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Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850)
Two impressions of Pheasant and flowering sprig
Edo - Meiji period, 19th century
both woodblock prints, surimono, the first embellished with metallic pigment and embossing; from the series A Series of Thirty-six Creatures (Sanjurokkin tsuzuki), each signed Hokkei, privately issued for the Shippo Poetry Circle (Shippo-ren), the first circa 1810s-20s; the second Meiji period, circa 1890s; each with collector’s seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso
Each shikishiban surimono: 18.1 x 16.6 cm., 7⅛ x 6½ in. (the first)
21.4 x 18.4 cm., 8½ x 7¼ in. (the second)
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Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850), Deux impressions de faisan et de branche fleurie, époque Edo - Meiji, XIXe siècle
Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906) (the first)
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, 27th December 1990 - 8th January 1991
Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ginza, 24th - 29th January 1991
Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), nos. 354-55.
Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), p. 71, no. 2-44.
All examples known in museum collections are of the later printing from re-carved blocks issued around the 1890s. An example from the original printing produced in the early nineteenth century is exceedingly rare.
For another example of the later Meiji period printing is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number RES.53.129.
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