Yashima Gakutei (1786-1868) | The complete set of Three Heroes of the State of Shu (Shoku sanketsu) | Edo period, 19th century
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Yashima Gakutei (1786-1868)
The complete set of Three Heroes of the State of Shu (Shoku sanketsu)
Edo period, 19th century
the complete set of three woodblock prints, surimono, embellished with metallic pigments and embossing, from the series Three Heroes of the State of Shu (Shoku sanketsu), each signed Gakutei Sadaoka egaku (Drawn by Gakutei Sadaoka), carver or printer’s mark Shiba Konori (Konori of Shiba District), privately issued, circa 1824; each with collector’s seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso, and comprising:
- No. 1, Liu Bei (Sono ichi, Ryubi)
- No. 2, Guan Yu (Sono ni, Kan'u)
- No. 3, Zhang Fei (Sono san, Chohi)
Each shikishiban surimono: each approx. 21 x 18.7 cm., 8¼ x 7⅜ in.
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Yashima Gakutei (1786-1868), Série complète des Trois héros de l'État de Shu, 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), nos. 115-117.
Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), pp. 83-85, nos. 2-74, 2-75 and 2-76.
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
Depicting the Oath of the Peach Garden (Toen no chikai) scene from the fourteenth century novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sangokushi).
The complete set of the same surimono is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET), accession number JP2747.