Japanese Woodblock Prints from an Important Private European Collection

Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) | The Seaweed Gathering Ritual (Mekari no shinji) | Edo period, 19th century

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Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850)

The Seaweed Gathering Ritual (Mekari no shinji)

Edo period, 19^th century

woodblock print, surimono, signed Oju Hokkei hitsu (Brush of Hokkei, by special request), privately issued, early 1830s; with collector’s seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso

Shikishiban surimono: 21.3 x 17.4 cm., 8⅜ x 6⅞ in.

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Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850), Le rituel de la cueillette des algues, époque Edo, XIXe siècle

Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)

An annual purification ceremony in Nagato province involved the cutting of me, an edible seaweed. A Shinto priest with a flaming brand in one hand and lengths of green seaweed gathered from the sea, runs to escape a great wave that threatens to envelop him. On the shore, on a green bank, is the shrine, beneath a black night sky in which poems are inscribed in tarnished silver pigment (rubbed on this impression).

Another example is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.19819.

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