Fine Japanese Prints

Fine Japanese Prints

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A Collection of Surimono

Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) | All Kinds of Things: Prizes Drawn at the Lucky Lottery (Kotogoto naru mono, fukubiki ni idasu keibutsu) | Edo period, 19th century

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December 14, 01:32 PM GMT

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A Collection of Surimono

Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) 

All Kinds of Things: Prizes Drawn at the Lucky Lottery (Kotogoto naru mono, fukubiki ni idasu keibutsu)

Edo period, 19th century 


woodblock print, surimono, embellished with metallic pigments and embossing, from the series The Pillow Book Series for the Mutsumi Group (Mutsumigawa bantsuzuki Makura no soshi), signed Hokkei, privately issued for the Mutsumi Poetry group, circa 1820, depicting a still-life composition of a wallet, an Otafuku mask placed faced down on a furoshiki [wrapping cloth], a fan case and a padded hakoseko [cosmetics case] with embroidered butterfly design, poems by Hokan Fukuzumi and Morinoya Nakatsura


Surimono, shikishiban: 21.9 x 18.4 cm., 8⅝ x 7¼ in. 

Theodor N. Scheiwe (1897-1983)

For another impression of the same print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.20171, go to: 

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/212654


Also, for a further example of the same print sold in these rooms, see Sotheby's, Paris, Collection Huguette Beres: Estampes, dessins et livres illustres japonais (seconde vente), 25 Novembre 2003, Lot 84.