Baskets, Bamboo, Peony and Ivy

Tojo, the son of Unkoku Toteki, was the fifth-generation master of the Unkoku school. He received the honorary title hokkyo, which he used in his signature, as here, on works completed between 1665 and 1712.

For another example of a painting by Tojo, see Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, ed., Unkokuha no keifu-Sesshu no kokeisha tachi/Unkoku school-The Successors of Sesshu Style (Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, 1986), pl. 39, and reference plates nos. 48-50.