Hokkei
Totoya Hokkei (
Life and career[edit]
Born Iwakubo Tatsuyuki (
Hokkei's earliest known work appeared about 1800 as illustrations for books of kyōka comic waka poetry, licentious sharebon novels, and hanashibon storybooks. During his peak period in the 1820s and 1830s he produced a large number of prints and book illustration.[3]
Hokkei died in 1850 at age 70. He is buried in Ryūhōji temple in Aoyama.[2] Throughout his life he also used the given names Hatsugorō (
Style[edit]
Hokkei's work is light and simple, and shows the influence of his master Hokusai: the Famous Places from Various Provinces series appeared shortly after Hokusai's popular Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.[3] Hokkei was an individualistic and versatile artist who made use of a variety of approaches and worked in styles varying from those remiscent of early ukiyo-e artist Hishikawa Moronobu to Western-tinged methods and subjects.[4]
In the 1820s and 1830s[3] Hokkei was a prolific illustrator of surimono prints, of which he made at least eight hundred; and of books, of which he illustrated about a hundred, including erotica and a book of sketches called Hokkei Manga (
A representative work is Hokkei's illustrations for the kokkeibon comic novel by Ishikawa Masamochi Hokuri Jūniji ("The Twelve Hours of the Northern Village", referring to the pleasure district of Yoshiwara).[3] He produced few print series, one of which is the Famous Places from Various Provinces (
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Kintarō Referees a Match between Rooster and Tengu, early 19th century
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Head of a Salmon, c. 1815–25
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Autumn Maples at the Takinogawa River, c. 1820–40
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Courtesan Riding a Lion, c. 1830s
References[edit]
Works cited[edit]
- International Ukiyo-e Society, ed. (2008).
浮世絵 大 事典 [Grand Dictionary of Ukiyo-e] (in Japanese). Tōkyō-dō Publishing. ISBN 978-4-490-10720-3. - Marks, Andreas (2012). Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks: 1680–1900. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-0599-7.
- Naitō, Masato. "Toyota Hokkei". Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
External links[edit]
- Media related to Totoya Hokkei at Wikimedia Commons
- Hokkei prints at ukiyo-e.org