Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) | No. 1 (Sono ichi): Fish, sake bottle, and plum blossoms | Edo period, 19th century
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Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850)
No. 1 (Sono ichi): Fish, sake bottle, and plum blossoms
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, surimono, embellished with metallic pigment and embossing, from the series The Game of Fox Fists (Kitsune ken), signed Hokkei, sealed Kosai, privately issued, circa late 1820s; with collectors’ seals of Hayashi Tadamasa, Henri Vever and Gerhard Pulverer
Shikishiban surimono: 20.5 x 18 cm., 8⅛ x 7⅛ in.
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Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850), No. 1 (Sono ichi) : Poisson, bouteille de saké et fleurs de prunier, époque Edo, XIXe siècle
Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906)
Henri Vever (1854-1942)
Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings, from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I, 26 March 1974, Lot 315.
Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)
Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), monochrome pl., no. 70.
This may have served as an advertisement for the Ebiya, or Spiny Lobster House. The establishment was still worthy of note when John Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in Japan (1894) was published, despite the disappearance of the village of Oji, long a favourite retreat in the suburbs under the paper and cotton mills.
For another impression of the same surimono in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.25450.
