51. GAKUTEI (1786-1868). The Indian boy. (Sold)

YASHIMA GAKUTEI  (1786-1868)

An Indian boy is standing with a smiling face near a large turtle.
The turtle has a long flowing tail of weeds attached to its shell
which, according to legend, grows after five hundred years.
The story tells how the boy saved five turtles with the money given
to him by his father and later learned how he was repaid by five
mysterious men, the real identity of the five turtles.

Woodblock colour print with metallic pigments details
Shikishiban surimono, 21,1x18,5 cm
Signed: Gakutei
Poems by Bunchinsha Kanio and Bumbunsha
Title: The child from India who freed the turtle (Kame o hanatsu tenjiku
no ko).
From the same series as last Supplementary Tales from Uji (Uji shūi
monogari).
Privately published by the Katsushika-ren circle of poets
c. 1828.

Another impression is illustrated in Mirviss. The Frank Lloyd Wright
Collection of Surimono, no. 85. Some impressions of this surimono
were printed, with the title and poems for another design in the
series ( see no. 50 in this catalogueue). An example with wrong title
and poems is in the Chester Beatty Library, no. J 20-88, illustrated in
Keyes. The Art of Surimono, no. 96.

lllustrated in our catalogue Surimono. Hokusai-Shinsai-Hokkei-Gakutei, 
September 2024, no. 51.

Fine impression and colour, the margins’ pattern slightly rubbed


Status: Sold




Item: D 508