Puppeteer
19th century
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Image: 41 1/8 in. × 11 in. (104.5 × 28 cm) Overall with mounting: 76 × 11 1/4 in. (193 × 28.5 cm) Overall with knobs: 76 × 17 1/4 in. (193 × 43.8 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015
Accession Number
2015.300.151
Tags
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...