Original Japanese Woodblock Print: By Imao Keinen 1891 Robin & Hibiscus Framed 15x20" Tsukue Antique Japanese sugi cedar kyosoku

Antique Japanese sugi cedar kyosoku armrest with curved saddle top and shaped trestle legs

This type of indoor brazier was set with coals sitting on a thick bed of fire proof ash and used to heat a small area in a home

Fukushundō

These pedestal bowls were used for carefully washing sakes cups

one of the traditional Four Gentlemen plants

Original Japanese Woodblock Print: By Imao Keinen 1891 Robin & Hibiscus Framed 15x20" Tsukue Antique Japanese sugi cedar kyosokuieThis is an original antique Japansese woodblock print by Imao Keinen c1891. From the "Summer Group" featuring birds and floral a specialty of the artist. This is beleived to be a little leaf linden hibiscus with Temminck's Robins. Imao Keinen was born in Kyoto in 1845, the fifth son of Imao Inosuke. He first studied Ukiyo e style with Umegawa Tokyo, later he became a pupil of Suzuki Hyakunen, studying painting and calligraphy. He also studied other