This Month's Happenings

With the approach of St. Valentine's Day, flowers are on everyone's mind, especially roses.  Cut flowers have a fleeting moment in time no more than days. Why not reflect the depth and meaning of the moment for many years to come by a gift of a painting with flowers.  As a painting the image captures the natural beauty of the bloom while remaining for many years as a reminder of the occasion and the expression of love. A gift to be treasured and loving features in a prominent place in your home. We have selected several suitable pieces from the Tori Collection that are all reasonablly priced and available for immediate delivery.  We have followed this philosophy in the past and have several pieces in our Private Collection which gives us such memories.  These naturally are not for sale.

"Image of the Month"

Maintaining the theme of flowers, we are featuring here a print by Ohara Shoson (1877 - 1945) one of the most prominent woodblock print artists from the Taisho Era.  Before 1912, he used the name Koson in deference to his teacher Suzuki Kason.  In the later years, he changed his name to Shoson under which he published the major part of his work.  He is admired, particularly by collectors in the west/outside Japan, for his focus on the tradition started in Sung China of pairing bird and flower in the same print. This had been adopted by many Japanese artists in the Edo period.  Here we see a pairing of the pink magonolia, with its meaning of dignity, paired with a song bird...click below for more...