Japanese Woodblock Prints from an Important Private European Collection

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | The Bamboo Blind Shell (Sudare-gai) | Edo period, 19th century

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

The Bamboo Blind Shell (Sudare-gai)

Edo period, 19^th century

woodblock print, surimono, embellished with metallic pigment and embossing, from the series The Poetry-Shell Matching Game of the Genroku Era (Genroku kasen kai awase), signed Getchi rojin Iitsu hitsu (Brush of the Moonstruck Old Man Iitsu), privately issued by the Four Directions Poetry Circle (Yomogawa-ren) in 1821, poems by San'osha Mitsuhiko and Shibanoya Sanyo; with collector's seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso

Shikishiban surimono: 19.4 x 17.7 cm., 7⅝ x 7 in.

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Le coquillage au store de bambou, époque Edo, XIXe siècle

Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)

Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection], exhibited at the following venues:

Matsuzakaya Department Store, Osaka, 27^th December 1990 - 8^th January 1991

Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ginza, 24^th - 29^thJanuary 1991

Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), monochrome pl., no. 57.

Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), p. 66, no. 2-31.

A similar impression of the same surimono is in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 1906,1220,0.480.

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