Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) | The Hall of Immortality (Choseiden) | Edo period, 19th century

拍品描述

PROPERTY FROM THE PULVERER COLLECTION OF JAPANESE PRINTS woodblock print, surimono, richly embellished with metallic pigment and embossing, signed Hokkei, privately issued in 1831, poems by Kagendo Tsugiho and Seiyokan Umeyo; with collector’s seal of Gerhard Pulverer to the verso Vertical surimono shikishiban diptych: 42.2 x 18 cm, 16⅝ by 7⅛ in. A young woman at the palace gate is holding the Moon Rabbit, an indication that this composition was published in a Year of the Rabbit, most likely 1831. The poem by Seiyokan Umeyo has been translated as: In the first dream of the New Year the newlywed couple lived happily three days in the Moon Palace. Meoto naka mutsu majizuki no hatsu yume ni miru mo medetaki kyuden rokaku Similar impressions of the same surimono diptych are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET), accession number JP3009, the Harvard Art Museums, object number 1933.4.2540, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession numbers 11.19634 and 21.10399.

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