Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) Mibun (dates unknown) | Two surimono from the series Six Glass Pictures of Birds and Flowers (Kacho gyokuban rokumai no uchi) | Edo period, 19th century
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Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850)
Mibun (dates unknown)
Two surimono from the series Six Glass Pictures of Birds and Flowers (Kacho gyokuban rokumai no uchi)
Edo period, 19th century
each a woodblock print, surimono, embellished with metallic pigment and embossing, from the series Six Glass Pictures of Birds and Flowers (Kacho gyokuban rokumai no uchi), privately issued in 1828, the first with collector’s seal of Hayashi Tadamasa, both with seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso, and comprising:
- Peacock and peonies, signed Hokkei, poems by Ganshuan Michitsura and Takenoya Sunao
- Macaw in a branch of cherry, signed Mibun sha (Drawn by Mibun), poems by Enkosha Kusabito and Ryusenkutsu
Each shikishiban surimono:
19.7 x 16.9 cm., 7¾ x 6⅝ in. (the first)
20.4 x 18 cm., 8 x 7⅛ in. (the second)
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Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) Mibun (dates inconnues), Deux surimono, époque Edo, XIXe siècle
Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906) (the first)
Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)
Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), nos. 104-105.
Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), p. 81, nos. 2-67 and 2-68.
Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection], exhibited at the following venues:
Matsuzakaya Department Store, Osaka, 27th December 1990 - 8th January 1991
Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ginza, 24th - 29th January 1991
These prints are based on the popular import of reverse paintings on glass with elaborate Western-style frames, which were most likely manufactured in China.
For another impression of Macaw in a branch of cherry, see Sebastian Izzard, Privately Commissioned Japanese Prints & Albums from the Late 18th & Early 19th Centuries (New York, 2022), p. 100-101, no. 46.