Prachtige dingen
Teisai Hokuba
c. 1823
Medium
nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting
Dimensions
169; 198
About this artwork
height 198 mm x width 169 mm
About the Artist
Teisai Hokuba · 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...