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Collections

Totoya Hokkei
Ushiwaka Playing a Flutecirca 1830

Not on view
Japanese woodblock print of a court figure in layered robes playing a transverse flute, surrounded by Japanese calligraphy and flowering plum branches

Totoya Hokkei, Ushiwaka Playing a Flute, circa 1830, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift in memory of Mary Thayer Gruys, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Totoya Hokkei
Japan, 1780-1850
Title
Ushiwaka Playing a Flute
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
circa 1830
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
Surimono; color woodblock print
Dimensions
Image: 7 15/16 × 7 in. (20.16 × 17.78 cm) Sheet: 8 5/16 × 7 7/16 in. (21.11 × 18.89 cm)
Credit Line
Gift in memory of Mary Thayer Gruys
Accession Number
AC1992.109.3
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art