32 JADA Gallery Shows


JADA GROUP SHOW Te 10th annual Japanese Art Dealers Association group exhibition includes full members Erik Tomsen Gallery, Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts, Leighton R Longhi Oriental Fine Art, Mika Gallery and Sebastian Izzard Asian Art. As usual, there will be a selection of panelled folding screens, paintings, post-war calligraphy and contemporary sculpture, classic prints and ceramics on show.


Large dish with chrysanthemums and butterflies, Hizen ware, Aode-Kokutani type: porcelain with coloured enamels, Edo period, circa 1650, diam. 34.6 cm, Sebastian Izzard


Sebastian Izzard is showing several unusual examples of Japanese porcelain, including a Hizen ware large dish decorated with chrysanthemums and butterflies, a Kutani tea-whisk shaped bottle, and a large Nabeshima porcelain serving dish decorated witht attributes of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune. Also on view are paintings by the Nanga master, Ike Taiga (1723-1786), as well as a selection of prints by ukiyo-e artists Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806) and Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825). On display from Leighton Longhi is a 14th-century lacquered wood figure of the temple guardian Bishamonten subduing a demon. Mika Gallery is exhibiting a Star mandala from the Heian to Kamakura period, 12th century, and other objects from the Buddhist tradition, including a sutra case and an incense burner and a palace-type round pot from the Yayoi period, 300BC- AD200, plus Tokoname and Iga ware from the 12th and 16th centuries. Tis year the highlight of Erik


Tomsen’s screen selection includes a pair of Rinpa School six-panel folding screens of Flowers of the Four Seasons. Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts is also showing work from the Rinpa School – a pair of 19th-century hanging scrolls by Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1868),


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Flowers of the Four Seasons (detail), Rinpa School, pair of six-panel folding screens, ink, mineral colours and gofun on paper with gold leaf, Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century, each screen 165 x 361 cm, Erik Tomsen


Narihira’s Journey to the East, together with a large hanging scroll of a crane with a rising sun by Hara Zaichu, and two pairs of six-panel folding screens, one of birds and flowers by Maruyama Oryo and the other of a hawk and geese by Soga Chokuan. • JADA 2018 at the Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 East 70th Street, NYC, NY 10075. Hours: 17 March, 11am-5pm; 18-19 March, 11am-6pm


JADA GALLERY SHOWS


For previews of Te Art of Japan, BachmannEckenstein, Scholten Japanese Art, and Erik Tomsen Gallery, please see AWNY gallery shows


Woman Admiring Plum Blossom at Night by by Suzuki Harunobu (1724−1770), 1766, unsigned, colour woodblock print, 34 x 21.3 cm, Sebastian Izzard Asian Art


Beauty Leaping Off the Balcony of Kiyomizu Temple (1765) by Suzuki Harunobu (1724-1770), colour woodblock print, ex Henri Vever Collection, Sebastian Izzard Asian Art


are including in this fine collection, including Kitagawa Utamaro, Toshusai Sharaku, Utagawa Toyokuni, and Katusushika Hokusai. images such as Hokusai’s


Iconic ‘Great


Wave’ are on offer, as well as a rare print from Sharaku (active 1794-95) of Ichikawa Ebizo IV as Takemura Sadanoshin. Yet another iconic image on offer from the collection is Utagawa Hiroshige’s Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ohashi Bridge at Atake, from 1857. Other highlights include a fine first printing of the ‘Shell Book’, along with a groups of prints on the classic subject matters of ‘Beauties’ and ‘Landscapes’. • Sebastian Izzard Asian Art, 17 East 76th Streetm 3/F, NYC, NY 10021, tel 212 794 1522, info@izzardasianart.com, sebastianizzard.com


Courtesan and Her Guest Beneath a Mosquito Net by Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806), circa 1800, signed Utamaro hitsu, colour woodblock print, 39.1 x 26 cm, S eabastian Izzard Asian Art


IMPORTANT JAPANESE PRINTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF


HENRY STEINER Sebastian Izzard, 17 to 29 March


Round pot with colour, earthenware, Yayoi period 300 BC-AD 250, height 31.5 cm, diam. 26.5 cm, Mika Gallery


Narihira's Journey to the East by Suzuki Kiitsu, pair of hanging scrolls, ink, colour, and gold on silk, Edo period 19th century, Koichi Yanagi


Tis single-owner collection of 62 Japanese prints and one colour woodblock album span nearly 150 years of the history of Japanese print. Te works span over a century and a half,


from approximately 1710 to 1857. Most of the great ukiyo-e artists JAPANESE TEXTILES


AND CALLIGRAPHY Mika Gallery, 16 to 24 March


A selection sutras and waka poetry and Japanese calligraphy from the 7th to 14th century are on show together with textiles from the 13th to 18th century. A highlight is Yamana-gire, Shinsen Roei-shu, from the 11th/12th century, formerly in the collection of the Sekido Family and published in the Sekido Collection ‘Chitose no Tomo’ in 1928. • Mika Gallery, 595 Madison Avenue, 8/F, NYC, NY 10022, tel 212 888 3900, info@mikagallery.com, mikagallery.com


Standing Fudo Myoo, Heian period, 12th century,wood,height 54.2 cm Koichi Yanagi


KOKON BIANNUAL


Spring 2018 Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Art, 13 March to 6 April


Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts is featuring six important works from throughout Japanese history. On view are a landscape painted on a set of sliding doors by Maruyama Okyo, a Heian-period statue of Fudo Myoo, standing over 54 cm. In ceramics, the gallery is showing a large Shino ware dish and a set of leaf-shaped kosometsuke type blue and white dishes. A recently rediscovered painting of Guan Yu, also by Ōkyo, is also at the gallery, as well as 12th- century calligraphy, known as Showa-gire. • Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts, 17 East 71st Street, 4/F NY 10021, tel 212 744 5577, kokon@earthlink.net


Yamana-gire, Shinsen Roei-shu, Fujiwara no Mototoshi, Heian period,11th-12th century, 26.6 x 20.5 cm, former collection of Sekido family, Mika Gallery


ASIAN ART MARCH 2018


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