Vuur, Sôkômei, Totoya Hokkei, c. 1825

Title(s)

Vuur, Sôkômei
Hi - Sôkômei (title on object)
De vijf elementen en de Suikoden (series title)
Suikoden Suiko gogyô (series title on object)

Object type

Object number

RP-P-1958-313

Edition

1

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 327
• Jap Cat III 195

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark, verso, stamped: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark, passe-partout, bottom left, printed: JABdH with a rooster.

Description

Kohôgi Sôkômei is één van den 108 helden van de Suikoden (Verhalen van de waterkant), een Chinese roman, staat naast een lamp. Met één gedicht

Artist

• print maker: Totoya Hokkei (mentioned on object)
• Kôkyôen Umekado (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1825

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut / blind-stamped

Measurements

height 211 mm × width 179 mm

Credit line

• J.A. Bierens de Haan Bequest, Amsterdam

Acquisition

bequest 1958

Copyright

Public domain

• Edo no surimono : ikijintachi no okurimono, cat.nr. 249
• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 180, cat.nr. 327
• Reading surimono : the interplay of text and image in Japanese prints : with a catalogue of the Marino Lusy collection, John T. Carpenter, Marino Lusy, cat.nr. 122
• Surimono, privately commissioned Japanese prints, Paul F. Walter, cat.nr. 28
• Hokusai and his school : Japanese prints, c.1800-1840, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, p. 107, cat.nr. 195
• Matthi Forrer, ‘Two New Original Surimono by Hokkei’, Andon 3 (1983), no. 10, p. 1-4.
• Fine Japanese prints from the Collection of Sidney C. Ward., Christie’s, Manson & Woods International (New York), 1985-11-05, cat.nr. 85d.