Masters of the Woodblock: Important Japanese Prints

Masters of the Woodblock: Important Japanese Prints

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Property from an Important European Collection (Lots 1 - 17, All Formerly in the Collection of Henri Vever)

Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825) | A noblewoman and attendants making a giant snowball | Edo period, late 18th century

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Property from an Important European Collection (Lots 1 - 17, All Formerly in the Collection of Henri Vever)

Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825)

A noblewoman and attendants making a giant snowball

Edo period, late 18th century


woodblock print, triptych, each sheet signed Toyokuni ga (Pictured by Toyokuni), left sheet with censor’s seal kiwame (approved), published by Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendo), circa 1796; with collectors' seals Hayashi Tadamasa and H.V. to each sheet, with original Sotheby's paper sale folder depicting Henri Vever monogram


Vertical oban triptych: each sheet approx. 38 x 25.3 cm., 15 x 10 in.

Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906)

Henri Vever (1854-1942)

Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints from the Henri Vever Collection: Final Part, 30 October 1997, Lot 137.

C. Vignier, T. Inada and R. Koechlin, Toyokuni, Hiroshige. Estampes Japonaises Exposées au Musée des Arts Décoratifs en Janvier1914, (Paris, 1914), no. 79, pl. XXI.


Pari Beberu korekushon ukiyo-e meisaku 300 senten (300 Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints from the Vever Collection), exh. cat., (Tokyo, 1975), no. 260.

Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection, (London, 1976), vol. 2, no. 648. 


Jack Hillier, Suzuki Juzo and Adachi Toyohisa, Ukiyo-e: Beberu korekushon (Ukiyo-e Prints from the Vever Collection), (Tokyo, 1976), no. 644.

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Toyokuni, Hiroshige, January 1914.

Pari Beberu korekushon, ukiyo-e meisaku 300 senten (300 Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Vever Collection), exhibited at the following venues: 


Keio Department Store, Tokyo, 4th - 15th January 1975

Hanshin Department Store, Osaka, 6th - 18th February 1975

Sogo Department Store, Hiroshima, 21st - 26th April 1975