Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting
height 208 mm × width 184 mm
Totoya Hokkei
Still Life With Primula in Flower
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan, 1823
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1983;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-472
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
The artist
Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) was a pupil of Katsushika Hokusai, although he was first trained in the Kano painting tradition and used the art-names Kyosai and Aoigaoka. He was one of the most prolific designers of surimono in the 1820s and early 1830s, and also illustrated numerous collections of kyoka poetry.
Entry
A porcelain bowl with lid and a pot of primroses. In the foreground an ivory shamisen bridge.
The Bungo Plum, Bongo ume, from A Series for the Hanazono Poetry Club, Hanazono bantsuzuki.
Bungo Province is located in the north of the island of Kyushu.
Three poems by Gangyokudo Tatsuo, Asahien Umeteru [not identical to Kaikyokuen Umeteru in Kano,2 and Oseiken Umekane.
The poem by Umekane reads:
Enumerating the plums of the various provinces of Japan, those of Buzen and Bungo differ from crimson like the ink used in the First Writing of the New Year.
Issued by the Hanazonoren
Signature reading: Hokkei
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 315
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Totoya Hokkei, Still Life With Primula in Flower, Japan, 1823', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.432495
(accessed 23 November 2024 00:43:53).