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 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 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…
Brush pot with a bridal procession — Bonhams, 2019This cylindrical brush pot carries a continuous, winding koshi-ire, a bridal procession. In the foreground a high-ranking lady is carried in a…
Partially enamelled vase with a nobleman’s ox-cart — Bonhams, 2017This small ovoid vase was described by Bonhams as unusual, because its figure decoration is only partially enamelled. The cream body is…
Small lidded box with a daimyo procession (British Museum 1981,0808.36)This small lidded box, less than eight centimetres long, compresses one of Meizan's favourite subjects into a palm-sized object. The outside shows…
Small vase with a daimyo procession — Bonhams, 2013薩摩 金彩色絵大名行列図小花瓶A small vase only twelve centimetres high, this piece carries one of Meizan's most celebrated subjects: the daimyō procession. Around the body…
Square-rimmed vase with a daimyo procession — Bonhams, 2014This ovoid vase has a square rim and is painted over a clear crackled glaze with a daimyō procession. The retinue is…
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…
Vase with an insect daimyo procession (Khalili S 107)Here Meizan's beloved procession subject is turned into a comedy. Around the ovoid body of this small vase marches a daimyō's retinue…No works match these filters.