Scholten Japanese Art | A Private Collection of Shin-Hanga Kabuki Portraits | Online Exhibition | December 19, 2025 – January 31, 2026

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Yamamura Koka (Toyonari), Flowers of the Theatrical World: Ichikawa Shocho II as Oman, 1920. White mica over-printed on pale buff-pink ground; signed at right, Toyonari ga with partially pressed round date seal Tai kyu (Taisho 9 [1920]), and rectangular artist’s seal at lower left margin Koka.

December 19, 2025 – January 31, 2026

A Private Collection of Shin-Hanga Kabuki Portraits

Scholten Japanese Art

Online Viewing:

https://www.scholten-japanese-art.com/Shin-Hanga_Kabuki_Portraits_index.php

We are delighted to present a special Online Exhibition of 20th century actor prints from a private collection.  Carefully and patiently assembled over decades, the collection includes the finest shin-hanga portraits of kabuki actors produced by leading artists of the period.  The selection offered here represents approximately half of the collection,  focusing on early works by Yamamura Koka (Toyonari), Natori Shunsen, and Shin’ei.  A second grouping will be offered later in the New Year.  

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