Totoya Hokkei

Prints
Japan

Subject/design:

The Chinese hero Rinchû (Lin Zhong 林冲) writing on a earthen wall

Eath - Rinchû (Tsuchi - Rinchû 土 林冲), from the series The Five Elements and the Heroes of the Suikoden (Suiko Gogyô 水滸五行). Each of the five prints in this series illustrates one of the Five Elements by one of the heroes of the Chinese novel Suikoden (Shuihuzhuan 水滸傳 The Water Margin).

Poems by Seiyôkan Umeyo and Kagendô Tsugiho (1805-1872)

Date:

circa 1826, published privately by the Shippô poetry club

Size:

shikishiban surimono, 21,2 cm x 18,2 cm

Place of origin:

Japon

Artist:

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓 (1780-1850)

Inventory number:

CB.EJ.1964.229

Copyright:

Fondation Baur

Photographer:

Marian Gérard