Provenance: Osaka Prefecture, Osaka City, Kita Ward, Shibata 1-1-3, Hankyu Sanbangai South Building 1F, Hankyu Used Book Town
Gallery: りーち あーと
Hi all, I found this artwork at a flea market a while back and was looking to see if anyone might know the artist or anything about this piece.
Hi! I recently traveled to Japan and found this adorable Kappa character on a bunch of stamps in a tiny stamp shop in kyoto. I know he has a (maybe very poorly translated) name - Pesuke? Pisuke? But general googling and image search haven’t helped much. Can anyone tell me who created this little guy? There were a ton of stamps with him in various silly circumstances and I’m wishing I got more than one. I’d love to know more about him and where he came from. Thanks!
I found this piece displayed at an antique asian art store, unlabeled, and was curious about the age and translation/ value of this piece.
So before I start, I want to mention that I posted this once before quite a while ago, but I now have more photos and I’m hoping to see if I can get more help. Also, from that post and a few others elsewhere, people we came to the conclusion that is likely a bronze Meiji or Taisho vase, but that’s not really why I’m here.
I bought this beautiful antique vase at an auction about a year ago. The auction house had no information on the mark, though they usually just sell antiques without much research attached. I’ve tried posting about it before, but I never really got much help identifying it or learning more about it.
I’m sorry for the amount of photos and the heavy flash. It’s incredibly difficult to photograph properly and honestly unlike anything I’ve dealt with before. Also yes, I know the vase is broken lol.
Any help at all with the mark or anything else would genuinely mean a lot to me at this point. Thank you.
I think vintage from around 1960s.
Most people know that Japanese prints influenced Van Gogh, but I was surprised to discover just how deeply they affected Claude Monet too.
At Giverny, Monet filled entire rooms with ukiyo-e prints by Hiroshige, Hokusai, Utamaro and Kunisada. His famous Japanese bridge, water garden and even parts of the Water Lilies compositions seem tied to ideas he absorbed from Japanese art.
The more I looked into it, the more obvious it became:
Even Monet’s house itself feels like a dialogue between Impressionism and Japanese aesthetics.
I ended up researching the rooms at Giverny, identifying prints on the walls, and tracing how they fed into paintings like the Japanese Bridge and Water Lilies series.
Would love to know whether others think Monet was the European artist most transformed by Japonisme?
Found this kitsune (I think?) figure at the flea market, I love it and would like to learn more about it, I haven't found anything similar online and would be very interested to know where, when, and by who it was made.
Thanks in advance for your help! 🙂
Any help or additional context about the mask would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much in advance!
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I recently bought a couple of these Japanese prints at a sale from a private vendor. They had no further info about these prints apart from the japanese origin.
I passed the pictures to Gemini which told me they should be haiga prints (illustrated haikus) from the Edo or Meijin era of Japan but i trust AI only to a point and i would love to be able to find out more from a reliable source.
I also used google lens to look up for similiar prints but did not find one that matched the style correctly.
Does anyone have any idea?