The Gilbert Luber Collection

An extensive collection of antique and contemporary Japanese art prints.

Contemporary Prints

  • Fumio Fujita

    Fumio Fujita born in 1933, he attended Musasho College of Fine Arts. He specializes in landscapes reduced to essential designs without becoming abstract.

    DSCN1101

    Title: White Forrest
    Size: 10" x 14"
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    Year: 1982
    Edition: 163/200
    Price:$300


    DSCN1103

    Title: Trees
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    Year: 1972
    Edition: 78/200
    Price: $350


    DSCN1104

    Title: The Lake
    Size: 14" x 10"
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    Year: 1978
    Edition: 143/200
    Price: $275


    DSCN1105

    Title: Mod Flowers
    Size: 5" x 13"
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    Year: 1976
    Edition: 27/200
    Price: $150


    DSCN1106

    Title: Fruits
    Size: 7" x 7"
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    Year: 1976
    Edition: 144/200
    Price: $150

  • Katsunori Hamanishi
           
                

    Hamanishi was born on the Japanese island of Hokkaido in 1949, his mezzo tints have been shown and are in many museums throughout the world. He spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania.

    Hamanishi_opposition_large

    Title: Opposition No. 13 
    Size: 23" x 14"
    Medium: Mezzo Tint
    Year: 1984
    Edition: 25/50
    Price: $600


    Hamanishi_memory_large

    Title: Memory of Philadelphia 
    Size: 8.5" x 7"
    Medium: Mezzo Tint
    Year: 1995
    Edition:
    Price: $175


    Hamanishi_division_large

    Title: Division Work 26 
    Size: 14" x 23"
    Medium: Mezzo Tint
    Year:
    Edition: X/50
    Price: $700

           
       

  • Tezio Hashimoto
           
                

    Tezio Hashimoto 1904-1991 lived to be the last kite maker living in Japan. We were fortunate enough to have met him several times, and purchased many of his kites. These are without the sticks. The black outline was woodblock, but the colors were all hand applied watercolor. You can read more about Hashimoto in Hal Streeters book on Japanese Kite Making.

    Hashimoto_warrior_large

    Title: Warrior on Monster 
    Size: 15" x 24"
    Medium: Kites, Woodblock and Watercolor
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    Price: $225


    Hashimoto_samurai_large

    Title: Samurai and Monster 
    Size: 15" x 24"
    Medium: Kites, Woodblock and Watercolor
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    Price: $225

           
       

  • Kawase Hasui
           
                

    Kawase Hasui was born in 1883, from childhood he loved to paint, and later became a pupil of Kaburagi Kiyokata. Known for his haunting woodblock landscapes,he was first a painter. S. Watanabe of the Watanabe workshop convinced Hasui to pursue woodblock prints, which he did until he died in 1957.
          

          

    Hasui_boys_large

    Title: Boy's Day 
    Size: 9.5" x 14"
    Medium: Woodblock
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    Price: $425

           
       

  • Paul Jacoulet
           
                

    Born in France in 1902, Jacoulet moved to Japan with his family in 1906. a sickly child he sent much time drawing and was instructed in Japanese brushwork as well as Western-style painting in oils and pastels. He traveled to the South Pacific a great deal, and spent time in Korea and Manchuria and the influence of his travels are clearly seen in his works. His later life was in Karuizawa, where he lived until his death in 1960.

    Jacoulet_heureux_large

    Title: L'Homme Hereux
    Size: 11.75" x 15"
    Medium: Woodblock
    Year:
    Edition: 28/350
    Price: $2,000


    Jacoulet_homme_large

    Title: Homme Menado et Mangoustano Celebes
    Size: 11.5" x 15.5"
    Medium: Woodblock
    Year: 1935
    Edition:
    Price: $1,500


    Jacoulet_lemandarin_large

    Title: Le Mandarin Aux Lunettes
    Size: 11.5" x 15.5"
    Medium: Woodblock
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    Price: $1,200


    Jacoulet_lemarie_large

    Title: Le Marie
    Size: 11.5" x 15.5"
    Medium: Woodblock
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    Price: $900


    Jacoulet_retour_large

    Title: Retour de la Jungle Tondano: Celebes
    Size: 11.5" x 15.5"
    Medium: Woodblock
    Year: 1948
    Edition: 219/350
    Price: $1,200

           
       

  • Shiro Kasumatsu
           
                

    Kasumatsu was first a Japanese style painter. In 1919 he began to specialize in woodblock prints. His eariler works followed the conventional technique of Ukiyoe. Later he began producing woodblock prints by himself, without the aid of other specialists. Landscapes are his main themes. His contribution to the unification of the modern and traditional woodblock print has been highly praised and valued.

    Kasumatsu_bamboo_large

    Title: Bamboo Tree in Early Summer
    Size: 9.25" x 14.5"
    Medium: Woodblock
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    Price: $425


    Kasumatsu_zentemple_large

    Title: Garden of Zen Temple
    Size: 9.5" x 14"
    Medium: Woodblock
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    Price: $1,200


    Kasumatsu_asakusa_large

    Title: Great Lantern at Asakusa
    Size: 9.5" x 14"
    Medium: Woodblock
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    Price: $1,200

           
       

  • Yoshiharu Kimura
           
                

    Kimura is best known for his unique woodblock prints of birds with the application of silver-leaf. He uses bright colors and is very joyful! He delights in making woodblock prints, the joy of seeing one color applied to another resulting in a glorious third color delights him! He uses birds in many of his prints and says he will continue to do so, as their bodies are so beautiful. Born in 1934 in Tokyo he has received many awards and is continuing to work.

    Kimura_woodpecker_large

    Title: Woodpecker
    Size: 10.75" x 17.5"
    Medium: Woodblock
    Year: 1979
    Edition: 59/85
    Price: $250

           
       

  • Kimiko Kojima

    Kojima was born in 1942 in Okazaki City, Japan. In 1959 ahe was award a prize at the UNESCO for Children Competition in Austria. She has had one-woman shows in several Tokyo galleries, as well as Nagoya, Canada and the United States. And has won several awards for most promising artist in the 80's. Kimiko is well known as a textile designer. Her designs om many items are sold in leading shops in Japan today.              

    Lovely contemporary ladies, always with a beautiful Japanese inspired design surrounding the image. Kimiko´s designs on handbags, umbrellas, as well as hankies and lingerie always portray beautiful ladies, and are basically black on cream colored paper.

    Kojima_autumn_large

    Title: Autumn Moon
    Size: 27.5" x 18.5"
    Medium: Woodblock
    Year:
    Edition: 7/70
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    Kojima_camelia_large

    Title: Camelia
    Size: 11" x 16"
    Medium: Woodblock
    Year:
    Edition: 20/63
    Price: $350


    Kojima_peony_large

    Title: Peony and Woman No. 6
    Size: 18.5" x 16"
    Medium: Woodblock
    Year: 1981
    Edition: 13/30
    Price: $700


    Kojima_knight_large

    Title: White Knight
    Size: 18.5" x 16"
    Medium: Woodblock
    Year: 1984
    Edition: 20/40
    Price: $700


  • Ohara Koson

    Koson_parrot_large

    Title: Parrot and Pomegranate
    Size: 9.25" x 14"
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    Price: $425


  • Shigeki Kuroda
           
                

    Shigeki Kuroda, a long favorite at Luber Gallery, with his whizzing bicycles. He uses the bike image in the foreground, and is forever designing new environments for them to drive through.             

    Born: 1953 in Kanagawa and resides now in Kanagawa with his wife and daughter. Studied at Tama Art University. His artwork is in the following collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Yokohama Museum of Art;Hawaii State Museum;British Mujseum, Constanza City Museum, Romania Has shown in the following exhibitions: 1996 Solo Exhibition, Tokyo 1997 FEWS Friends Print E Exhibit Yokohama 1998 Five Cosmos, Tokyo.

    Kuroda_depth_large_3

    Title: Depth
    Size: 14" x 7.5"
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    Year: 1990
    Edition: X/70
    Price: $275


    Kuroda_flashsplash_large_3

    Title: Flash Splash
    Size: 12" x 19.5"
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    Price: $300


    Kuroda_bluepassage_large_3

    Title: Blue Passage
    Size: 23.25" x 14.25"
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    Price: $375


    Kuroda_rivegauche_large

    Title: Rive Gauche
    Size: 14" x 7.5"
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    Year: 1986
    Edition:
    Price: $250

           
       

  • Akira Kurosaki
           
                

    Born in 1937 in Manchuria and resides in Kyoto. A member of the Japan Print Association and whose work can be found in the following collections: Royal Gallery of Paintins,Netherlands, British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum,London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Museum of Art, Tokyo Exhibitions: 1993 International Print Biennial, Netherlands, 1994 Egyptian International Triennial (Prize) 1995 Ljubljana 5nternationsl Biennial of Graphic Art Slovenia

    Kurosaki_opaque_large

    Title: Opaque Room
    Size: 10.5" x 14"
    Medium: Woodblock
    Year: 1984
    Edition:
    Price: $200


    Kurosaki_closed_large

    Title: Closed Room 5 Work 123
    Size: 30" x 30"
    Medium: Woodblock
    Year: 1971
    Edition: 11/15
    Price: $1,300


    Kurosaki_zodiac_large

    Title: Zodiac Cancer
    Size: 9" x 16.5"
    Medium: Woodblock
    Year: 1984
    Edition:
    Price: $175

           
       

  • Masamoto Mori

    Mori_tigerlillies_large

    Title: Tiger Lillies
    Size: 9.5" x 14"
    Medium: Woodblock
    Year: 1955
    Edition:
    Price: $425


  • Sadamassa Motonaga

    Motonaga_whitetubes_large

    Title: White Tubes
    Size: 14" x 9"
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    Motonaga_trianglecircle_large

    Title: Red Triangle-Yellow Circle
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    Price: $200


    Motonaga_smaller_large

    Title: It's Getting Smaller
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    Price: $200


    Motonaga_balls_large

    Title: Red Called Balls
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    Medium: Silkscreen
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    Motonaga_swinging_large

    Title: Swinging Softly
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    Medium: Silkscreen
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  • Nobukazu
           
                

    Nobukazu fl. in the late 19th century. He was a printmaker. He was also known as Watanabe Nobukazu. He was a pupil of Toyohara Chikanobu and is known for his woodblock prints of the Sino-Japanese war 1894-95.

    Nobukazu_women_large

    Title: Beautiful Women Enjoying Cool of Garden
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    Medium: Woodblock
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    Price: $2,000

           
       

  • Atsuo Sakazume
           
                

    Sakazume's mezzo tints and etchings, of animals, are sometimes hard to believe. The workmanship is superb, and the subject matter, really makes us stop and think -- coming together or breaking apart?

                 

    Born November 8, 1941 in Gumna Prefecture, Japan and now resides in Kyoto, Japan. Sakazume attended Kyoto University and is very involved with the Japan Print Association. His work can be found in the collections at the following Museums: British Museum, Iwaki City Museum, Osaka Contemporary Art Center,Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Kyoto Museum. He has appeared in many print exhibitions in Tokyo, Finland, and Kyoto.

    Sakazume_mountains_sm

    Title: Safari Land Like Mountains
    Size: 23" x 13.5"
    Medium: Mezzo Tints
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    Price: $600


    Sakazume_intelligence_large

    Title: Four Poles of Intelligence
    Size: 24.5" x 19.5"
    Medium: Mezzo Tints
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    Price: $700


    Sakazume_dreams_large

    Title: Safari Land Dreams
    Size: 23" x 19"
    Medium: Mezzo Tints
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    Price: $700

           
       

  • Kazutoshi Sugiura
           
                

    Kazutoshi Sugiura is the artist who is well known for his lovely flowers silk screened on a goldleaf background. The gold leaf is hand applied, a technique perfected by the artist. Sugiura was born in Kyoto in 1938. He studied at the Kyoto Municipal College of Fine Art, and studied and studied Japanese style painting. He continued his post graduate work in painting. In 1968 he studied restoration of classic arts at the Kyoto National Museum for four years. In 1975 he began print making, and was awarded the Kyoto Gallery Association prize at the Kyoto Art Festival. He has exhibited in Melbourne, Australia, London, Tokyo and in several cities in the US. He had a One Man Show at Luber Gallery in 1980, and has shown at the gallery on a continuing basis ever since.

    Sugiura_iris_large

    Title: Iris No. 94
    Size: 19" x 32"
    Medium: Mezzo Tints
    Year: 1991
    Edition: 50/80
    Price: $1,450

           
       

  • Shin Taga
           
                

    Shin Taga is a self taught artist, and one of the very finest draftsman. You can always find something new and surprising when you view his works. Just keep looking!

    Taga_coupler_large

    Title: Coupler
    Size: 25.5" x 14"
    Medium:
    Year: 1976
    Edition:
    Price: $650


    Taga_surviver_large

    Title: Survivor
    Size: 21" x 14"
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    Year: 1978
    Edition:
    Price: $600


    Taga_violinist_large

    Title: Violinist III
    Size: 9" x 14"
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    Price: $430


    Taga_twilight_large

    Title: Twilight
    Size: 8" x 10"
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    Price: $350


    Taga_lotuspoppy_large_2

    Title: Lotus Poppy
    Size: 14" x 9"
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    Price: $430


    Taga_takenotice_large

    Title: Take Notice
    Size: 9" x 14"
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    Year: 1998
    Edition:
    Price: $430


    Taga_unicorn_large

    Title: Unicorn
    Size: 9" x 14"
    Medium:
    Year: 1998
    Edition: 3/50
    Price: $430


    Taga_yoritomi_large

    Title: Yoritomi and Shin a Self Portrait
    Size: 7.5" x 9.5"
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    Price: $350

           
       

  • Lin Dun Xi

    Xi_underthemoon_large

    Title: Under the Moon
    Size: 20" x 17"
    Medium: Woodblock
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    Price: $225


  • Toshi Yoshida
           
                

    Toshi Yoshida was born 1911 in Tokyo, and studied painting with his father, Hiroshi Yoshida. He traveled widely in India, Europe and the US. In the early Showa period he worked ion a realistic style, after World War II he turned to nonobjective prints for several years, but later did return to realistic renderings.

    Yoshida_hiejinja_large

    Title: Hiejinja
    Size: 6" x 9"
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    Price: $300


    Yoshida_kyotosweetshop_large

    Title: In A Kyoto Sweet Shop
    Size: 9.5" x 14"
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    Price: $425


    Yoshida_nikko_large

    Title: Nikko
    Size: 6" x 9"
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    Price: $300

           
       

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  • Fumio Fujita
  • Katsunori Hamanishi
  • Tezio Hashimoto
  • Kawase Hasui
  • Paul Jacoulet
  • Shiro Kasumatsu
  • Yoshiharu Kimura
  • Kimiko Kojima
  • Ohara Koson
  • Shigeki Kuroda
  • Akira Kurosaki
  • Masamoto Mori
  • Sadamassa Motonaga
  • Nobukazu
  • Atsuo Sakazume
  • Kazutoshi Sugiura
  • Shin Taga
  • Lin Dun Xi
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