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Title page: Hokuju gafu
（花鳥山水）北樹畫譜
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(Kachô sansui) Hokuju gafu (An Album of Pictures of Natural Subjects by Hokuju)
Title page: Hokuju gafu
（花鳥山水）北樹畫譜
Katsushika Hokuju (Japanese, active 1840s–1850s)
Publisher: Bunkeidô
Publisher: Maruya Bun'emon (Bunjudô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Bunkeidô
Publisher: Maruya Bun'emon (Bunjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
Censorship seal: 11/1852
Medium/Technique
Woodblock printed book
Dimensions
Overall: 18 x 12 cm (7 1/16 x 4 3/4 in.); chûbon
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number1997.547
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; By 1926, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.