蜀山人（大田南畝）・式亭三馬他 諸家書画寄書|Drawings and Poems by Various Artists
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
Image: 60 × 18 1/2 in. (152.4 × 47 cm) Overall with mounting: 81 × 24 7/8 in. (205.7 × 63.2 cm) Overall with knobs: 81 × 27 5/8 in. (205.7 × 70.2 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Fishbein-Bender Collection, Gift of T. Richard Fishbein and Estelle P. Bender, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2019
Accession Number
2019.419.1
About the Artist
Teisai Hokuba|Shikitei Sanba|Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden)|Shokusanjin (Ōta Nanpo) · 1771–1844
Teisai Hokuba (1771–1844) was a Japanese artist of the Edo period who worked in the tradition of ukiyo-e, the celebrated school of woodblock prints and paintings that depicted the floating world of urban pleasure, theater, landscape, and daily life. A devoted pupil of Katsushika Hokusai — one of the towering figures in the history of Japanese art — Hokuba adopted the prefix of his master's name as...