31. HOKKEI (1780-1850). Still-life related to kabuki. (Sold)

TOTOYA HOKKEI  (1780-1850)

A still-life of a large woodcutter’s axe, a tobacco pouch and pipe case,
a bundle of firewood and a plum blossom branch.
The objects are related to the kabuki play Yama mata yama hana no
yamagatsu and to the actor Ichikawa Danjūrō VII who performed the
role of the woodcutter Mita no Tsukō in various occasions.

Woodblock colour print with metallic pigments details
Shikishiban surimono, 21x18,6 cm
Signed: Hokkei
Poems by Shikō and (Shibaen) Morizuna
Privately published
Probably 1824

Another impression is illustrated and the poems translated in Graybill.
The Artist’s Touch, cat. 81, with detailed commentary by John Carpenter
on pp. 124-5, (fig. 10).
Other examples are in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, no. 11.20610
and in the New York Public Library, no. 114093.2.

Illustrated in our catalogue Surimono. Hokusai-Shinsai-Hokkei-Gakutei, 
September 2024, no. 31.

Fine impression with extensive application of metallic pigments, fine colour and condition

Status: Sold

Item: D 321