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HOKKEI, Totoya (1780 - 1850)	Hanami go-ban tsuzuki 'Five Surimono for the Flower Festival Hanami'
	Signed:                    Hokkei hitsu Date:                         1820s Size:                         shikishiban (18. 7 x 21. 1 cms / 7 3/8" x 8 1/4") Condition: Excellent impression, fine fresh colors, beautiful embossing and perfectly preserved metallic color pigments, areas of blind-printing; very fine condition. An extremely rare surimono. ref. no.: # K1502 Sold.

A young woman holding a brush in one hand, and a tanzaku-sized poem-sheet in the other, is about to start writing a poem. This privately commissioned surimono is in unusually fine condition; the elaborate printing effects, like blind-printing and the silver- and gold-colored pigments are as mint as issued almost two hundred years ago. - Two poems with the poets' names.

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