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[Hôitsu shônin gafu] Banshô soku ga shi (Hôitsu Picture Album: All Phenomena in the Universe as My Master)
鶯村畫譜
Ôson gafu (The Ôson Picture Album)
[Hôitsu shônin gafu] Banshô soku ga shi (Hôitsu Picture Album: All Phenomena in the Universe as My Master)
鶯村畫譜
Sakai Hôitsu (Japanese, 1761–1828)
Author of preface: Kamo Suetaka (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Asakura Hachiemon (Japanese)
Publisher: Izumiya Shôjirô (Japanese)
Author of preface: Kamo Suetaka (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Asakura Hachiemon (Japanese)
Publisher: Izumiya Shôjirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1817 (Bunka 14)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 27.8 x 18.8 cm (10 15/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.535
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Catalogue Raisonné
Saunders, Le Japon Artistique (MFA, 2010), selected images from this impression, pp. 39-45; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 362
ProvenanceBetween about 1897 and 1907, probably acquired in Japan by Charles J. Morse (b. 1852 - d. 1911), Evanston, IL; by descent to his son, Jared Kirtland Morse (b. 1886 - d. 1949) and his wife, Caroline Roberts Morse (b. 1907 - d. 1982), Cromwell, CT; gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)