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)"
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780–1850

Crossing the Monkey Bridge
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780–1850

Still-Life with Monkey Mask
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780–1850

The Salt Dragon
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780–1850

The Theater Outing
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780–1850

Potted Plant (Ueki), from the series "Eighteen Illustrations of the Ladder of Ancient Words (Kogentei juhachiban tsuzuki)"
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780–1850

Raiko (Minamoto no Yorimitsu) and the demon kite
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780-1850

Oniwakamaru subduing the giant carp
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780–1850

Oniwakamaru subduing the giant carp
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780–1850

Shinto priest performing the seaweed-gathering ritual
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780–1850

The Seaweed-gathering Ritual in Nagato Province (Nagato mekari no shinji), from the series "Famous Places in the Provinces (Shokoku meisho)"
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780–1850

Dragon in the clouds
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780–1850

Goat beneath a plum tree
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780-1850

The Horse Sekitoba and the General Guan Yu (Jp: Kan'u), from the series "A Series of Famous Horses (Meiba bantsuzuki)"
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780-1850

Earth: Lin Chong (Do, Rinchu), from the series "The Five Elements of The Water Margin (Suiko gogyo)"
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780-1850

Kintaro dreaming of his childhood
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780-1850

Yu the Great battling a dragon
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780-1850

Lady Seated by a Tokonoma Alcove
Totoya Hokkei Japanese, 1780-1850