Two Girls and a Boy at the Shore
Teisai Hokuba
date unknown
Medium
Color woodblock print; surimono
Dimensions
14.8 × 19.2 cm (5 7/8 × 7 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
81617
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...