Image

Sakai Hōitsu

Ōson’s Picture Album: A Book of Pictures by Priest Hōitsu of Universal Phenomena, 1807

Description

Maker

Title

Ōson’s Picture Album: A Book of Pictures by Priest Hōitsu of Universal Phenomena

Year

1807

Medium

woodcut illustrated book with paper wrappers, sewn

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

27.3 x 18.6 x 1 cm (10 3/4 x 7 5/16 x 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription on inside of back cover, bottom right in pencil: Hoitsu

Octagonal label adhered to inside of front cover, top right with inscription in ink: 31.408/Hoitsu
Red square seal stamped on last page, bottom left.

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

31.408

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Painterly Prints in Nineteenth-Century Japan

June 1 - September 23, 2007

Hōitsu belonged to the Rinpa school of painting. The flat, decorative arrangement of plant forms and the juxtaposition of a poetic text inscribed in fluid cursive script are typical of that tradition. Here the printed forms are once again without outline. Bush clover (hagi) is one of the “seven grasses of autumn.”

Use

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