Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) | The complete set of A Set of Fans on Flowing Water in Five Colours (Goshiki bantsuzuki ogi nagashi) | Edo period, 19th century

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^th January 1991

Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), monochrome pl., nos. 61-65. 

Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), pp. 80-81, no. 2-64.

Each surimono features two fans set against a decorative flowing river motif in deep blue embossed with silver that is contiguous across all five prints in this pentaptych. The motif of floating fans derives from the Muromachi period (1392–1568).

Another complete set is illustrated in Timothy Clark, Edo no surimono: ikijintachi no okurimono, exhib. cat., (Tokyo, 1997), no. 269.

Two prints from the set are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession numbers 51.35 and 37.336.