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Fan Kuai Drinking from a Gigantic Wine Cup

Fan Kuai Drinking from a Gigantic Wine Cup

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Totoya Hokkei

This work is a surimono or privately commissioned print. This print shows the military general Fan Kuai, Hankai in Japanese (died 189 BCE), who saved his lord Liu Bang from an assassination plot at a banquet by impressing the host, Xiang Yu, with his bravado and capacity to hold alcohol. This historical figure was romanticized in the cultural imaginations of China and Japan throughout the ages.
Artist
Totoya Hokkei
(Japanese, 1780 - 1850)
Title
Fan Kuai Drinking from a Gigantic Wine Cup
Date
ca. 1820-1830
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
208 x 179 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.2306
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

ca. 1873-1922, Hamilton Easter Field (New York, NY); Collection of Mrs. J. Harriot Goodell (New Haven, CT); 1916, purchased by Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Osumi, Takeshige, ed. "Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection Ukiyo-e Masterpieces Exhibition." Tokyo: Bun You Associates, 1999.

  • Japanese Masterworks: Woodblock Prints from the Chazen Museum of Art Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 5/6/2016–8/14/2016
  • Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/13/1999–6/30/2000
  • Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints, The: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/7/1990–11/25/1990

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