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Sakai Hōitsu

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

Description

Maker

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

Title

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

Period

Edo (Japanese period)

Year

1807

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ink

Supports

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

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.

Signature: Hoitsu

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

31.408

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Painterly Prints in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Jun 01, 2007 – Sep 23, 2007

Label copy

Hoitsu 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
Mar 08, 2002 – Jun 02, 2002

Label copy

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
Jun 02, 1994 – Jul 28, 1994
Prints from the Korin Gafu ("Album of Korin Pictures") and Printed Books from the Nineteenth Century
Jan 18, 1991 – Mar 10, 1991

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Tombstone

Sakai Hōitsu (Japanese, 1761-1829)
Kamo Suetaka, author
Matsuzawa Rōsen (Japanese), publisher
Ōson’s Picture Album: A Book of Pictures by Priest Hōitsu of Universal Phenomena, 1807
woodcut illustrated book with paper wrappers, sewn
27.3 x 18.6 x 1 cm (10 3/4 x 7 5/16 x 3/8 inches)
Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Gustav Radeke 31.408

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