A Website Featuring Osaka prints
We specialize in kamigata-e, original eighteenth-nineteenth century Japanese woodblock prints from Osaka and the surrounding region. Our inventory is
comprehensive and always changing, with a broad range of artists and prices.
Gallery: Our Sales Gallery is arranged by artist. Each print is accompanied by a full description.
Articles and More: We offer Articles on
topics related to Osaka prints, many covering aspects of Japanese printmaking that have been overlooked in
the standard literature. Various essays on a variety of other topics can be found at Varia.
We also maintain an Archive of the
information pages for all sold prints. An extensive Glossary, artists'
Biographies & Signatures, and detailed
Bibliography serve as additional resources. A recent addition to our site is a Video presentation offering an introductory overview of kamigata-e.
Contacts: You may write to us or E-mail us with your questions or requests
to purchase Osaka prints, drawings, and paintings — see Contact Us and
Conditions of Sale.
Links: Here we recommend Other Websites with information
and images related to Osaka prints.
Spring Sale 2012
We're pleased to announce some colorful spring additions to our website. As always, in order to promote a fuller appreciation of Osaka prints, we have tried to find a wide range of items, in terms of both period and price. Standouts this time include a few later period obans — a very melodramatic one by Hirosada and a "bird print" by Kunikazu. Equally noteworthy are the various designs on offer by Hokuei and Sadamasu, and an exceptional bust portrait by Shigeharu. As always, some designs are exceedingly rare and almost all pieces are in excellent condition.
We have also made two additions to the "Articles" section. One column is on the often misused term “printer’s proof”, and the other, sadly the last to be borrowed from the now-defunct magazine Daruma, on late Edo civil war prints produced in Osaka.
Finally, we (nervously) draw your attention to a series of four short videos that we recently made to help introduce Osaka prints in social media circles. Best viewed in order, with print descriptions and credits all clustered at the end of the 4th segment, the four vignettes together provide something we could not find in all the millions of videos on the Internet: a simple survey of
kamigata-e. Please try to overlook the amateurish aspects (and the earthquake cracks in the wall behind Peter), and let us know what you think.
Thank you for your interest in Osaka prints. We hope to hear from you. To go directly to the spring sale page, select the link below.
Spring Sale: Prints 2012
Video: Osaka Prints: Ukiyo-e of Western Japan
Article: Proof Sheets (kyôgozuri-e)
Article: Boshin War
Mailing List: If you would like to be informed directly about our updates, please contact us at Osaka Prints Update.
