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Sakai Hōitsu

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

Description

Maker

Sakai Hōitsu, 1761-1829, Japanese
Kamo Suetaka, author
Matsuzawa Rōsen, Japanese, publisher

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

wood block,
woodcut

Supports

paper

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

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.”

Korin Gafu and the Rimpa Tradition in Japanese Printmaking

March 8 - June 2, 2002

This illustration is clearly the source for the anonymous print of the same subject included in this exhibition.

Prints from the Korin Gafu ("Album of Korin Pictures") and Printed Books from the Nineteenth Century

June 2 - July 28, 1994

Prints from the Korin Gafu ("Album of Korin Pictures") and Printed Books from the Nineteenth Century

January 18 - March 10, 1991

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Ōson’s Picture Album: A Book of Pictures by Priest Hōitsu of Universal Phenomena with the accession number of 31.408. To request a higher resolution file, please submit an online request.

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