Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 87357
Shows a Shinto priest carrying a firebrand and running to avoid a large wave
Print by Totoya Hokkei, 魚屋北渓 (Totoya HOKKEI) (1830)
- Artist / 作者
- Totoya Hokkei魚屋北渓
- Date / 年代
- 1830
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / kruml
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 519 × 576 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Japanese Prints London
- Published by / 公開者
- 黒川トウマ
- Rights / 権利
- No commercial-app permission documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Japanese Prints London
Catalog note / 解説
Shows a Shinto priest carrying a firebrand and running to avoid a large wave. In his left hand he carries me, an edible seaweed which he has gathered. This ritual was carried out at night on New Year’s Eve at the Hayatomo Myojin Shrine, in northern Kyushu. The shrine is seen, top right, beneath a black sky. Other examples of this rare surimono are illustrated in: Vever sale, Part 1, Sothebys, 1974, lot 336, p.315; Jewels of Japanese Printmaking: Surimono of the Bunka-Bunsei era 1804-1830, Joan B. Mirviss, 2000, no.48, p.97 ( colour ); One Hundred Surimono in the Collection of Sidney C. Ward, no.26, p.32; Surimono, Steff Schmidt and Setsuko Kuwabara, 1990, no.38, p.92. One of the finest suri…
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