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Lot 3037

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
A Surimono

18 March 2015, 13:00 EDT
New York

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

A Surimono
Shikishiban with metallic pigments and blind printing; from the series Umazukushi (All Varieties of Horses), entitled Sangenkoma (The Three-stringed Colt), a still life of a dismantled shamisen leaning against a pile of song books partially wrapped in cloth, 1822 (year of the horse), signed Fusenkyo Iitsu hitsu, with two poems by Jakushotei Midori and one by Shuchodo Monoyana – very good impression and color, very slightly soiled, laid down

8 1/8 x 7 1/8in (20.7 x 18.1cm)

Footnotes

Provenance:
The collection of Robert H. Pruyn, thereafter by descent

Robert H. Pruyn (1815-1882) was appointed by President Lincoln as the first ambassador to Japan in 1861.

Another impression is illustrated in Matthi Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden, 2013, p. 139, no. 256, and John T Carpenter ed., Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Images in Japanese Prints, Leiden, 2008, p. 286, pl. 170. The extensive catalog entry in the latter work provides information on imagery and the poets of this poetry circle, as well as transcriptions and translations of the poems.

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