Totoya’s work is defined by its japanese (culture or style) sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.
A Mountainous Landscape with a Stream
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780–1850
Tachibana no Hayanari preparing to make the first writing of the New Year
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780-1850
Cat Playing with a Toy Butterfly, from the series "Thirty-six Pictures of Birds (Sanjuroku kinzoku)"
Crossing the Monkey Bridge
Still-Life with Monkey Mask
The Salt Dragon
The Theater Outing
Potted Plant (Ueki), from the series "Eighteen Illustrations of the Ladder of Ancient Words (Kogentei juhachiban tsuzuki)"
Raiko (Minamoto no Yorimitsu) and the demon kite
Oniwakamaru subduing the giant carp
Shinto priest performing the seaweed-gathering ritual
The Seaweed-gathering Ritual in Nagato Province (Nagato mekari no shinji), from the series "Famous Places in the Provinces (Shokoku meisho)"
Dragon in the clouds
Goat beneath a plum tree
Earth: Lin Chong (Do, Rinchu), from the series "The Five Elements of The Water Margin (Suiko gogyo)"
The Horse Sekitoba and the General Guan Yu (Jp: Kan'u), from the series "A Series of Famous Horses (Meiba bantsuzuki)"
Kintaro dreaming of his childhood
Yu the Great battling a dragon
Lady Seated by a Tokonoma Alcove