Featured Storage Find,Vintage Japanese or Chinese Watercolor Under Glass

I bought a storage with many older items inside.I'm not sure if this set of pictures are Japanese or Chines.I don't read either.14"x9".

 

Not sure about first but second is a Japanese woodblock, sorry can't remember artist's name

 

Thanks!

 

In Japanese
樂山篁子生 = Raw painting by Takako Kanayama
or
樂山 can read as 'Rakuzan' in Japanese
Japanese Artist Tsuchiya Rakusan
Check out The Foster Booklet
The Art of Rakusan Tsuchiya Famous Print Maker of Japan [Walter Foster "How to Draw" Art Books #57], A Walter T. Foster Publication, Walter Foster Art Books, Tustin, California (no date, 32 pp.)
https://www.rakusan.net/fosterbook.html

Or in Chinese
樂山篁子生 = Leshan Huangzi-sheng - Scholar of Bamboo Grove from Leshan

 

Hi Couch potato, could you please explain the names,I didn't know I had the answer until someone posted,the first one is Takako Kanayama,are you say the painting is called Raw Painting? or is there another name,both painting is by the same person.A little help please

 

Raw painting is not the title, it is merely a description of the style of painting used. There is no title given that I can see. As for the second painting, my apologies, but I cannot identify the characters. They are a bit too calligraphic in style for my ability to read it.

 

Thank you for your quick answer! thank you for information.

 

Both of these woodblock prints are Japanese. Both are described on this website: www.Rakusan.net

The first is by Rakusan Tsuchiya: https://www.rakusan.net/36detail/114.html
The signature reads "Rakuzan Koushisei", one of his art names.

The second is by Nishimura Hodo: https://www.rakusan.net/htdetail/Z04.html
The signature reads "Hodou".

 

They’ve got great, bright, cheery color as compared to many Japanese woodblocks I see. I love them all but these bright colors strike me a slightly atypical.

 

Yes. Both of these artists come from an early 20th century tradition representing something of a fusion of traditional Japanese woodblock printing with Western influences - including (as here) an Art Deco inspired color palette.

 

That makes perfect sense! Glad I wasn’t imagining it .