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Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780–1850

Artist

Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780–1850

Works (1)

Cat Playing with a Toy Butterfly, from the series "Thirty-six Pictures of Birds (Sanjuroku kinzoku)"

Cat Playing with a Toy Butterfly, from the series "Thirty-six Pictures of Birds (Sanjuroku kinzoku)"

1828

Timeline

1780

Totoya Hokkei was born Iwakubo Tatsuyuki in 1780 in Edo (modern Tokyo).1

1800

Totoya Hokkei's earliest known work appeared about 1800 as illustrations for books of kyōka comic waka poetry, licentious sharebon novels, and hanashibon storybooks.1

1850

Totoya Hokkei died in 1850 at the age of 70.1

Sources

  1. [1]Hokkei - Wikipedia