Object data
nishikie
height 96 mm × width 132 mm
Totoya Hokkei
Greens in a Straw Container
Japan, Japan, 1818
Inscriptions
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stamped on verso with mark of a paper crane (Japanese Gallery)
Provenance
…; the dealer Japanese Gallery, Londen (collector‘s mark);...; purchased from the dealer C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1984;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-557
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Context
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 straw container with green buds, possibly horseradish, two of which are beside it.
The print is dated at left 'New Tiger Year', Tsuchinoe tora no haru, i.e., 1818, thus representing the earliest datable design by Hokkei in this collection.
One poem by Kitsuneen
Issued by the poet
Signature reading: Hokkei, with seal: Iwa(?)
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 129
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Totoya Hokkei, Greens in a Straw Container, Japan, 1818', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.422453
(accessed 23 November 2024 15:50:53).