Japanese Woodblock Prints from an Important Private European Collection

Japanese Woodblock Prints from an Important Private European Collection

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | Sazai Hall of the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyaku Rakan-ji Sazaido) | Edo period, 19th century

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

Sazai Hall of the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyaku Rakan-ji Sazaido)

Edo period, 19th century

 

woodblock print, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu (Brush of Iitsu, the former Hokusai), censor’s seal kiwame (approved), published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo), no publisher's seal on this impression, late 1831, blue outline; with collector's seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso

 

Horizontal oban: 25.1 x 37.2 cm., 9⅞ x 14⅝ in.


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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Salle Sazai du temple des cinq cents arhats, époque Edo, XIXe siècle

Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)

From the temple’s upper balcony, men and women marvel at the majestic view of Mount Fuji across open plain and marshland. As noted by Matti Forrer, only a few impression are known which are intact at the right edge. In these cases a strip of green shows to the right of the pillar, as in the present lot.1


1. Matti Forrer, Hokusai: Prints and Drawings (London, 1991), cat. no. 22.


A similar impression of the same print (with right edge intact) is in the collection of hte Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET), accession number JP2984