go: Shôrei. Hôbun, Kôkyô, Seihô and Kakô were his classmates. He also studied at the Kyoto Prefectural School of Painting, and studied ceramic techniques with his father after graduation. His career as a ceramic artist began when he won a prize at the Fourth Domestic Industrial Exposition in 1895. He studied glazing techniques at the Kyoto Municipal Ceramic Laboratory established in 1896 and organized the Promoting Society for Craft Workers (Shokkô Shôrei-kai) with designer Kikuchi Sokû at the Laboratory in 1899. He actively worked on the study and research of new glazing techniques and (Western) designs. When Rokubei IV retired, he inherited the title and became Rokubei V in 1913. He exhibited at the Nôten, the Design and Applied Artworks Exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce and the Teiten, the Imperial Art Academy Exhibition. He also became a member of the Imperial Art Academy and played an important role as a leading figure of the craft world. In 1945 he retired and took the artist’s name Go: Rokuwa.




  • 2011/03/01

    This month is filled with Maruyama-Shijô and close related styles from painters born before 1850.

    May be superfluous, but to have the styles in focus again:
    Maruyama is a painting style developed by Maruyama Ôkyo, emphasizing the artists’ study of and response to nature. (Shaseiga).
    The Shijô style is closely related to Maruyama painting, but slightly more poetic, less restricted and with a more daring brush.
    Originated from Kanô through Nanga into a Maruyama-Shijô style of painting is the Kishi style with a very characteristic “dragging” brush stroke.


    The artists:
    Go Shun (1752-1811)
    Nagazawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)
    Azuma Tôyô (1755-1839)
    Kaiho Seiryô (1755-1817)
    Hatta Koshû (1760-1822)
    Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
    Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841)
    Kawamura Kihô (1778-1852)
    Kawamura Bumpô (1779-1821)
    Kikuchi Yôsai (1788-1878)
    Maruyama Õshin (1790-1838)
    Yokoyama Seiki (1792-1864)
    Tamate Tôshû (1795-1871)
    Mori Ippô (1798-1871)
    Õhara Donshû (17..-1857)
    Matsuo Shûzan (act early Meiji)
    Rissetsu (dates unknown)
    Shiokawa Bunrin (1801-1877)
    Kishi Renzan (1804-1859)
    Kita Kadô (1812-1877)
    Mori Kansai (1814-1894)
    Murase Sôseki (1822-1877)
    Hasegawa Gyokuhô (1822-1879)
    Imao Keinen (1845-1924)
    Suzuki Shônen (1849-1918)
    Takahashi Dôhachi V (1869-1914)
    Kiyomizu Rokubei V (1875-1959)


  • 2011/02/02

    What news, nothing special, which might be news, because usually there is something special, a theme or an announcement.

    Just a very pleasant up-date by pleasant artists.
    Different subjects lightly grouped in pairs,
    paintings only - only paintings.

    Sô Tanke Gessen (1721-1809)
    Ichikawa Kansai (1749-1820)
    Sô Takeda Unshitsu (1753-1827)
    Haruki Nanko (1759-1839)
    Yamaguchi Sôken (1759-1818)
    Tanaka Totsugen (1767-1823)
    Ônishi Keisai (1773-1829)
    Onishi Chinnen (1792-1851)
    Haruki Nammei (1795-1878)
    Matsuyoshi Shôkei (act. 1830s)
    Shiokawa Bunrin (1801-1877)
    Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)
    Mori Kansai (1814-1894)
    Gan Rei (1816-1883)
    Murase Sôseki (1822-1877)
    Mori Shungaku (act. Meiji)
    Nantembô (1839-1925)
    Kawabata Gyokushô (1842-1913)
    Katsurada Kojô (born 1865)
    Morohoshi Seishô (born 1870)
    Kobayashi Gokyô (1871-1929)
    Kasumi Bunshô (1905-1998)


  • 2011/01/02
    The best wishes for a very good, healthy and happy year of the rabbit.

    The three friends of winter and a little snow.




    The pine, the bamboo and the plum are known to be the three friends of winter.

    - The pine is regarded being the most noble of all trees in Japan. It symbolizes longevity and happiness, but also strength, perseverance and determination. The branches bearing everlasting green needles, which are spread out in all directions, stand for close and peaceful families.
    - The bamboo symbolizes virtue, faithfulness and perseverance.
    It is strong and flexible and it bends in the storm to create a safe shelter.
    - The plum for announcing the New Year by showing its first blossom, white with a wonderful fragrance, symbolizing female beauty and virtue.
    -For a little entourage we added some snow.

    These are the artists, more friends who we like to introduce the New Year:

    Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
    Igawa Meimon (1751-1805)
    Kamo Suetaka (1752-1842)
    Nagazawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)
    Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
    Mihata Jôryû (act 1830-43)
    Nakanishi Kôseki (1807-1884)
    Hirano Gogaku (1810-1893)
    Kita Kadô (1812-1877)
    Tanomura Chokunyû (1814-1907)
    Shôsai (act. c. 1860)
    Suga Kisui (1830-1887)
    Kawabata Gyokushô (1842-1913)
    Takahashi Dôhachi IV (1845-1897)
    Suzuki Kason (1860-1919)
    Tachika Chikuson (1864-1922)
    Nishigawa Tôrei (1865-<1925)
    Fukuda Kodôjin (1865-1944)
    Terazaki Kôgyô (1866-1919)
    Nakajima Kahô (1866-1939)
    Matsuse Seisei (1869-1937)
    Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
    Yamamoto Sekisô (1872-1944)
    Takahashi Dôhachi VI (1881-1941)
    Morikawa Shôtei (1882-19..)
    Gôtô Shûgai (born 1886)
    Miura Chikusen IV (1911-1976)
    Mugaku (dates unknown)


  • 2010/12/04
    CATALOGUE 20 - Part 2

    With happiness Oranda Jin presents catalogue 20. Again it was wonderful to put this selection together. We are proud of the result and a little bit sad too because we have to say goodbye to so many items we really love.

    This is the second half, with quite some pieces of painters’ pottery. The number of pieces suggests a quite common article. May be pottery in general is, but the ones decorated by painters are very rare and hard to find.

    We are happy to inform you that the Pan fair was a big success. Never before so many people came along to show their interest. And so did many of our friends and customers.

    All the artists from the last part of Catalogue 20 on this up-date:
    Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
    Kikuchi Gozan (1769-1849)
    Ôkura Ryûzan (1785-1850)
    Imaôji Yûzan (1790-1849)
    Õtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
    Ônishi Chinnen (1792-1851)
    Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1858)
    Tanaka Nikka († 1845)
    Shiokawa Bunrin (1801-1877)
    Hine Taizan (1813-1869)
    Tanomura Chokunyû (1814-1907)
    Fujimoto Tesseki (1817-1863)
    Doi Gôga (1817-1880)
    Sôhan Gempô (Shôun) (1848-1922)
    Suzuki Shônen (1849-1918)
    Miura Chikusen I (1854-1915)
    Kikuchi Hôbun (1862-1918)
    Taniguchi Kôkyô (1864-1915)
    Takeuchi Seihô (1864-1942)
    Tsuji Kakô (1870-1931)
    Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
    Sôtaka Taikô (Furukawa) (1871-1968)
    Sôkyô Kikusen (Shimada) (1872-1959)
    Torii Kiyotada VII (1875-1944)
    Kiyomizu Rokubei V (1875-1959)
    Sakamoto Kôjô (1875-1969)
    Ikai Shôkoku (1881-1939)
    Dômoto Inshô (1891-1975)
    Deiryû (1895-1954)
    Hayashi Ekyô (Kaishû) (1896-1979)
    Ekishû Sôshin (Takeda) (1896-1989)
    Hijiya Bunkei (1899-1951)
    Morino Kakô (1899-1987)
    Daimaru Hôpô († 1935)
    Oda Sessô (Sôho) (1902-1966)
    Kasumi Bunshô (1905-1998)



  • 2010/11/05
    CATALOGUE 20

    With happiness Oranda Jin presents catalogue 20. Again it was wonderful to put this selection together. We are proud of the result and a little bit sad too because we have to say goodbye to so many items we really love.

    Compared to earlier catalogues a more substantial part is dedicated to a variety of painters from the 17th and 18th century. Tan’yû is well represented, and you will also meet with his niece Yukinobu, his friend Jôzan and his colleague Mitani Tôetsu.
    Paintings in the Nanga style as well as in the Maruyama-Shijô style are well represented by important masters and their talented pupils.
    We also present an astonishing celebration of the death of Buddha by Tosa Mitsunari.

    Half of it will be shown on this November update, the other half, with quite some pieces of painters pottery, on the December up-date.

    We also show a painting of Mt. Fuji and 5 sake cups by Nantembô (1839-1925), which are illustrated in the PAN catalogue.

    PAN FAIR AMSTERDAM 2010

    From November 21-28 the PAN fair will be held at the
    RAI - Parkhal in Amsterdam.
    Opening hours from 11 am. - 7 pm. daily.
    Except for Thursday 25 and Sunday 28 when we close at 6 pm.
    Oranda Jin is looking forward to welcome you in our booth # 78.

    All the artists from the first half of Catalogue 20 on this up-date:

    Gyokushitsu Sôhaku (1572-1641)
    Ishikawa Jôzan (1583-1672)
    Kanô Tan'yû (1602-1674)
    Mitani Tôetsu (Untaku) († 1675)
    Kiyohara Yukinobu (1643-1682)
    Tosa Mitsunari (1646-1710)
    Hanabusa Itchô (1652-1724)
    Nishikawa Sukenobu (1671-1750)
    Yokoi Yayû (1702-1783)
    Ike Taiga (1723-1776)
    Naitô Tôho (1728-1788)
    Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
    Ki Baitei (Kyûrô ) (1734-1810)
    Noro Kaiseki (1747-1828)
    Suzuki Fûyô (1749-1816)
    Õta Nampo (1749-1823)
    Matsumura Go Shun (Gekkei)(1752-1811)
    Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
    Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
    Nukina Kaioku (Sûô) (1778-1863)
    Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843)
    Rai San'yô (1780-1832)
    Yamanashi Kakuzan (1781-1839)
    Okada Hankô (1782-1846)
    Yokoyama Seiki (1792-1864)
    Yoshiwara Shinryû (1804-1856)



  • 2010/10/04
    Autumn

    Don’t think we need to tell you that it is autumn, fall for some, the end of the summer, close to winter and time to sleep for half a year to see spring again for others.

    The PAN art fair in Amsterdam gets slowly in sight; you can mark it from November 21st-28th and it will take place in the RAI. More next up-date.

    Autumn is beautiful: lots of fruit and atmosphere. You can meet with it on this October up-date. Autumn is this month’s theme.

    Artist in the mood:
    Soga Chokumoku (act. 18th)
    Go Shun (1752-1811)
    Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
    Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
    Tanaka Nikka (17..-1845)
    Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843)
    Murase Sôseki (1822-1877)
    Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918)
    Nomura Bunkyo (1854-1911)
    Takahashi Yobei IX (Taizan) (1856? 1864-1922)
    Takebe Hakuhô (act. c. 1890-1900)
    Takeuchi Seihô (1864-1942)
    Sakamoto Unkoku (1871-19..)
    Yamamoto Sekisô (1872-1944)
    Kokan Shûka (1875-1937)
    Okuda Jakusô (1875-1963)
    Konoshima Õkoku (1877-1938)
    Watanabe Kôkan (1878-1942)
    Dômoto Inshô (1891-1975)
    Katô Kumpô (1892-19..)



  • 2010/08/31

    Zenga
    Now that the end of the summer gets closer, so it feels, the pAn art fair in Amsterdam will need attention. For your information, it will take place in the RAI from November 21st-28th. More later.

    While preparing the up-date last time it was hot and we suggested that water should help. It helped; we’ve hardly seen so much rain in August.

    For now let’s see what Zen will bring us.

    This month up-date is Zenga. We like to give some special attention to Deiryû and Dokuzan who are represented with some works, not just painting (calligraphy) but pottery as well.

    And for the others we tried not to bring just calligraphy, but also pictorial subjects.
    The works of the priests (and the nun) are:

    Taikan Monju (1766-1842)
    Taikô Sôgen (1772-1860)
    Hidaka Tetsuô (1791-1871)
    Ôtani Shôchin (1817-1894)
    Nantembô (1839-1925)
    Shiseki Renshu (1842-1914)
    Genpô Daiin (Kitano) (1842-1933)
    Kogai Gyokusen (1853(1858?)->1928)
    Murakami Mutei Mutei (1863-1923)
    Hashimoto Dokuzan (1869-1938)
    Sakamoto Kôjô (1875-1969)
    Seisetsu Genjô (1877-1945)
    Tesshû Kôzuki (1879-1937)
    Sagawa Myôshun (1891-1988)
    Deiryû (1895-1954)
    Kasumi Bunshô (1905-1998)
    Fujita Kaikô (born 1924)
    Reishû (dates unknown)



  • 2010/07/04

    WATER

    The thaw is setting in. Summer reached finally into the Netherlands. Not just reached us, but hit us. We’re sissies down here.
    To get some coolness, water helps. This month water will be the theme; enjoying the pleasures of flowing, drinking, pouring, keeping, getting fresh, getting wet, getting soaked, having fun.

    This month’s gallery also shows a small exposé of the media we deal in: fans, drawings, albums, paintings and pottery (no tanzaku this time). The artists, painters, potters and poets sharing this with you for the next two summer months are:

    Kanô Tôju Yoshinobu (17..-1820)
    Ôta Nanpo (Shokusanjin) (1749-1823)
    Ueda Kôchô (1788-1850)
    Okajima Rinsai (1791-1865)
    Ôtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
    Tachimatsu Yoshitora (1809-1882)
    Hoashi Kyôu (1810-1884)
    Shimada Soseki (1834-19..)
    Makida Tanemaro (1835-19..)
    Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924)
    Kubota Tôsui (1841-1911)
    Yamamoto Baisô (1846-1921)
    Mori Hankei (1858-19..)
    Yoshida Keishû (1860-19..)
    Okamura Kinsen (1861-19..)
    Aoyama Taiseki (1864-19..)
    Takahashi Dôhachi V (1869-1914)
    Ikeda Enson (1870-19..)
    Kosugi Kôun (1875-19..)
    Oka Buntô (1876-1943)
    Itô Kôin (1886-19..)
    Dômoto Inshô (1891-1975)
    Miyake Kôhaku (1893-1957)
    Kôgawa Suigaku (born in 1905)
    Mori Hanitsu (act Meiji)
    Yasuazuma Dôan (dates unknown)
    Seiseki (dates unknown)



  • 2010/06/01
    No real special theme this month, except that is the end of spring and the beginning of summer.
    An up-date of things to do, things done, but mainly things to look out for and things to enjoy.
    A website that’s hopefully nice and interesting and to your liking.

    The artists of this month, painters, potters and poets, old as well as new, but all dead and from far away ... as usual.

    Hanabusa Itchô (1652-1724)
    Kamo Suetaka (1752-1842)
    Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
    Yoshimura Kôkei (1769-1836)
    Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
    Okada Hankô (1782-1846)
    Ueda Kôchô (1788-1850)
    Mihata Jôryû (act 1830-43)
    Kishi Renzan (1804-1859)
    Maekawa Gorei (1806-1876)
    Miyoshi Unsen (1812-?)
    Tanomura Chokunyû (1814-1907)
    Kishi Chikudô (1826-1897)
    Okajima Seikô (1827-1877)
    Sekiguchi Rôun (1836-1901)
    Katayama Tôshû (1848-19..)
    Seifu Yôhei III (1851-1914)
    Ueda Tangai (1863-1939)
    Takahashi Dôhachi V (1869-1914)
    Hashimoto Dokuzan (1869-1938)
    Okutani Shûseki (1871-1936)
    Otaki Uzan (1871-1939)
    Takahashi Dôhachi VI (1881-1941)
    Hashimoto Ryôka (act Meiji period)
    Hayashi Buntô (1882-1966)
    Hakuun




  • 2010/05/04

    This month the theme is fumpon. It will make an interesting show, because within the field fumpon might look and differ towards one and the other.

    So among others we show a small group of beautiful designs for ukiyo-e sliding doors, a set preliminary designs for one of the Castle prints by Hashimoto Okiie, and a set of 2 studies for a painting by Zeshin; and a rare example of an almost identical subject which is painted twice by Hatta Kôyô, which shows the extraordinary Japanese draftmanship.

    A fumpon is a drawing, but it can serve different purposes.

    - It can be a preliminary design for a painting.
    - It can be the underdrawing, or the tracing which one can place under the silk (or paper) when to brush a “finished” painting.
    - It can be a tracing, to serve as a copy for scholarly purposes, or to store in archive.

    Most of the fumpon are anonymous, but can be linked to a school.
    An important collection of fumpon can be found in the Shimada collection. A series of (at least 5) books by: Takai Sôgen, “Collection of Maruyama School Preliminary Paintings” have been published in Kyoto in1997. They are on different subject matters.

    In this month’s up-date a number of the fumpon comes from this Shimida collection and here they seem to be mainly by Kawamura Kihô, at least so it says. Many of the others from seem to be from the same collection and might have been produced by known artists in the early years of the 19th century. The Shimada catalogues make many attributions; I don’t think it is not for me to do so.

    Some of the known artists involved are:
    Teisai Hokuba (1771-1844)
    Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)
    Hatta Kôyô (1882-1944)
    Hashimoto Okiie (1899-1993)
    But most of them anonymous and in number of cases with attributions.



  • 2010/04/01
    So we didn’t made it to the Pacific Asia Show in New York. Let this April’s update be a small comfort. Let's have spring and get rid of the cold feet.

    Enjoy this month’s selection of early modern Japanese paintings by the following artists:

    Kishi Kinsen (act. Meiji)
    Takebe Hakuhô (act. 1890-1900)
    Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918)
    Kubota Beisen (1852-1906)
    Taniguchi Kôkyô (1864-1915)
    Terazaki Kôgyô (1866-1919)
    Nakajima Kahô (1866-1939)
    Natsume Sôseki (1867-1916)
    Kajino Genzan (1868-1939)
    Iwaya Sazanami (1869-1933)
    Kikuchi Sokû (1873-1922)
    Chigusa Sôun (1873-1944)
    Nishimura Goun (1877-1938)
    Kanei Isshô (1879-1944)
    Hashimoto Kansetsu (1883-1945)
    Matsuyama Shôzan (1884-19..)
    Yazawa Gengetsu (1886-1952)
    Hirai Baisen (1889-1969)
    Mugaku (dates unknown)



  • 2010/03/01
    The sale last month couldn’t have been better.
    All but one was sold.

    Onwards to the next success:

    But alas not at the New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show
    which will be held from March 25th – 28th 2010
    at The Market Suites at 7W New York
    7 West 34th Street at 5th Avenue
    Opposite the Empire State Building

    Artists represented in the March update are:

    Igawa Meimon (1751-1805)
    Aoki Mokubei (1767-1833)
    Ichida Banri (1770-1842)
    Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
    Niwa Hankanshi (1773-1841)
    Shibata Gitô (1780-1819)
    Õtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
    Kishi Renzan (1804-1859)
    Kita Kadô (1812-1877)
    Ozawa Kagaku (act. 1840-1850)
    Kawabata Gyokushô (1842-1913)
    Shinten'ô (1823-1885)
    Nishiyama Kan'ei (1833-1897)
    Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924) Kawabata Gyokushô (1842-1913)
    Takeuchi Seihô (1864-1942)
    Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
    Aoki Seiko (1879-19..)
    Takahashi Dôhachi VI (1881-1941)
    Itô Seiu (1882-1961)
    Deiryû (1895-1954)
    Kasumi Bunshô (1905-1998)
    Nammei (dates unknown)



  • 2010/02/01

    From March 25-28 Oranda Jin will participate at the New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show. More information will be provided in the next up-date.
    But first:

    SALE, SOLDES, AUSVERKAUF, UITVERKOOP, 大売り出し
    For the last 23 years we piled up too many nice things in the gallery ..., around us, too many paintings occupying the progress of growing, etc. etc. So ...
    For the first time in 23 years Oranda Jin has gathered enough stock to organize a proper clearance sale of Japanese paintings!

    SALE REMARKS & RULES

    • The paintings have no boxes unless signed
    • We only take firm orders and the paintings are not to be returned
    • For orders over € 200 (or $ 300) the shipping cost as air freight postal parcel is included
    • No credit cards are accepted, please use Pay Pal
    • If you pay by bank transfer, please take care of all bank costs
    • If you pay by check add either € 30,- (or $ 45) extra to cover the costs

    Good luck and take your chance. We give a big discount on wonderful paintings by famous and known artists like:

    Anonymous (the most famous)
    Tanke Gessen (1721-1809)
    Fukuhara Gogaku (1730-1799)
    Gan Ku (1749-1838)
    Yamanaka Shônen (17..-1819)
    Morikawa Chikuso (1763-1830)
    Nakayama Koin (1765-1849)
    Yoshimura Kôkei (1769-1836)
    Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
    Nishimura Nantei (1775-1834)
    Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841)
    Kinoshita Õju (1777-1815)
    Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843)
    Uragami Shunkin (1779-1846)
    Yokoyama Kazan (1781/4-1837)
    Tanaka Nikka (17.. -1845)
    Oda Kaisen (1785-1862)
    Ueda Kôchô (1788-1850)
    Mochizuki Gyokusen (1794-1852)
    Ueda Kôkei (..-1860)
    Hatta Chiki (1799-1873)
    Shiokawa Bunrin (1801-1877)
    Satake Eikai (1803-1874)
    Maekawa Gorei (1805-1876)
    Nakanishi Kôseki (1807-1884)
    Hirano Gogaku (1810-1893)
    Tanaka Hôji (1813-1885)
    Mori Kansai (1814-1894)
    Gan Rei (1816-1883)
    Hishida Nittô (1817-1873)
    Kanô Sosen (1820-1900)
    Murase Sôseki (1822-1877)
    Okamura Sekiran (1834-1895)
    Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)
    Nantembô (1839-1925)
    Imura Jôzan (1843-1925)
    Kôno Bairei (1844-1895)
    Imao Keinen (1845-1924)
    Hara Zaisen (1849-1916)
    Kubota Beisen (1852-1906)
    Hagio Kyukô (1861-1923)
    Umemura Keizan (1866-1934)
    Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
    Kikuchi Soku (1873-1922)
    Tanomura Shôkô (1878-1910)
    Hayashi Buntô (1882-1966)
    Nozoe Heibei (1895-1980)
    Kasumi Bunshô (1905-1998)


  • 2010/01/04

    We wish you a grrrrreat, happy and healthy year of the tiger 2010.



    There is snow; it is freezing in other words, what a beginning of a New Year.

    For the New Years up-date there is snow and there are tigers, what a beginning of a Tiger Year.

    And what good artists who made these Japanese paintings and pottery:

    Nagazawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)
    Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
    Nishimura Nantei (1775-1834)
    Uragami Shunkin (1779-1846)
    Õtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
    Mochizuki Gyokusen (1794-1852)
    Nakajima Raishô (1796-1871)
    Shiokawa Bunrin (1801-1877)
    Kishi Renzan (1804-1859)
    Mori Kansai (1814-1894)
    Gan Rei (1816-1883)
    Fujimoto Tesseki (1817-1863)
    Hayagawa Suiseki (1834-..)
    Suzuki Kason (1860-1919)
    Mano Kyôtei (1874-1934)
    Miyake Kôhaku (1893-1957)
    Ekishû Sôshin (1896-1989)
    Sagawa Myôshun (1916-..)
    Anonymous - Settei (Tsukioka) school
    Anonymous Kanô school
    Yaku Gakyô (dates unknown)
    Kôho (dates unknown)


  • 2009/12/07

    Sekisô and his time



    The Pan fair from 2009 is history, and what a nice history it was.
    More visitors than ever before, the dealers were for the greater part satisfied, and so are we. We hope that those who came to visit us are also happy. Art does well; Japanese art and especially Japanese painting.

    On our way to Christmas and New Year we present a modest web show, which mainly is dedicated to the modest Nanga artist Yamamoto Sekisô (1872-1944).
    It is a pleasure to show his multi-lateral skills and to show works in which in some cases he cooperated with friends.
    We surrounded him with a couple of Nanga contemporaries:

    Sekijô (Kankai) (act. 1850s)
    Yamanaka Seiitsu (Shinten'ô) (1823-1885)
    Teranishi Ekidô (1824-1916)
    Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)
    Asai Hakuzan (Ryûtô)(1842-1907)
    Imura Jôzan (1843-1925)
    Kitsuda Eihô (1902-1974)
    Hinseki (dates unknown)
    and his friends:
    Baishû (dates unknown)
    the potter: Matsumoto Shigenobu (1864-1950)



  • 2009/11/02

    PAN FAIR AMSTERDAM 2009

    From November 22-29 the PAN fair will be held at the
    RAI - Parkhal in Amsterdam.
    Opening hours from 11 am. - 7 pm. daily.
    Except for Thursday 26 and Sunday 29 when we close at 6 pm.
    Oranda Jin is looking forward to welcome you in our booth # 78.

    After 2 months of beautiful fan paintings we now show a variety of paintings on paper, silk and stoneware and in albums as an introduction to the PAN fair. (Hand scrolls and screens will be available at the show too).

    We will try to show the many faces of Japanese painting and to show that many of the Japanese artists have except for blood also Zen and poetry in their veins. But most of all that once you accepted the Japanese image it immediately shows its beauty, its elegance, its impact, its minimalism, its modernity, its unbound boundaries, restricted freedom, its cramped as well as its wide mind, its manic and mad driving perfection.

    Some highlights:

    - On this up-date as well as in the PAN catalogue a beautiful tea bowl for autumn by Seihô is presented as well as a charming painted portrait of a girl by Tomioka Eisen, one of the best-known kuchi-e artists at the turn of the twentieth century.

    - 2 Eccentric preliminary sketches by Kuniyoshi (why wouldn’t they have been published as prints ???) and 2 pieces of decorated pottery by the eccentric priest Shimizu Kôshô, an artist already famous during his lifetime and whose star is even more rising since his death in 1999.

    - You’ll find some beautiful albums. There is one by Suzuki Shônen, which has a may be even more beautiful introduction calligraphy by Hashimoto Kansetsu. And another great album by Chokunyû who is also represented with an exquisite tea bowl.

    - A rare abalone shaped cake-bowl by Rengetsu, a bowl by Shunkyo and from his teacher Bunkyo a sake-rinsing bowl.

    - Another eccentric item is the haiku by Hekigodô, one of the important renovators of the modern haiku movement in the early twentieth century not as much as the haiku but its calligraphy. After you passed the paintings of autumn atmospheres and of one girl on one elephant, at the end you will find two extraordinary paintings, of which one is showing a 100 girls and another picturing a 100 crows in the snow.

    Hope you like the show and we look forward to see you at booth 78 and show you even more.

    The Japanese painters (and some potters) who are responsible for the pictures of this PAN introduction are:

    Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843)
    Tanaka Nikka (17..-1845)
    Õtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
    Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
    Tanomura Chokunyû (1814-1907)
    Hiroshige III (1843-1894)
    Imao Keinen (1845-1924)
    Suzuki Shônen (1849-1918)
    Nomura Bunkyo (1854-1911)
    Takahashi Yobei (Taizan)(1856-1922)
    Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905)
    Takeuchi Seihô (1864-1942)
    Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
    Kawahigashi Hekigodô (1873-1937)
    Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)
    Hashimoto Kansetsu (1883-1945)
    Satô Suikei (1884->1935)
    Shimizu Kôshô (1911-1999)
    Yamataka Suichô (dates unknown)
    Kizanjin (dates unknown)
    Sohô (dates unknown)
    Hakuun (dates unknown)



  • 2009/10/02

    ORANDA JIN CATALOGUE 19 Nanga fan paintings
    PART 2

    This October update focuses on the second part of our latest catalogue. We now present in this month’s website gallery the numbers 37-72.

    The hard copy is available at the Oranda Jin gallery, upon request (please send an e-mail to orandajin@home.nl), and at the PAN fair in Amsterdam.

    The Pan will be held at the RAI - Parkhal in Amsterdam
    from November 22-29, 2009.
    We look forward to see you at booth 78
    where we will reside from 11 am. - 7 pm. daily
    (except for Thursday 26 and Sunday 29 when we close at 6 pm.)

    In the catalogue we focused on artists of the18th and 19th century.
    A number of the artists are known, some of them are famous and important but it features also artists we have never heard from but who are exceptionally good like:

    Niwa Kagen (1742-1786)
    Yamaoka Geppô (1760-1839)
    Yamamoto Baiitsu (1783-1856)
    Oda Kaisen (1785-1862)
    Kusuba Haisen (1787-1867)
    Yoda Chikkoku (1790-1843)
    Haruki Nammei (1795-1878)
    Hashimoto Sesshô (1802-1877)
    Fukuda Hankô (1804-1864)
    Takahashi Kyôson (1805-1868)
    Nakanishi Kôseki (1807-1884)
    Hoashi Kyôu (1810-1884)
    Hirano Gogaku (1810-1893)
    Hine Taizan (1813-1869)
    Taniguchi Aizan (1816-1899)
    Fujimoto Tesseki (1817-1863)
    Maeda Chôdô (1817-1878)
    Amano Hôkô (1828-1894)
    Taki Katei (1830-1901)
    Sugawara Hakuryû (1833-1898)
    Maeda Kakô (1833-1905)
    Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)
    Chôgun (dates unknown)
    Sonjô (dates unknown)
    Yokose Kinshô (act. 1860s)


  • 2009/09/07

    ORANDA JIN CATALOGUE 19 Nanga fan paintings
    It has been a busy summer. We presented our new Oranda Jin catalogue 19 during the exhibition at the Jan van Hoof Galerie.
    36 items of the catalogue will now be presented on this web site. The second part will be shown in Oranda Jin’s October update.

    The catalogue is available at the Oranda Jin gallery, upon request and at the PAN fair in Amsterdam from November 22-29, 2009.

    With the artists of the fan paintings we focused on the 18th and 19th century only. A number of the artists are known, some of them famous and important and artists we have never heard from but who are exceptionally good:
    Tanke Gessen (1721-1809)
    Ike Gyokuran (1727/28- 1784)
    Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
    Suzuki Meimon (17..-1819)
    Akada Gagyu (1747-1822)
    Kaino Kakusai (1748-1833)
    Suzuki Fûyô (1749-1816)
    Haruki Nanko (1759-1839)
    Yamaoka Geppô (1760-1839)
    Oka Yûgaku (1762-1833)
    Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
    Yagi Sonsho (1771-1836)
    Sô Taigan (1773-1850)
    Nakabayashi Chikutô (1776-1853)
    Tanomura Chikuden (1777-1835)
    Nukina Kaioku (1778-1863)
    Uragami Shunkin (1779-1846)
    Rai San’yô (1780-1832)
    Yamamoto Baiitsu (1783-1856)
    Sô Kazan (1788-1872)
    Kamei Shôkin (1798-1857)
    Kinoshita Itsuun (1799-1866)
    Tani Shun'ei (act. late 18th - early 19th)
    Takahisa Ryûko (1801-1859)
    Murase Taiotsu (1804-1881)
    Miura Gomon (1809-1860)
    Nakabayashi Chikkei (1816-1867)
    Maeda Chôdô (1817-1878)
    Chô Sanshû (1833-1895)
    Tatsusai
    Kakuzan



  • 2009/07/13
    ORANDA JIN’S SUMMER EXHIBITION

    Sunday July 12th we had the opening of our summer exhibition in the most beautiful situated gallery
    of ’s-Hertogenbosch: Jan van Hoof Galerie. We will be there Thursday - Sunday from 14.00 till 18.00. Looking foreward seing you.The show will last until August 2nd.


    A major part of the show will focus on a rare collection of Nanga fan paintings, which is supported by a new Oranda Jin catalogue (# 19).
    Of course Japanese paintings and painters’ pottery will be the main part of the exhibition, of which many new and some really stunning acquisitions from our recent trip to Japan like an impressive set of golden screens by Imao Keinen.
    The sculptor Gerard Höweler created new stones from old stones. While overlooking the exhibition, the city and its polder, the stones will make it an almost four-dimensional experience.


    Artists at the show:
    Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
    Kanô Tôrin (17..-1820)
    Õta Nampo (Shokusanjin) (1749-1823)
    Kanô Tanshin (Morimichi) (1785-1835)
    Kikuchi Yôsai (1788-1878)
    Onishi Chinnen (1792-1851)
    Mochizuki Gyokusen (1794-1852) (Shigeteru)
    Kita Kadô (1812-1877)
    Shinten'ô (1823-1885) (Yamanaka Seiitsu)
    Kishi Chikudô (1826-1897)
    Imao Keinen (1845-1924)
    Suzuki Shônen (1849-1918)
    Suma Taisui (1868-1955)
    Morohoshi Seishô (1870-19..)
    Saitô Shôshû (1870-19..)
    Okutani Shûseki (1871-1936)
    Ikai Shôkoku (1881-1939)
    Daimaru Hôpô (18.. -1935)
    Sawamura Tôsai I (- 1941-)
    Inshô, Dômoto (1891-1975)
    Kakô, Morino (1899-1987)
    Deiryû (1895-1954)
    Kasumi Bunshô (1905-1998)
    Kôho (dates unknown)



  • 2009/06/03

    ORANDA JIN’S SUMMER EXHIBITION

    Sunday July 12th will be the opening of our summer exhibition in the most beautiful situated gallery of ’s-Hertogenbosch: Jan van Hoof Galerie. The show will last until August 2nd.

    A major part of the show will focus on a rare collection of Nanga fan paintings, which is supported by a new Oranda Jin catalogue (# 19).
    Of course Japanese paintings and painters’ pottery will be the main part of the exhibition, of which many new and some really stunning acquisitions from our recent trip to Japan like an impressive set of golden screens by Imao Keinen.
    The sculptor Gerard Höweler created new stones from old stones. While overlooking the exhibition, the city and its polder, the stones will make it an almost four-dimensional experience.

    June’s up-date will be filled with animals, reptiles, birds and mammals, most of them tigers and painted by the well-known artists:

    Go Shun (1752-1811)
    Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
    Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
    Nishimura Nantei (1775-1834)
    Tanaka Nikka (17..-1845)
    Tosa Mitsuzane (1780-1852)
    Oda Kaisen (1785-1862)
    Kôchô, Ueda (1788-1850)
    Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841)
    Egawa Tan’an (1801-1855)
    Shiokawa Bunrin (1801-1877)
    Kishi Renzan (1804-1859)
    Kita Kadô (1812-1877)
    Murase Sôseki (1822-1877)
    Gan Kyô (1829-1874)
    Nantembô (1839-1925)
    Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918)
    Kikuchi Hôbun (1862-1918)
    Katsurada Kojô (1865-19..)
    Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
    Mano Kyôtei (1874-1934)...



  • 2009/05/04


    ORANDA JIN’S SUMMER EXHIBITION

    Sunday July 12th will be the opening of our summer exhibition. It will last until August 2nd. You make a note in your agenda and we will keep you informed concerning details. One detail though, lifting a corner of the veil, the exhibition will be in the most beautiful situated gallery of ’s-Hertogenbosch with a stunning view on the city and its polder...

    BAMBOO

    Oranda Jin presents this month artists’ impressions of BAMBOO.
    In Japan bamboo is the emblem of pliancy and security since it bends to the storm and gives refuge to the tiger. Bamboo is a very popular subject of Japanese paintings but as bamboo is extremely difficult to depict well, painting bamboo is a kind of master proof.
    Bamboo is also one of the three gentlemen (friends of winter) together with plum and pine.

    As the Buddhist artist nun Rengetsu says in her waka:

    This gentleman
    grows and grows
    Auspiciously:
    Learn from it and
    You will ever flourish.
    (Stevens p. 48)

    The painters and potters of this month are:
    Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
    Inoue Shirô (1742-1812)
    Sakai Hôitsu (1761-1828)
    Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
    Hosokawa Rinkoku (1779-1843)
    Rai San'yô (1780-1832)
    Mugai (act c. 1800)
    Harahiro Sekijô (act c. 1805)
    Yokoyama Seiki (1792-1864)
    Hirano Gogaku (1810-1893)
    Takeuchi Seihô (1864-1942)
    Fukuda Kodôjin (1865-1944)
    Terazaki Kôgyô (1866-1919)
    Okutani Shûseki (1871-1936)
    Yamamoto Sekisô (1872-1944)
    Hayakawa Baitei (1878-19..)
    Mitsui Hanzan (1880-1934)
    Morikawa Shôtei (1882-19..)
    Miura Chikusen IV (1911-1976)
    Nammei (dates unknown)
    Tessô (dates unknown)
    Mokusen (dates unknown)




  • 2009/04/03


    THE UNEXPECTED

    ’s-Hertogenbosch is small provincial town, with a humble local museum, kicked around by its local government. Never the less this museum has the largest collection of painters’ pottery (artists' ceramics) of twentieth century western artists in the World. From “Picasso to Penck, from Appel to Koons.”

    Walking the streets of Kyoto once we felt inspired by this local idea and decided to find out whether there was such a niche of pottery by Japanese painters in Japan.

    Now that the SM’s (City Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch) shows a large part of their collection called: “THE UNEXPECTED”, from March 8 – June 1 2009 - www.theunexpected.nl, we like to make a small addition.
    This month’s up-date is dedicated to Japanese painter’s pottery, if possible accompanied by a painting.

    The artists, painters as well as potters of this month’s web-show are:
    Nichôsai (1751-1802/3) (brewer, painter and author of bunraku plays)
    Õtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) (nun, poet, potter and painter)
    Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924) (painter)
    Takahashi Dôhachi IV (1845-1897) (potter)
    Suzuki Shônen (1849-1918) (painter)
    Fukada Chokujô (1861-1947) (painter)
    Matsumoto Shigenobu (1864-1950) (potter)
    Takahashi Dôhachi V (1869-1914) (potter)
    Yamamoto Sekisô (1872-1944) (painter)
    Deiryû (1895-1954) (painter priest)
    Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (1896-1948) (attr. to)
    Nishimiya Seiko (dates unknown) (potter)
    Shinen (dates unknown) (potter)
    Hakuzan (dates unknown) (potter)
    Tôan (dates unknown) (potter)



  • 2009/03/01

    Nihonga and modern artists


    This March up-date shows Nihonga and modern artists who are born after 1850.
    Tanaka Kan illustrates Japan’s national hymn. The link and a little scrolling gives you the music as well. A tiny bit of multi media for a change.

    The other artists are:
    Kubota Beisen (1852-1906)
    Fukada Chokujô (1861-1947)
    Nakajima Kahô (1866-1939)
    Kobayashi Gokyô (1871-1929)
    Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
    Toda Gyokushû (1873-1933)
    Uejima Hôzan (1875-1920)
    Kiyomizu Rokubei V (1875-1959)
    Nishimura Goun (1877-1938)
    Kanamori Kanyô (1882-1932)
    Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)
    Takahashi Chikunen (1887-1967)
    Uchiumi Chôkô (1888-c.1924)
    Dômoto Inshô (1891-1975)
    Muraoka Hôga (1892-1962)
    Kawamura Riken (1896-19..)
    Morino Kakô (1899-1987)
    Tanaka Kan
    Kôu
    Unkei
    Unkoku



  • 2009/01/28

    SAN FRANCISCO ARTS OF PACIFIC ASIA SHOW

    (Apologies for the wrong dates at our last month’s news, but these are the correct dates)
    From February 6-8 the 13h Annual San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show will be held at the Festival Pavilion at the Fort Mason Centre in San Francisco.
    Opening hours:
    Friday and Saturday 11am-7pm.
    Sunday 11am-5pm.
    We will be there. You are very welcome.

    As the New Year of the Ox has just begun, this February up-date will be dedicated to the Ox, the New Year, and a few of its symbols including snow.

    The artists illustrating this New Year up-date are:

    Raihô (Mihô Enki) (1730-1817)
    Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
    Nagazawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)
    Azuma Tôyô (1755-1839)
    Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841)
    Uragami Shunkin (1779-1846)
    Õtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
    Shiokawa Bunrin (1801-1877)
    Gan Rei (1816-1883)
    Anonymous (Settei school)
    Seiran (dates unknown)
    Nantembô (1839-1925)
    Suzuki Shônen (1849-1918)
    Suzuki Kason (1860-1919)
    Ôhashi Manpô (1860-1943)
    Nishigawa Tôrei (1865- after 1925)
    Ohara Koson (1877-1945)
    Yaku Gakyô (dates unknown)
    Miura Chikusen (I, II, or III)
    Miyake Kôhaku (1893-1957)




  • 2009/01/05

    HAPPY NEW YEAR



    First of all we like to wish all of you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year of the ox, 2009

    SAN FRANCISCO HERE WE COME

    Let us start with a surprise; this New Year will be our maiden presence at The San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show, which will be held from February 5-9 at the Festival Pavilion at the Fort Mason Centre.

    This year we won’t be showing at the Pacific Asia Show in New York.
    We hope San Francisco will be as good for us as New York has been for many years. Next year most probably we will be back in NY.

    We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco and hope you look forward to seeing us there. You will be most welcome to visit our booth in which we will show very good paintings and painters’ ceramics.

    See you soon.

    Meanwhile:

    ORANDA JIN CATALOGUE # 18, PART 3

    This month’s website focuses on the third part of Oranda Jin’s Catalogue # 18. It did well so far, which means that quite a number of the paintings have been sold.

    For those who haven’t seen catalogue 18, these are the artists of this months’ up-date.

    Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
    Ôtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
    Mochizuki Gyokusen (Shigeteru) (1794-1852)
    Egawa Tan’an (1801-1855)
    Tanomura Chokunyû (1814-1907)
    Mochizuki Gyokusen (Shigemine) (1834-1913)
    Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924)
    Nantembô (1839-1925)
    Kiyomizu Rokubei IV (1847-1920)
    Chikushin (1854-1936)
    Murakami Mutei Mutei (1863-1923)
    Nakajima Kahô (1866-1939)
    Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942)
    Sakata Yôshirô XIII (Deika) (✝1934)
    Hashimoto Dokuzan (1869-1938)
    Shôshû (Saitô Daiichirô) (1870-1934)
    Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
    Seisetsu Genjô (1877-1945)
    Kôzuki Tesshû (1879-1937)
    Keijû Reikyô (1881-1935)
    Kasumi Bunshô (1905-1998)




  • 2008/11/03


    ORANDA JIN CATALOGUE # 18, PART 2

    This month’s website focuses on the second part of Oranda Jin’s Catalogue # 18. It did well so far, which means that quite a number of the paintings have been sold.

    The Amsterdam Pan Fair treated us well and made it a successful show for us. We like to thank you for your support.

    For those who haven’t seen catalogue 18, these are the artists of this months’ up-date.

    Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
    Nichôsai (1751-1802/3)
    Yomono Utagaki (Magao) (1753-1829)
    Ryûryûkyo Shinsai (1764-1823)
    Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
    Okamoto Toyohiko (1773-1845)
    Kawamura Bumpô (✝1821)
    Nakabayashi Chikutô (1776-1853)
    Nukina Kaioku (Sûô) (1778-1863)
    Yanagawa Seigan (1781-1858)
    Matsuyoshi Shôkei (act.1830s)
    Õhara Donshû (✝1857)
    Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864)
    Ichikawa Danjûrô VII (1791-1859)
    Õtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
    Ukita Ikkei (1795-1859)
    Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)
    Kazan (1825 ->1893)
    Yasuda Rôzan (1830-1882)
    Kawabata Gyokushô (1842-1913)
    Shônen (1849-1918)
    Kimpu (dates unknown)



  • 2008/11/03


    ORANDA JIN CATALOGUE # 18, PART I

    This month’s website is mainly focusing on the first part of Oranda Jin’s Catalogue # 18, the new one. In our opinion it is quite a nice one. It did well so far.

    We also show two items that you might consider as a tiny, tiny preview to our PAN fair.

    PAN AMSTERDAM
    http://www.pan-amsterdam.nl/

    From November 23-30 the PAN, the National Art and Antiques fair will be held in Amsterdam in the RAI-Parkhal. From our booth 78 we will show and present our new catalogue and more. You are most welcome and we look forward seeing you (again) in our booth.

    The paintings and pottery from this November web show are by the artists:

    Nonomura Sôtatsu (.. -1643?)
    Kanô Dôshun (..-1723)
    Yamaguchi Sekkei (1644-1732)
    Itô Jakuchû (1716-1800)
    Tatebe Ryôtai (Kan’yôsai) (1719-1774)
    Ike Taiga (1723-1776)
    Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
    Okada Beisanjin (1744-1820)
    Noro Kaiseki (1747-1828)
    Totoki Baigai (1749-1804)
    Watanabe Gentai (1749-1820)
    Gibon Sengai (1750-1837)
    Matsumura Goshun (1752-1811)
    Nagazawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)
    Aoki Mokubei (1767-1833)
    Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841)
    Tosa Mitsuzane (1780-1852)
    Kita Kadô (1812-1877)
    Doi Gôga (1817-1880)
    Ôtani Shôchin (Rôkei)(1817-1894)
    Takahashi Ôshin (1855-1901)



  • 2008/10/01

    ORANDA JIN CATALOGUE # 18



    Oranda Jin's catalogue # 18 is published. We are very happy with the result. We hope that our search for the new and unexpected has made this catalogue into one that is again surprising and adventurous. After this month's up-date the catalogue will follow in three consecutive sections.

    From November 23 -30 the PAN, the National Art and Antiques fair will be held in Amsterdam in the RAI-Parkhal. From our booth 78 we will show and present our new catalogue and more. All of you are very welcome.

    But meanwhile:
    Except for the southern hemisphere people suffer as well as enjoy the fall. The fall of leafs, the fall of rain, wind and the early darkness. Time to move inwards, time for shelter. Getting melancholically.

    If you feel like that, you are not alone; pick your company from these Japanese painters who made this season into their subject.

    Itô Jakuchû (1716-1800)
    Haruki Nanko (1759-1839)
    Tani Bunchô (1763-1840)
    Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
    Onishi Keisai (1773-1829)
    Suzuki Nanrei (1775-1844)
    Kinoshita ôjû (1777-1815)
    Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843)
    Tanaka Nikka (17..-1845)
    Maruyama ôshin (1790-1838)
    Haruki Nammei (1795-1878)
    Nakajima Raishô (1796-1871)
    Ueda Kôkei (..-1860)
    Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)
    Nantembô (1839-1925)
    Imao Keinen (1845-1924)
    Fukada Chokujô (1861-1947)
    Katsurada Kojô (1865-19..)
    Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
    Chigusa Sôun (1873-1944)
    Okuda Jakusô (1875-1963)
    Hirai Baisen (1889-1969)
    Dômoto Inshô (1891-1975)
    Katô Kumpô (1892-19..)
    Saishô (dates unknown)
    Unkoku (dates unknown)

  • 2008/09/04

    PRELIMINARY DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES RELATED TO THE UKYO- E SCHOOL

    It is some time ago that we paid special attention to preliminary drawings and sketches related to the Ukiyo-e school. While getting them together there turned out to be enough to make a complete update and better even, enough rare drawings to make it a very interesting one.

    Amongst others you will find an original preliminary drawing by Toyokuni I, the design of a triptych by Kiyochika, and a landscape drawing by Yoshitoshi (alas rather small, but never the less very rare), small paintings on silk by Kunisada and Kuniaki. All of those are very rare. And this is really amongst others...

    Hosoda Eishi (1756-1829)
    Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864)
    Gountei Sadahide (1807-1873)
    Yoshitora (act 1840-1880)
    Hachisuka Kuniaki (1835-1888)
    Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
    Hiroshige III (1843-1894)
    Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915)
    Natori Shunsen (1886-1960)
    Miyake Kôhaku (1893-1957)


  • 2008/08/01

    RECENT ACQUISITIONS

    After a short break of sand sun and sea, we assembled another group from our Japan trip, new or refreshed. 200 years of Japanese painting done by the painters:

    Tanke Gessen (1721-1809)
    Inoue Shirô (1742-1812)
    Totoki Baigai (1749-1804)
    Kamo Suetaka (1752-1842)
    Azuma Tôyô (1755-1839)
    Hatta Koshû (1760-1822)
    Watanabe Nangaku (1767-1813)
    Okamoto Toyohiko (1773-1845)
    Nukina Kaioku (Sûô) (1778-1863)
    Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843)
    Hosokawa Rinkoku (1779-1843)
    Shibata Gitô (1780-1819)
    Okada Hankô (1782-1846)
    Gan Tai (1782-1865)
    Mihata Jôryû (act 1830-43)
    Ôkura Ryûzan (1785-1850)
    Ôhara Donshû (17..-1857)
    Mori Kansai (1814-1894)
    Nakabayashi Chikkei (1816-1867)
    Murase Sôseki (1822-1877)
    Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918)
    Hagio Kyûkô (1861-1923)
    Murakami Mutei Mutei (1863-1923)
    Uejima Hôzan (1875-1920)
    Hashimoto Kansetsu (1883-1945)



  • 2008/06/02

    Fresh and refreshed from Japan, recent acquisitions.

    During our recent trip to Japan we found a number of fine paintings and fine pieces of painters pottery, which we like to share with you. Some of the paintings of this months up-date have been remounted and look fresh again.
    The works represent different schools like Maruyama-Shijô, Kishi, Nanga, Rimpa, Ukiyo-e, Independent and Nihonga.
    The artists are:

    Itô Jakuchû (1716-1800)
    Chô Gesshô (1772-1832)
    Utagawa Toyohiro (1773-1828)( attr. to)
    Okada Kanrin (1775-1849)
    Tanaka Nikka (17..-1845)
    Rai San'yô (1780-1832)
    Ôtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
    Mori Kansai (1814-1894)
    Rissetsu (dates unknown)
    Murase Sôseki (1822-1877)
    Shinten'ô (Yamanaka Seiitsu) (1823-1885)
    Yasuda Rôzan (1830-1882)
    Nomura Bunkyo (1854-1911)
    Taizan (Takahashi Yobei)(1856-1922)(potter)
    Kishi Kinsen (act. Meiji era)
    Hanrei (dates unknown)
    Nakajima Kahô (1866-1939)
    Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942)
    Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933)
    Kikuchi Sokû (1873-1922)
    Watanabe Kôkan (1878-1942)
    Keijû Reikyô (1881-1935)
    Fujita Kaikô (1924-


  • 2008/05/02

    MASTERWORKS BY UNKNOWN, UNREAD AND ANONYMUS PAINTERS

    There are and have been many Japanese artists no one ever heard of and who are not found in books and reference works. And yet their paintings are very good.

    Of course it is possible that I can't find these painters because of my lack of knowledge. Sometimes it is very hard to read a signature or the artist has a name, which is the same as that of many others, and can't be deducted from the list. Sometimes a signature is misread. And there are painters who are using a pen name that can't be traced. Many of the amateurs I don't know and there are painters whose lives didn't make it to the end or didn't manage to reach inside art books or catalogues. And there is also the famous Mr. or Mrs. Anonymous who never signs the work of art. Any way there are a lot of reasons for someone's fifteen minutes of fame to celebrate it in total obscurity.

    The obscure painters showing at this month's gallery are:
    Anonymous
    Hansen
    Hokuteki
    Jôki
    Junboku?
    Kanchô
    Kinsui
    Kôu
    Moi (Sôgetsu)
    Okakaga Taisen
    Sen'osei
    Shinhô
    Shunga
    Shungaku
    Sôun
    Takanashi Hôzan
    Takatsuta Hokuen
    Tôchô
    Unkoku
    Unread



  • 2008/04/03

    This month we enjoy a little layback after sweating on the New York Pacific Asia Show. Fanning our selves with the twenty kami-ôgi on our April web show.

    Until April 20 you still have the opportunity to visit
    KI BAITEI & KINKOKU EXHIBITION
    With some 300 paintings on show by the Nanga painters Ki Baitei (1734-1810) and Yokoi Kinkoku (1761-1832)
    At the ôtsu City Museum of History
    2-2 Goryo-cho
    ôtsu, Shiga. 520-0037
    Japan

    FAN PAINTINGS

    Although the themes and painting techniques of fans are often similar and related to concurrent scroll and screen paintings, the unique format and shape of the fan provide alternative solutions for individual creativity through compositional design.
    Gitter, Kurt A., Japanese fan paintings from western collections. New Orleans Museum of Art, 1985.

    Fans were meant to use and thrown away after the change of season or fashion. Often though fan paintings, or painted fans were given as presents as a token of friendship or as a souvenir from a party or gathering. This custom is still known today.

    What makes fan paintings so charming and intimate is the creative enjoyment an artist feels when executing a painting or poem on a fan. It makes fan paintings highly collectable. Their humble beauty is beyond discussion. In a frame under a mat this wedge-shaped fan looks wonderful.

    The artists of these fans are:

    Kanô Nagatsune (Eijô) (1731-1787)
    Hatta Koshû (1760-1822)
    Nagayama Kôin (1765-1849)
    Maruyama Ôzui (1766-1829)
    Okamoto Toyohiko (1773-1845)
    Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843)
    Nakajima Raishô (1796-1871)
    Tani Bunji (1812-1850)
    Okamoto Sukehiko (1822-1883)
    Katô Rinryô (act 1860-70s)
    Suzuki Hyakunen (1825-1891)
    Kôno Bairei (1844-1895)
    Numata Kashû (1838-1901)
    Hagio Kyûkô (1861-1923)
    Nakajima Kahô (1866-1939)
    Nakagawa Wadô (1880-19.. )
    Mitsuyasu Shôsen (1880-19..)
    Akamatsu Renjô (18..-19..)



  • 2008/03/01

    NEW YORK ARTS OF PACIFIC ASIA SHOW

    From March 21-24
    Oranda Jin will be showing Japanese paintings and painters' pottery
    at the New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show.
    Gramercy Park Armory, Lexington Ave. at 26th, New York.

    Getting started with Japanese prints we moved on to paintings and since last year our stock has been enriched with Japanese ceramics (decorated) by painters.

    Again we hope to share our enthusiasm for these fields with you.
    We will present a considerable number of Rengetsu's poem pottery, but also pieces of famous and well-known potters from different generations like Rokubei and Dôhachi decorated by painters like Nichôsai, Raishô and Tessai and Zen related tea ceramics.

    The main part will still be paintings, which spreads between a stunning calligraphy by the priest Jiun Onko up to beautiful set shikishi of the four seasons by Kamisaka Sekka and a magnificent portrait of a lady by the famous "French" painter Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita. There will be scroll paintings by ôkyo, Shôhaku, Rosetsu, Jakuchû, and Gan Ku, though most of the paintings date from the 19th century and represent various styles like Maruyama-Shijô, Nanga, Nihonga and Zenga. We also bring fans, tanzaku, drawings (unmounted paintings), albums and hand scrolls.

    We look forward to meet again in our booth to enjoy looking at the things we love.

    KI BAITEI & KINKOKU EXHIBITION
    we also like to draw your attention concerning an important exhibition with some 300 paintings by the Nanga painters Ki Baitei (1734-1810) and Yokoi Kinkoku (1761-1832)
    March 6 - April 20
    Ôtsu City Museum of History
    2-2 Goryo-cho
    Ôtsu, Shiga. 520-0037
    Japan

    Artists represented in the March update as well serve as a preview for our show at New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show are:

    Musen Jôzen (1693-1764)(Tangai)
    Itô Jakuchû(1716-1800)
    Jiun Onkô (Sonja) (1718-1804)
    Soga Shôhaku (1730-1781)
    Maruyama Ôkyo (1733-1795)
    Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
    Gan Ku (1749-1838)
    Nichôsai (1751-1802/3)
    Nagazawa Rosetsu (1754-1799) Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841)
    Shibata Gitô (1780-1819)
    Ôtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
    Nakajima Raishô (1796-1871)
    Kiyomizu Rokubei III (Shôun)(1820-1883)
    Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924)
    Takahashi Yobei (Taizan)(1856-1922)
    Sakurai Hyakurei (act Meiji era)
    Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968)
    Moriyama Kankei (Kankei jôkin) (1889-1956)
    Katô Shunji (1892- 1979)
    Katô Kumpô (1892-19..)
    Tôko (dates unkown)