A working catalogue of works from the studio of Yabu Meizan (藪明山, 1853–1934), compiled from museum, auction and published records.
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Basin with a festival-float panel, St Louis 1904花鳥模様鉢（1904年セントルイス万博出品）Photographed for the official Japanese fine-art catalogue of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, where it was listed as “Basin, of Flowers and…
Basin with crowded figures, St Louis 1904鉢（1904年セントルイス万博出品）Listed in the 1904 St Louis catalogue simply as “Basin, Pottery. By Yabu (Meizan), Osaka.” The photograph shows a deep basin with…
Bowl with a cherry-blossom viewing scene — Christie’s, 2025This bowl is decorated with a scene of hanami, cherry-blossom viewing. The spring pastime was a favourite subject of the studio, allowing…
Bowl with a festival procession and a Mount Fuji float (Khalili S 30)A deep bowl of about 1910, this is among the most animated of Meizan's procession pieces. Around the exterior winds a yatai…
Bowl with a festival procession, Japan-British Exhibition 1910 (no.146)祭礼行列図鉢（1910年日英博覧会出品 No.146）Catalogue no.146 at the Japan-British Exhibition, London, 1910: “Bowl with Design of a Festival Procession (Porcelain), Yabu Meizan.” The plate shows a…
Bowl with a Multitude of Women (Walters Art Museum 49.2280)Henry Walters bought this six-lobed foliate bowl at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis in 1904, one of the international fairs…
Bowl with a sankin-kōtai procession — Leonard Joel, 2026Leonard Joel catalogued this fine-quality bowl, signed Yabu Meizan, as decorated with a sankin-kōtai procession. Under that system of alternate attendance, feudal…
Bowl with birds and butterflies among peonies (Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park)色絵花鳥文碗This small bowl, painted with birds and butterflies among peonies, is part of the Tetsuro Tanabe Collection at the Museum of Contemporary…
Bowl with butterflies in the interior (Allen Memorial Art Museum 1904.330)The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College records this bowl as a work from the studio of Yabu Meizan, dating it…
Bowl with hobbyists at play and boats among irises (Lawrence 2011, pl. 153)A bowl with people at their pastimes below a broad band of flower heads, the exterior with boats on a lake above…
Bowl with peonies and wisteria (Khalili S 160)This bowl of 1900–1910 abandons figures altogether in favour of a profusion of flowers. The exterior is crowded with peonies in orange,…
Conical tea bowl with a warlord’s council — Bonhams, 2022This conical tea bowl, 6.5 centimetres high and twelve centimetres across, places its principal scene inside. A circular panel in the well…
Deep bowl with a fishing-village frieze — Bonhams, 2023This deep bowl has straight sides that taper to a low ring foot and flare slightly at the mouth. Its exterior carries…
Deep bowl with fishermen and travellers — Bonhams, 2022A deep bowl on a ring foot, with nearly vertical sides, this is a fine example of one of the studio's most…
Deep bowl with views of the countryside (V&A C.252-1910)This deep, slightly flaring bowl from the Yabu Meizan workshop is one of a small group of Meizan wares acquired by the…
Fluted bowl with an autumn maple (Khalili S 128)This bowl shows the sparer manner that Meizan's studio adopted around 1910, when the crowded figure scenes of earlier years gave way…
Tall bowl with a daimyo procession — Christie’s, 2025This tall bowl, just under ten centimetres high, carries a daimyō procession around its exterior. The formal journey of a feudal lord…No works match these filters.