摺物帖 『春雨集』 『花鳥六番之内 下野宇都宮』 海棠に山雀|Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 3: Marsh-tits and Crab Apple Flowers
ca. 1820
Medium
Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
8 x 7 3/8 in. (20.3 x 18.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Accession Number
JP2363
Tags
Art Historical Context
Teisai Hokuba's *Spring Rain Collection (Harus shū)*, volume 3, titled *Marsh-tits and Apple Flowers*, captures the delicate beauty of spring in Edo-period Japan around 1820. This intimate woodblock print, part of a privately published surimono album measures a compact 8 x 7 3/8 inches and depicts marsh-tits perched among blooming crab apple branches, their feathers and petals rendered in vibrant ink and color on paper. Hokuba, a pupil of the famed Katsushika Hokusai, infused his ukiyo-e style with poetic lyricism, blending realism and elegance in this "floating world" tradition. Surimono, me...
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...