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| Artist: | Hotei Gosei (Hokuga) (active 1804-44) | ||
| Subject: | A bijin pounding cloth with a kinuta. | ||
| Signature: | Hotei Gosei. Artist's seals. | ||
| Date: | ca. 1810-40. | ||
| Size: | Scroll 130x39 cm. Painting 66x27 cm. | ||
| Medium: | Painting on silk. Black ink and colour. | ||
| Remarks: | Hokuga was a pupil of Hokusai who after 1810 used the name Hotei Gosei and was a prolific painter of bijin in a highly individual, mannered style, he also made several surimono and illustrations for kyoka antologies. His name is frequently confused with the lesser known Karyosai Hokuga. For information on this artist see Tanaka Tatsuya, Hotei Gosei no kenkyu, in Azabu Bijitsukan Kenkyu kiyo, no. 1, Spring 1986, pp.8-56-9. | ||
| Reference: | This fine painting is illustrated in the main reference about ukiyo-e painting by Narazaki Muneshige (ed.), Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e, 10 vols, Tokyo 1980-2, vol. 7°, no. 82 and in the Azabu Museum bulletin above mentioned, p. 31 no. 39. | ||
| Conditions: | Very good. Two storage boxes of kiri wood and black lacquer. | ||
| Item no. | 1027 | ||
| Price: | On request | ||
