HOKKEI: kakuban surimono diptych (each 19.8 x 18.1cm.); Hotei, seen on the right sheet, wathcing two Chinese boys dancing on the left sheet, both sheets entitled Mimasu Fukurokuju "Happiness and long life to the Mimasu", with poems by Ryohotei Tsunebumi and Hasendo Tenma (on the right) and Juhoen Michiyoshi and Hasendo Tenma (on the left), the images set against a background of printed crepe cloth with a mimasu design in white on red, peony heads (an emblem of Ichikawa Danjuro VII) and a fuku "good fortune" writing character, and paulownia leaves on a triple lozenge design, flowering dandelions decorate the borders of the cartouche and the mark of the Gogawa group of poets forms a pattern on Hotei's fan, each sheet signed Aoigaoka Hokkei--very good impression, color and condition (2)

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HOKKEI: kakuban surimono diptych (each 19.8 x 18.1cm.); Hotei, seen on the right sheet, wathcing two Chinese boys dancing on the left sheet, both sheets entitled Mimasu Fukurokuju "Happiness and long life to the Mimasu", with poems by Ryohotei Tsunebumi and Hasendo Tenma (on the right) and Juhoen Michiyoshi and Hasendo Tenma (on the left), the images set against a background of printed crepe cloth with a mimasu design in white on red, peony heads (an emblem of Ichikawa Danjuro VII) and a fuku "good fortune" writing character, and paulownia leaves on a triple lozenge design, flowering dandelions decorate the borders of the cartouche and the mark of the Gogawa group of poets forms a pattern on Hotei's fan, each sheet signed Aoigaoka Hokkei--very good impression, color and condition (2)

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For another impression of this diptych see van Rappard-Boon Hokusai and his school (Amsterdam: Rijksprentenkabinet/Rijksmuseum, 1982), no. 170.

The Mimasu group was a sub-group of the Gogawa-ren that was devoted to the praise of Ichikawa Danjuro VII. This surimono may have been issued to commemorate Hasendo Tenma's elevation to judge of the Gogawa.