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Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850)
Bontanka sho-kaku from the series Shoshikai bantsuzuki [A Gathering of the Elders of Poetry]

Woodblock printed surimono with metallic printing, signed Hokkei, circa 1820, produced for the Hanazono-ren poetry club, the poem by Hyakuten-sha Baicho
Shikishiban (20.8 x 18cm.)
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The gentleman reading a poem whilst sitting on the ox which has peonies draped on its horns, is the aristocratic monk and renga poet Botanka [peony] Shohaku (1443 – 1527).

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