Japanese Woodblock Prints | Including the Sokolov Collection
Japanese Woodblock Prints | Including the Sokolov Collection
The Sokolov Collection
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Puppeteer beside a go board, Edo period, 19th century
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The Sokolov Collection
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Puppeteer beside a go board
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, embellished with gold and metallic pigments, of a puppeteer manipulating a puppet of a female feathered-lance bearer, signed Hokusai aratame Katsushika Iitsu hitsu, privately issued circa 1820s
Surimono, kakuban:
21.3 x 19 cm.
The poem by Sorimitsuya Shimotogaki Maeda.
Another impression is in the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago, reference number 1954.606, go to:
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/81177/puppeteer-holding-puppet-on-go-board