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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1842
People
Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, Japanese (1780-1850)
Title
Wu Daozi Painting Zhong Kui (the Demon Queller) in Red Ink/ Wu Daozi (Go), from the series Four Companions of Writing Chamber (Bunbō shiyū), with poems by Kurokao(?) Ryūjuen Chiyonari (from Mino), Funazono Suiki(?), Ryūjuen Tōki, and Ryū no ya (from Biyō)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Bunbō shiyū: Wu Daozi (Go Dōshi)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
surimono, print
Date
Edo period, 1823
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207506

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ukiyo-e woodblock printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; Ink, color and metallic pigment on paper
Dimensions
Paper: H. 21.1 cm x W. 18.8 cm (8 5/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: (printed) Kikō (Aoigaoka) 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
1933.4.1842
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. 151

Verification Level

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