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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1917
People
Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, Japanese (1780-1850)
Title
Benzaiten, Goddess of Fortune and Music, Appearing to Taira no Kiyomori, with poems by Raikyūtei Kazutaka, Hina no ya Shunshi (or Haruko) and Yayoian Hinamaru
Classification
Prints
Work Type
surimono, print
Date
Edo period,
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207262

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ukiyo-e woodblock printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; Ink, color and metallic pigment on paper
Dimensions
Paper: H. 21.0 cm x W. 17.9 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: (printed) Hokkei

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.4.1917
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edythe Polster and Alfred H. Marks, Surimono: Prints by Elbow, Lovejoy Press (Washington D.C., 1980), p. 169

Verification Level

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