We have acquired new paintings from internationally collected 19th century Japanese artists such as Ukita Ikkei and Tosa Mitsuzane, as well as many beautiful pieces from early 20th century painters. Please feel free to come and browse and ask questions about their provenances.

All of our records and all of our antique Japanese paintings will be 25% off. Come on in and put us to work for you. At these prices, now is the time to invest in an original piece of art. See you in the Market!

Hello. We recently renovated and added many lovely pieces to the walls of the store in time for Christmas. An original antique Japanese painting would make a truly unique Christmas gift, so please do come by to browse our latest acquisitions. We have a lovely 100 year old painting of Egrets in a pond. There [...]

After a little absence, I’m back! Of course I’m still blogging madly over at iam.strongandfree.ca but I’ve had this hankering to get back in the saddle (cue country music Coyo). So it’s been stewing for a while – a top 5 “cool moments” in the store. There’s been countless cool, interesting, weird and wild, and [...]

Here they come! Just over two weeks to go until we close the streets and have our first big market-wide party of the year! Stay tuned for a list of bands and events! www.pskensington.ca P.S. Kensington Sundays are: May 31, June 28, July 26, August 16 & 30, September 27, and October 25. The streets [...]

Hey there blues lovers. It’s pledge drive time at Jazz FM and Danny Marks has got all kinds of wonderful guests dropping in to help him raise ever important funds for our great not-for-profit jazz radio station. I’ll be on with Danny this Saturday night sometime between 8-12 pm, so tip a few bottles, dim [...]

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On Saturday March 7th, Coyote was the guest on Toronto’s best blues radio show, “Bluz FM” with the legendary musician, Danny Marks. Coyote and Danny talked about blues history, the staying power of vinyl and some of the people behind post-modern blues. Check out the Jazz FM 91.1 website sometime this spring to see when [...]

Toronto in summer is a hive of activity and creativity. Without a doubt one of the coolest aspects of Kensington Market, is the number of artists floating around – people who make art, paintings, music, write books, or just live every day with a sense of purpose, passion and plain old personal pizazz. Aside from [...]