拍品 22
22
TOTOYA HOKKEI: kakuban (20.4 x 18.3 cm.); the mekari, seaweed gathering, festival in Nagato province, depicting a temple servant at night, holding a burning firebrand high over his head, running along a beach between waves, accompanied by poems by Miwasha Suginari of Nagato [Yamaguchi prefecture] and Konkotei Yamagiwa of Yamaguchi in Suo [Yamuguchi prefecture] signed Oju Hokkei hitsu -- very good impression, color and condition

细节
TOTOYA HOKKEI: kakuban (20.4 x 18.3 cm.); the mekari, seaweed gathering, festival in Nagato province, depicting a temple servant at night, holding a burning firebrand high over his head, running along a beach between waves, accompanied by poems by Miwasha Suginari of Nagato [Yamaguchi prefecture] and Konkotei Yamagiwa of Yamaguchi in Suo [Yamuguchi prefecture] signed Oju Hokkei hitsu -- very good impression, color and condition

拍品专文

For another impression see Hillier (1976) no. 756, p. 785

Hokkei portrayed a similar scene in his Shokoku meisho "Famous places in the various provinces" series, with the title Nagato mekuri no jinsha "the festival at Meguri in Nagato. An annual purification ceremony took place here, during which me, an edible seaweed, was cut.