Yorozuya Tokuzaemon
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Hokusai's genre scenes, bijin-ga (beautiful women), and miscellaneous subjects represent the breadth of his career across more than seven decades. The market for non-landscape Hokusai prints has strengthened as collectors seek beyond the most famous designs.
The name Yorozuya Tokuzaemon appears to designate a merchant or proprietor of a general goods shop (yorozuya means "shop of ten thousand things"), suggesting this print may be a merchant portrait, a shop advertisement, or a commemorative surimono produced for a specific patron. Such commission prints occupied an important part of Hokusai's surimono production for the commercial and poetry-club milieu.
1821
Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban
1822
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
1822
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
c. 1832
Color woodblock print; oban
Yorozuya Tokuzaemon was created by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎).
Yorozuya Tokuzaemon depicts figures and portraits.
