Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) | The Hall of Immortality (Choseiden) | Edo period, 19th century
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Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850)
The Hall of Immortality (Choseiden)
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, surimono, richly embellished with metallic pigment and embossing, signed Hokkei, privately issued in 1831, poems by Kagendo Tsugiho and Seiyokan Umeyo; with collector’s seal of Gerhard Pulverer to the verso
Vertical surimono shikishiban diptych: 42.2 x 18 cm., 16⅝ x 7⅛ in.
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Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850), Le pavillon de l'Immortalité, époque Edo, XIXe siècle
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. 75.
Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), p. 80, no. 2-65.
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
A young woman at the palace gate is holding the Moon Rabbit, an indication that this composition was published in a Year of the Rabbit, most likely 1831.
The poem by Seiyokan Umeyo has been translated as:
In the first dream
of the New Year
the newlywed couple
lived happily three days
in the Moon Palace.
Meoto naka
mutsu majizuki no
hatsu yume ni
miru mo medetaki
kyuden rokaku
Similar impressions of the same surimono diptych are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET), accession number JP3009, the Harvard Art Museums, object number 1933.4.2540, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession numbers 11.19634 and 21.10399.
