GAKUTEI (1786?-1868). Liu Bei
Artist:
Yashima Gakutei (1786 ? -1868)
Subject:
Liu Bei (161-223) known in Japan as Ryū Bi, seated under a cherry tree holding a rigid fan.
Series:
The Three Heroes of Shu n. 1 (Shoku Sanketsu sono ichi)
Signature:
Gakutei Sadaoka byō. Poem by Goryūen Kazuhito
Date:
ca. 1824
Publisher:
Privately printed by the poet
Block-cutter:
Shiba Konori (or Kohō)
Size:
Surimono shikishiban, 21,2x18,7 cm
Medium:
Woodblock color print with metallic pigment and blind printing
Literature:
Other impressions are illustrated in Keyes, Roger. The Art of Surimono Privately Published Japanese Woodblock Prints and Books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. 2 vols. London: Sotheby’s Publications, 1985, vol. 1 no. 77 and in Ohki, Sadako with Adam Haliburton. The Private World of Surimono: Japanese Prints from the Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020, n. 9.
Conditions:
Very good impression, color and condition
Item no:
D 443
Price:
Euro 3500
Status:
Available