48. GAKUTEI (1786-1868). A Book Chart. (Sold)

YASHIMA GAKUTEI  (1786-1868)

A book cart (fuguruma) loaded and surrounded by scrolls and books.
One unrolled scroll is painted with the auspicious symbols of
longevity and happiness (pine, plum tree and rising sun) as well as
the date: Bunsei tora haru (Spring of Bunsei, year of the tiger).

Woodblock colour print with metallic pigments details
Shikishiban surimono, 21,2x18,6 cm
Signed: Gakutei Harunobu
Poems by Matsunokado Tomoō, Matsunoya Utaō and Matsuyamatei
Okunari
From the series Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)
Privately published
1818, year of the tiger

Provenance: Galerie Janette Ostier, Paris

This impression is illustrated in Ostier. Les objets tranquilles, no. 16.

Illustrated in our catalogue Surimono. Hokusai-Shinsai-Hokkei-Gakutei, 
September 2024, no. 48.

Very good impression, colour and condition, one worm-hole



Status: Sold




Item: D 438